(Available after 3-14 days) Dubai's Burj Khalifa - the world's tallest building - looks nothing like Microsoft's Office Suite, and digital surround sound doesn't work like a citywide telecommunication grid. Yet these engineering feats are all the result...

Grappling with the nebulous concept of innovation, the author of the bestselling The Rational Optimist delivers a typically cogent and well-argued manifesto for fostering a questioning, collaborative ethos in business. Engrossing and accessible, How...

Starting your own business is an exciting - and challenging - time.   This updated edition of the startup classic shows you how to build a business agile enough to take advantage of emerging trends and opportunities, and sturdy enough to weather any...

Learn an entire MBA course without spending thousands and waving goodbye to two years of your lifeIf you want to succeed in business then an MBA programme is the best way to build expertise, knowledge and experience. But an MBA programme at any top...

Learn an entire MBA course without spending thousands and waving goodbye to two years of your lifeIf you want to succeed in business then an MBA programme is the best way to build expertise, knowledge and experience. But an MBA programme at any top...

Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it "Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never...

This unofficial compilation reviews the 100 best TED talks about leadership from great minds worldwide.With quirky graphics and memorable quotes, Great TED Talks: Leadership will shift your thinking, open your mind to new perspectives, and ignite your...

In Ted Talks, Chris Anderson, Head of TED, reveals the inside secrets of how to give a first-class presentation. Where books like Talk Like TED and TED Talks Storytelling whetted the appetite, here is the official TED guide to public speaking from the...

By most people's standards I would say I've had a pretty good career. I've reached the top of the `ladder' and been lucky enough to have had a damned good life. But at what cost? At the cost of who I truly was. I played the business game for years, where...

Both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google as seasoned Silicon Valley business executives, but over the course of a decade they came to see the wisdom in Coach John Wooden's observation that 'it's what you learn after you know it all that...

Wonderful . . . a moving autobiography, the story of a unique business, and a detailed blueprint for hope. --Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel In this newly revised 10th anniversary edition, Yvon Chouinard--legendary...

Do your future self a favour. Go Fund Yourself. As heard on BBC Radio 4's Start The Week. Tired of struggling to make ends meet at the end of the month? Got no clue where to begin with savings and investments? Want to start your own business? It isn't...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy, A HistorySir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and...

For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch. 'Strange and beautiful. Imagine the offspring of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle with The Virgin Suicides' —...

In sharp yet sumptuous prose, Fuller paints a stunning portrait of two middle-aged twins whose carefully cultivated existence on the fringes of society begins to unravel following the death of their mother. Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By...

(Available after 3-10 days) A multi-generational novel of rare skill and precision, Jones’s full-length fiction debut focuses on a Barbados where poverty and misogyny lurk under the surface and where a cautionary folk tale takes on multiple meanings for...

A powerful meditation on the value of human connection, poet Patricia Lockwood’s mordantly funny debut novel explores the pitfalls of social media in an entirely original fashion.   Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021 A...

A murderous pact between strangers that swiftly subverts expectations, Craig’s gripping novel blends edge-of-the-seat thrills with razor-sharp satire to ensnare the reader on the very first page.  Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in...

Boasting Dawn French’s unique brand of unfailing wit and authentic emotional warmth, Because of You is a funny, uplifting tale of mothers and daughters and the family bonds that make us who we are.   Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in...

A complex, rewarding novel about the many forms of sisterly relationship and what we are prepared to sacrifice for the ones we love, Lyon’s tale of two sets of siblings in a carer-patient dynamic is acutely observed and compellingly written...