Profile Books imprint: 206 books
Calories and Corsets
A history of dieting over two thousand years
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what...
A Secret Madness
The Story of a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
In post-war London two girls are relieved to find husbands. One lands the 1950s dream of wealth and security. The other, Elaine, endures fourteen years married to a man with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. At first Elaine finds Gerald's activities curious but manageable. But he grows increasingly withdrawn,...
Westminster Abbey
A thousand years of national pageantry
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in the world in terms of its history, functions and memories - perhaps the most complex building of any kind. It has been an abbey and a cathedral and is now a collegiate church and a royal peculiar. It is the coronation church, a royal mausoleum, a Valhalla...
Sales Mind
48 tools to help you sell
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
We're all selling something every day, whether at work or closer to home. But with advanced technology and mass competition, it's never been harder to capture people's attention. That's why we need to develop our sales mind: mastering our innate selling skills will help us cut through the noise in...
The American Phoenix
And why China and Europe will struggle after the coming slump
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
2012 will bring another global economic crisis. It could have been avoided if America and other deficit countries had embarked on currency devaluation and tighter domestic policy to sustain recovery and growth, boost exports and savings, while cutting excessive debts built up in the pre-crisis 'gilded...
15 Minutes of Power
The Uncertain Life of British Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2019
Aside for the secretaries of state, those lofty roles at the Home Office, MOD, Exchequer, and Foreign office, the ministers of the UK are a cast of roles that expand, and contract based on the whims and political needs of the Prime Minister. Within their portfolios those MPs and Lords are immensely...
by David Shukman
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
An Iceberg as Big as Manhattan is a gripping report on the new frontlines of science and the environment from the BBC's Science Editor, David Shukman. His skill is to get the big picture and to present it amid the everyday details of life and people. And these are the major stories of our day, whether...
Working with Nature
Saving and Using the World’s Wild Places
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature...
by Jean-Francois Abgrall
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
True crime at its most potent: a riveting account of tracking down and convicting an evil serial killer by the detective who trapped him. "In the duel between a small-town cop and France's most dangerous serial killer, the advantage appeared heavily in favour of Francis Heaulme, the criminal...
A Better World is Possible
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
On 17 March 1967, the 26-year-old David Sainsbury wrote out a cheque for £5 and established the trust which would become the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Gatsby's purpose was ambitious: to make the world a better place by taking on some of the social, economic and scientific challenges that face...