The Lion Wakes tells the modern story of HSBC, starting in the late 1970s, when the bank first broke out of the Asia-Pacific region with its purchase of Marine Midland Bank in the US. It follows HSBC's battle to purchase Midland Bank in1992, the subsequent move of head office from Hong Kong to London, and the string of acquisitions that brought the bank to its pre-eminent place in global finance today. Acclaimed historians Richard Roberts and David Kynaston chronicle the bank's struggles as well as its successes: the last part of the book deals with the ill-fated move into consumer finance in the US, as well as the financial crisis of 2008 and its effect on HSBC. Impeccably researched and generously illustrated from the HSBC archives, this is a valuable addition to global financial history.

The Lion Wakes: A Modern History of HSBC

Business & Money

Roberts, Richard

KYNASTON, David

Biography & History

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A collection of stories from some of the world's greatest crime writers. Introduced by Ian Rankin, other contributors include Mark Billingham, Neil Gaiman, Anthony Horowitz, Alexander McCall Smith, Val McDermid, George Pelecanos, Stuart Neville, Walter Mosley, Adrian McKinty, and many more.
Profile has raised more than $415,000 for Oxfam through previous collections OxTales and OxTravels.

OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Gulf state of Qatar tops the Forbes list of the world's richest countries. In 2010 the country had the world's highest GDP per capita, and its reserves of oil and natural gas are vast. Yet Qatar has climbed to this pinnacle of wealth and influence in a remarkably short time, and from a starting point of obscurity and insignificance. This astonishing transition is the direct result of the efforts nearly two hundred years ago of one visionary man—Jassim bin Muhammad Bin Thani, known as "the Leader."
Shaikh Mohamed A. J. Althani is a former minister in the Qatari government.

Jassim - The Leader: Founder of Qatar

Biographies & Memoirs

Althani, Mohamed A. J.

Historical

The most challenging question today for the citizens of any country in the Gulf region is whether it is heading in the right direction to become a durable, sustainable system, fully supported by its people and capable of being defended from internal and external threats. Mohamed A. J. Althani analyzes the domestically important areas of demography, security, provision of food and water, and the political and economic systems of the Arab countries at the center of the turmoil that has spread throughout the region since early 2011.Shaikh Mohamed A. J. Althani is a former minister in the Qatari government.

The Arab Spring and the Gulf States: Time to embrace change

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

"Ogilvy is the creative force of modern advertising."—The New York Times
First collected by his devoted family and colleagues as a seventy-fifth birthday present, The Unpublished David Ogilvy collects a career's worth of public and private communications—memos, letters, speeches, notes, and interviews—from the "Father of Advertising" and founder of Ogilvy &amp; Mather.
Still fizzing with energy and freshness more than twenty-five years after it was first published, its success outside the private circle of friends and colleagues it was created for was, in the words of one of its editors, "because so often he spoke out on important matters long before the crowd caught up to him; because all of what he says, he says so well; because so little of what he says in the book had ever before appeared in print."
This is a business book unlike any other: a straightforward and incisive look at subjects such as salesmanship, management, and creativity, presented in Ogilvy's trademark crisp prose. Whether carefully prepared for a lecture or as a private joke to a friend, his writing always underlines the importance of the rule "it pays an agency to be imaginative and unorthodox."
David Ogilvy, CBE, (1911–1999) is often described as the "father of advertising." He founded New York agency Ogilvy &amp; Mather in 1948, and his iconic campaigns include legendary adverts for Dove, Hathaway, Rolls Royce, and Guinness. Ogilvy's best-selling book Confessions of an Advertising Man is still one of the most popular books on advertising.

The Unpublished David Ogilvy

OGILVY, David

Professionals & Academics

"These classic chillers will certainly make you look under the bed at night."—Daily Mail
From rural England to colonial India, in murky haunted mansions and under modern electric lighting, these master storytellers—some of the best writers in the English language—unfold spine-tinglers that pull back the veil of everyday life to reveal the nightmares that lurk just out of sight.
Contains ghost stories by Ruth Rendell, M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, E. F. Benson, E. Nesbit, Saki, W. W. Jacobs, W. F. Harvey, Hugh Walpole, Chico Kidd, and LP Hartley.

Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories

Genre Fiction

These are tough times for all of usbut it is still possible to defy gravity and create massively successful new ventures, turn-round lumbering giants, and go for growth. The secret lies in not just satisfying customers but in amazing and delighting them.
Most companies plod along doing things as everyone always has. So there are huge opportunities for people trying to break the mold, even in old-fashioned businesses like banking or insurance. Of course it happens all the time in the digital world, but it can happen anywhereso long as you turn your customers into fans. When that happens your customerswho will sing your praises when your competitors’ customers are complainingbecome your greatest allies in marketing and sales. Then you can really go for growth.
But to amaze and delight your customers and clients isn’t easy, and it requires constant work and innovation. This book is generously scattered with examples and case studies drawn from Vernon Hill’s own experience and shows how it is to be done.
Vernon Hill was the founder of the hugely successful Commerce Bank in the United States and Metro Bank in the United Kingdom. He is one of only a handful of chief executives ever to be a member of the Forbes 20/20 club: to have stayed in the same job for over two decades paying more than 20 percent returns every year.

Fans Not Customers: How to Create Growth Companies in a No Growth World

Bob Andelman

Vernon Hill

Economics

This is the extraordinary history of a familiar but much-misunderstood institution. The Church has frequently been divided between high and low, Evangelical and Anglo-Catholic. For its first 150 years people sacrificed their lives to defend it; the Anglican Church is and has always been defined by its complicated relationship to the state and power. The story of the Church - central to British life - has never been straightforward. Weaving social, political and religious context together with the significance of its music and architecture, A People's Church skilfully illuminates a complex and pre-eminent institution.

A People's Church

History

Morris, Jeremy

Europe

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics In the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it, why we do we need it and where, in these turbulent times, is it heading? From the gap between rich and poor to the impact of social media, via Machiavelli, Hobbes and Weber, Runciman's comprehensive short introduction is invaluable to those studying politics or those who want to know how life in Denmark became more comfortable than in Syria. Fusing animation and images from the award winning animators behind RSA Animates, beautifully adapted to both print and digital formats, the Ideas in Profile series boldly reinvents what introductions can and should be in the twenty-first century. Concise, clear, relevant, entertaining, original and global in scope, Politics makes essential reading - and viewing for students and general readers.

Politics: Ideas in Profile

Runciman, David

The name Novartis is relatively new  and the 1996 merger that created it was the biggest merger in business history  but the company is rooted in 150 years of history. This is the story of how Switzerland’s pharmaceutical industry developed and how a remarkable global business was created.

Novartis: How a leader in healthcare was created out of Ciba, Geigy and Sandoz

Novartis

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