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Seth Godin / Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

  Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favourite programme or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family meal, traditional advertising is based on the hope of snaring our attention away from whatever we are doing. Seth...

Richard D. Branson / Finding My Virginity : The New Autobiography (Large Paperback)

 50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson started his first business. In his new autobiography, Finding My Virginity, the Virgin Founder shares his personal, intimate thoughts on five decades as the world's ultimate entrepreneur.In Finding My Virginity,...

Jack Welch / Jack (Large Paperback)

  The American dream - Jack Welch, son of a railway conductor, became Chairman and CEO of one of the world's most profitable companies, General Electric. When he became CEO in 1981 the company was worth $12 billion, but after 20 years its value...

Susan Lucia Annunzio / Contagious Success: Spreading High Performance Throughout Your Organization (Hardback)

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Gary Vaynerchuk / #AskGaryVee : One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness (Hardback)

 The New York Times bestselling author draws from his popular show #AskGaryVee to offer surprising, often outrageous, and imminently useful and honest answers to everything you've ever wanted to know-and more-about navigating the new world. Gary...

Joseph Stiglitz / Freefall : Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy

 Out of the crisis of our times, Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy is a convincing, coherent and humane account that goes to the heart of how we run our societies.When the world economy went into...

Bill Gates / Business at the Speed of Thought : Succeeding in the Digital Economy

 Most companies have a sizeable investment in technology but are realising only 20 per cent of its potential benefit. "Business @ the Speed of Thought" introduces the concept of the digital nervous system which unites all systems and processes under...

D. S. Pugh / Writers on Organizations

 Who has said what about organizations and their management? This handy compendium gives easy access to the principal ideas of the leading authorities. Brief, clear resumes bring out the main thrust of their thinking. The fifth edition of this...

Kevin Goldstein-Jackson / The Astute Private Investor : A Share Picker's Guide

  This is a book for the private Stock Market investor, who deals in shares, not unit trusts or similar investment vehicles. It advises how to choose which shares to buy, when to buy them, and - most important of all - when to sell...

George Soros / The Crisis Of Global Capitalism (Hardback)

    George Soros applies his experience in the world of finance to explain what is happening in the collapsing global economy. The Russian economy has collapsed leading to inflation and economic hardship; scores of Japanese banks are in...

Michael Lewis / Liar's Poker

 The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions quickly and easily, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly   All of our books are second hand, and while you...

Bob Ortega / In Sam We Trust : The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart is Devouring the World (Large Paperback)

   Wal-Mart's mighty presence is no longer restricted to America. To the alarm of the UK retail sector, June 1999 saw Wal-Mart devour Asda. And given Wal-Mart's track record in the rest of the world, such alarm is well-founded. For instance,...

Chris Anderson / Free : The Future of a Radical Price (Large Paperback)

   What happens when advances in technology allow many things to be produced for more or less nothing? And what happens when those things are then made available to the consumer for free?In his groundbreaking new book, The Long Tail author...

Tony Byrne , Kathleen Maguire & Brendan Byrne - Bullying in the Workplace, Home and School - PB - BRAND NEW Blackhall Press

Bullying is a serious and complex issue facing society and this book will help families, teachers, business owners and managers alike, understand and effectively deal with this problem.  Whether you have to deal with this issue or have suffered at...

Bobby Hashemi / Anyone Can Do it : Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Tablev(Large Paperback)

   It's about coffee beans and crazy dreams! Sahar and Bobby Hashemi are the awe-inspiring brother and sister team who started one of the most recognised and high-profile high street brands in the United Kingdom today - Coffee Republic. Anyone...

Charles Handy / The Elephant And The Flea

   Bookseller Charles Handy's best-selling new book looks at how individuals (the fleas in his analogy) relate to multi-national conglomerates (the elephants). In addition to addressing how and why we work today, he covers a wide range of...

Joel Bakan / The Corporation : The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

 New EditionWhat would the world be like if its ruling elite was insane?The most powerful class of institution on earth, the corporation, is by any reasonable measure hopelessly and unavoidably demented. The corporation lies, steals and kills...

Michael Gaffney / That'll Never Work : Success Stories from Private Irish Business

 Recalling the tragedies, comedies, disasters, setbacks and breakthroughs of their widely varying businesses, this book is an insight into the personalities behind some of the most recognisable Irish businesses. The mistakes they made, the lessons...

Tom Peters / The Tom Peters Seminar - Crazy Times Call For Crazy Organizations

    For the past twelve years, Tom Peters has been telling businesses throughout the world that the rules have changed. In The Tom Peters Seminar he goes even further - it is the first book in an exciting new series of original paperbacks...

Robert X. Cringely / Accidental Empires : How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions , Battle Foreign Competition and Still Can't Get a Date

This work looks at the business of computing in the US, as computer science, as a business, and as a collection of extraordinary and eccentric characters. After automobiles, energy production, and illegal drugs, personal computers are one of the largest...

Naomi Klein / Fences and Windows : Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Globalization Debate

 The story of the rise of the movement that wanted accountable, improved globalization.For two years Naomi Klein wrote a weekly column for Canada's leading newspaper, the Globe & Mail (syndicated worldwide, in the Guardian in the UK). She has,...

Chris Anderson / Free : How today's smartest businesses profit by giving something for nothing

   What happens when advances in technology allow many things to be produced for more or less nothing? And what happens when those things are then made available to the consumer for free?In his groundbreaking new book, The Long Tail author...

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,...

Michael Lewis / Flash Boys : Cracking the Money Code

 Michael Lewis's epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. It's hilarious, terrifying and it's all true...

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...

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...

Roman Krznaric / How to Find Fulfilling Work

   The desire for fulfilling work is one of the great aspirations of our age and this inspirational book reveals how one might make it a reality. It explores the competing claims we face for money and status while doing something meaningful...

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...

Arnie Warren / The Great Connection : A Story That Reveals Life's Most Vital Lesson - How to Connect with Others - Especially Yourself

 This is a story that reveals life's most vital lesson: how to connect with others--especially yourself. It defines who you are so you can believe in yourself. It explains the DISC behavioral styles in a story with characters representing each style...

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...

Conor Pope / Stop Wasting Your Money - Pricewatch

 As the economic climate takes a huge turn for the worse, we are all beginning to feel it where it hurts - in our pockets. Through his weekly 'Pricewatch' feature in the Irish Times, Conor Pope has watched, examined and exposed the worst and the...

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...

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...

Kenneth Blanchard / Leadership and the One Minute Manager

 Teaches the reader how to become a flexible and successful leader, fitting one's style to the needs of the individual and to the situation at hand, and using the "one-minute" techniques to enchance the management and motivation of others...

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

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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...

Joseph Stiglitz / Making Globalization Work : The Next Steps to Global Justice (Hardback)

 Four years after his global best-seller, Joseph Stiglitz now brings the story up to the present, examining how change has occurred even more rapidly since then, proposing solutions and looking into the future. Here he puts forward radical new ways...

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...

Ha-Joon Chang / 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

   Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works. In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows...

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,...