Profile Books imprint: 206 books
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The BDO Stoy Hayward Guide for Growing Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
The essential guide for anyone running a small or medium-sized business who wants to make it grow, avoiding the pitfalls which bring so many companies down. There are hundreds - no, thousands - of books for managers in large corporations or multi-nationals. And there are a handful of guides to running...
Medici Money
Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank (from Cosimo who took it over in 1419 to...
by Alan Bennett, Ann Cleeves, Seth Godin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver...
by Robert Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada with its fountained courts and gardens and intricate decoration has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In a stimulating new book in the 'Wonders of the World' series Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its engrossing...
From Our Own Correspondent
A Celebration of Fifty Years of the BBC Radio Programme
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
The flagship Radio 4 programme From Our Own Correspondent gives Britain's most celebrated reporters the chance to describe much more than they can in a normal report: context, history and characters encountered en route. And for the fiftieth anniversary of the programme Profile collected together...
Ambiguous Republic
Ireland in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Hard-nosed scholarship and moral passion underpin Diarmaid Ferriter's work. Now he turns to the key years of the 70s, when after half a century of independence, questions were being asked about the old ways of doing things. Ambiguous Republic considers the widespread social, cultural, economic and...
HMRC - Her Majesty's Roller Coaster
Hints on how to survive a tax investigation
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Most people are happy to pay their taxes. But just how much we have to pay is not always straightforward, and it is frighteningly easy for a non-specialist to get the sums wrong or to overlook some significant item.
Written with wit and humour, HMRC: Her Majesty's Roller Coaster takes the reader...
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?
Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Dawkins and Hitchens have convinced many western intellectuals that secularism is the way forward. But most people don't read their books before deciding whether to be religious. Instead, they inherit their faith from their parents, who often innoculate them against the elegant arguments of secularists....
by Alan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just because I occasionally contribute to it) the liveliest, most serious and also the most radical literary periodical we have'.
Managing Business Communications
Your Guide to Getting it Right
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Clear and effective communication within and beyond organisations has always been a crucial business driver, and as communication channels proliferate and the speed of communication increases, getting your message across has never been more important.
Using the series' trademark mix of checklists...
Managing Yourself
Your guide to getting it right
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The experts' guide to how to manage the most important person you are responsible for: yourself. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to your personal performance as a manager, on such topics as:
Starting a new job; Fitting in and getting...
Managing Others: Teams and Individuals
Your guide to getting it right
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The experts' guide to how to manage and work with the people and teams you are responsible for. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to getting the most from those you have to manage and work with, on such topics as:
Getting the right people...
Managing Finance
Your guide to getting it right
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The checklists in Managing Finance focus on the financial side of running a business. Aimed at non-specialists, they are designed to help managers keep on top of their financial management responsibilities, advising them on how to interpret financial accounts and reports, budget and forecast, manage...
Globalisation Fractures
How major nations' interests are now in conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
In his previous books, The Bill from the China Shop and China and America: A Time of Reckoning, Charles Dumas was the first to identify the existence and potential impact of the Eurasian Savings Glut - most importantly how it would push US mortgage borrowing to excess, precipitating the global credit...