Profile Books imprint: 206 books
by Alan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits and celebrity chefs -- are gathered for his memorial...
by Professor Mary Beard
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. What are...
The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn
Six Personal Essays on Natural Science and Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In these elegant, short essays, revered nature writer Richard Mabey attempts to marry a Romantic's view of the natural world with that of the meticulous observations of the scientist. By Romanticism, he refers to the view that nature isn't a machine to be dissected, but a community of which we, the...
The Impoverishment of Nations
The issues facing the post meltdown global economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Early in 2007 Leigh Skene warned of the danger of a meltdown in global markets. Now, while governments spend furiously to rescue the global economy, he again challenges received wisdom. In The Impoverishment of Nations, he prescribes a different solution, outlining a plan to deal with a very different...
OxTravels
Meetings with remarkable travel writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to OxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh...
Water Ways
A thousand miles along Britain's canals
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives...
The New Face of HMRC
Behind the Tangled Web
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Since the last edition of this perennial guide, the tax world has changed almost beyond recognition. The leak of the so-called Panama Papers in 2016, and of the Paradise Papers a year later, revealed to an incredulous general public the extent to which some privileged individuals and corporations...
Into The Arena
The World of the Spanish Bullfight
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
'Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals' suffering is something that each person must decide for themselves - as they must decide whether the taste of a steak justifies the death of a cow. But if we ignore the possibility that one does outweigh...
Free Lunch
Easily Digestible Economics
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
The economy has never been so relevant to so many people as it is now, and it's vital that we understand how it affects our lives. 'There's no such thing as a free lunch' is the one phrase everyone has heard from economics - not even for bankers. But why not? What does economics tell us about the...
by Charles Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Populism and Economics, Charles Dumas' latest book, examines the reasons for the rise in populism - Brexit and the election of Trump among other events - and how this discontent with the status quo has affected economics, both perceptions and reality. The book argues that while globalization and the...
Last Bell
Breaking the gridlock in education reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In the mid-nineties, the Alfred Glickman School was just another failing school in one of America's most violent cities. Then SABIS®, a private, for-profit education provider, took over. Twenty years later, the school is a six-time silver medalist in U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's...
Surviving the Debt Storm
Getting capitalism back on track
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Banking system collapses have annihilated credit markets and even the few borrowers with investment grade credit ratings cannot borrow. Conditions are worse than when the monetary system collapsed in 1931. Government revenue streams have shrunk to a trickle and services have shrivelled commensurately....
by Robert Cole
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
While most financial and investment advice focuses on recent trends, or encourages consumers to buy a favoured product, this book breaks the mould, offering eternal wisdom that draws on years of expensive failures and enviable successes. Following on from the success of James Skakoon's The Unwritten...
Meaning Inc
The blueprint for business success in the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Meaning, Inc. is about achieving happiness, motivation and performance at work for you and your organisation. Well-motivated people who are happy with their work and where they work are more likely to deliver high performance. People who work for organisations whose purpose they believe in are more...