This gem, the sequel to The Dalai Lamas Little Book of Inner Peace, contains the essence of the Dalai Lamas teachings on life and death. Think of this as the essential guide to both living and dying well from one of the most important spiritual teachers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
“An MBA at a top business school is an enormous investment in time and cash. And if you don’t want to work for a consulting firm or an investment bank, the chances are it simply isn’t worth it.”
(2016) Good ideas are hard to find. Execution can be difficult. How should you be focusing your efforts? What will your idea look like in real life? Where do you start? And how do you know when you’ve got the right solution?
Created by three partners at Google Ventures, the sprint is a unique five-day process aimed at helping businesses to answer crucial questions and deliver the best results in the least time, allowing the business to move on to the next level. It’s a ‘greatest hits’ of business strategy, innovation, behaviour science and design thinking – packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use. Through their work at Google Ventures, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz have invested in companies and helped entrepreneurs to change the world. They have run more than 100 sprints with startups across all kinds of business: healthcare, housekeeping, fitness, finance and robotics.
Sprint is about arming your business with a process to get problems solved by short-circuiting the endless debate cycle, avoiding groupthink and utilising the people, knowledge and tools that every team already has. It’s for companies or groups of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to non-profits – anyone who has a big opportunity, problem, or idea, and who needs to get started.
An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.
(2014) Learning about business can be daunting, but The Business Book makes it easier than ever by giving you all the big ideas simply explained. Simple explanations and stylish infographics open up the business world to even the complete novice.
The Business Book is the perfect primer to key theories of business and management, covering inspirational business ideas, business strategy and alternative business models. 100 key quotations introduce you to the work of great commercial thinkers, leaders and gurus from Henry Ford to Steve Jobs and to topics spanning from start-ups to ethics.
Whether you are a would-be entrepreneur or just have an interest in business, The Business Book is an all-in-one guide to business management, theory and strategy
(2014) All the big ideas are simply explained with jargon-free descriptions, step-by-step diagrams, and witty illustrations that encapsulate every aspect of religious thinking. Examine major historical developments and ideas with a universal timeline, providing a global perspective on the origins and major events that have contributed to the growth and spread of religion and spirituality. Along with the teaching highlights of pre-eminent figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Saint Paul, and Al-Ghazali, you’ll also find a handy reference section featuring a glossary of religious terms and a roadmap to all the branches of the major faiths and the points of doctrine or tradition on which they differ. Modern alternative religions and spiritual beliefs from around the world are also explored, putting into context the political and social climates from which they emerged
(2017) Maintaining routine and structure is more important than ever in the age of home working, flexi-time and the general chaos of life.
In Make Your Bed, Admiral William H. McRaven shares 10 life lessons he learned during his Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his long Naval career, but also throughout his life.
He will teach you how to . . .
· Master the essential daily habits for staying grounded
· Learn how to keep your mind calm and ready for the day ahead
· Find solace and companionship in the people around you
· Cope with setbacks and keep moving forward
· Stray beyond your comfort zone and take risks
(2019) Halfway through life, you find yourself lost, unsure of the right path. Greed, deception and pride have led you away from the ideals and dreams you cherished in younger days. How do you go on?
This is the starting point of one of the most extraordinary and important journeys in western literature, a stunningly ambitious flight of imagination and philosophy which has reverberated down the years since Dante Alighieri first wrote it down in the fourteenth century. The Divine Comedy is a vision of the afterlife, the three regions of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, through which the narrator must journey in order to better understand the workings of the universe, the love of God, and his place in the world.
Poet and translator Steve Ellis translated the Inferno in 1994, and it was greeted with great acclaim. Now Ellis’s translation of the entire poem is published here for the first time, and Dante’s epic can be experienced afresh and in new glorious life and colour, the physicality and immediacy of Dante’s verse rendered in English as never before.
Praise for Steve Ellis’s translation of Inferno:
‘A considerable tour de force, alive, immediate, energetic and very moving’ A.S. Byatt
‘Energetic, racy, rude and lyrical…buy this translation and spend a damn good season in hell’ Independent
‘It’s good to have a version which one can read through with excitement in a few hours. This edition benefits also from the economical but always helpful footnotes on each page… Steve Ellis deserves our gratitude…for introducing – as he surely will do – new readers to the Inferno’ Stephen Spender, Sunday Telegraph
(2016) Jamie Grimm has finally accomplished his dream of proving himself the Planet’s Funniest Kid Comic, and the sky’s the limit from there. Enter a couple of TV executives with a huge plan for Jamie: a new show about Jamie and his oddball friends! But when Jamie struggles to learn the acting ropes, will it be an early curtain call for the biggest show of the decade
