• Leo Hollis Cities are good for you

  "The 21st century will be the age of the city. Already over 50% of the world population live in urban centres and over the coming decades this percentage will increase. Blending anecdote, fact and first hand encounters - from exploring the slums of Mumbai, to visiting roof-top farms in Brooklyn and attending secret dinner parties in Paris, to riding the bus in Latin America - Leo Hollis reveals that we have misunderstood how cities work for too long. Upending long-held assumptions and challenging...

  Engels | 416 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• J.A.E. Curtis Manuscripts don't burn

  "The Russian playwright and novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) is now widely acknowledged as one of the giants of twentieth-century Soviet literature, ranking with such luminaries as Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. In his own lifetime, however, a casualty of Stalinist repression, he was scarcely published at all, and his plays reached the stage only with huge difficulty. His greatest masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a novel written in the 1930s in complete secrecy, largely at night, did not...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Izzeldin Abuelaish I shall not hate

  "Heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor's inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza and Israel regardless of their ethnic origin. A London University- and Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and `who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians' (New York Times), Abuelaish is an...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• John Kirwan Good small business planning guide

  "In other words, they haven't done enough planning.Creating a business plan should be one of the first things you do when you think of starting up a company, and it's an important document to turn to time and again as your business develops - especially in these difficult financial times. Accessible and easy to read, the Good Small Business Planning Guide shows readers how to:Plan their business strategy Pitch their plan to raise funds Spot problems in advance and work out how to deal with them Update...

  Engels | 368 pagina's (3,6 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Alex Bellos Futebol

  "The Brazilian soccer team is one of the modern wonders of the world. Its essence is a game in which prodigious individual skills outshine team tactics, where dribbles and flicks are preferred over physical challenges or long-distance passes, where technique has all the elements of dance and, indeed, is often described as such. At their best Brazilians are, we like to think, both athletes and artists. Soccer is how the world sees Brazil, but it is also how Brazilians see themselves. The game symbolizes...

  Engels | 432 pagina's (9,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Change careers successfully

  "Have you reached a dead end in your current career? Do you want tobuild a wider variety of skills? Or do you simply feel like finding anew challenge? Whatever your reasons, Change careers successfully will help you do just that.To help you look before you leap, this book includes advice on: Working out whether you're in the right job Understanding the portfolio career Researching the job market Looking for a new challenge Working with professional search organisations Making a lateral move (such...

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Renata Calverley Let me tell you a story

  "Przemysl, Poland, 1939. Two-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. The peacock quilt she is wrapped in reminds her of a story about a giant who guards a mysterious place called the Underworld. She drifts back to sleep as the sound of thunder rages around them. No one has explained to Renata what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is in Europe with the Polish Army and that her beautiful Mamusia is not allowed to work at the university...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (2,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Emma Forrest Your voice in my head

  "Emma Forrest, an English journalist, was twenty-two and living in America when she realised that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. Lonely, in a dangerous cycle of self-harm and damaging relationships, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist - a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the vibrant and dangerous tide of herself, and who would help her to recover when she tried to end her life. Emma's loving and supportive family...

  Engels | 224 pagina's (0,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Alice Schroeder The snowball

  Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008The Snowball is the first and will be the only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life story and philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyone wishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business and life success.Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest...

  Engels | 832 pagina's (4,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Sandy Gall War against the Taliban

  "Afghanistan's strategically significant lands have long been fought over by foreign invaders. Today, as yet another generation risks life and limb in this inhospitable territory, an ever-rising death toll puts back under the spotlight the way the modern war in Afghanistan is being run, and demands answers. Drawing on interviews with Afghan politicians, businessmen and ordinary people, British, American and European diplomats and soldiers, Sandy Gall addresses the challenges - political, religious,...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Ian H. Robertson The winner effect

  "Than women?The 'winner effect' is a term used in biology to describe how an animal that has won a few fights against weak opponents is much more likely to win later bouts against stronger contenders. As Ian Robertson reveals, it applies to humans, too. Success changes the chemistry of the brain, making you more focused, smarter, more confident and more aggressive. The effect is as strong as any drug. And the more you win, the more you"

  Engels | 320 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Kamran Nazeer Send in the idiots

  "When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in Whitehall - but what of the others? With rare perception, he tells of their lives: the speechwriter unable to make eye contact, the courier who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle, the suicidal depressive, and the computer engineer who communicates...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Matthew Bishop | Michael Green The road from ruin

  "Bankruptcies, soaring unemployment, and millions of families losing their homes, lay the bloody corpse of a set of ideas that had underpinned the economics of the previous 30 years. Capitalism based on markets, especially"

  Engels | 336 pagina's (2,4 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Jack Beatty The lost history of 1914

  "In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the First World War and its causes, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. 'Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war,' Beatty writes, 'this one maps the multiple paths that led away from it.' Radically challenging the standard account of the war's outbreak, Beatty presents the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand not as the catalyst of a war that would have broken out in any event over some...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (3,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Network with confidence

  "Are you fed up with trawling round networking events that take vast amounts of time for little return? Do you feel queasy stepping into a room of total strangers to represent yourself or your business? Then this is the book you've been waiting for.Networking is something that can really improve our career prospects, but it is something that many people actively dread. With advice on how to conquer your nerves, ask the right questions, find out about the right events (and work out which ones to avoid),...

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,3 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Edward Thomas Smith Luck

  "For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Like his childhood hero, Geoff Boycott, the tough, flinty Yorkshireman, the young Ed knew that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident at the crease at Lords prematurely ended Ed Smith's international cricketing career, it changed everything - and prompted him to look anew at his own life through the prism of luck....

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Ruth Brooks A slow passion

  "Posed this question: Do snails have a homing instinct? The nation was gripped by the unexpected thesis and by Ruth's online diaries, which catalogued her trials and tribulations as she got to grips with these slimy little gastropods.A Slow Passion is Ruth's story, with anecdotes and misadventures galore. What starts out as a ruthless vendetta against the snails that are decimating her hostas becomes a journey of discovery into the whys and wherefores of snail life. When Ruth dumps a group of the...

  Engels | 320 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Martin Thomas | David Brain Crowd Surfing

  "The way people buy has gone through a massive revolution in recent years: thanks to blogs, review sites and chat rooms, we no longer have to rely on what a company says about its products and services - we can read what our fellow consumers think about what they've bought, and make our own decisions bearing those views in minds. The result? Empowered customers who know exactly what they want and who can now explore many ways to get it. Many companies, however, just won't accept that things have...

  Engels | 208 pagina's (1,7 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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• Kate Summerscale The suspicions of Mr Whicher

  "It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks.The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective...

  Engels | 400 pagina's (4,4 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Balance your life and work

  "If you feel overwhelmed by the constant juggling of different areasof your life, this book can help. There's so much pressure on manypeople today to succeed at work that sometimes 'real life' tends totake a backseat. Your relationships with friends, family, partner, andchildren can all suffer as you try to cram everything into a normal day.Balance Your Life and Work contains a quiz, step-by-stepguidance and action points, top tips to bear in mind for the future,common mistakes and advice on how...

  Engels | 96 pagina's (0,2 MB) | A&C Black Business Information and Development, [London] | 2014

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