<p>A portrait of Granada, the company responsible for Coronation Street, Blind Date, Welcome Break motorway services and London's Hyde Park Hotel. Through a series of interviews with City analysts, Gerry Robinson and other Granada executives, the book examines the development of the Granada empire, and reveals how the group's diversified range of operations are organized and brought to life. In doing so, it presents a picture of Gerry Robinson, one of Europe's leading businessmen. It ends with an analysis of Granada's future, at home and abroad, in the eyes of Robinson, his competitors and the City analysts whom he has charmed so far.</p>

Lord of the Dance : The Story of Gerry Robinson

Biographies & Memoirs

Orion Business (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

Digerati

john-brockman

Computers & Technology

The Soul At Work: Unleashing the Power of Complexity Science for Business Success

Lewin, Roger and Regime, Birute

Business & Money

This is a collection of published and original monologues by Peter Cochrane about the likely effects of new technology on business and society today and in the future. Together, they represent a penetrating and entertaining insight into cutting-edge technology. From the information superhighway to the Internet, office robots to virtual meetings, digital money to home banking, mobile communication to New Age nomads, technophobia to computer games, artificial life systems to sex, Cochrane tackles a wide range of subjects in an age when society is under siege from technology.

Tips for Time Travellers: Visionary Insights into New Technology, Life and the Future by One of the World's Leading Technology Prophets

Cochrane, Peter

Money Makers: The Stock Market Secrets of Britain's Top Professional Investors

Who are the Professional investment managers responsible for moving and making millions on the stock market? What approaches  and strategies do they adopt?  For the 1st time, Johnathon Davis profiles Britain's top Professional investors to find out what it actually takes to become a  successful investor. From the Professional's Professional Anthony Bolton to Jacob Rothschild's money man Nils Taube, to the  emerging markets guru Mark Mobius, and the Private investor's champion Jim Slater, the book traces the personal history of these  market wizards and explains their track records and methods. Through in-depth interviews, Davis also reveals how they become  involved in the stock market ; their Greatest successes and failures ; and their opinions on the current and future investent  envrionment. The Money Makers, contains a wealth of valuable information for anyone interested in investment and the stock markets. For  Professional investors, the book provides a fascinating insight into the characters and lives of their most successful peers.  For Private investors, the book contains genuine tips and lessons for successful investing that any ordinary investor can  act upon.

Jonathan Davis

Economics

Dossier

EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN

Turbo Capitalism : Winners and Losers in the Global Economy

Thanks to various technological, fiscal, and political revolutions that have reshaped our world over the past two decades, some observers believe, the new millennium will offer opportunities for economic expansion that rival any previously recorded. The Long Boom is a fascinating attempt to pin down this potential upsurge by combining a shrewd examination of where we've been headed for the last 20 years with a plausible forecast of where--with a bit of good fortune and tenacity--we might be going during the next 20. Moreover, its unique mixture of germane facts and figures with supportable projections and original storytelling techniques (most notably a letter to friends sent once a decade by a fictional observer born in 1960) make it as readable as it is provocative. Originating as an article in Wired magazine, the optimistic scenario envisioned by authors Peter Schwartz (chairman of a combination think tank and consulting firm), Peter Leyden (a technology, economics, and political journalist), and Joel Hyatt (a Stanford entrepreneurship professor who cofounded the legal-services firm bearing his name) integrates existing and potential technological advancements, financial developments, political upheavals, and social movements. Among its predictions are a formulation of a "glass pipeline" that seamlessly tracks manufacturing and production processes, creation of a volunteer Global Corps to aid developing nations, the dawning of a true Space Age, and the birth of a unified worldwide society with "well-off people who share certain values that are transcending borders." The account is highly recommended to everyone concerned with, yet hopeful about, the future. --Howard Rothman

The Long Boom

Schwartz, Peter & Peter Leyden & Joel Hyatt

International

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age

Hiltzik, Michael

Mark Pendergrast's history is a microcosm of American enterprise. Invented as a patent medicine with a cocaine kick, Coca-Cola is today 99 per-cent sugar water, the world's most distributed product, available in over 185 countries, more than the membership of the United Nations. All a far cry from the chance invention of Dr. John Smith Pemberton, a morphine addict in Atlanta, Georgia, just over a century ago.

For God, Country and Coca-Cola

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