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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Counting is an innovative, erudite, world-wrapping journey through...

***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023*** 'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of the Week On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982046Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)...

OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLDWALL STREET JOURNAL AND BUSINESSWEEK BESTSELLERRECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC AND IMPACTFUL STRATEGY BOOKS EVER WRITTENThe global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 47...

This practical handbook, now in a throughly revised and updated 5th edition with a new chapter on completing your application, will help you understand the mechanics of running a limited company. Whether you have already started your business or are just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804139298Author Peter ThielFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Crown CurrencyPublisher Crown CurrencyWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 143mm *...

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of...

The ground-breaking and bestselling group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself 'Epic' David Nicholls 'Electrifying' The Times 'This is a book to deepen your relationship with London and make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558562Author CourierFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it 'What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.' Long before Manchester gave the world...

A new business parable from John Kotter - the leading authority on leadership and change, and bestselling author of Our Iceberg is MeltingThat's Not How We Do It Here is the story of a clan of meerkats who live in the Kalahari. Well organised and...

Over the last 25 years, Geoffrey Moore has established himself as one of the most influential high-tech advisors in the world-once prompting Conan O'Brien to ask "Who is Geoffrey Moore and why is he more famous than me?" Following up on the...

The remnants of slate mining and quarrying form as much a part of the Lakeland historic landscape as the stone walls, heathered moorlands and Lakeland farms do. A significant number of local families currently living in Lake District villages has had...

TheNew York Timesbestselling "manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world's most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom" (The Wall Street Journal). Since the...

Internationalisation has been a binding request for firms dealing with the challenges of the present-day realities. Extant international business publications have recently begun to point out the relationship between the notions of 'business model' and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062009050Author Richard FloridaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology...

What is good government? Why do some governments fail ? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that politicians and public servants act in the public interest and not their own?...

In the years when it became clear that steelmaking on Teesside was coming to an end, Mike Guess decided to record the end of an era as 150 years of industrial history came to a close. After Sahaviriya Steel Industries had rescued the site in 2011,...

Covers eight optional units, providing the breadth to tailor the course to learners' needs and interests in conjunction with Student Book 1. Achieve your potential: Assessment activities in each unit give students plenty of practice to deepen their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593137024Author Tom EisenmannFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm)...

An essential guide to equip the next generation of founders with the mindset and tools they need to take the leap to become globally successful entrepreneurs. Featuring a foreword by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, this fascinating handbook...

A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now...

An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powered the engines of the Industrial Revolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the coalfields -...

Named a 'Best Book of the Year' by Kirkus Reviews 'Urgent and eye-opening, the book serves as a loud-and-clear alarm.' - The Boston Globe From an MIT scientist, mounting evidence that the active ingredient in the world's most commonly used...

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and...

It is more than 200 years since the world's first steam railway locomotive hauled its initial load of iron ore and passengers on a short, slow journey. From that time onwards, the evolution of the steam locomotive continued unabated through the 19th...

The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, there's been massive investment in public sector 'improvement', 'customer choice' has been...

As individuals, we depend on the services that governments provide. Collectively, we look to them to tackle the big problems - from long-term climate and demographic change to short-term crises like pandemics or war. Funding this activity, and managing...

The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection from their creditors. When a country defaults on...

What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150...

Financial Times Business Top Title March 2022 How could a large collection of small companies, most with fewer than 50 employees, rise to compete with Big Pharma, one of the world's most breathtakingly expensive and highly regulated industries? ...

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism...

This revised and extended second edition evaluates the diverse approaches to organizational change that have defined the field. Explaining the assumptions and implications that accompany these diverse philosophies, this book demystifies the complexities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887309892Author Michael A HiltzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

This book reveals crucial but little-known information on the history of cellular and wireless technology -- some of which dates to World War II -- and shows how the company grabbed the wave just as it began to rise.It is not an exaggeration to say that...

For the first two thirds of the twentieth century, British government was among the most stable in the advanced industrial world. In the last three decades, the governing arrangements have been in turmoil and the country has been a pioneer in economic...

As the key component in aluminum production, bauxite became one of the most important minerals of the last one hundred years. But its effects on people and economies varied broadly - for some it meant jobs, progress, or a political advantage over rival...

This book investigates the concept of colonial globalization to show how knowledge, information, technology, capital and labour have the potential to move freely across the world. It studies the experience of globalization "from below", rather than from...