Quercus: 997 books
by Cees Nooteboom
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come At Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory...
The Ascent of Media
From Gilgamesh to Google via Gutenburg
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Our society is shaped by our media - now more than at any time in history. They play a crucial role in culture, commerce and politics alike. The Ascent of Media is the first book to look at the new digital era in the context of all that has gone before, and to build on the past to describe the media...
The Gilded Chalet
Off-piste in Literary Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Part detective work, part treasure chest, full of history and scandal, The Gilded Chalet takes you on a grand tour of two centuries of great writing by both Swiss and foreign authors and shows how Switzerland has always been at the center of literary Europe. Two centuries after the Romantics went...
Suddenly in Charge
Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
"The best advice is simple, direct, and immediately actionable. Roberta delivers on all this and more. A lifesaving guide for any new manager!" - Marshall Goldsmith
As companies reorganize and reengineer, people are finding themselves tossed into management every day with little to...
by Richard Reeves, John Knell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The fully revised new edition of the international bestseller is your shortcut to business brilliance!
The 80 Minute MBA is for those who want to get ahead without going back to school. A traditional MBA is for either the time-rich, very wealthy or lucky few with a generous corporate sponsor....
The End of Money
The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution. On this journey you'll discover how this staggering new technology has the potential to enable an ultra-libertarian society beyond government control.
Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement....
by Philip Ziegler
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actors - Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole - but none could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power.
By the 1940s he had achieved international stardom. His...
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life
From Darwins brilliant idea to todays epic theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime.
All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants.
We...
The Real Warren Buffett
Managing Capital, Leading People
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The Real Warren Buffett unveils the secret of how Warren Buffett led Berkshire Hathaway to staggering success. Zeroing in on his original management style and leadership approach, author James O'Loughlin exposes the powerful and practical lessons of Buffett, demonstrating how he became the second richest man in America.
India Inc.
How India's Top Ten Entrepreneurs are Winning Globally
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
"India Inc. examines the key players that are shaping the India of tomorrow." - Jim O'Neill, head of Global Economic Research, Goldman Sachs, and author of The BRICs Report
India is well on the way to giving the world a new generation of role models to follow Bill Gates, Richard Branson,...
Rotherweird
Rotherweird Book I
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
'Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book with special and dangerous properties' - Hilary Mantel
The town of Rotherweird stands alone - there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, the avant garde science and offbeat customs....
Human Origins
7 million years and counting
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Where did we come from? Where are we going?
Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed...
The Blackhouse
Book One of the Lewis Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
READ THE SUNDAY TIMES AND RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER, AND THE FIRST INSTALMENT IN PETER MAY'S SENSATIONAL, MILLION-SELLING LEWIS TRILOGY.
A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.
A MURDER
Detective...
I'll Keep You Safe
the sensational new Hebrides-set thriller
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF CAST IRON, COFFIN ROAD AND THE BLACKHOUSE
WHATEVER HAPPENS
Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own the Hebridean company Ranish Tweed. On a business trip to Paris to promote their luxury brand, Niamh learns of Ruairidh's affair,...