Richard Branson, Britain's 15th richest man and one of the most prominent businessmen, was voted the country's leading role model among young people. He is full of paradoxes: he is a notorious self-publicist who claims to be fiercely shy, a brilliant motivator of others who wore odd socks on the day of the launch of his airline, and a billionaire who borrows fivers without hesitation from friends and employees. And yet nobody knows what has made Branson so successful: despite his reputation as a financial wizard, he runs a business more conspicuous for its size than its profits. Millions of pounds have been lost on such projects as "Events" listings magazine, the film "Absolute Beginners" and Virgin ventures into pubs, satellite broadcasting, clothes retailing and recording studios. And, despite the publicity reaped from a run-in with British Airways, Virgin Atlantic produces only a modest rate of return. This is a portrait of Branson which draws together the many contradictions of this upper-middle-class Englishman who signed the Sex Pistols and for whom danger is the one sensation he worships without reservation.

Richard Branson Virgin King

Jackson, Tim

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins

Turning Japanese the Fight for Industria

Business & Money

Economics

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Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company

Dutton

The first academic textbook covering European retail fashion buying and merchandising. It provides a unique insight into best practice across the fashion industry.

Mastering Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management (Macmillan Master Series, 8)

Industries

Springer

Material Concerns offers new perspectives on key environmental issues - pollution prevention, ecological economics, limits to sustainability, consumer behaviour and government policy. The first non-technical introduction to preventative environmental management, Material Concerns offers realistic prospects for improving the quality of life.

Material Concerns: Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life

Routledge

Material Concerns offers new perspectives on key environmental issues - pollution prevention, ecological economics, limits to sustainability, consumer behaviour and government policy. The first non-technical introduction to preventative environmental management, Material Concerns offers realistic prospects for improving the quality of life.

The Fashion Handbook (Media Practice)

The Fashion Handbook is the indispensable guide to the fashion industry. It explores the varied and diverse aspects of the business, bringing together critical concepts with practical information about the industry’s structure and core skills, as well as offering advice on real working practices and providing information about careers and training. Tracing the development of the fashion industry, this book looks at how fashion can be understood from both social and cultural perspectives. Each chapter contributes to the knowledge of a particular academic or vocational area either through building on existing research or through the dissemination of new research undertaken into specialist vocational disciplines. The second edition of The Fashion Handbook is fully up dated with new case studies, interviews, figures and profiles and includes chapters written by recognised academics and fashion industry experts. Specialist topics include fashion culture, luxury brands, fashion journalism, fashion buying, design and manufacturing, retailing, PR and styling.  The Fashion Handbook includes:  a unique and wide overview of the fashion industry chapters on specialist topics contributions from recognised experts in both academia and the fashion industry expert advice on careers in fashion retailing. A must for all students of the fashion world.

Arts & Photography

Shaw, David

Graphic Design

Named a Best Business Book by Business Week, Inside Intel is the gripping business saga of a company that rose to dominance through technological innovation, and maintained its leadership against competitors through aggressive marketing, tough business tactics, and liberal use of legal firepower. In his in-depth portrait of Intel, the first history/expose of the company, former Financial Times columnist Tim Jackson reveals that Intel's corporate culture is determinedly secretive and authoritarian, and the company retains its own force of private investigators to prevent its employees from going astray. Intel routinely uses the threat of lawsuits against workers and rivals. At the center of this story is Andy Grove, Intel's high-profile CEO and chairman, once a penniless immigrant who waited tables to put himself through college. It is Grove who has made the unpopular decisions which have kept Intel at the top of the chip market. Exhaustively researched from court records, unpublished documents, and interviews with Intel's competitors, partners, and past and present employees, Jackson traces the company's spectacular failures and successes, as well as the powerful human struggles that have made Intel one of the most competitive players in a high-stakes game.

Professionals & Academics

Penguin Publishing Group

An experienced business journalist presents the first detailed look inside the inner workings of Intel, a leading company in microchip technology, revealing its authoritarian corporate culture and the competitive tactics of its chairman, Andrew Grove. 35,000 first printing.

Inside Intel: Andrew Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful ChipCompany

Dutton Adult

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Richard Branson Virgin King

Turning Japanese the Fight for Industria

Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company

Mastering Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management (Macmillan Master Series, 8)

Material Concerns: Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life

Material Concerns: Pollution, Profit and Quality of Life

The Fashion Handbook (Media Practice)

The Fashion Handbook (Media Practice)

Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company

Inside Intel: Andrew Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful ChipCompany