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This Is Why You Dream
what your sleeping brain reveals about your waking life
2024 || Paperback || Rahul Jandial || Cornerstone
You spend up to a third of your life dreaming.
Have you ever wondered why?
Dreams are a source of mystery. They have changed the course of individual lives and the world, spurring business deals, inspiring art and scientific breakthroughs, triggering military invasions and mental breakdowns. Yet the source of dreams is not mysterious. They are the product of an extraordinary transformation that occurs in the brain each night when we sleep.
In this pioneering book, bestselling neurosurgeon Rah...
Scrum
The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
2023 || Paperback || Jeff Sutherland || Cornerstone
The definitive book on the Scrum methodology from its co-creator and the CEO of Scrum, Inc., Jeff Sutherland. Scrum is the revolutionary approach to project management and team building that has helped to transform everything from software companies to the US military to healthcare in major American hospitals. In this major new book its originator, Jeff Sutherland, explains precisely and step by step how it operates - and how it can be made to work for anyone, anywhere.
Take the FBI attempt t...
The Happiness Hypothesis
Ten Ways to Find Happiness and Meaning in Life
2021 || Paperback || Jonathan Haidt || Cornerstone
Happiness comes from within. Can these 'truths' hold the key to a happier, more fulfilled life?In The Happiness Hypothesis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines ten Great Ideas which have been championed across centuries and civilisations and asks: how can we apply these ideas to our twenty-first century lives?
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To Kill A Mockingbird
1989 || Paperback || Harper Lee || Cornerstone
'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.
On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century
A Practical Guide
2024 || Paperback || Tony Blair || Cornerstone
Today, more than ever before, the quality of a country's governance and leadership determines whether it will succeed or fail.
The world over, there are nations with roughly the same populations, the same resources, the same potential; yet some will flourish while others flounder. Why? Quite simply, some have leaders who understand the principles of good government, and some don't.
Tony Blair learnt the precepts of governing the hard way: by leading a country for over ten years. In that time ...
Getting To Yes / 1st edition
Negotiating An Agreement Without Giving In
2021 || Paperback || Roger William Fisher Ury || Cornerstone
The world's bestselling guide to negotiation. Getting to Yes has been in print for over thirty years. This timeless classic has helped millions of people secure win-win agreements both at work and in their private lives. Founded on principles such as:* Don't bargain over positions* Separate the people from the problem* Insist on objective criteria. Getting to Yes simplifies the whole negotiation process, offering a highly effective framework that will ensure success.
The Fifth Discipline / 2nd edition
The art and practice of the learning organization
2006 || Paperback || Peter M Senge || Cornerstone
Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using and benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices.