One of Washington's premier insiders ("Financial Times") describes how today's risky mortgage environment came to be--and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of future trouble.... Read more

States that no book has done more to instruct, enlighten, and inform conservatives about economics than Adam Smith's undisputed classic.... Read more

Named "one of the ten best business books of 2003" ("BusinessWeek"), this national bestseller is updated with new material on the amazing rise and scandalous fall of Enron. 16-page photo insert.... Read more

The Richest Man in Babylon: Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century... Read more

An internationally bestselling fable about a spiritual journey, littered with powerful life lessons that teach us how to abandon consumerism in order to embrace destiny, live life to the full and discover joy.... Read more

Now entering its 27th year, The Good Pub Guide once again guides us to the very best pubs and bars in Britain -- from quiet, country pubs to the noisy hubbub of a city-centre bar, there's a pub for every taste among the 5,000 strong listings.... Read more

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world, and this tenth anniversary edition, with a new introduction from the author, will only increase that following. ... Read more

An ancient Chinese treatise on the strategies of war stresses the importance of speed, sound tactics, subterfuge, discipline, appropriate form of attack, and accurate intelligence.... Read more

From mere trainee, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. This is a tale of greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.... Read more

Jack Welch is perhaps the greatest corporate leader of the 20th century. He revolutionised GE's entire corporate culture with his distinctive, highly personal management style. This book talks about him.... Read more

Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? This book aims to change the way you think about business and the world. It also seeks to shatter the illusions of people around the world by teaching them how to recognize randomness.... Read more

What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? And, what can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? This book shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage of uncertainty.... Read more

Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.... Read more

How to make the most of your partnerships at work and in life.... Read more

An introduction to the Tipping Point theory explains how minor changes in ideas and products can increase their popularity and how small adjustments in an individual's immediate environment can alter group behavior.... Read more

Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System... Read more

Leaders in all fields - business, medicine, law, government - make crucial decisions every day. The harsh truth is that they mismanage many of those choices, even though they have the right intentions. Why is it so hard to make sound decisions? Sharing stories from business and beyond, the author offers powerful rules for avoiding each error.... Read more

""This Time Is Different" is a tremendously exciting, topical, and controversial book on the history of debt and default. This one belongs on everyone's shelf."--Barry Eichengreen, author of "The European Economy since 1945"... Read more

In this superb and shocking narrative, Cohan chronicles the fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street. Cohan's minute-by-minute account of 10 days in March 2008, tells a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the consequences for all of us.... Read more

Fifteen years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political conflict; and the memory of the trauma has faded. Some 20 500 people were nevertheless killed between 1984 and 1994.... Read more

Are smart people overrated? What can pit bulls teach us about crime? Why are problems like homelessness easier to solve than to manage? How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job? The author explores the minor geniuses, the underdogs and the overlooked, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an intriguing story.... Read more

The longest serving captain in Springbok rugby history gives a revealing account of the simultaneous joys and travails of one of the most challenging – and rewarding - jobs in sport in this much anticipated autobiography.... Read more

Wire Me a Million is the extraordinary true story of Billy Wolfe, a master conman who took millions off gullible investors in the US during the 1970s and 80s before moving his operation to the UK and eventually to South Africa.... Read more

In The Oil Factor, Stephen Leeb accurately predicted the current oil shortage and showed how savvy investors could profit. But now the world is facing an energy crisis of unprecedented scope, and the recent surge in oil prices is only the tip of the iceberg.... Read more

Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation)... Read more

Arguably the best scrumhalf to have played rugby union, Joost van der Westhuizen has created as much media excitement off the field as he did on it. From his rugby heroics to his marriage to the glamorous Amor Vittone to the recent sex-tape allegations, Joost has been constantly in the news.... Read more

'Who is Cityboy? He's every brash, suited, FT-carrying idiot who ever pushed past you on the tube. He's the egotistical buffoon who loudly brags about how much cash he's made on the market at otherwise pleasant dinner parties. He's the greedy, ruthless wanker whose actions are helping turn this world into the shit-hole it's rapidly becoming. ... Read more

It’s a frank tale of a fallible, humble man whose focus and sheer determination helped him overcome considerable odds.... Read more

Niall Ferguson recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire, showing on a vast canvas how the British Empire in the 19th century spearheaded real globalization with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.... Read more

There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses. ... Read more

A guide to success in business and in life. From its creation as a mail-order record company to the literal launch of Virgin Galactic, Virgin is one of the premier 'way-of-life' brands in the world, trusted and enjoyed by many millions of people.... Read more

Good to Great and Built to Last identified the distinguishing characteristics shared by companies that not only achieved greatness, but also sustained it. In How The Mighty Fall, Jim Collins considers the "dark side," offering a perspective on how a fall from greatness can happen - to even the seemingly invincible. ... Read more

Award-winning journalist and author of the bestseller "The Undercover Economist" argues that life is logical even if it often seems otherwise. Under the surface of everyday insanity, hidden incentives are at work, and Harford shows these incentives emerging in the most unlikely places.... Read more

Get your copy of Alec Hogg's Shares: A Buyers' Guide [2009 updated edition]. The book has been totally rewritten and was published in November.... Read more

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Stephan Winter is obsessed with making a billion. If money is for him an escape from the imperfect rest of his life – the failed marriages, his alienation from his family, his hidden history – then that abstract number will, he irrationally believes, deliver him to the portals of some undefined paradise. ... Read more

This book is an eye opener and says it as few will dare. The writer, Charles Cilliers, is tackling controversial issues head on.... Read more

Money alchemy is a training manual for wealth creation, written by a self-made entrepreneur from the investment world, with deep roots in transformational work, who despite a severely disadvantaged background, retired wealthy aged 39.... Read more

Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question. This title shows us what makes an extreme overachiever. It reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from: their culture, their family, and their generation.... Read more

Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of man's spirit.... Read more

What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? And, what can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? This book shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage of uncertainty.... Read more