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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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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 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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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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What Management Is
Joan Magretta
Timeless business wisdom from an award-winning business writer
Whether you're new to the field or a seasoned executive, this book will give you a firm grasp on what it takes to make an organization perform. It presents the basic principles of management simply, but not simplistically. Why did an eBay succeed where a Webvan did not? Why do you needbotha business modelanda strategy? Why is it ...
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How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
A provocative look at what has worked - and what hasn't - in East Asian economics.
Until the catastrophic economic crisis of the late 1990s, East Asia was perceived as a monolithic success story. But heady economic growth rates masked the most divided continent in the world - one half the most extraordinary developmental success story ever seen, the other half a paper tiger.Joe Studwell ...
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Language
Daniel Everett
A groundbreaking and controversial new theory about how we talk.
Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. It's as essential to survival as fire - and, like fire, is found in all human societies.Languagepresents the bold and controversial idea that language is not an innate component of the brain, as has been famously argued...
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Gallipoli
Peter Hart
A gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy, the battle of Gallipoli.
'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing. As for our young men, a few minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now lying dead on the bare deck, blackened burned skeletons, twisted in all directions, no trace of any clothing, the fire having devoured all.'Vice Admiral P...
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Feeding Frenzy
Paul McMahon
Can the world feed itself?
Feeding Frenzytraces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets. Supplies are running short, prices keep spiking and the media is full of talk of a'world food crisis'. Food-producing countries are banning exports even if this means starving their neighbours. Governments and corporations are scrambling to ...
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The Great Mathematical Problems
Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart reveals the really big questions that take us to the limits of mathematics.
There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics.The Great Mathematical Problemsexplains why these problems exist, why they matter, what drives mathematicians to incredible ...
