A unique insider's guide to turning risk into opportunity In business everyone can see the first bounce of the ball It is the second bounce that is uncertain Ronald Cohen one of the world's leading private-equity investors argues that the entrepreneur's aim is to take advantage of that uncertainty for it is only in situations of uncertainty that significant gains can be made Putting it another way successful entrepreneurs know how to turn risk into opportunity The book is essential reading for entrepreneurs wannabe entrepreneurs & all those who want to apply entrepreneurial approaches in all walks of life It provides relevant background on the development of entrepreneurship & of the venture-capital & private-equity industry through the prism of Cohen's experience at Apax It provides guidance about how to take advantage of business opportunity the right people & the right money & the roles played by personality & luck & underlines the importance of ethics ...

What if you found out that the child you love belongs to someone else? A breath-taking & heart-rending debut novel about the bond of family & the limits of love 336 pages Bond Caroline ...

God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance & everything looks pretty good
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Britain's leading guru looks to the future Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought His books on management
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Peter Tremayne highly acclaimed author of The Devil's Seal & Atonement of Blood returns with The Second Death a gripping new Celtic mystery featuring super-sleuth Sister Fidelma Ireland AD 671 The Great Fair of Bealtain is almost upon the fortress of Cashel & a line of painted wagons carries entertainers to mark the occasion But preparations take a deathly turn when one carriage is set alight & two corpses are found lying poisoned within As Sister Fidelma & her companion Eadulf investigate they are plunged into the menacing marshlands of Osraige
- where the bloody origin of the Abbey of Cainnech is wreaking his revenge Fidelma & Eadulf must face untold mortal danger before they can untangle the evil that strikes at the very heart of the kingdom' Tremayne's super-sleuth is a vibrant creation' Morgan Llywelyn
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Every country wanted what one man possessed… In the midst of World War 2 intelligence services from England Germany & Russia collide in a fierce fight for the mind of Nicky Raus a genius German Jewish scientist who was developing a weapon of tremendous power An American agent Frank Hossom enters the game when German agents undertake a daring operation to steal the scientist Frank has to get the scientist back
- dead or alive His mission is complicated by his developing relationship with Olga Ryabina Nicky&s lover an actress forced to work for the KGB The love triangle & the international intrigue weave into a deadly net
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No 1 bestselling memoir of Roy Keane former captain of Manchester United & Ireland
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Welcome to the Island of Struay home of one of the best-loved characters in children's books & as seen on TV
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In recent years computers have learned to diagnose diseases drive cars write clean prose & win game shows Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median income has stagnated & employment levels have fallen Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew Mc Afee reveal the technological forces driving this reinvention of the economy & chart a path towards future prosperity Businesses & individuals they argue must learn to race with machines Drawing on years of research Brynjolfsson & Mc Afee identify the best strategies & policies for doing so A fundamentally optimistic book The Second Machine Age will radically alter how we think about issues of technological societal & economic progress ...

TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE & SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED & INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID' Everyone who cares about freedom & justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote ' One is not born but rather becomes a woman' In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom & explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity Liberation she argues entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes & crucially in achieving economic independence Drawing on sociology anthropology & biology The Second Sex is as important & relevant today as when it was first published in 1949 ...