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Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge, but was inspired to write by his lifelong interest in early modern history. His Thomas Hill novels – The King’s Spy, The King’s Exile and The King’s Return – are set against the backdrops of the English Civil War, Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the early Restoration respectively. He is also the author of Waterloo: The Bravest Man and Beautiful Star and Other Stories. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium (published in paperback as The Incendium Plot) – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos. Andrew Swanston lives in Surrey.

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A G Hopkins

A. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men’s Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.

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A J P Taylor

Anthony James Pollard is a British medieval historian, specialising in the fifteenth century and in particular the Wars of the Roses. A leading authority in the field, he is profesor emeritus of Teesside University. His books include North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Princes in theTower, Imagining Robin Hood: the Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context and Warwick the kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame.

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A J Rochester

A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds.

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A. L. Berridge read English at Oxford, and taught for ten years before moving into television, where her production credits range from period drama and thrillers to long-running soaps. She has written two previous novels, Top Ten besteller Honour and the Sword and In the Name of the King. Into the Valley of Death is her third novel.

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Alison Gaylin's first job was as a reporter for a celebrity tabloid, which sparked a lifelong interest in writing about people committing despicable acts. More than a decade later, she wrote and published her Edgar-nominated first novel, HIDE YOUR EYES. 
 
She's since published nine more books, including the USA Today and international bestselling Brenna Spector suspense series, which has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Thriller awards and won the Shamus award. 
 
She lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, cat and dog.

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A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Chaos, the first instalment of The Dark Pantheon Trilogy. She is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology, that push the boundaries of imagination and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human.

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A. A. Dhand is the author of six previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired all his novels. For more information about A. A. Dhand and his books, follow him on X @aadhand, and on Instagram @aa_dhand.

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A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. Her debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still, an instant New York Times bestseller, is an ode to Poland's folktales, while A Treachery of Swans transports readers to a world inspired by 17th century France.

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Professor A. C. Grayling is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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A.D. Miller is the author of Snowdrops, The Earl of Petticoat Lane and The Faithful Couple. Snowdrops was a bestseller and was shortlisted for many prizes including the Man Booker and the CWA Gold Dagger. It was translated into 25 languages. As Moscow Correspondent of The Economist A.D. Miller has travelled across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; he is now the magazine’s Culture Editor based in London. 
 
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A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

A. Igoni Barrett

The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

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Brian Sutton

This book provides all the information and support you need to find your next job; and also helps you to focus on your life and career ambitions, hopes, aims, strengths and potential. It provides an invaluable opportunity to reassess your life and career positively, and empowers you to win jobs. 
 
- Researching the job market 
- Compiling a CV 
- Selection methods 
- Interviews 
- Working for yourself – what you need and what it takes 
- Finding jobs via the Internet 
- The Jobseekers' Charter

Manage Your Career

The Definitive Guide to Successful Job Search and Career Change

Jim Durcan

Increasingly, companies are buying in from outside certain services and functions that would previously have been fulfilled by an internal department or employees. Companies no longer just outsource support functions, but also outsource critical areas of production or design. It lets companies focus on those activities where they have real competitive edge, and is increasingly being seen as an attractive alternative to downsizing or cost-cutting. 
 
Durcan and Oates provide a wide-ranging expert overview of outsourcing, aimed at managers and decision-makers who want to understand fully all the issues involved. How do companies define core and non-core activities? How do you find the best provider of an outsourced function? What are the pitfalls to avoid? How do you monitor the service provider? What is the impact on issues such as corporate security and confidentiality? The authors also consider how outsourcing is redefining the nature of corporations: if companies have minimal physical existence, but exist as a network of relationships and contracts, when should we speak of the 'virtual organisation'?

Outsourcing and the Virtual Organization

The Incredible Shrinking Company

Kay Henning

First published in 1999, The Digital Enterprise gives the historical context which gave rise to the digital industry, assesses the key sectors of the industry and outlines new business opportunities in the media, the entertainments business and the retail sector. It describes the challenges to business and how these can be met, and also looks to the digital future.

The Digital Enterprise

Deborah Spar

The advance of digital technology is creating whole new markets and industries.  Telecommunications is merging into media; information is blurring into entertainment; and commercial ventures of all types are being pulled into the amorphous space of the internet.Pirates, Prophets and Pioneers examines how these new technologies are pushing at the boundaries of existing rules and how governments are likely to respond to them.  Using material gathered from four years of academic research and confidential interviews, Debora Spar brings us inside the world of business and politics in the digital age.  In the process, she also takes us back in time, to explore to older technologies and earlier battles. Looking at the advent of radio and telegraphy, the rise of trans-oceanic trade and the development of satellite television, Spar finds striking parallels to our own time (for example, online music and software wars) and critical lessons for both business and politics.

Pirates, Prophets And Pioneers

Business and Politics Along the Technological Frontier

Phil Dowell

This book has grown out of the ideas, discriptions and examples which the author has developed and refined over fifteen years of delievering courses about business. to students at London Business School and to managers in his capacity as management consultant, its aim is to give a practical understanding of aspects of business which are often seen as `difficult' such as cash flow forecasting. Many of the vivid examples included are from small businesses because of their more accessible concepts, acahapters deal with a separate topic and may be read in any order. Although businessesset great store by trying to be different from competitors, it is the author`s thesis that in the final analysis the same essential activities are to be found over and over again. This book explains what is involved in thee essential activities. `A business must sell things, repeatedly, over time, for more money than it spends in so doing. Otherwise, it ceases to be a business. There are no exceptions.

Understanding Business

Alan Rugman

Professor Alan Rugman is one of the world's leading academics in the field of international business and strategy. In The End of Globalization  he argues that we are currently witnessing the end of globalization and draws on new research and analysis to argue that globalization never really happened anyway. Like Bartlett and Ghoshal's Managing Across Borders,  this book is aimed at the market of practitioners and policy-makers, (not academics and theoreticians) showing them what the current state of the global economy means for them. Global business is dominated by the 500 largest multinational enterprises (MNEs) out of a total of 30,000 MNEs altogether.  The 500 MNEs that are the engines of international business 'think regional and act local'. Using analysis drawn from world-leading companies, Professor Rugman looks in detail at the managerial implications of the end of globalization, including in-depth discussion of corporate strategies, organizational structures, and analytical methods.

The End Of Globalization

Curt Coffman

Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina

Follow This Path is a ten-step programme for making your company more profitable by understanding that both employees and customers are people with emotional and psychological needs and wants. People are not rational utility-maximizers acting on perfect information, as in economic theory. Rather, as both customer and employee, they want to form economic relationships - like any other kind of relationship - that are based on trust and emotional connection. If they succeed in forming such relationships, they engage (a key word in the book, and a central theme) with an organization, and will ultimately prove more profitable to it. The authors draw on years of Gallup surveys to show how engagement leads to profitability, and back up their claims with research and statistics based on Gallup findings.

Follow This Path

Tony Rutigliano

Benson Smith

In the ever-changing world of sales, there is no magic bullet method that can be readily imitated to suddenly and miraculously improve performance. In fact, the world's best salespeople are not characterized by their technique, but by their ability to transfer their individual talents into their work environment. Discover Your Sales Strengths is an extraordinary program built upon the concept that every person already possesses the tools necessary to become an amazing salesperson.  --Grounded in extensive Gallup research based on hundreds of thousands of interviews with sales managers, salesmen, and consumers--Teaches individuals to transform personal strengths and talents into solid sales skills-and powerful, successful careers

Discover Your Sales Strengths

Andrew Leach

A unique, truly comprehensive guide to all aspects of investment, that provides a wealth of expert advice and information in clear and jargon-free language that everyone will understand. Part I - getting startedWhat are shares? How to buy and sell shares and what to expect in terms of returns? How to find a stockbroker that's right for you. How much money should you invest directly in shares? Lower-risk investments in bonds, gilts, and unit and investment trusts. Risk - and achieving the balance between risk and reward. Part II - understanding the jargonWhat do company results show? Some key financial yardsticks and how to calculate them. Key accounting issues and how the books can be cooked. Financial ratios and what they tell you. Part III - for the more experienced investorRisk and the psychology of investment. Some theories about markets and stock market investment. Key investment styles and the gurus of investment. Different types of investment opportunities. Futures and options. Commodities.

Financial Mail on Sunday Guide to Investment

Ruth Sunderland

This one-stop handbook covers everything you need to know: starting out; making your business special; people; enterprise for beginners; marketing; cash management; finance; innovation; export know-how; risks and rewards; avoiding the pitfalls and moving on.Packed with case studies from an enormous variety of businesses, this book draws extensively on the stories of successful entrepreneurs from Financial Mail's unique Enterprise Awards programme, It also covers the issues that everyone with their own business should and must consider, from how to get paid promptly (and what to do if not) to advertising, personnel, the business implications of the euro and how to get investment for future growth.

Fmos Guide To Running Your Own Business

Tess Read

Calum Chace

Simon Rowe

The Internet Consumer Bible is the most authoritative guide to the internet available. Far more than a directory, this book shows you - whether novice or experienced web surfer - which sites can help you and which sites are a waste of time. Taking you through every aspect of life and showing how to save hundreds of pounds and release hours of valuable time for other activities, the book also looks at what you can't do on the web or what you can still do better offline. Chapters finish with a list of sites in the area providing a brief description of what the site does and a star rating of 1-5 for how good each is.  There are five major sections: 1) Basics.  Chapters in this section include: what is a 'good website'?; getting started, unmetered access, ADSL, virus programmes, firewalls, screening software, mobile internet and interactive TV.2) Lifestages.  Chapters in this section include: births and young children; education; dating, marriage and divorce; work: job-seeking, self-employment, redundancy; death.3) Shopping.  Chapters in this section include: home, mortgages, online estate agencies, DIY, gardening, cars, clothes, groceries.4) Entertainment and Leisure.  Chapters in this section include: travel and holidays, sport, films, music, restaurants, TV, nightlife, genealogy, weather, hobbies.5) Organising Your Life.  Chapters in this section include: money (covers investing

The Internet Consumer Bible

Carol Kennedy

'Carol Kennedy's The Next Big Idea should be on the desk of every consultant.' Accountancy Age'Written with a freshness and sparkle that belie a considerable amount of research, and provides new insights on almost every page.'  Innovation MagazineThe book that outlines the next big idea in business - whether Larry Ellison's business strategy at Oracle or the next hot management theory.  Covers US and European figures, concepts and ideas. Management in the 20th century was perpetually driven by the hunt for the Big Idea - the breakthrough that would bring greater efficiency, performance, productivity and profits to the business organisation and greater motivation to its employees. This book investigates where business will take its next big idea from, whether from new kinds of gurus, research institutions studying the lessons of natural science, practical industrialists working out problems on the factory floor, or the best brains of Silicon Valley.

The Next Big Idea

Nigel Barlow

The last two decades have seen the rise and rise of the service economy, where image - and customer perceptions - are crucially important in building a successful business. Rarely do we buy a hard, tangible object called a 'product'. Financial services sell peace of mind; car manufacturers sell a self-image and an aspirational lifestyle; computer and software companies offer 'solutions' - even food is fashion. Nigel Barlow draws on two decades of experience in 20 countries to argue that the age of service has failed to deliver on its promises. He goes far beyond the standard business-speak cliches of customer service to show why merely satisfying customers is not enough. He explores with original examples and first-hand experinces why service so often falls short of customer expectations, and shows how to think and act to create legendary service in the reader's own organization.

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Creating Legendary Service

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If you can do it for someone else, why not do it for yourself? 
 
Better communications technology and less rigid working practices allow more people to work freelance than ever before. This creates opportunities for those who; enjoy challenge and variety; need flexible working hours because of family commitments; feel stifled or overlooked in a corporate environment; are facing redundancy but still have much to offer. 
 
Perfect Freelancing takes a practical look at: 
-Getting started 
-Finding clients - and keeping them 
-Coping with the culture shocks 
-Working from home and time management 
-What to do when things go wrong 
-Tax and legal considerations 
-Case studies - freelancers and employers compare notes

Perfect Freelancing

:All You Need to Get it Right First Time

Peter Bartram

At some stage in their job or life, everyone is asked to organise a larger scale project - it may be running the company's annual sales conference, preparing a launch of a new product, or planning a move to new offices. Or it may be outside work - like organising a local school fete. Faced with something new, most people are often puzzled about where to start and worried about taking it on. The Perfect Project provides a straightforward road-map for organising most kinds of project, looking in detail and with examples at core skills such as planning, scheduling, progress-chasing, choosing and co-ordinated the team, budgeting, handling unforeseen problems.

Perfect Project Manager

Max Eggert

What job would you do if you knew could not fail? When have you been most happy in your life, and what does that tell you you should be doing at work? If you were appraised today what would your boss say -and what training would you ask for? This small book contains 200 questions of this type - answer them honestly and you will be rewarded by a real insight into yourself and your career.

The Book Of Career Questions

Two Hundred Questions Which Will Change The Whole of Your Working Life

Lynda King Taylor

Lynda King Taylor interviews 30 of the UK's top businesspeople, including some of Britain's toughest bosses, and talks to them about how they survived the recession and plan for continued success. As well as the most traditional captains of industry she meets trendsetters - the 'gold-collar' workers constituting the new generation of bright, young and highly motivated managers, and top figures from sport (Graham Gooch, Will Carling), the arts (Kenneth Branagh), finance, leisure, media, charities etc - plus outstandingly successful figures from the public sector.

Corporate Excellence In The Year 2000

:A Framework for Success

Sumantra Ghoshal

Christopher A. Bartlett

MANAGING ACROSS BORDERS is the definitive guide to the management of companies in today's global environment. Since its first publication in the US in 1989 it has established its authors as the leading authorities on the transnational company. It is based on a study of a diverse group of multinational companies including Procter &amp; Gamble, Unilever, General Electric, Philips, Matsushita, ITT, Ericsson and NEC. The characteristics of these multinationals and the process described by Bartlett and Ghoshal provides valuable lessons on how to develop the organisational structures, administrative processes and management perspective necessary to success. 'Bartlett and Ghoshal make an important and highly practical contribution in a book that represents the leading edge of thinking on this important subject. ' - Michael Porter, author of Competitive Strategy, Competitive Advantage of Nations etc.

Managing Across Borders 2nd Ed

Matt Marshall

The European Cenrtral Bank starts operations on January 1st 1999. As the independant bank which issues euro banknotes and controls European monetary policy, it is one of the key financial institutions of the world - symbol of Europe's ever closer financial and political union, and the seminal driving-force behind Europe's growing world power in politics and economics. The Bank provides a first-hand account, based on access to the key players, of the intrigues and in-fighting surrounding the creation of the Bank and the appointment of its first president, the German-backed Dutchman Wim Duisenberg. It provides a detailed analysis of the Bank's operations and prospects, and a rigorous examination of all the related issues of European and global power - financial, economic, and political - including the impact of the bank on the City of London's future as an world financial centre.

The Bank

Birth of Europe's Central Bank & Rebirth of Europe's Power

David Jenkins

Many senior managers are faced with the decision as to whether or not they should 'go' for empowerment. Their major concern is the likely effect of empowerment on mangers, supervisors, and the organisation as a whole. Empowerment has the capacity to bring about major changes in the roles of every key player, and ultimately leads to the emergence of a new organisation. This book examines the implications for empowerment at every level, including such issues as training, career paths, company communications and the ability to respond to the demands of the market place. It is supported by plentiful case study material, much of it drawn from the author's own experience.

Managing Empowerment

Perfect Counselling provides you with an overview of what counselling is - and isn't - and gives you guidance on when it can be of value. The book is filled with examples and exercises to guide you through the skills and practice of counselling. 
 
Chapters include: 
--The process of counselling 
--Counselling skills 
--When to use counselling and when not to 
--Dealing with people who are reluctant or difficult 
--Gaining the commitment to action 
--Empowerment and tackling personal responsibility. 
 
This is the ideal book for anyone who frequently finds themselves in counselling situations in the office and outside work, and is also for everyone who is training, or considering training as a counsellor. 
 
The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from finding your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.

Perfect Counselling

Jan Ferguson

Elaine Van Der Zeil

Two of the most popular titles in the bestselling Perfect series now combined in one insightful audiobook, to help improve your confidence and help you relax. 
 
Perfect Confidence is the ideal companion for anyone who wants to boost their self-esteem. Covering everything from communicating clearly to handling conflict, it explains exactly why confidence matters and equips you with the skills you need to become more assertive. Whether you need to get ahead in the workplace or learn how to balance the demands of friends and family, Perfect Confidence has all you need to meet challenges head on. 
 
Perfect Relaxationis an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to learn how to remain calm and powerful in challenging situations. Covering everything from how to stop obsessing to how to start thinking positively, it gives step-by-step guidance on beating stress and shows you how to make relaxation a part of your everyday life. With helpful suggestions for instant calming techniques and daily exercises to help combat tension, Perfect Relaxation has everything you need to bring your stress levels under control. 
 
The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.

Perfect Confidence/Perfect Relaxation

Andrew Melhuish

The many changes in today's workplace brought about by recession and technical innovation mean that executives - and indeed everyone in employment - are working longer hours with greater demands on their flexibility and skills. It has become increasingly difficult to balance the needs of work and home, and to maintain good health and good relationships. This book shows you how to moderate the demands of a tougher working environment by managing stress and improving your lifestyle with delegation, time management, learning to say 'NO' plus a sensible diet and exercise. It looks at the different conditions which may effect the executive, plus symptoms and treatment, and surveys alternative medicine such as acupuncture, chiropractice, homeopathy and hypnotherapy.

Perfect Executive Health

All You Need to Get it Right First Time

Bryn Owen

The need for quality has never been greater. Advertising, corporate image, mission statements and league tables all place emphasis on quality. But there are numerous different approaches to quality, and many gurus show the way. Total Quality Management, SPC, QED, Zero Defects, Right First Theme, Katzen and ISO 9000 all address quality and any of these approaches can contribute towards it. It is generally accepted that for quality to be achieved everyone in the organization, from boardroom to shop floor, from council chamber to traffic warden, has to understand what quality means, be committed to it and be prepared to be involved in attaining it. 
 
Perfect Quality explores the meaning of quality for all organizations and provides practical guidance on how it can be achieved. It cuts through the jargon and philosophies and answers the Who, What, Why, When and How of quality. 
 
-What is Quality? 
-Why is Quality vital to survival? 
-Who is responsible for Quality? 
-How is Quality achieved? 
-When is Quality achieved? 
 
 
Dr Bryn Owen is an international quality expert and Executive of optimum Systems for Quality Ltd.

Perfect Quality

This is a first class addition to the ever popular 'Perfect' series and covers a growth area of management. More and more people are becoming consultants as layers of middle management are stripped out of major companies, releasing into the workplace people with plenty of valuable experience to hand on to new clients. This book covers the main areas of what it takes to become a consultant, setting up, getting work and getting repeat business, the necessary skills, carrying out the work and the financial side.

The Perfect Consultant

All You Need To Get it Right First Time

Todd Skinner

Todd Skinner sees climbing mountains as a natural metaphor for business challenges. To climb a mountain you must know how to define your objective, plan the best strategy, prepare your team, and surmount any obstacles on the way to the summit.  This book takes the reader through this process in ten stages that apply to both real and metaphorical mountains.  Skinner explains how to stay true to your vision no matter what happens, what tools you need to carry, and which preconceptions you need to leave behind.  Skinner weaves these lessons into a compelling narrative, featuring the heart-stopping action of climbing the sheer rock face of Trango Tower in the Himalayas.

Beyond The Summit

Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals

Elizabeth Handy

Charles Handy

The world needs new ideas, now products, new kinds of associations and institutions, new initiatives, new art and new designs. But these new things seldom come from established organisations. They come from individuals - the New Alchemists. What drives people to create something from nothing? Is it ambition, the need for self-fulfilment? Is it to do with money, power, or even genes? Is there a mood of the time that encourages people? Can anyone do it? Charles Handy has talked to a range of extraordinary characters - from Trevor Baylis and Richard Branson to Jane Tewson and Terence Conran. And Elizabeth Handy has used her new style of composite portraits to highlight aspects of all the different alchemists in their particular environments. The New Alchemists is a fascinating and inspirational investigation into the creative and entrepreneurial process.

The New Alchemists

Chris Anderson

What happens when advances in technology allow many things to be produced for more or less nothing? And what happens when those things are then made available to the consumer for free? 
 
In his groundbreaking new book, The Long Tail author Chris Anderson considers a brave new world where the old economic certainties are being undermined by a growing flood of free goods - newspapers, DVDs, T shirts, phones, even holiday flights. He explains why this has become possible - why new technologies, particularly the Internet, have caused production and distribution costs in many sectors to plummet to an extent unthinkable even a decade ago. He shows how the flexibility provided by the online world allows producers to trade ever more creatively, offering items for free to make real or perceived gains elsewhere. He pinpoints the winners and the losers in the Free universe. And he demonstrates the ways in which, as an increasing number of things become available for free, our decisions to make use of them will be determined by two resources far more valuable than money: the popular reputation of what is on offer and the time we have available for it. In the future, he argues, when we talk of the 'money economy' we will talk of the 'reputation economy' and the 'time economy' in the same breath, and our world will never be the same again.

Free

The Future of a Radical Price

Andrew Leigh

Michael Maynard

Perfect Leader shows clearly how everybody can learn to exercise leadership. Are leaders born or made? The book is comprehensive yet concise and to the point. It is written in clear language and is designed to be of immediate, practical benefit to readers. It explains exactly what it takes to be a leader by identifying and examining the seven 'I's of leadership: Insight --Initiative --Inspiration --Involvement --Improvisation --Individuality --Implementation. Today's business methods, with their emphasis on teamwork, and on fewer layers of management, mean that there is a need for effective leaders to bring about corporate success - and in the process build themselves a satisfying 
career. 
 
The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.

Perfect Leader

Ryan Mathews

Watts Wacker

In The Deviant's Advantage, Ryan Mathews and Watts Wacker demonstrate how ideas create increasingly profitable markets as they move from The Fringe, to the Edge, to the Realm of the Cool, to the Next Big Thing, to Social Convention. The book tracks the products and people haunting the fringes of sex, science, art, language, faith, war and marketing, branding and macro-economics. Tomorrow's commercial success is an obsession in the mind of today's deviant. Las Vegas is a perfect example: it morphed from a bus stop in the desert to a neon 'Sin City' and finally into a family vacation destination. In 1945 a handsome, murderous sociopath called Benny 'Bugsy' Siegel decided to build a luxury gambling oasis in the desert. At the time, Las Vegas was a crossroads in the middle of the desert. Siegel understood the emerging desire for escape in the American psyche - and out of nothing, created what became an enormous gambling haven. Las Vegas has now transformed itself into a gigantic family-oriented theme park, albeit one with slots and roulette wheels. It's become a holiday destination for the entire family, not just a place that fathers sneak off to. Las Vegas moved from the Fringe (Bugsy's original vision), to the Edge (the first hotel), to the Realm of the Cool (where everyone wanted to go), to the Next Big Thing (where everyone went), to Social Convention.

The Deviant's Advantage

How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. Discover the 1Q84 Trilogy by Haruki Murakami.

1Q84

365 Days of Art

A BBC Christmas

A Black Book Thriller

A Box Full of Murders

A Cal Leandros Novel

A Christmas Mystery

The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice.

A Commissario Brunetti Mystery

A DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series

A Daisy Story

Chronicling the lives of over three hundred characters, unrivalled for its scope and humour, this is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.

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