Business & Commerce

New York Times bestselling financial journalists Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner investigate the shadowy and debt-laden world of private equity, revealing how it leeches profits from everyday Americans, tanks the companies it acquires, and puts our entire economic system at risk.

Strategies for Career Success

A comprehensive 5-week programme on selling built around the reader's own individual traits and personality. Shape your own unique sales style and get people to buy what you're selling

A 10-step guide to cultivating a thriving online community and growing your business by the founder of social media consultancy and digital community The Selfhood.

From the creator of Oxford University's internationally acclaimed executive leadership program, comes a profoundly simple new book posing the seven questions aspiring leaders should ask themselves to spur growth

From the creator of Oxford University's internationally acclaimed executive leadership program, comes a profoundly simple new book posing the seven questions aspiring leaders should ask themselves to spur growth

HOW BOARDS WORK will fill that vacuum by bringing readers into boardrooms for an insider's view of the tensions and shortcomings of boards, the conflicting priorities and trade-offs they face, and why some fail and others succeed.

Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? This book reveals that the hidden side behind all these problems is that they're all about scarcity.

The first ever mass-market book on politeness and the important role it plays in our work, relationships and lives, from professor and pioneer of Politeness Theory, Louise Mullany

Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity - Irishness - it is simultaneously transnational in scope, as the author maps the trails of products, people and symbolic constructs through a globalised world.