Get back in the box

how being great at what you do is great for business

Douglas Rushkoff has spent nearly a decade advising companies on the ways they can re-orient their businesses to the transformations the internet has caused. Through his speaking and consulting, Rushkoff has discovered an important and unrecognized shift in business. Too many companies are panicked and ...

The high-purpose company

the trulyrResponsible (and highly profitable) firms that are changing

Illustrated with profiles of dozens of major companies, the book enables readers to easily distinguish between true and false corporate responsibility, and uncovers a groundbreaking process for achieving total corporate health. Which one of these companies is the better corporate citizen? Wal-Mart, which, in response ...

The flight of the creative class

the new global competition for talent

Following up on The Rise of the Creative Class (2002), Florida argues that if America continues to make it harder for some of the world's most talented students and workers to come here, they'll go to other countries eager to tap into their ...

The Reagan diaries

Brought together in one volume and edited by historian Douglas Brinkley, The Reagan Diaries provides a striking insight into one of this nation's most important presidencies and sheds new light on the character of a true American leader. Whether he was in his White ...

The clean tech revolution

the next big growth and investment opportunity

In this groundbreaking and insightful book, the authors show how clean technologies such as hybrid electric cars, solar power, and nanotechnology have opened up opportunities for entrepreneurship, investing, and high-growth careers.

Revolt in the boardroom

the new rules of power in corporate America

Murray is the assistant managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and has written two books covering investing and the relationship between corporations and politics. Here he examines how CEOs, once the rock stars of the 1990s, are now being put under the microscope by ...

Fortune favors the bold

what we must do to build a new and lasting global porsperity

An incisive analysis of the ever-changing global economy looks at globalization and how economic systems around the world can grow and thrive, covering such topics as the U.S. trade deficit, ways to restart Japan's stagnant economy, the World Bank, and intellectual property rights ...

Managing turbulent times

Veteran business trend watcher and author Peter Drucker deals here with the strategies needed to transform rapid changes into opportunities, and to turn the threat of change into productive and profitable action that contributes positively to our society, the economy, and the individual.

Winning

the answers. Confronting 74 of the toughest questions in business today

Jack and Suzy Welch interpret, extend and illustrate the ideas outlined in their best-selling book "Winning" by answering directly the questions asked of them by the public in their international column The Welch Way. Jack Welch's greatest asset is his currency with business people ...

Innovation and entrepreneurship

practice and principles

This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures ...

Managing the nonprofit organization

principles and practices

The nonprofit sector is growing rapidly, creating a major need for expert advice on how to manage these organizations effectively. Management legend Peter Drucker provides excellent examples and explanations of mission, leadership, resources, marketing, goals, and much more. Interviews with nine experts also address key ...

The "Times" compact history of the world and world atlas

This is a lavish pack incorporating two of "The Times" finest atlases and history books. This set is the ideal geography and history reference. Carrying the authority of "The Times" and its unrivalled reputation for accurate and current information, these two books are an authoritative ...

In search of excellence

lessons from America's best-run companies

The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), "In Search of Excellence" has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table. Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, "In ...

Market wizards

interviews with top traders

How do the world's top traders make millions of dollars in the markets ???????????? sometimes in a matter of only weeks or even days? That's precisely the question Jack Schwager was trying to answer when he interviewed 17 superstar money-makers including Richard Dennis, Paul ...

Winning

The ultimate business how-to book by the icon of American business and one of the world's most revered and respected leaders, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. Winning explores the changes of recent times and the new economic realities, and more than that ...

Swim with the sharks without being eaten alive

outsell, outmanage, outmotivate, and outnegotiate your competition

This straight-from-the-hip handbook by bestselling author and self-made millionaire Harvey Mackay spells out the path to success for readers everywhere. They will learn how to: Outsell by getting appointments with people who absolutely, positively do not want to see you, and then making them glad ...

Don Quixote

Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they ...

The other side of Israel

my journey across the jewish-arab divide

The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and -- amazed by her Jewish compatriots' ignorance of their Arab neighbours -- chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth ...

Men of honour

Trafalgar and the making of the english hero

The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events. In Men of Honour, Adam Nicolson takes one of the greatest identifiable heroes in British history, Horatio Nelson, and examines the broader themes of heroism, violence and ...

Seize the fire

heroism, duty and the batlle of Trafalgar

For the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, Nicolson draws from a wide range of sources to investigate the battle, and the ambitions, fears and principles that drove the British fleet to such a devastating victory.