Adrian: 1834 books
Rooms of One's Own
50 Places That Made Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Misérables in an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English...
Rooms with a View
The Secret Life of Grand Hotels
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Salvador Dalí once asked room service at Le Meurice in Paris to send him up a flock of sheep. When they were brought to his room he pulled out a gun and fired blanks at them. George Bernard Shaw tried to learn the tango at Reid’s Palace in Madeira, and the details of India’s independence were...
Consulting Made Easy
All You Need to Know to Get You Started or Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Want to try something different and have more fun? And start getting paid what you deserve?
Becoming a professional consultant allows you to leverage your expertise, be your own boss, and make a great income. But you need to know what to do and how to do it if you want to be successful from...
Corporate Governance and Chairmanship
A Personal View
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2002
Corporate governance has become a major issue in business over the last decade. Adrian Cadbury has played a central role in developing policies, good practice, and our understanding of the complex issues involved. In 1992 he chaired the committee, sponsored by the Bank of England, whose Report on...
by K. Adrian Zonneville
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
A biography of my father, born of immigrant parents and seeking a better life in America. Brought here as a boy in 1907 my grandfather begins the American journey in upstate NY where his parents begin to farm the fertile soil of freedom. From farming through the great depression, the loss of new born...
The Great Disruption
How business is coping with turbulent times
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The Great Disruption is a collection drawn from Adrian Wooldridge's influential Schumpeter columns in The Economist addressing the causes and profound consequences of the unprecedented disruption of business over the past five years.
The Great Disruption has many causes. The internet is spreading...
A Future Perfect
The Challenge and Promise of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
A Future Perfect is the first comprehensive examination of the most important revolution of our time—globalization—and how it will continue to change our lives. Do businesses benefit from going global? Are we creating winner-take-all societies? Will globalization seal the triumph of junk culture?...
by Adrian Magson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
**FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION OF DEATH ON THE MARAIS
Praise for Adrian Magson:
"… a classic crime star in the making." Daily Mail
"A gripping police procedural." Eurocrime
France, 1963.**
It's a time of great change in France, not least for Inspector...
by Adrian Grant
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Michael Jackson The Visual Documentary is the most comprehensive book ever published on the world's greatest pop superstar. From the fifties to his death in 2009, it is a complete record of Michael s moves, grooves and music. Illustrated with hundreds of colour and black and white photographs, it includes...
by Lee Child, Sandra Brown, C. J. Box
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This “highly recommended” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) collection edited by New York Times bestselling author Lee Child pairs the beloved characters of twenty-two internationally bestselling writers in “a must-read for fans of the thriller genre. Very rarely does this kind of star power...
The Zulus at War
The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colorful successors under whose leadership...
The Rainborowes
One Family's Quest to Build a New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The period between 1630 and 1660 was one of the most tumultuous in Western history. These three decades witnessed the birth of New England and, in the mother country, a chaotic civil war that rent the very fabric of English social, political, and religious life. At the center of this turbulent time...
by Adrian Goldsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Gripping, authentic novel set in Roman Britain from bestselling historian, Adrian Goldsworthy.
AD 98: VINDOLANDA.
A FORT ON THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD.
The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. In just over twenty years...
by Adrian Goldsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set on the northern frontier of the Roman Empire.
AD 100: VINDOLANDA.
A FORT ON THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD.
Flavius Ferox, Briton turned Roman centurion, is charged with keeping Rome's empire...