Industry & industrial studies

Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism [9781786490285]

The world's 'Big 4' accountancy firms - PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - have become a gilded elite. Up in the high six figures, an average p…

Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World [9780701188719]

We live in a world shaped by food, a Sitopia (sitos = food; topos = place). Food, and how we search for and consume it, has defined our human journey…

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News: And How to Use It [9781838851613]

What to believe in a Fake News world Nothing in life works without facts.A society that isn't sure what's true can't function. Without facts there ca…

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Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now [9781786890931]

How do we know any more what is true and what isn't? We are living through the greatest communication revolution since Gutenberg in which falsehood re…

We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent [9781408872246]

'By turns amusing, harrowing and poignant' - Times Literary Supplement A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK For hundreds of years and from all over the g…

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Mail Men: The Unauthorized Story of the Daily Mail - The Paper that Divided and Conquered Britain [9781782399728]

Mail Men is the gripping, unofficial story of an institution that has become the self-proclaimed voice of middle England, and the adversary of liberal…

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The Murdoch Method: Notes on Running a Media Empire [9781786495754]

An exclusive, insider viewpoint on the Murdoch Method from his right-hand man and adviser, Irwin Stelzer. Rupert Murdoch is one of the most notor…

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The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us [9781526607249]

The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, connecting huge data centres to one another and even…

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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story - How a Single Man Saved the World's Largest Satellite Constellation from Fiery Destruction [9781611855357]

In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American company, made a huge gamble on a revolutionary satellite telephone system called Iridium. Light-y…

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The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google [9780552173438]

For all that's been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott …

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The Bookseller's Tale [9780241408810]

'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the curious story of our long love affair with books. Whether comfort r…

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Mail Men: The Unauthorized Story of the Daily Mail - The Paper That Divided and Conquered Britain [9781782399704]

Perhaps because of the power and fear that the Daily Mail commands, this is the very first book to provide an unauthorized account of the newspaper wi…

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Facebook: The Inside Story [9780241297933]

In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and …

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The Noble Liar: How and why the BBC distorts the news to promote a liberal agenda [9781785906008]

To some, it is the voice of the nation, yet to others it has never been clearer that the BBC is in the grip of an ideology that prevents it reporting …

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Berkmann's Cricketing Miscellany [9781408711767]

Marcus Berkmann, author of the cricket classics Rain Men and Zimmer Men, returns to the great game with this gallimaufrey of cricketing trivia, storie…

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The Airbnb Story: How Three Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions of Dollars ... and Plenty of Enemies [9780753545584]

'One of the most highly valued startups in the world' - Wall Street Journal Inside the tech company disrupting the world In less than a decade, Airbnb…

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Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now [9781786890962]

We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast am…

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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement [9781526603302]

On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey - and then the world changed. For months Kantor and Twohe…

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon [9780552167833]

This is the winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Though Amazon.com started off delivering books throu…

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Crowd Management: Risk, security and health [9781911396895]

This is the first text to present a system for crowd management which integrates security with the other concerns for the health and safety for crowds…

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