Nicholas Brealey imprint: 228 books
by Tom Butler-Bowdon
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
For centuries, individuals have strived for "the good life:" the ability to provide for oneself and one's family, make meaningful contributions to society, and enjoy culture and nature, among other happy pursuits. The wisdom to achieve this great life is contained in The Literature of Possibility,...
Your Creative Writing Masterclass
featuring Austen, Chekhov, Dickens, Hemingway, Nabokov, Vonnegut, and more than 100 Contemporary and Classic Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." - Anton Chehkov
If you dream of being a writer, why not learn from the best? In Your Creative Writing Masterclass you'll find ideas, techniques and encouragement from the most admired and respected contemporary...
This is Planet Earth
Your ultimate guide to the world we call home
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The Earth as you've never seen it before.
The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.
Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing...
The Ascent of Media
From Gilgamesh to Google via Gutenburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Our society is shaped by our media - now more than at any time in history. They play a crucial role in culture, commerce and politics alike. The Ascent of Media is the first book to look at the new digital era in the context of all that has gone before, and to build on the past to describe the media...
The Gilded Chalet
Off-piste in Literary Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Part detective work, part treasure chest, full of history and scandal, The Gilded Chalet takes you on a grand tour of two centuries of great writing by both Swiss and foreign authors and shows how Switzerland has always been at the center of literary Europe. Two centuries after the Romantics went...
Suddenly in Charge
Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
"The best advice is simple, direct, and immediately actionable. Roberta delivers on all this and more. A lifesaving guide for any new manager!" - Marshall Goldsmith
As companies reorganize and reengineer, people are finding themselves tossed into management every day with little to...
by Richard Reeves, John Knell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The fully revised new edition of the international bestseller is your shortcut to business brilliance!
The 80 Minute MBA is for those who want to get ahead without going back to school. A traditional MBA is for either the time-rich, very wealthy or lucky few with a generous corporate sponsor....
The End of Money
The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution. On this journey you'll discover how this staggering new technology has the potential to enable an ultra-libertarian society beyond government control.
Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement....
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life
From Darwins brilliant idea to todays epic theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime.
All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants.
We...
The Real Warren Buffett
Managing Capital, Leading People
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The Real Warren Buffett unveils the secret of how Warren Buffett led Berkshire Hathaway to staggering success. Zeroing in on his original management style and leadership approach, author James O'Loughlin exposes the powerful and practical lessons of Buffett, demonstrating how he became the second richest man in America.
India Inc.
How India's Top Ten Entrepreneurs are Winning Globally
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
"India Inc. examines the key players that are shaping the India of tomorrow." - Jim O'Neill, head of Global Economic Research, Goldman Sachs, and author of The BRICs Report
India is well on the way to giving the world a new generation of role models to follow Bill Gates, Richard Branson,...
Human Origins
7 million years and counting
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Where did we come from? Where are we going?
Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed...
Revolutionary Ride
On the Road to Shiraz, the Heart of Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
"A proper travelogue - a joyful, moving and stereotype-busting ride." - National Geographic Traveller, Book of the Year
In 2011, at the height of tension between the British and Iranian governments, travel writer Lois Pryce found a note left on her motorcycle outside the Iranian Embassy...
The Universe Next Door
A Journey through 55 Alternative Realities, Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Could there be a doorway to the multiverse in our backyard?
It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just one of many possible worlds. In others, dinosaurs still rule the...