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1.
The Financial Times Handbook of Management
~Stuart Crainer (Editor)
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Hardcover - Financial Times Prentice Hall / 15 December, 2000
Amazon.co.uk Review
With contributions from the likes of Kjell Nordstrom, Jonas Ridderstrale
and Warren Bennis, it's no slip of a copywriter's pen that the Financial
Times Handbook of Management is subtitled "The State of the Art".
Now an international bestseller in its second edition, the Handbook is
a heavyweight in...Read more
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2.
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
~Mitnick
Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 weeks
Hardcover - John Wiley & Sons Inc / 1 October, 2002
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Art of Deception is about gaining someone's trust by lying to them
and then abusing that trust for fun and profit. Hackers use the euphemism
"social engineering" and hacker-guru Kevin Mitnick examines
many example scenarios.
After Mitnick's first dozen examples anyone responsible for...Read more
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3.
Business: the Ultimate Resource
~Daniel Goleman, Et al
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Hardcover - Bloomsbury / 16 September, 2002
Amazon.co.uk Review
If business makes you scratch your head, enlightenment is here thanks
to Bloomsbury’s heavyweight Ultimate Resource. Everything you ever
wanted to know about business but were too afraid to ask is crammed into
this encyclopedic, multi-faceted volume. The Ultimate Resource is a one-stop
shop for...Read more
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4.
The Beermat Entrepreneur: Turn Your Good Ideas into a Great Business
~Mike Southon, Chris West
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Paperback - Prentice Hall / 7 March, 2002
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Beermat Entrepreneur captures that Archimedes moment when the idea
suddenly hits you--out of the blue, no warning--the great business idea
that's going to make your fortune and change people's lives. It's a defining
moment for the would-be entrepreneur and channelling the concept from
random...Read more
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5.
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions,
Battle Foreign Competition and Still Can't Get a Date
~Robert X. Cringely
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Paperback - Penguin Books / 4 April, 1996
Amazon.co.uk Review
Robert X. Cringely manages to capture the contradictions and everyday
insanity of computer industry empire building, while at the same time
chipping away sardonically at the PR campaigns that have built up some
very common business people into the household gods of geekdom. Despite
some...Read more
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6.
The Definitive Business Plan: The Fast-track to Intelligent Business Planning
for Executives and Entrepreneurs (FT)
~Richard Stutely
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Paperback - Financial Times Prentice Hall / 14 December, 2001
Book Description
A good business plan is the difference between success and not even getting
the chance to try.
This international bestseller is THE ultimate guide to business planning.
Whether the goal is raising start-up or development finance for a new
business, requesting venture funding from a corporate parent...Read more
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7.
Strategy Safari: The Complete Guide Through the Wilds of Strategic Management
(FT)
~Henry Mintzberg, et al
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Paperback - Financial Times Prentice Hall / 20 July, 2001
Book Description
The word strategy has been around for a long time. It is considered to
be the high point of managerial activity, and managers use the word both
freely and fondly. But what does the word really mean? Strategy Safari
sets out to provide an answer.
In this colourful primer, Henry Mintzberg, Bruce...Read more
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8.
Anyone Can Do It - Building Coffee Republic From Our Kitchen Table: 57
Real-life laws on entrepreneurship
~Sahar Hashemi, Bobby Hashemi
Usually dispatched within 2 to 3 days
Paperback - Capstone Publishing Limited / 12 December, 2002
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The Financial Times, 21 August 2002
"...a business book charting her experiences from the kitchen table
to the boardroom table..." Read more
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9.
Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
~Philip Evans, Thomas Wurster
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Hardcover - Harvard Business School Press / November 1999
Amazon.co.uk Review
Philip Evans and Thomas S. Wurster think that the Internet can blow away
practically any business and in Blown to Bits, they examine how the new
economy is "deconstructing" industries such as newspapers, auto
retailing and banking while creating new opportunities for others. They
write that the...Read more
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10.
Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics
~David Smith
Usually dispatched within 2 to 3 days
Paperback - Profile Books / 1 January, 2003
Synopsis
This is the perfect introduction to economics. It is not some dreary textbook,
but an explanation of how economics works and how it can help to solve
all sorts of interesting problems. Written for the lay reader, this book
makes the economics pages of the newspaper intelligible, the financial...Read
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11.
The Pyramid Principle: Present Your Thinking So Clearly That the Ideas
Jump Off the Page and into the Reader's Mind
~Barbara Minto
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Hardcover - Financial Times Prentice Hall / 6 November, 2001
Book Description
What is it that enables some people to put complex ideas across persuasively
in writing, while others struggle to articulate their thoughts?
How often have you had to work hard to produce clear reports, papers,
analyses, presentations and memos?
The clear communication of ideas, whether to clients,...Read more
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12.
Writers' & Artists' Yearbook: 2003
~A & C Black Ltd. (Unknown)
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Paperback - A & C Black / 22 August, 2002
Amazon.co.uk Review
Now in its 96th year, Writers and Artists Yearbook is a trustworthy old
friend to anyone trying to sell creative work commercially and needing
a one-volume all-purpose reference book. It may not be quite as up to
date (several of the newspaper section editors named are no longer current)
as younger...Read more
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13.
Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World
~Eric Schlosser
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Paperback - Penguin Books / 4 April, 2002
Amazon.co.uk Review
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser's disturbing and timely exploration of
one of the world's most controversial industries, has become a massive
bestseller in America and rightly deserves to be so this side of the pond.
On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap
meal at a...Read more
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14.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
~Robert T. Kiyosaki
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Paperback - Time Warner Paperbacks / 3 January, 2002
Amazon.co.uk Review
Personal finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique
economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences:
his own highly educated, but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire
eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong...Read
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15.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
~Dale Carnegie
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Paperback - Hutchinson / 31 March, 1994
Amazon.co.uk Review
This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937.
It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to
Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when
it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of
human nature...Read more
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16.
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream
Customers
~Regis McKenna (Foreword), Geoffrey A. Moore
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Paperback - Capstone Publishing Limited / 10 July, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Author Geoffrey Moore makes the case that high- tech products require
marketing strategies that differ from those in other industries. His chasm
theory describes how high-tech products initially sell well, mainly to
a technically literate customer base, but then hit a lull as marketing...Read
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17.
How to Make Money from Property: The Expert Guide to Property Investment
~Adam Walker
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Paperback - How To Books / October 2000
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House Beautiful Magazine
'...helpful advice on buying, selling and letting property.'Read more
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18.
Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work
and in Your Life
~Spencer Johnson
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Paperback - Vermilion / 4 March, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The
message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing,
if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their
lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four...Read
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19.
The Kindness of Strangers: The Autobiography
~Kate Adie
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Hardcover - Headline / 26 September, 2002
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Synopsis
Kate Adie, reporting from the world's trouble spots, is so familiar to
us that we all recognise her, but this book reveals much more about her
eventful life. Raised in post-war Sunderland, where life was "a sunny
experience, full of meat-paste sandwiches and Sunday school" Kate
has courageously...Read more
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20.
Manager's Guide to Self Development
~Mike Pedler, et al
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Paperback - McGraw-Hill Education / 1 March, 2001
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Book Description
This book is designed as a self development programme for managers seeking
to develop skills such as mental agility creativity social skills and
emotional resilience. The book is divided into two main parts. The first
part outlines 11 key managerial qualities and the second contains practical...Read
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21.
Rich Dad's Advisors: Real Estate Riches: How to Become Rich Using Your
Banker's Money
~Dolf De Roos
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Paperback - Imported Little, Brown USA titles / 5 December, 2002
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Synopsis
Dolf De Roos realised at a young age that most of the rich made (and kept)
their wealth through real estate. Armed with that knowledge he worked
hard and earned money without ever receiving a pay slip or a salary from
an employer. What allowed him to do it was real estate! In this book,
De Roos...Read more
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22.
Good to Great
~Jim Collins
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Hardcover - Random House Business Books / 4 October, 2001
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Five years ago Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company
become a great company, and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins,
the author of Built to Last concludes that it is possible, but finds that
there are no silver bullets to greatness. Collins and his team of researchers
began their...Read more
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23.
Your Money or Your Life
~Alvin Hall
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Paperback - Hodder & Stoughton General / 6 June, 2002
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Synopsis
The most popular question Alvin Hall is asked is "where does my money
go?" In this complement to his TV series, Alvin gives his straight-from-the-hip
advice on getting your finances in order. Helping you to understand your
money psychology, Alvin beats a pathway through the financial maze of...Read
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24.
Be Your Own Life Coach: How to Take Control of Your Life an Achieve Your
Wildest Dreams
~Fiona Harrold
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Paperback - Hodder Mobius / 6 December, 2001
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Fiona Harrold believes, with articulate passion, that anyone can do anything.
The only stumbling block is lack of self-belief. "When you believe
in yourself anything is possible", she says unequivocally. She wants
you to discard any beliefs which hold you back. Her practical, accessibly
written...Read more
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25.
Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies Are Honing Their
Performance
~Peter S. Pande, et al
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Hardcover - McGraw-Hill Education - Europe / April 2000
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Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect performance
objectives that has been employed to notable acclaim at leading corporations
like General Electric. Its name is derived from the eye-catching statistical
target of operating with no more than 3.4 defects per one million...Read
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26.
Simply Brilliant: the Competitive Advantage of Common Sense: The Bestselling
Guide to Getting Things Done
~Fergus O'Connell
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Paperback - Prentice Hall / 14 June, 2001
Amazon.co.uk Review
You need Fergus O'Connell's Simply Brilliant. Are you needlessly complicating
your business decisions by paying too much attention to skill, management
knowledge, experience or philosophies? None of these things, argues O'Connell,
can hold a match to good old common sense.
You may have come across
...Read more
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27.
Living and Working in Spain: A Survival Handbook
~David Hampshire
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Paperback - Survival Books Limited / May 2000
Book Information
Living and Working in Spain is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source
of practical information available about everyday life in Spain. It's
packed with over 450 pages of important and useful data, designed to help
you avoid costly mistakes and save both time and money.
What's it really like...Read more
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28.
Operations Management
~Nigel Slack, et al
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Paperback - FT Prentice Hall / 11 December, 2000
Or buy used: £25.99
Book Description
This revised and fully up-dated edition of Operations Management continues
to provide students with a clear, well-structured and comprehensive treatment
of operations management. It successfully presents both a logical path
through the activities of operations management and an understanding...Read
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29.
What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and
Career Changers: 2003
~Richard Nelson Bolles
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Paperback - Ten Speed Press / 1 October, 2002
Amazon.co.uk Review
For three decades Richard Nelson Bolles's annually updated and revised
Parachute has been cheerfully advising people that the best way to find
a job or make a career change isn't to answer a job ad and/or send in
a CV. That way, the statistical odds are heavily stacked against success.
Instead he...Read more
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30.
GMAT 2003
~Kaplan Publishing
Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 weeks
Paperback - Simon & Schuster / July 2002
Synopsis
From Kaplan - the creators of the no.1 GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions
Test) course - two comprehensive guides for the many busy business school
applicants who wish to prepare independently for this important exam.
Last year, nearly 200,000 M.B.A. aspirants took the GMAT annually to gain...Read
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