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Invisible Romans
Robert C. Knapp
Rome's invisible inhabitants - prostitutes, innkeepers, housewives, priests, freedmen, slaves, ...
Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who lived commonplace ...
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Enterprise Rules
Don Young
The tried-and-tested rules so many business have lost sight of that determine lasting success - and ...
The messages ofEnterprise Rulesare hugely important. Organisations that manage to provide meaning to employees, satisfaction to customers and a net contribution to society can expect to prosper in the long term. This has been known for a long time, ever since the great...
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What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?
Tony Juniper
The true value of ecosystems to world economies.
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the'natural services'that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated ...
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Underground, Overground
Andrew Martin
Paperback published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the London Underground
Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King's Cross to King's Cross on the Circle line?The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and illogical metropolitan transport system in the world, the result of a series of botch-jobs and ...
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Calories and Corsets
Louise Foxcroft
An enlightening and entertaining social history of how we have tried (and failed) to battle the ...
Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have ...
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The Change Book
Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler
From the creators of the bestsellingThe Decision Bookcome fifty surprisingly simple explanations of ...
How do you make your way in a world that is changing at an unprecedented rate? Why do we have less and less time? Why are some people unfaithful? How can our government act against threats before they happen?This book is about change - from the small ...
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Shopping, Seduction&Mr Selfridge
Lindy Woodhead
For anyone who loves to shop! The amazing story of Harry Gordon Selfridge.
In 1909, the largest department store in London's West End, designed and built from scratch, opened in Oxford Street in a glorious burst of publicity. The mastermind behind the façade was American retail genius Harry Gordon Selfridge: maverick businessman, risk-taker, dandy and one of the greatest showmen the retail world...
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Swiss Made
R. James Breiding
From poverty to prosperity - one country's remarkable achievement
Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh ...
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Jassim the Leader
Mohamed Althani
The little-known story of the creator of the modern state of Qatar
The Gulf state of Qatar tops theForbeslist of the world's richest countries. In 2010, the country had the world's highest GDP per capita, and its reserves of oil and natural gas are vast. It has been estimated that Qatar will invest more than $120 billion in the energy sector over the next ten years. Yet Qatar has climbed to this ...
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The Unpublished David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy
The brilliant, private insights of the bestselling'Father of Advertising', David Ogilvy
First collected by his devoted family and colleagues as a 75th birthday present,The Unpublished David Ogilvycollects a career's worth of public and private communications - memos, letters, speeches, notes and interviews - from the'Father of Advertising'and founder of Ogilvy&Mather. Still fizzing ...
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The Wonderbox
Roman Krznaric
What three millennia of human history can tell us about how to live today
There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be surprisingly powerful.Showing the lessons that can be learned from the past, cultural ...
