Living Workplace: Soul, Spirit, and Success in the 21st Century

Business & Money

Coombs, Ann

Economics

Harpercollins

In "Funny Money" David Boyle introduces us to alternative cash and people who can conjure money - that is, spending power - out of nothing. Until recently, the growth of alternative cash has been the province of big business. Cyberwealth, phone cards, stamps, air miles, supermarket reward points and much more besides all have purchasing power, yet are not cash as we traditionally know it. Now, a revolution is underway - locally created money systems are being invented by communities for communities all over the world. They bypass banks and governments to develop a type of wealth previously only dreamt of - inflation-proof, non-taxable and inherently stable - which can promote social cohesion and individual empowerment. Boyle tells the story of this extraordinary movement with wit and clarity: he travels to the USA, home to the greatest number and variety of local currencies; meets the prophets, organizers and innovators behind local money and relates their vision of the future; and describes how you too can take control and set up your own currency. This book will change the way you think about money forever.

Funny Money: In Search of Alternative Cash

Boyle, David

In this work, Ohmae argues that not only have nation states lost their ability to control exchange rates and protect their currencies, but because they no longer generate real economic activity, they have forfeited their role as critical participants in the global economy. Ohmae contends that five great forces - communication, corporation, customers, capital and currencies - have usurped the economic power once held by the nation state. He explains how communications control the movement of capital and corporations across national borders, how demanding consumers determine the flow of goods and services, and how harmful governmental policies are increasingly disciplined by the actions of informed consumers, profit-seeking corporations, and currency markets. The result, Ohmae claims, has been the rise of the region state, the natural economic zones that have emerged, for example, between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. Ohmae argues that to establish a presence within these regional markets, corporations must jettison their "country strategies" and instead focus on special strategies for particular regions.

The End of the Nation State : The Rise of Regional Economies

Ohmae, Kenichi

The New Corporate Finance: Where Theory Meets Practice

Maguire, Toni

Finance

Harper/Element

'MAXED OUT: HARD TIMES, EASY CREDIT'

james-scurlock

HARPER/COLLINS.

The sensational critical biography of this phenomenal entrepreneur and his business practices – fully updated to cover Branson’s recent ventures. No British tycoon is more popular, few claim to be richer and none has masterminded a more recognisable brand than Richard Branson. What is behind the success of the buccaneering balloonist, the tabloids’ favourite celebrity nude, the ‘grinning jumper’ and the scourge of corporate goliaths? Helped by eyewitness accounts of more than 250 people with direct experience of Branson, Tom Bower has a uncovered a different tale to the one so eagerly promoted by Virgin’s publicists. Here is the full story of Branson: his businesses, his friendships, his ambition, his law-breaking, his drug-taking, his bullying. From the cockpit of a balloon in the clouds to the centre of Branson’s operations in his Holland Park home this book is an intimate scrutiny of exactly how Richard Branson created himself and sold himself. Tom Bower’s biography reveals Branson to be a single-minded profiteer who, while occasionally generous to others, has a fixed purpose to enhance his family’s wealth in secret off-shore trust funds. Instead of a glittering saint, Branson emerges as a devious actor, proud of plucking for his own profit the good ideas of others. From his quest to acquire the license for the National Lottery to his plans to launch space tourism with Virgin Galactic, this fully updated edition follows Branson’s enterprises and investments up to the recent, failed bid for Northern Rock.

Branson

Biographies & Memoirs

Bower, Tom

Leaders & Notable People

Harper-perennial

Get results fast with this quick and easy guide to the fundamentals of finance. Covering many topics, it includes everything from analysing a business from its financial reports to dealing with revenue, profit and cashflow.

Finance Basics (Collins Business Secrets)

Warner, Stuart

HarperCollins, Publishers-

This vocabulary book is aimed at anyone who wants to study or work in the finance industry. It contains the 500 most important words and phrases you will need to succeed and includes practice material to make sure you really learn them.

Key Words for Finance (Collins Cobuild)

Collins UK

HarperCollins, UK

‘Patricia Bright is killing it right now’ Glamour‘One of Britain’s biggest YouTube stars’ Huffington Post‘I’m going to show you how to hustle like I do, using your head and heart. All it takes is three steps…’YOUR BRAND: how you can use who you are to smash it onlineYOUR BUSINESS: how to run your side hustle like a total bossYOUR BELIEFS: ditch the thinking that’s holding you backFrom the early lessons she learned growing up in South London, to the moment she gave up the 9 to 5 to do what she loved, Patricia Bright’s story will revolutionise how you think about work, life, and what it means to succeed.
Packed with her trademark attitude, style and sense of fun, Heart &amp; Hustle is an inspirational guide to taking control of your own future.

Heart and Hustle: Use your passion. Build your brand. Achieve your dreams.

Bright, Patricia

Arts & Literature

’Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest … but also a troubling exposé of the fragility of our entire financial system … I loved it’ 
Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland 
For fans of Bad Blood and The Big Short, the story of how one reclusive trading prodigy manipulated Wall Street and amassed millions from his childhood bedroom – then short-circuited the global market. 
A real-life financial thriller, Flash Crash gives panoramic insight into our economic landscape – its weaknesses, its crooks and its exploitable loopholes – and uncovers the remarkable, behind-the-scenes narrative of a mystifying market crash, a globe-spanning investigation into international fraud, and the man – Navinder Singh Sarao – at the centre of it all. 
Depending on whom you ask, Sarao was a scourge, a symbol of a financial system run horribly amok, or a folk hero: an outsider who took on the tyranny of Wall Street and the high-frequency traders.

Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History

Vaughan, Liam

Historical

William Collins

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