Profile: 418 books
Consiglieri
Leading from the Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The key to success lies in getting to the top, right? Wrong.
Not everyone can be in charge but, more importantly, not everyone should want to be. Richard Hytner, Deputy Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi, thinks it's time to celebrate the second-in-commands, the consiglieri: from Merlin, to...
The Glass Bathyscaphe
How Glass Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
A narrative history of glass from discovery, through antiquity, the Enlightenment, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions to the present. It charts the history of the technology but also the enabling effects of glass on such aspects of civilization as experimental science, perspective, astronomy,...
The Tail
How England's schools fail one child in five - and what can be done
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
At the heart of the debate about state-provided education in the UK lies a shocking fact: one child in five leaves school in England without basic skills in literacy and numeracy. Despite the best efforts of reformers and rapidly improving results in academies and elsewhere, even some of the best...
by Simon Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
England's views are remarkable for their beauty and variety. In this illustrated, first-of-its-kind guide, bestselling author Simon Jenkins picks London's very best views, including Greenwich, The Monument, Parliament Square, Primrose Hill, Richmond Hill and Waterloo Bridge - and explains the fascinating...
by Gavin Stamp
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain's...
by AQA 63336
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
The perfect gift book for those who want to know the meaning of life or the fastest running speed of a chicken. Based on the questions texted to Any Questions Answered (AQA), number 63336, and the answers given by the service. For example: Q. How many baked beans would you need to place end to end...
by Simon Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
England's views are remarkable for their beauty and variety. In this illustrated, first-of-its-kind guide, bestselling author Simon Jenkins picks the very best views from North East England, including Bempton cliffs, Gordale Scar, Hebden Bridge, Richmond, Rievaulx, Saltaire, Whitby Harbour, Durham,...
Are You Smarter Than A Chimpanzee?
Test yourself against the amazing minds of animals
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Animal science is bizarre and wonderful. At the extreme end of zoology, psychologists are designing personality tests for dogs and logic problems for pigeons. They're giving fish spatial reasoning problems and asking cockatoos to keep a beat.
Now, through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests...
Belles and Whistles
Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains'...
by AQA 63336
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Five years, two million customers, twenty million questions, and now this, the fourth book of texts from AQA 63336, the UK's most accurate text question and answer service. More Brilliant Answers highlights the weirdest, most difficult, strangest and funniest as well as revealing the most popular...
Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy
The A to Zee of Motivitality©
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
L. Vaughan Spencer studied the Philosophy of Table Tennis and Anti-Social French at the University of the Isle of Wight and gained his MBA at the Jimmy Connors Institute in San Diego over the course of a weekend. Aside from holding motivational workshops in Watford, he also writes books; previous...
Managing Others: The Organisational Essentials
Your guide to getting it right
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book contains checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to the processes behind how you get the most from those you have to manage and work with, and how you deal with them when things go wrong. The checklists include:
Planning the recruitment process;...
The Forager's Calendar
A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
'He writes so engagingly that it's hard to imagine that actual foraging can be more attractive than reading his accounts of it. ...[This book] is a treasure. It is beautifully produced, designed and illustrated.' - John Carey, The Sunday Times
Look out of your window, walk down a country path...
The Weir Group
The History of a Scottish Engineering Legend
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
In 1871 two brothers, George and James Weir, founded the engineering firm of G. & J. Weir, joining the booming range of industry on the west coast of Scotland. At their Cathcart works in Glasgow, the Weirs produced their own groundbreaking inventions. The most notable of these was the celebrated...