12,933円 The management of water resources across boundaries, whether sub-national or international, is one of the most difficult challenges facing water managers today. The upstream exploitation or diversion of groundwater or rivers can have devastating consequences for those living downstream, and trans...

2,912円 You might think that an autobiography by the senior chairman of McDonald’s in Canada and Russia would be a modestly boastful, ho-hum business story of expansion and board-room debates, wrapped in some nice reminiscences about his family. You would be very wrong. Because this is George Cohon’s aut...

661円 Confessions of an unconventional model Isobella Jade is no ordinary model – she is far too short for a start. At ‘almost five foot four’ in heels she found herself shunned by the major agencies and forced to take any job that came her way just to make ends meet. From nude photoshoots for leering ...

672円 A unique and beautifully illustrated book, sold in aid of Parkinson's UK. Find out something new about the celebrities you love! Many famous people have kindly contributed the memories they cherish, which have been triggered by a smell. Find out for whom the smell of the sea air evokes the memory...

1,088円 The remarkable saga of the wine and people of Beaujolais and Georges Duboeuf, the peasant lad who brought both world recognition. Every third week of November, wine shops around the world announce “Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé” and in a few short weeks, over seven million bottles are sold and...

4,207円 Examines the eight-year legal fight to overturn the Selden automobile patent in the early days of the American auto industry. In 1895, visionary Rochester, New York, attorney George B. Selden was granted a patent for a "road-carriage" that he had designed but not built. In anticipation of a burge...

2,953円 BlackBerry Planet is a new tribe of people who simply cannot get along without their favorite device, Research in Motion’s innovative electronic organizer, the BlackBerry. This omnipresent device has gone beyond being the world’s foremost mobile business tool and entered the consumer mainstream a...

2,765円 “Applies an intelligent, clinical eye to [an] excruciatingly complex corner of the financial world.” ーNew York Times A classic of its kind, Frank Partnoy’s best-selling FIASCO takes readers inside the rollicking world of derivatives on Wall Street during the mid-1990s. The book tracks Partnoy’s ...

4,776円 The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany illustrate a...

10,938円 The increasingly risky environment in which companies operate is characterized by a rising number of risk components, factors, sources, and drivers. The identification, evaluation, and management of these risks require the capability to coordinate various skills within a company and in upstream a...

650円 10 Years of research. 10 Stories revealing the emotional relationship between young people and their mobile phones from the world's leading authority of youth mobile culture, Graham Brown. Mobile Youth will take you on a journey through the deserts of Saudi Arabia, the urban explosion of Tokyo, a...

1,202円 The true story of a bumbling and undistinguished television producer who inadvertently changed the landscape of cookery programmes forever to give rise to the world of the 'celebrity chef'. As the producer behind the phenomenally successful Keith Floyd and Rick Stein BBC cookery programmes, David...