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The design of an organization--the accountability system that defines roles, rights, and responsibilities throughout the firm--has a direct impact on the performance of every employee. Yet, few leaders devote focused...

Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'How I loved this book . . . Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth Strout It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just...

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Ever since the English aristocracy embarked on a Grand Tour in the seventeenth century, the passion for developing collections has been a national trait of England. As a result, the...

Author: Simon PetherickBinding: HardbackPublished: Robert Hale, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsClassic Stories Of Mystery, Horror And Suspense presents a compelling anthology that gathers seminal works from the...

When seen through Jewish eyes, the global future looks darker than it has for generations. Fuelled by venomous Israelophobia, violence against Jews, from Amsterdam to New York, from London to...

Author: Robert SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: SIMON AND SCHUSTER, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical account, Macarthur In Korea: The Naked Emperor, chronicles General Douglas MacArthur's controversial command during the...

As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and...

'[A] penetrating biography . . . While the book posits Newman as a writer of sociopolitical import, its emotional narrative is driven by the more personal aspects of his story:...

In an age of backroom generals who command from far behind troop lines, it is often forgotten that wars have been won or lost by the personality and leadership of...

'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei'Brilliant' Simon SchamaFear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical...

'Fierce and fascinating. This is the story Red Sonja has always deserved. Unmissable' FELICIA DAY 'An epic debut novel from one of the most entertaining writers on the planet' TOM...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsRoger L. Simon’s The Big Fix plunges into the gritty world of political intrigue...

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'Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction' GILES COREN, THE TIMES'Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER'Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st...

Author: Simon Heffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedWhen murder comes to the water, there is nowhere to run — The Houseboat Killings by Roger Simons is a gripping mid-century British crime novel that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingNavigation by dead reckoning means calculating your position without landmarks — trusting only what you know, and hoping...

'[A] penetrating biography . . . While the book posits Newman as a writer of sociopolitical import, its emotional narrative is driven by the more personal aspects of his story:...

'Fierce and fascinating. This is the story Red Sonja has always deserved. Unmissable' FELICIA DAY 'An epic debut novel from one of the most entertaining writers on the planet' TOM...

YOUNG BLOODS is the first gripping novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon quartet. Perfect for fans of Robert Harris.Arthur Wesley (the future Duke of Wellington) was born and...

'Fierce and fascinating. This is the story Red Sonja has always deserved. Unmissable' FELICIA DAY 'An epic debut novel from one of the most entertaining writers on the planet' TOM...

Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...

Author: Robert PayneBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1964Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Faded and dull black cloth. Minor nick/tear on FEP. Yellowed prelims. Clean textRobert Payne's "The Life...

Secondhand Penguin Classics Bargain Book Box SP2790 A Colette shelf with an Austen shelf beside it: eight of Colette’s novels and memoirs from the Claudine years to The Last of...

'[A] penetrating biography . . . While the book posits Newman as a writer of sociopolitical import, its emotional narrative is driven by the more personal aspects of his story:...

'Fierce and fascinating. This is the story Red Sonja has always deserved. Unmissable' FELICIA DAY 'An epic debut novel from one of the most entertaining writers on the planet' TOM...

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The debate about the ethics of human biotechnology or genetic engineering is one of the most important cultural issues of our time. 'Transhumanism' is the philosophy that most of all...

James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one...

Author: Simon Mundy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial...

' Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farce. Bold, brave and bright, but also...

'A very promising historical adventure' - THE TIMES 'A terrific novel' - HISTORIA MAGAZINE *** 'There is a fury in England that none shall suppress - and when it breaks...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2899 From Harold Evans in Fleet Street to the Prince of Wales writing to his married mistress — eighteen lives at full volume,...

'A magnificent book that sings of the romance and mystery that only old maps possess' EDWARD BROOKE-HITCHING 'Astonishingly fresh and insightful ... A triumph' ALICE ROBERTS 'Engaging, deeply satisfying and...

Secondhand Psychology & Ethics Bargain Book Box SP4296 Twenty-one psychology and philosophy paperbacks, many in vintage Pelican and Penguin editions: Jung’s Man and His Symbols, Laing’s Divided Self, Berne’s Games...

The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2918 A diverse memoir box anchored by major literary and critical lives — Jeffrey Meyers on Edmund Wilson, John Barnes on Joseph Furphy,...

What qualities made the Duke of Wellington a strategic genius? How did Oliver Cromwell, a gentleman farmer create an army that overthrew a king and changed the course of British...

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