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Charles Handy / The Empty Raincoat

    *Can you find the way to Davy's bar? *Do you know the Doughnut principal? *How do you make a Chinese contract? The changes which Charles Handy foresaw in THE AGE OF UNREASON are happening. Endless growth can make a candyfloss economy,...

Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier

    In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of...

Biz Stone / Things A Little Bird Told Me - Secrets of Success From the Co-Founder of Twitter

   Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses innovation, creativity and the secrets of being a successful entrepreneur, through stories from his remarkable life and career.THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD MEFrom GQ's 'Nerd of the Year' to one...

Kenneth Blanchard / Gung Ho! - How to Motivate People in Any Organisation

   With a new foreword by Ken BlanchardAn invaluable new strategy for creating enthusiastic employees, from the author of the bestselling The One Minute Manager.Every day thousands of uninspired employees trudge to work - often dooming their...

Douglas Kennedy / Chasing Mammon : Travels in the Pursuit of Money

    This book takes the reader on a journey through the gladitorial realms of high finance - from the Sydney futures market and the Singapore money markets to the Casablanca bourse and the first Hungarian stock exchange to operate since...

Eddie Hobbs / Energise : How to survive and prosper in the age of scarcity

   Eddie Hobbs has never been one to shy away from a challenge and his advice is that you shouldn't either! When the oil that we depend reaches scary prices, our lives are going to change utterly. This is going to happen much sooner than most...

Oliver James / The Selfish Capitalist : Origins of Affluenza

 In the bestselling Affluenza, world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping through the English-speaking world. He met those suffering from it and demonstrated how their obsessive, envious tendencies made...

Bobby Hashemi / Anyone Can Do it : Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table - 57 Real-life Laws on Entrepreneurship

    "Anyone Can Do It" chronicles the start and evolution of a successful business dream. Beginning with the Hashemi siblings first conversations (when the seed of the idea was planted) it follows the progress of Coffee Republic from...

Rebecca Jordan / In Good Company : The Essential Business Start-up Guide for Women

    In Good Company is a must-read for all women who are thinking of starting their own business. Written by Rebecca Jordan and Kirsty Weir, Young Entrepreneurs of the Year 2003, In Good Company will inspire women of all ages and...

Amy Chua / World on Fire : How Exporting Free-market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Large Paperback)

 'After the fall of the Berlin wall, a consensus emerged that the magical combination of free markets and democracy would transform the world into a community of modernized, peace-loving nations, and individuals into civic-minded citizens and...

Constance Hays / Pop : Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company

   Coca-Cola is the world's best-known brand, and perhaps the most quintessentially American one: a beverage with no nutritional value, sold variously as a remedy, a tonic and a refreshment. The story of Coca-Cola is also a tale of...

Edward de Bono / Tactics

 What does it take to succeed in today's competitive world? Is it luck? Talent? A touch of madness? Edward de Bono talked to 50 outstandingly successful men and women, all of whom spoke frankly about their own strategy. Among them were David Bailey,...

Martin Wolf / Why Globalization Works

 The debate on globalization has reached a level of intensity that inhibits comprehension and obscures the issues. In this book a highly distinguished international economist scrupulously explains how globalization works as a concept and how it...

David McWilliams / Follow the Money

   The Pope's Children are turning 30 and in the four years since David McWilliams introduced us to the generation that could have had it all, the Pope's Children have been betrayed. This book is about real people and how good people can be...

Malcolm Gladwell / David and Goliath : Underdogs Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

 A feel-good extravaganza, nourishing both heart and mind ... What unites the stories are the twin ideas that an advantage can sometimes be a disadvantage and that a disadvantage can sometimes be an advantage. Yet there is something more powerful...

Blaise Brosnan / Jack : Business Lessons from Life, Life Lessons from Business (Large Paperback)

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Sergio Zyman / The End Of Marketing As We Know It (Hardback)

 Marketing as we know it today is about image. It's about getting consumers to love your products. It's about producing award-winning commercials and promotions, and creating ads people like. It's about buzzwords like "events," "relationships," and...

Brian Solis / Engage : The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web (Hardback)

 The ultimate guide to branding and building your business in the era of the Social Web - revised and updated with a Foreword by Ashton Kutcher Engage! thoroughly examines the social media landscape and how to effectively use social media to succeed...

Harry Freedman / How to Get a Job in a Recession

 The UK job market is weakening rapidly, with the number of permanent jobs available dropping at a record rate. If you are one of the many thousands of job seekers affected by redundancy, or fearing the worst, what are you going to do? When you are...

Jeffrey Sachs / The End of Poverty

 Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map...

Eddie Hobbs / Loot! : The Informed Guide to Your SSIA and Other Investments

 Loot. We all have a little, we'd all like to have a little more. And thanks to Fairy Godmother McCreevy, most of us have been saving for the past five years and we're ready to take the money - and run. You could spend yours on a shiny new babe...

Charles Handy / The Age Of Unreason

 We will not survive unless we adapt to the way the world is changing. The Age of Unreason is an inspiring vision of an era of new discoveries, new enlightenment and new freedoms. It helps us to understand what Tom Peters, the American business...

Hyrum W. Smith / The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management (Large Paperback)

 This guide presents a system that goes far beyond what is usually considered "time management" to change not only how people plan their time, but also how they approach their lives. It shows readers how to make the most of their time and lives, as...

Charles Handy / Understanding Organizations

 Organizations are a part of everyday life, whether in schools, hospitals, police stations or commercial companies. In this classics text, Charles Handy argues that the key to successful organizations lies in a better understanding of the needs and...

Eddie Hobbs / Debt Busters : Managing Your Money Through the Recession

   In 2005 Currach Press published the bestselling personal finance manual, Short Hands, Long Pockets. Since then the global and personal financial climate has changed almost beyond recognition and the cold winds of unmanageable debt, negative...

Thomas Friedman - the World is Flat - A Brief History of the Globalized World in the 21st Century HB 2005

The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization - a `flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means that...

Mary Mulvihill / Drive Like a Woman Shop Like a Man : Why Green is Cheaper

   Whether you are a climate sceptic or a deep shade of green, this book makes sound financial sense. Easy, practical tips for 'eco-nomical' living that can be done immediately without costly equipment or installation needed, and the humourous,...

Daniel Smith / How to Think Like Steve Jobs

 A titan of technological innovation, Steve Jobs thought differently to everyone else. He had the mercurial ability to know what people wanted before they knew it themselves, and what's more, he knew how to sell that idea. An advocator of...

Charles Handy / The Hungry Spirit

 With his characteristically very personal anecdotal style, Charles Handy analyses how materialistic capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and examines the false certainties of science and religion...

Richard Branson / Losing My Virginity : The Autobiography (Hardback)

An autobiography of entrepreneur, Richard Branson. It discusses Richard's family, friends and philosophy, and covers dramatic events such as his Atlantic crossings, the sale of Virgin Records and the BA dirty tricks affair. There are insights into the...

Robert T. Kiyosaki / Rich Dad's Retire Young Retire Rich

Imagine being able to make so much money at an early age that you could decide when to retire, knowing full well that you have enough money stashed away to ensure a life not burdened by financial restraints.In REIRE YOUNG, RETIRE RICH financial guru...

Bill Gates / Business at the Speed of Thought (Hardback)

A business book using case studies from around the world to demonstrate the transformative power of technology in business. gates provides the reader with his view on technology's role in corporate evolution - not just at rival software companies and...

Tom Peters / A Passion for Excellence

In this sequel to "In Search of Excellence", the authors divulge the three secrets of long-term business excellence: superior customer or client service, constant innovation, and full use of the abilities of every company employee. But the one element...

Tim Harford / The Undercover Economist (Large Paperback)

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Bill Cullen / Golden Apples: Six Simple Steps to Success (Large Paperback)

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Declan Coyle / The Green Platform (Large Paperback)

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David McWilliams / The Good Room: Why We Ended Up in a Debtors' Prison (Large Paperback)

This title offers a forensic, entertaining polemic from the author of "The Pope's Children". Ireland is deeply in debt, beholden to the IMF, the EU and the bond markets. Its economy is frozen, and years of austerity are ahead. It didn't...

Spencer Johnson / Who Moved My Cheese? (Hardback)

From one of the world's acknowledged experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

David McWilliams / The Generation Game (Hardback)

How big is your piece of the pie? After ten years of a boom and on the eve of a downturn, Irish society has been turned on its head by a Generation War. The clear winners have been the middle-aged Jagger Generation. They have been enormously enriched by...

David McWilliams / Follow the Money (Large Paperback)

The Pope's Children are turning 30 and in the four years since David McWilliams introduced us to the generation that could have had it all, the Pope's Children have been betrayed. This book is about real people and how good people can be broken...

Alan Ruddock / Michael O'Leary : A Life in Full Flight (Large Paperback)

Michael O'Leary has made Ryanair the most valuable airline in Europe - and the second most valuable in the world. He has revolutionized the way Europeans travel and the very nature of commercial aviation. But for all the publicity, little is known...

Walter Isaacson / Steve Jobs (Large Paperback)

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography...

Richard Templar / The Rules of Work - A Definitive Guide to Personal Success

This is a definitive code for personal business success… Key points, concisely made, that can steer anyone through the minefield of office life...

Terry Prone / Get That Job

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John Harvey-Jones / Making it Happen: Reflections on Leadership

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Steven D. Levitt / Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. Asking provocative and profound...

Bill Gates / The Road Ahead

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Michael Lewis / The Big Short

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Jayne Buxton / Ending the Mother War - Starting the Workplace Revolution

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Paul Krugman / The Great Unravelling

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