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Book Recommendation: Toast

Title: Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger   Author:  Nigel Slater  Paperback:256 pages Publisher:Fourth Estate; Film tie-in edition edition (28 Oct 2010) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:000739361X ISBN-13:978-0007393619 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2 cm Product Description To coincide with the release of a major film adaptation, a new edition of Nigel Slater's much-loved and acclaimed [...]

New Title: Prince

Title: Prince (John Shakespeare 3)   Author:  Rory Clements  Hardcover:432 pages Publisher:John Murray; First Edition edition (12 May 2011) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:1848544251 ISBN-13:978-1848544253 Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm Product Description Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour and fear. Plague rages, famine is rife, the ageing Queen's couriers scheme: Elizabeth's Golden [...]

Great Book: Persuasion Skills Black Book

Title: Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want Author:  Rintu Basu Paperback:188 pages Publisher:Lean Marketing Press (24 Feb 2009) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:9781905430543 ISBN-13:978-1905430543 ASIN:190543054X Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.4 x 1.3 cm Product Description How does it feel when you imagine using the right words to become irresistibly persuasive… [...]

Book Recommendation: Liar's Poker

Title: Liar's Poker (Hodder Great Reads)   Author:  Michael Lewis  Paperback:304 pages Publisher:Hodder Paperbacks (5 Jun 2006) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:0340839961 ISBN-13:978-0340839966 Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm Product Description From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis’ pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in [...]

White Collar Crime And The New Criminal Justice Bill 2011

White Collar Crime And The New Criminal Justice Bill 2011 by Annette J Dunlea Within the field of criminology, white-collar crime has been defined by Edwin Sutherland as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation". The Irish Government wants to make it impossible for [...]

New Title: The House At Sea Ends

Title: The House at Sea's End: A Case for Investigator Ruth Galloway, Forensic Archaeologist Author: Elly Griffiths Hardcover:352 pages Publisher:Quercus Publishing Plc; First Edition edition (6 Jan 2011) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:9781849163675 ISBN-13:978-1849163675 ASIN:1849163677 Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 3.6 cm Product Description Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle [...]

Great Book: The Way Were Working Isn't Working

Title: The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance Authors: Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy Hardcover:352 pages Publisher:The Free Press; 1 edition (18 May 2010) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:1439127662 ISBN-13:978-1439127667 Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.2 x 2.7 cm Product Description The Way We're Working Isn't Working is one of [...]

Book Recommendation: Words That Work

Title: Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, it's What People Hear Author:  Frank I. Luntz Hardcover:352 pages Publisher:Hyperion (27 Aug 2008) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:1401302599 ISBN-13:978-1401302597 Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 3.6 cm Synopsis Communications expert Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, [...]

New Title: The Loner

Title: The Loner   Author:  Quintin Jardine  Hardcover:384 pages Publisher:Headline; First Edition edition (31 Mar 2011) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:0755357167 ISBN-13:978-0755357161 Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 4.4 cm Product Description A brilliant new stand-alone crime thriller from Scotland's Crime Master Xavier (Xavi) Aislado is a gentle giant, half Spanish, half Scot, brought up in Edinburgh by [...]

Great Book: The Master Switch

Title: The Master Switch Author: Tim Wu Hardcover:384 pages Publisher:Atlantic Books (1 Mar 2011) ISBN-10:1848879849 ISBN-13:978-1848879843 Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.6 cm Product Description The Internet Age: on the face of it, an era of unprecedented freedom in both communication and culture. Yet in the past, each major new medium, from telephone to [...]