|summary=With plaudits all over the covers like a rash; plaudits from well-known people such as Nick Robinson, Political Editor of the BBC, Daniel Finkelstein of the Times and Boris Johnston, current Mayor of London, this book's bar is set pretty high. Straight away and yes, I was asking the usual question - why another one of these seemingly endless 'how-to' manuals? My first impression is of no-nonsense, time is precious but also a little in-your-face, American style er, presentation of the book. But that's good. I like that. It's all the wishy-washy books in this genre and similar that I don't like.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085708044X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Hesketh
|title=How to Persuade and Influence People: Powerful Techniques to Get Your Own Way More Often
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Having just taken up a new management role in a completely new culture, on a completely new continent, I'm well aware that it will be my soft skills, not just my supposed technical expertise, that I'll be relying on for the first few months at least. Thanks to this book, I will be better prepared for the task.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857080423</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Zarir Suntook
|title=Learning Accountancy: The Novel Way
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=If you're planning on learning how to prepare accounts the traditional method has what almost amounts to an initiation ceremony. You're introduced to double entry book-keeping, which is the equivalent of being asked to learn HTML without ever having seen a web page. Some people ''do'' take to it like ducks to water – they're usually the people who think that Sudoku is ridiculously easy – but most people find that the concepts are difficult to grasp and this isn't helped by not really understanding why they need to master it. Zarir Suntook hasn't quite stood the methods of teaching on their heads but he's taken a more logical approach which is gentler on the brain.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1443819484</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Soskin
|title=Net Profit: How to Succeed in Digital Business
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=There's a misconception that digital business is just like the old bricks and mortar type, except that the digital fellahs escape a lot of the expense that real people have to pay and that if they learnt how to do thinwhich a traditional business is content with is almost certainly a danger signal in a digital business and unless you can take your idea and make quick decisions then the chances are that you are dead in the water. Life is very different out there on the internet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470660813</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Doggett
|title=You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the Beatles
|rating=5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=When four young Liverpudlians got together to make music in the early 1960s, they can have had no idea of their future impact on the world around them. Likewise they would surely not have had an inkling of the extraordinary business minefield which their existence as a group would create, and which would leave the scars long after they had gone their separate ways, even after two of them had died. As at least one of them ruefully commented, they must have provided several lawyers' children with a very expensive education.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532360</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan
|title=Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary='Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead' sounds like a gimmick, doesn't it? Or, if not a gimmick, then the lessons that you learn when you see how it shouldn't be done. Over the past few years I've read quite a few marketing books and I've generally come away with the thought that they weren't aimed at a business like Bookbag and required far too much control. We're not that sort of people! We want to enjoy Bookbag and we want other people to do the same and we're definitely not in the business of trying to pull in every penny that we can.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0470900520</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andy Bounds
|title=The Jelly Effect: How to Make Your Communication Stick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=This book has lots of glowing praise written all over the covers. Such lines as 'Andy Bounds taught me more about effective presenting than a lady who'd previously taught two US Presidents.' Unsurprisingly, my expectations were sky-high. But will the book deliver? I have to say at the outset that I didn't particularly take to the title (although original and presumably unforgettable). I found it detracted at first glance and didn't do the book any initial favours. And although it is explained in full I still felt it light and an Americanism too far. But that's just my personal opinion. That aside, I was keen to start reading, see what all the fuss was about ...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857080466</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja
|title=Selected: Why some people lead, why others follow, and why it matters
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=''Selected'' is based on the psychology of leadership. Some of us may ask the perfectly reasonable question 'Does it matter who leads and who follows?' Well, apparently it not only matters but it matters greatly. And the co-authors go to great lengths to tell us why. The useful prologue informs us that the whole area of leadership can be traced back in time, by no less than several million years. Vugt and Ahuja explain that the rather innocent (and even a bit airy-fairy to some) word 'leader' is evolved from various academic disciplines. Including the more obvious psychology, there is also biology and anthropology in the mix. Heady stuff. And yes, I did want to read on.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683270</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stanley Gibbons
|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2010
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=Stanley Gibbons Great Britain stamp catalogues come at basically three levels. At one end of the scale is Collect British Stamps, a concise listing which excludes variations in shade, perforation, phosphor banding, watermarks et al. At the other is the multi-volume specialized edition. This is the intermediate catalogue, which provides in one 354-page paperback the main variations of each issue. It also includes such extras as miniature sheets, special first day of issue postmarks, postage dues, booklets, and regional issues (Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, plus the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, the latter territories prior to postal independence in 1969 and 1973 respectively).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852597584</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=The Economist
|title=Style Guide
|rating=5
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=I've always been fascinated by the use of the English language. I've loved the way that precise use of words can make meaning absolutely clear – or obscure it altogether. Some publications are a joy to read whilst others leave you with a frown. Generally ''The Economist'' comes into the first category and this is mainly down to the magazine's style guide – the rule book which guides writers towards clear writing. This is the tenth edition and whilst it might sound rather dry it's the bible for people wishing to communicate with precision and style – and who appreciate the book's gentle humour.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681758</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Augar
|title=Reckless: The Rise and Fall of the City
|rating=4
|genre=Business and Finance
|summary=The City, 1997. Many major institutions are struggling in the City, with high profile scandals taking down Barings and severely damaging the reputation of Morgan Grenfell.
The City, 2007. Less than a fortnight before becoming Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, at the Mansion House Dinner, describes the current time as 'an era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age.'
The City, 8th October, 2008. Author Philip Augar states 'even the most conservative observer would have to concede that 8 October 2008 amounted to a catastrophic failure of private-sector banking in the UK.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952404X</amazonuk>
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