From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, the story of the mammals, our own kind, from their earliest development and their co-existence with the great lizards to their emergence out of the shadows to dominance of the recent history of our planet.

Get what you want without compromising who you are: the new rules of persuasion to influence others for good

We're all nice. In fact, we're told we're too nice and we have to change to succeed: 'Play the game!'; 'Beat them down!'; 'Toughen up!'. Do we have to choose between betraying our own values and being left behind without a voice? Absolutely not. We can naturally be persuasive and successful every day without making enemies of ourselves or other people.

Influence is a science and renown...

From the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots

-- Do conversations with certain people leave you feeling depleted or exhausted?

-- Do you have colleagues who take a lot of your time but don't actually do - or contribute - much?

-- Are there people in your life who diminish you through their words, actions or inactions?

You could be surrounded by Vampires! International bestselling author Thomas Erikson will help you recognize and deal with the three most co...

In dit boek vind je alles wat je moet weten om een goede scriptie te schrijven. De Schrijfgids voor economen geeft praktische adviezen van a tot en met z, zodat je scriptie aan alle eisen voldoet. Hoe vind je een goed onderwerp? Wat is een goede probleemstelling en wat is het verschil met de centrale vraag? Wat staat er in de managementsamenvatting en welke schrijfstijl gebruik je? Uitleg wordt afgewisseld met handvatten, formats, tips en adviezen om efficiënt (snel) en effectief (goed) ...

Your phone, my life. Or, how did that phone land in your hand? is the adventurous story of how the world built and expanded its mobile networks over the past thirty years.

The author’s journey started in the USSR, Ukraine, where she, as part of a team, negotiated with the Minister of Telecommunications of a country with virtually no telecom infrastructure.

From Kiev, her work took her first to other countries in the former Eastern Bloc and then to Western Europe, Kosovo, Lebanon, Azerbaijan...

Starting a new business can be an exciting and challenging endeavor, but with the right steps and planning, it can also be successful. In this book you will learn the general steps to starting a new business. You will learn how to conduct market research, develop a business plan, choose a business structure, and learn how to register your business and how to launch and market your business.

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award

'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' Observer

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live

We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of year...

For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a more interesting and balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives.

In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alon...

Coverage offers unrivalled coverage, where no other book offers such breath of topics covered placing events within the wider business/management discourse. It therefore offers an excellent, complete and full general introductory Events Management textbook that can be used throughout the degree, known to students as the events management bible. Thoroughly revised and updated with one new chapter on events and social sciences and new content on: technology (esports, virtual events, Ai, VR, AR,...