Profile: 418 books
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...
Managing Operations
Your guide to getting it right
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The best operations management ensures that a business's infrastructure and processes balance efficiency with effectiveness, using the right resources to maximum effect.
Using the series' trademark mix of checklists and thinker profiles, CMI experts guide the reader through the fundamentals...
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 Michael Haag
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left?
The real story of the Durrells is as surprising...
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...
The Van Gogh File
The Myth and the Man
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Incorporating recent discoveries about Vincent Van Gogh's life and work, including the only photograph of him as an adult, this updated biography investigates the creativity, successes, and frustrations of one of the world's most famous painters. With evidence accumulated from Van Gogh's European...
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
Making Music in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the ?60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when...
Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived
How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Imagine not drinking a bottle of wine before making a pass; not moving in like a starving cat when someone is at the bar; not apologising for something you don't remember doing. Once upon a time, Tania Glyde couldn't imagine living any other way. She wondered whether she had a problem, but so many...
by Jonty Claypole
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2020
In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what if hyper fluency is not only unachievable but undesirable?
Jonty Claypole spent fifteen years of his life in and out of extreme speech therapy. From sessions...