Is constant reinvention the key to winning in todays fast-paced world? Not judging by the results of some of the worlds best performing companies. In Repeatability" the leaders of Bain & Companys influential strategy practice reveal a powerful truth: successful companies that endure maintain a form of simplicity at their core. More than anything else a "great repeatable business model" equips companies to deal successfully with complexity the silent killer of profitable growth. Chris Zook & Jimmy Allen co-authors of the bestselling " Profit from the Core" detail the value of repeatability in business showing how the "big idea" today is really made up of a series of successful smaller ideas driven by a simple & repeatable business model. Based on a multi-year study of hundreds of companies Zook & Allen show how well-known global firms
- including IKEA Vanguard Starbucks LEGO Da Vita Nike & Flora Holland
- combine a core differentiation model with speed adaptability & simplicity to land them at the top of the competitor chain for longer periods of time. CEOs senior executives managers & investors all need to read this blueprint for reaching the top
- & staying there."


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It is an early spring evening in 1943 when the air-raid sirens wail out over the East End of London. From every corner of Bethnal Green people emerge from pubs cinemas & houses & set off for the shelter of the tube station. But at the entrance steps something goes badly wrong the crowd panics & 173 people are crushed to death. When an enquiry is called for it falls to the local magistrate Laurence Dunne to find out what happened during those few fatally confused minutes. But as Dunne gathers testimony from the guilt-stricken warden of the shelter the priest struggling to bring comfort to his congregation & the grieving mother who has lost her youngest daughter the picture grows ever murkier. The more questions Dunne asks the more difficult it becomes to disentangle truth from rumour
- & to decide just how much truth the damaged community can actually bear. It is only decades later when the case is reopened by one of the children who survived that the facts can finally be brought to light.. .
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Reporting America" is a magnificent collection of Alistair Cookes key dispatches on the key moments movements men & women of post-war America. Alistair Cooke was the greatest & most humane of all modern reporters & interpreters of America his adopted country to his native Britain & to the world. Starting with his first broadcast Letter from America on embarking in 1946 for America on a ship filled with tearful GI brides here are the stories of a nation: Korea the Mc Carthy witch hunts Civil Rights JFK the moon landings the moving eye-witness account of Robert Kennedys assassination Nixons resignation & Clintons scandals right up to the attacks of September 11th & the war in Iraq. Also containing Cooks observations on the great good & downright bad & on the views of the ordinary people he met as well as his daughter Susans memories of her father " Reporting America" is a tribute to an extraordinary man & the country he loved. " The voice of America... Here was a man who made intelligent honest sense of decades of assassinations scandals elections boom times & broken dreams.. .an indispensable record of twentieth-century American culture". (Peter Kimpton " Observer"). " Vintage Cooke". (David Dimbleby). "A rich picture of America so vivid.. .the fresh first pressing of history". (James Naughtie " Sunday Telegraph"). Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print radio & television. The Guardians Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years & the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television & of the BBC series America Cooke was however best known both at home & abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast Letter from America which reported on fifty-eight years of US life was heard over five continents & totalled 2 869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004 far & away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history." ...

Romance & suspense combine in a tense teen thriller that will leave you gasping for more.. .34 kids missing. Vanished without a trace. Believing she is possessed Genie Magee's mother has imprisoned her all summer encouraged by the sinister Reverend Schneider. Beautiful Rian love of her life sets her free & their escape washes them up at Marshall's remote farmhouse downriver. But why are there newspaper clippings of the missing kids pinned to Marshall's bathroom wall? & should they believe his stories about the experiments at the Fortress an underground research station nearby? Genie meets Denis. Missing two years now but hasn't grown an inch. Rian is haunted by Ren?e who insists she's not actually dead. Soon they discover the terrible truth about Reverend Schneider & worse Genie is next.. .and Rian can't do a thing to prevent it. The Repossession is just the beginning. Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award & longlisted for the Amazing Book Awards in Sussex. ' Forget Bella & Edward. Genie & Rian are the new IT couple in the teen fiction world!' Kooky Toon Book Corner blog Check out Sam's website: http://www.samhawksmoor.com ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The siblings endure a car accident a terrible smell a deadly serpent a long knife a brass reading lamp & the re-appearance of a person they hoped to never see again. Then again why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? Avoid these books in Lemony Snicket's international bestselling series & you'll never have to know what happens! ...

This is a fantastic brand new addition to the Beginners" series designed to provide an informative introduction to trees & plant-life for young readers. Children can learn about some of the most fascinating cold-blooded creatures in the world from reptiles that can fly walk on water & climb on ceilings. This book offers terrific reading practice for children who prefer fact to fiction. It is developed with a reading expert from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence. It is great value for your money." ...

One of the greatest works of philosophy & political theory ever produced Plato's The Republic" has shaped western thought for thousands of years remaining as relevant today as when it was first written in the Ancient Greece. This " Penguin Classics" edition is translated by Desmond lee with a new introduction by Melissa Lane. Plato's " Republic" is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates & three different interlocutors it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community & the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge? " The Republic" also addresses the purpose of education & the role of both women & men as 'guardians' of the people. With remarkable lucidity & deft use of allegory Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony & ruled by 'philosopher kings'. Desmond Lee's translation of " The Republic" has come to be regarded as a classic in its own right. His introduction discusses contextual themes such as Plato's disillusionment with Athenian politics & the trial of Socrates. The new introduction by Melissa Lane discusses Plato's aims in writing " The Republic" its major arguments & its perspective on politics in ancient Greece & its significance through the ages & today. Plato (c.427-347 BC) stands with Socrates & Aristotle as one of the shapers of the whole intellectual tradition of the West. He founded in Athens the Academy the first permanent institution devoted to philosophical research & teaching & the prototype of all Western universities. If you enjoyed " The Republic" you might like Machiavelli's " The Prince" also available in " Penguin Classics"." ...

Republic is the central work of the Western worlds most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality Republic also contains crucial arguments & insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary reader who is carried along by the wit & intensity of the dialogue & by Platos unforgettable images of the human condition. This new lucid translation by Robin Waterfield is complemented by full explanatory notes & an up-to-date critical introduction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was the fastest & most successful strike fighter of the Cold War. Designed to deliver nuclear weapons at low altitude & then fight its way back to base by the early 1960s it was the primary weapon in the USAFs tactical strike arsenal. Thunderchief pilots in Europe the Far East & the USA stood on short-notice alert ready to take on the formidable defenses of their Communist Bloc targets. The F-105 was however to become a legend in a very different conflict. As direct American involvement in Vietnam increased F-105s were deployed
- initially as a deterrent but ever more as conventional attack fighters against insurgency in Laos & Vietnam. With the start of the bombing campaign against North Vietnam the Thunderchief became a vital element in attacks against some of the most heavily defended territory in modern history.
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The Republic of Love" marries a wide diversity of elements mythical & modern ironic & moving exhilarating & melancholy...a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive. Times Literary Supplement " The Republic of Love" is a hymn to the pleasures & pains the raptures even of an unspectacular life. Fay discovers that happiness is "a kind of by-product of existence & not an end in itself". This piece of knowledge saves her Shields suggests from the watery ambiguous yearning of the mermaid "plaintive coy" wordlessly calling out to no one. A simple message but Shields delivers it with so much grace & so little pretension that it is impossible not to be enchanted by her voice. She sings with the charm of a true siren. In her hands we believe anything can happen. Guardian A novel thats so engrossing it makes you want to retire to a squashy sofa until you reach the end. Vividly fresh...glittering & spangled with fabulous surprises. Sunday Times" ...