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Brothers at War
Sheila Miyoshi Jager
A major new history told from all sides, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the armistice ...
In this blockbusting trade debut, distinguished American professor Sheila Miyoshi Jager interweaves international events and previously unknown personal accounts to give a brilliant new history of the war, its aftermath and its global impact told from American, ...
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Surviving the Debt Storm
Leigh Skene, Melissa Kidd
How the policies being followed by governments and central banks risk leading to an even greater ...
Banking system collapses have annihilated credit markets and even the few borrowers with investment grade credit ratings cannot borrow. Conditions are worse than when the monetary system collapsed in 1931. Government revenue streams have shrunk to a trickle ...
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Inferno Decoded
Michael Haag
What is the real truth behind the mysteries of Dan Brown's latest blockbuster thriller?
In this illuminating companion to Dan Brown'sInferno, historian Michael Haag sets out the truth behind the novel's myths, mysteries and locations. How do the clues unveiled in symbology professor Robert Langdon's daring quest from Florence to Venice and Istanbul overlap with history? What codes and ...
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Managing Others: The Organisational Essentials
CMI
One of the first in the new checklist series from the Chartered Management Institute.
The experts'guide to how to the organisational aspects of managing the people you are responsible for. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to the processes behind how you get the most from those you have to manage and work with, and how you ...
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Managing Others: Teams and Individuals
CMI
One of the first in the new checklist series from the Chartered Management Institute.
The experts'guide to how to manage and work with the people and teams you are responsible for. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to getting the most from those you have to manage and work with, on such topics as:Get the right people and get ...
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Managing Yourself
CMI
One of the first in the new checklist series from the Chartered Management Institute.
The experts'guide to how to manage the most important person you are responsible for: yourself. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to your personal performance as a manager, on such topics asStarting a new job, Fitting in and getting on, ...
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Pieces of Light
Charles Fernyhough
Why do we remember certain things but forget others?
Memory is an essential part of who we are. But whatarememories, and how are they created? A new consensus is emerging among cognitive scientists: rather than possessing a particular memory from our past, like a snapshot, we construct it anew each time we are called upon to remember. Remembering is an act of narrative as much as it is the ...
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The Great Game of Business
Bo Burlingham, Jack Stack
The expanded and fully updated edition of the business classic that started a global trend - the ...
In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. Today it's one of the most successful and competitive companies in the United States, with a share ...
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Tolstoy
Rosamund Bartlett
Tolstoy'sWar and PeaceandAnna Kareninaare considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here ...
In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history.Born into a ...
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Riddle of the Labyrinth
Margalit Fox
For the first time, the full story of the race to decipher the world's greatest puzzle.
The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerizing pull on the imagination.But, captivating as it is, this story ...
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Lessons from the Top
Gavin Esler
One of Britain's leading journalists reveals first-hand insights into getting to the top, from the ...
Great leaders have always understood the power of stories. Through the stories they tell, the most successful leaders educate, persuade and bring about change, but we rarely have the background knowledge to explore how they do so. In this hugely insightful ...
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The 50th Law
50 Cent, Robert Greene
Bestselling author Robert Greene combines forces with 50 Cent to help you get ahead.
The ultimate hustle is to move freely between the street and corporate worlds, to find your flow and never stay locked in the same position. This is a manifesto for how to operate in the twenty-first century, where everything has been turned on its head. Building on the runaway success of Robert ...
