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Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense
Jules Goddard, Tony Eccles
The winning difference daring to be different can make - insights into how organisations can stand ...
This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists.It puts forward the notion that the ...
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On The Eve
Bernard Wasserstein
A major history examining the realities of Jewish life across Europe up to the very eve of World War...
This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught and World War Two.In this revisionist account of modern European Jewry, Wasserstein shows how ...
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The Man Who Plants Trees
Jim Robbins
An extraordinary investigation into the world of trees - and the inspiring story of one man's quest ...
This is an extraordinary book about trees. It's an account by a veteran science journalist that ranges to the limits of scientific understanding: how trees produce aerosols for protection and'warnings'; the curative effects of'forest bathing'in ...
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Nijinsky
Lucy Moore
The first major biography for forty years tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, ...
'He achieves the miraculous,'the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of Vaslav Nijinsky.'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in Nijinsky classical ballet had one of the greatest and most original artists of the twentieth ...
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Winning Without Losing
Jordan Milne, Martin Bjergegaard
A business book about more than business: the ultimate guide to improving your work/life balance.
Whatever your job is, chances are you find it hard to switch off. Today, we work longer hours, at weekends, at home and on the move - while the office is only ever a click away via smartphones and the Internet. But as much as we assume that this is the price of success - it doesn't have to be this ...
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The Society of Timid Souls
Polly Morland
Are brave people somehow fundamentally different from the rest of us, or is courage something that ...
In 1942, a pianist from Manhattan convened the inaugural meeting of an extraordinary new fraternity, which promised to inoculate stage fright sufferers against the terrors that afflicted them. The venture, which coincided with the terrifying height ...
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The XX Factor
Alison Wolf
The reality of female professional success in today's world - a challenge to long-held assumptions ...
For most of history, being female defined the limits of a woman's achievements. But now, women are successful careerists equal to men. In Norway, women legally must constitute a third of all boards; in America, women have gone from 3% of practising ...
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Lost, Stolen or Shredded
Rick Gekoski
The stories behind the disappearances of some of our most famous works of art - and some that never ...
Like Sherlock Holmes's dog in the night time, sometimes the true significance of things lies in their absence. Rick Gekoski tells the very human stories that lie behind some of the greatest losses to artistic culture - and addresses the questions such disappearances raise.Some of the ...
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The Burning Question
Duncan Clark, Mike Berners-Lee
Take one complex scientific discipline. Add the future of energy, economics and geopolitics. Season ...
The Burning Questionreveals climate change to be the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle in history. It shows that carbon emissions are still accelerating upwards, following an exponential curve that goes back centuries. One reason is that saving energy is...
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Clarks: Made to Last
Mark Palmer
The story behind an iconic British brand that is approaching its double century
Clarks'reach extends to all corners of the globe and yet it remains a family-owned business firmly rooted in its Quaker origins, (unlike other well known Quaker firms like Cadburys, now part of US giant Kraft.) Founded in 1825 by two brothers, Cyrus and James Clark, the company began as a rug-making operation in the ...
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The Elimination
Rithy Panh
An eye witness account of one of the darkest episodes of the late twentieth century, the era of the ...
From 1975 to 1979'Comrade'Duch was in charge of S 21, the security prison at the heart of Pnomh Penh where 12,380 people were tortured and executed, having confessed to imaginary betrayals of the regime. After his film S21, which brought survivors and executioners from the ...
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The Great War: 1914-1918
Peter Hart
A masterful history of the First World War, covering all areas and explaining the technology and ...
The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. Empires fell, others were crippled and new contenders emerged. Economies crashed, and millions would be affected by the Depression that followed. ...
