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…

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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…

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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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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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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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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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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 Noble Liar: How and why the BBC distorts the news to promote a liberal agenda [9781785903496]

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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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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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 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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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power [9780718194475]

From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes Private Empire , winner of the Ft/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award 2012. The o…

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Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries [9780099791515]

It's spring 1983. It seemed that one of the most startling discoveries of the century had been made, and that one of the world's most sought after doc…

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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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A Practical Guide to Fashion Law and Compliance [9781501322891]

This book provides a fresh approach to building a fashion business. I believe that both academics and startup businesses would find this book useful. …

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A Study Guide for the Operator Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) in Road Freight 2018: A Complete Self-Study Course for OCR and CILT Examinations [9780749481933]

A Study Guide for the Operator Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) in Road Freight 2018 is a vital study guide that offers the thorough prepa…

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Accounting for Hunger: The Right to Food in the Era of Globalisation [9781849462266]

The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that …

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Amazon: How the World's Most Relentless Retailer will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce [9780749482794]

The retail industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Across all sectors and markets, retailers are shifting their business models and customer enga…

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American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA (Audio CD) [9781611134964]

It was President Obama who reached out to Ed Whitacre to come out of retirement and take over GM in 2008. A down-to-earth, no-nonsense Texas native wi…

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Arab Media in the Information Age [9789948008187]

The rise of Arab satellite stations, Arabic websites and transnational Arabic newspapers and magazines means that Arab media are reaching larger audie…

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