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The Economist: Managing Uncertainty
Marion Devine, Michel Syrett
Global recession, rebellion in the Middle East, and heartrending natural disasters in places as far ...
This book looks at managing uncertainty as a new business imperative. It·analyses the sources and triggers of business turbulence, and explores different models for classifying uncertainty·explores the cost of uncertainty in the shape of business ...
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The Man in the Picture
Susan Hill
The chilling tale of a painting so terrifying, its secrets will haunt those who see it ... A ghost ...
A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter's night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene, ...
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Spell It Out
David Crystal
An enlightening tour of English spelling that untangles'stationery'from'stationary'- and explains ...
Why is there an'h'in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their ...
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The Beauty And The Sorrow
Peter Englund
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, ...
There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, he explores the everyday ...
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The Economist: Pocket World in Figures 2013
The Economist
New edition of this annual bestseller of fascinating facts and figures about the world we live in.
The 2013 edition of this perennial favourite has been completely updated, revised and expanded with many new features. Full of facts and figures about the world today - on subjects as diverse as geography, population and demographics, business, finance and the economy, transport, tourism and the ...
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Securing Freedom
Eliza Manningham-Buller
The former head of MI5 on freedom, intelligence, the rule of law, torture and security
How do we balance our belief in human freedom with the need to defend ourselves against those who believe the use of terror can be justified? Can our handling of security risk and the laws we pass to deal with them distort our response to the threat of terrorism?In this sobering and ...
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Lessons from the Top
Gavin Esler
One of Britain's leading journalists and interviewers reveals what the stories that leaders tell can...
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 ...
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The Arab Spring and the Gulf States
Mohamed Althani
The most challenging question today for the citizens of any country in the Gulf region is whether it is heading in the right direction to become a durable, sustainable system, fully supported by its people and capable of being defended from internal and external threats. InThe Arab Spring and the Gulf States, Mohamed A. J. Althani, a former minister in the Qatari government, analyses the ...
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Tell to Win
Peter Guber
Success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move people. If you can't tell...
Stories have always had the power to move, but it has only recently become clear thatpurposefulstories - those created with a specific mission in mind - are essential in persuading others to support a vision or cause. For Peter Guber, what began as a...
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Free Lunch
David Smith
Revised edition of this classic accessible guide - fully updated to explore how the global crisis of...
The economy has never been so relevant to so many people as it is now, and it's vital that we understand how it affects our lives.'There's no such thing as a free lunch'is the one phrase everyone has heard from economics - not even for bankers. But why not? What does ...
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Occupation Diaries
Raja Shehadeh
Life in Palestine today - what it is really like - day to day, from the Orwell Prize winning author...
It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be carefully thought about and planned for: When will the post be allowed to get through? Will there be enough water for the ...
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The Economist Guide to Decision-Making
Helga Drummond
An invaluable guide to arrive at better business decisions
We make decisions, and these decisions make us and our organisations. And in theory, decision-making should be easy: a problem is identified, the decision-makers generate solutions, and choose the optimal one - and powerful mathematical tools are available to facilitate the task. Yet if it is all so simple why do organisations, both private...
