Competing Against Luck - The Story Of Innovation And Cu...
A generation ago, Clayton Christensen revolutionized busines...
Competing Against Luck - The Story of Innovation and Cu...
How do leaders know how to grow How can they create products...
The Management of Innovation and Technology: The Shapin...
The Management of Innovation and Technology: The Shaping of ...
The Dig Tree - The Story of Burke and Wills
Murgatroyd has brought together for the first time new scien...
Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Stor...
Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboar...
Brick by Brick - How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovati...
LEGO is one of the worldÂ’s best-loved and most familiar bra...
Love in a Time of Hate - The Story of Magda and AndrïÂ...
Love in a Time of Hate tells the gripping tale of Magda and ...
Beauty - A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Bea...
A young woman, well educated and honourable, accepts respons...
Competing Against Luck - The Story Of Innovation And Customer Cho
Dear World - A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace
’A story of love and courage amid brutality and terror, this is the testimony of a child who has endured the unthinkable.’ J. K. ROWLING ’I‘m very afraid I will die tonight’ – Bana Alabed, Twitter, 2 October 2016 ’Stop killing us.’ – Bana Alabed, Twitter, 6 October 2016 ’I just want to live without fear.’ – Bana Alabed, Twitter, 12 October 2016 When eight-year-old Bana Alabed took ...
The Never, Um, Ever Ending Story - Life, Countdown and Everything in Between
‘Molly gives us the full scoop on the Countdown years … The book is rich with behind-the-scenes lore and gore … It would be unpatriotic not to love the guy. He takes some of the better elements of the national character – lack of pretension, a love of simple pleasures – and cranks them up to 11.’ Weekend Australian ’A missive from a time we’ll never see again.’ Rolling Stone More than ...
The Great Partition - The Making of India and Pakistan, New Edition
This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”-Economist “Unsparing…Provocative and painf...
Outliers - The Story of Success
Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to scientific geniuses to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and inspiring, than we ever imagined. Â’Malcolm Gladwell Â… has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventureÂ’ Tim Adams, Observer Â’The b...
Ian Fleming's Commandos - The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence – the dynamic figure behind James Bond’s fictional chief, ‘M’. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men who would go in hard with the front-line troops and steal enemy intelligence? Known as ’30 Assault Unit’, they took part in the major campaign...
Codename Suzette - An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris
‘During the German occupation of France, Suzanne Spaak displayed almost super-human courage… Anne Nelson has written an extraordinary book that finally does justice to Spaak’s story of heroism and sacrifice.’ —Andrew Nagorski, author of The Nazi Hunters Codename Suzette is one of the untold stories of the Holocaust, an account of outstanding courage in the face of evil. Suzanne Spaak was b...
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
‘You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder…’ In this selection from Marco Polo’s famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and explains how to retrieve diamonds from snake-infested caves… Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin’s 80th birthday. Little Bla...
India Hicks: A Slice of England - The Story of Four Houses
A follow-up to India HicksÂ’s New York Times bestselling book, India Hicks: Island Style, India Hicks: A Slice of England is the designerÂ’s exploration of her British heritage and how she has expressed it in her newly finished English country house in Oxfordshire. The book is divided into two parts. Part one, Legacy, is the story of her familyÂ’s homes, including the renowned Broadlands estate, a...
The Story Cure - An A-Z of Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise
From tantrums to tummy aches to teenage mood swings, there are times when a book is the best medicine of all. The Story Cure is a manual for grown-ups who believe that the stories which shape children’s lives should not be left to chance. In these pages bibliotherapists Ella and Susan recommend the perfect children’s book – from picture books to YA novels via the golden world of chapter books ...
A History of the Crusades II - The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187
The second volume of Steven RuncimanÂ’s classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades Â’There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreamsÂ…Â’ Steven RuncimanÂ’s unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which brilliantly brings to life the personalities, battles, massacres, triumphs and follies of ...
TOTAL CHAOS - The Story of the Stooges
TOTAL CHAOS is the first book telling Iggy PopÂ’s story of The Stooges from his own words. Grammy winning editor and avid music historian Jeff Gold spent two days at the rock legendÂ’s home sharing pictures and memorabilia from his collection. Featuring a trove of unseen photos, TOTAL CHAOS shows and tells, with the help of best-selling author Jon Savage, the story of the Stooges from those tell-a...
Culture is Everything - The story and system of a start-up that became Australia's Best Place To Work
The Story And System Of A Start-Up That Became AustraliaÂ’s Best Place To Work Tristan WhiteÂ’s story started like many others. He had a dream to work in a job that inspired him. He didnÂ’t find that job, so he created it. In 2004, The Physio Co (TPC) was born with one team member: Tristan White. In the thirteen years since, TPC has become a remarkable healthcare success story based upon fast grow...
Hey Ladies! - The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails
If you’ve ever been on the listserv for someone’s bachelorette party, birthday party, or even a run-of-the-mill brunch among girlfriends, then the phrase “Hey Ladies” needs no explanation. In this book, based on their column of the same name from The Toast, Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss explore the cliched and hilarious musings and conversations between a fictitious group of girlfriends...
Mother Tongue - The Story of the English Language
‘More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to…’ Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world’s most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its decepti...
Face Paint - The Story of Make-Up
Make-up, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. Lisa Eldridge, one of the world’s foremost make-up artists—with a very large and loyal public following of her own—has written the first real history of the subject. Face Paint will explore the reasons behind make-up’...
The Story of Ferdinand
Once upon a time in Spain, there was a little bull and his name was Ferdinand… Unlike all the other little bulls – who run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights – Ferdinand would rather sit under his favourite cork tree and smell the flowers. And he does just that, until the day a bumblebee and some men from the Madrid bullfights give gentle Ferdinand a chance to be the most ferocious ...
Jacques - An uplifting and moving story of love and loss
Boyhood, Jacques is Tanya RavenswaterÂ’s beautiful and touching coming-of-age novel of what makes an ordinary life extraordinary. A story of loss, longing, falling in love and finding a place to call home. And, most importantly, of the power of the relationships that help us along the way. This is the story of Jacques Lafitte, a young French boy who is orphaned and torn away from everything he kn...
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
The Sunday Times Bestseller; and the biggest memoir of the year; from Britain's best loved food writer. ‘Toast' is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. Whether relating his mother's ritual burning of the toast; his father's dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something...
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett’s life. Stretching from her childhood to th...
Secret Heroes of World War II - Tales of Courage from the Worlds of Espionage and Resistance
Many of the heroes of World War II are well-known, larger-than-life figures. This book is a tribute to the lesser-known but equally amazing individuals – some working secretly behind the scenes on the home front and others behind enemy lines – who made just as significant a contribution to the wartime story. It sheds new and timely light on more than 50 of the often unsung heroes and heroines of...
Beth - The Story of a Child Convict
Beth is a child convict, caught stealing on the streets of London and sent to Australia on the First Fleet. Through BethÂ’s story, we discover the unbearable hardships those first convicts suffered, not only on the long journey to Sydney Cove but also in the two years of near-famine following their arrival. The story also explores the new arrivalsÂ’ relationship with the Indigenous population, and...