This is how we got to where we are; so, how do we get out of here?. Niall Ferguson again here brings us a history that is informative, entertaining and sobering. Being published in the midst...
There is a tide in the affairs of men. "There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and ...
Disgusting. Terrible. I flicked through the book. I turned the video off after 10 minutes. Complete and utter rubbish. Let me get one thing straight. Positivism is a good thing. Having...
Alice Schroeder’s The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life might well be one of the most important books you will ever read -- particularly in a period when the world's va...
TERRIBLE. Not good: will I finish it? Won't I? Guess I'll have to if I want to assess fairly, but it'll be hard work. Arrogance seeps through every word and, at the end of the day, he's repe...
Rampant speculation. Record trading volumes. Assets bought not because of their value but because the buyer believes he can sell them for more in a day or two, or an hour or two. Welcome t...
: For Blink, Malcolm Gladwell, author of the bestselling The Tipping Point explores the extraordinarily perceptive and deceptive power of the sub-conscious mind. Gladwell's major claim is th...
Worth it. I got the impression that Peston was urged to put out a book quickly, so he used a lot of his old archive material (Green, M and S etc). But it's worth it as there are some good ch...
Buy the expanded edition. This book first arrived in a blizzard of publicity back in 2005. Now 4 years on, it has been re-released in a revised and expanded edition with an extra 90 pages of...
Excellent guide - informative and comprehensive. "The Writers' and Artist's Yearbook" (W&AY), published by A&C Black, has a long-standing reputation as a 'must-have' for any writer looking t...
