Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.

A special 15th anniversary edition of this principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems.

A reassessment of our daily engagement with life. Droit invites us to reconsider ordinary actions as unexpected philosophical events. Peeling an apple, watching someone sleep, activities that when considered outside of their routine, invite us to experience the familiar in different ways.

D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take.

Offers practical advice and techniques for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. This work teaches you how to: make friends quickly and easily; increase your popularity; win people to your way of thinking; and more. It helps you turn around your relationships and improve your dealings with all the people in your life.

A book can change your life forever...

If you dream about growing your business to a billion, this study tells you the seven key things innovators did in common to become America's greatest growth companies.

Marshalling a vast array of new data, more powerful computer modelling and incorporating the latest thinking on sustainability, ecological footprinting and limits, this new book presents future overshoot scenarios and makes an even more urgent case for a rapid readjustment of the global economy toward a sustainable path.

Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole without giving a thought about how she might get out. And so she tumbles into Wonderland. In a land in which nothing is as it seems and cakes and mushrooms can make her shrink to ten inches or grow to the size of a house, will Alice be able to find her way home again?

In 1980, Paul Romer solved a problem originally identified by Adam Smith and thereby ushered in a new understanding of economic growth. Using Romer's discovery as a window, this title looks out over two centuries' worth of insights and false starts by some of history's best-known economists.

Elizabeth Gilbert is in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, and they're trying for a baby - she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.

Technological change has brought with it a variety of social problems, such as wage inequality and unemployment. This book examines the contradictory effects of technological change, looking at the theoretical and empirical debates raised by modern growth theory.

Based on workplace democracy, shared ownership, staying small, building community, commitment to a place, and long-term thinking. This book is about a different way of doing business.

Discovering the New Drivers of Growth. An eye-opening look at the business dilemma of trying to maintain solid growth - with pragmatic solutions on how to accomplish that goal.

Offers various viewpoints on death and dying, including those of ministers, rabbis, doctors, nurses, and sociologists, along with personal accounts of those near death.

Norvin is a very good actor, but rather plain. In fact, he looks very like a shark, and more than anything, he loves to shoot through the water like a silver arrow. But his cunning plan to clear the water at Caramel Cove badly misfires.

A revised edition of an established text on human growth and development from an anthropological and evolutionary perspective.

People who focus on what they want, prosper. Those that don't, struggle. This book reveals the specific focusing strategies used by successful men and women. Learn how to focus on your strengths, change bad habits, and create a balance between work and family, with no guilt.