The world of business books is a curious place where one can find everyone from great businesspeople like Warren Buffett Steve Jobs & Elon Musk to the most spectacular business failures such as Enron & the sub-prime business market There are geniuses hard workers academics & entrepreneurs as well a few charlatans & hucksters There's even room for Donald Trump The 70 titles covered were chosen with various parameters in mind to cover a range of areas of business from sales & marketing to negotiation entrepreneurship to investing leadership to innovation & from traditional & corporate models of business to start-up manuals & alternative angles on the subject Obvious bestselling titles such as How to Make Friends & Influence People or 7 Habits of Highly Effective People have been included but there are also those books of more questionable value often included on recommended lists of business classics included here by way of warning The chosen books also cover a wide span of time & acknowledge that some of the most powerful or entertaining insights into business can be found in texts that aren't perceived as being 'business books' for instance The Art of War Microserfs Thinking Fast & Slow & The Wealth of Nations The selection

Includes:: a good range of the most recent successes in business publishing with which readers may be less familiar The titles are arranged chronologically allowing the reader to dip in but also casting an intriguing light on how trends in business titles have changed over the years Among these titles you will find expert advice based on solid research (for instance The Effective Executive or Getting to Yes) & inspirational guides to setting up businesses & running them on sound foundations (such as True North Crucial Conversations or We) alongside dubious management manuals that take a single flawed idea & stretch it out to the point of absurdity The hope is that the reader will be inspired to read the best of these titles ignore the worst of them & will come away with at least a basic idea of what each has to teach us about business

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In this era of Vinyl revival celebrate some of the greatest covers of the last 70 years such as the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' or Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon' alongside entertaining & informative text This great little book will make an ideal gift for any music aficionado or art & design enthusiast ...

'A brilliant authoritative surprising captivating introduction to human genetics You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This is a story about you It is the history of who you are & how you came to be It is unique to you as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath But it is also our collective story because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species
- births deaths disease war famine migration & a lot of sex In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about human history & what history can now tell us about our genes From Neanderthals to murder from redheads to race dead kings to plague evolution to epigenetics this is a demystifying & illuminating new portrait of who we are & how we came to be'A thoroughly entertaining history of Homo sapiens & its DNA in a manner that displays popular science writing at its best' Observer ' Magisterial informative & delightful' Peter Frankopan' An extraordinary adventure From the Neanderthals to the Vikings from the Queen of Sheba to Richard III Rutherford goes in search of our ancestors tracing the genetic clues deep into the past' Alice Roberts
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Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale ' Hugh Small in a masterly piece of historical detective work convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians & biographers have missed This is a compelling psychological portrait of a very eminent (and complex) Victorian' James Le Fanu Daily Telegraph Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is best known as a reformer of hospital nursing during & after the Crimean War but many feel that her nursing reputation has been overstated A Brief History of Florence Nightingale tells the story of the sanitary disaster in her wartime hospital & why the government covered it up against her wishes After the war she worked to put the lessons of the tragedy to good use to reduce the very high mortality from epidemic disease in the civilian population at home She did this by persuading Parliament in 1872 to pass laws which required landlords to improve sanitation in working-class homes & to give local authorities rather than central government the power to enforce the laws Life expectancy increased dramatically as a result & it was this peacetime civilian public health reform rather than her wartime hospital nursing record that established Nightingale's reputation in her lifetime After her death the wartime image became popular again as a means of recruiting hospital nurses & her other achievements were almost forgotten Today with nursing's new emphasis on 'primary' care & prevention outside hospitals Nightingale's focus on public health achievements makes her an increasingly relevant figure ...

When we think of France we tend think of fine food & wine the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez Yet as the largest country in Europe France is home to extraordinary diversity The idea of ' Frenchness' emerged through 2000 years of history & it is this riveting story from the Roman conquest of Gaul to the present day that Cecil Jenkins tells of the forging of this great nation through its significant people & events & and its fascinating culture As he unfolds this narrative Jenkins shows why the French began to see themselves as so different from the rest of Europe but also why today the French face the same problems with regard to identity as so many other European nations ...

Neoliberalism
- the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself capable of acting as a guide for all human action
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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015JAMAICA 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house machine guns blazing The reggae superstar survives but the gunmen are never caught From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event Spanning three decades & crossing continents A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters
- slum kids drug lords journalists prostitutes gunmen & even the CIA Gripping & inventive ambitious & mesmerising A Brief History of Seven Killings is one of the most remarkable & extraordinary novels of the twenty-first century
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Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 & authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men & women led by knights & ladies kings & queens embark on campaigns of fanatical conquest in the world of Islam? The word ' Crusade' came later but the concept of a 'war for the faith' is an ancient one Geoffrey Hindley instructively unravels the story of the Christian military expeditions that have perturbed European history troubled Christian consciences & embittered Muslim attitudes towards the West He offers a lively record of the Crusades from the Middle East to the pagan Baltic & fascinating portraits of the major personalities from Godfrey of Bouillon the first Latin ruler of Jerusalem to Etienne the visionary French peasant boy who inspired the tragic Children's Crusade Addressing questions rarely considered Hindley sheds new light on pressing issues surrounding religious division & shows how the Crusades have helped to shape the modern world & relations between Christian & Muslim countries to this day ...

For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne France was a large unwieldy kingdom England was small & poor but for the most part she dominated the war sacking towns & castles & winning battles
- including such glorious victories as Crecy Poitiers & Agincourt but then the English run of success began to fail & in four short years she lost Normandy & finally her last stronghold in Guyenne The protagonists of the Hundred Year War are among the most colourful in European history for the English Edward III the Black Prince & Henry V later immortalized by Shakespeare; for the French the splendid but inept John II who died a prisoner in London Charles V who very nearly overcame England & the enigmatic Charles VII who did at last drive the English out Desmond Seward's account traces the changes that led to France's final victory & brings to life all the intrigue & colour of the last chivalric combats as they gave way to a more brutal modern warfare
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' From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us O Lord' Between the eighth & eleventh centuries the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade raid & invade along the coasts of Europe Their influence & expeditions extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad their battles were as far-flung as Africa & the Arctic But were they great seafarers or desperate outcasts noble heathens or oafish pirates the last pagans or the first of the modern Europeans? This concise study puts medieval chronicles Norse sagas & Muslim accounts alongside more recent research into ritual magic genetic profiling & climatology It

Includes:: biographical sketches of some of the most famous Vikings from Erik Bloodaxe to Saint Olaf & King Canute to Leif the Lucky It explains why the Danish king Harald Bluetooth lent his name to a twenty-first century wireless technology; which future saint laughed as she buried foreign ambassadors alive; why so many Icelandic settlers had Irish names; & how the last Viking colony was destroyed by English raiders Extending beyond the traditional ' Viking age' of most books A Brief History of the Vikings places sudden Scandinavian population movement in a wider historical context It presents a balanced appraisal of these infamous sea kings explaining both their swift expansion & its supposed halt Supposed because ultimately the Vikings didn't disappear they turned into us

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