管麟Peter: 17025 books
The Sweet Spot
How Australia Made Its Own Luck - And Could Now Throw It All Away
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Winner of the 2012 Ashurst Business Literature Prize
This book will change the way you think about your country...
Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free – and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession...
by Peter Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
If you enjoy the occasional pub meal, a drink at the bar, or if you're interested in Lancashire's social history, you're sure to find something entertaining in Peter Thomas's introduction to the county's pubs. It opens with a round-up of the history of brewing, pubs and ale-selling, and a section...
Sea Trials
A Lone Sailor's Race Toward Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
"In all, beautifully written and wonderfully inspiring."--The Wall Street Journal A poignant account that will inspire you to tackle challenging sailing endeavors as well as squarely face life's emotional challenges, finding the courage to live a fully engaged, authentic life
Three...
American Prophet
The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
A long-overdue book on the brilliant life and career of one of our greatest public intellectuals, American Prophet will introduce Carey McWilliams to a new generation of readers.
Peter Richardson's absorbing and elegantly paced book reveals a figure thoroughly engaged with the issues of his...
Startup Cities
Why Only a Few Cities Dominate the Global Startup Scene and What the Rest Should Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
This book offers a comprehensive model for explaining the success and failure of cities in nurturing startups, presents detailed case studies of how participants in that model help or hinder startup activity, and shows how to apply these lessons to boost local startup activity.
Startup Cities...
by Peter Thiel
Language: French
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Comment construire le futur pour l’homme qui a créé PayPal et investi dans Facebook, SpaceX et Linkedin.
-« Ce livre propose des idées complètement nouvelles et apporte une véritable bouffée d’air frais sur une question vitale : comment créer de la valeur en ce monde. » Mark Zuckerberg,...
The Buxtons
150 Years of Developing Melbourne
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
For five generations, the Buxton family has contributed to the growth of Melbourne through their real-estate and property development businesses. They have left their mark in every epoch, from the magnificence of Rochester Terrace to the elegance of 333 Collins Street, from inner-city developments...
by Peter Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
For 50 years Heavy Weather Sailing has been regarded as the ultimate international authority on surviving storms at sea aboard sailing and motor vessels. The first edition was compiled by Kaines Adlard Coles himself in 1967. Since then technology may have improved, but the weather certainly hasn't....
More Important than Life or Death
Inside the Best of Australian Sport
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
For years journalists have been eyewitnesses to athletes - from the elite to downtrodden - chasing, achieving or falling short of their dreams. They have observed, chronicled and attempted to find the secrets to winning and losing. For some, sport may be a meaningless diversion. For most, it is life's...
by Peter Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Test match special producer Peter Baxter presents tales of commentating capers from the Gabba to Eden Park in Jamaica. For 34 years from 1973 Peter Baxter was BBC producer of the hugely popular Test Match Special, and during that time he reported on Test matches from around the world. This funny and...
by Peter Mandelson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour’s three founding architects, now with a revealing new chapter updating this e-book edition. Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. ‘The Third Man’ is his story – of a life played out in the backroom...
Mavericks
Canadian Rebels, Renegades and Anti-Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Peter C. Newman’s poison pen has lodged itself in the viscera of the Canadian elite. In Mavericks, he has selected his most evocative writing about those Canadians who run against the grain on the grandest scale, including Conrad Black, Garth Drabinsky, the Eaton boys, Louis Riel, Robert Campeau...
Death Comes Knocking
Policing Roy Grace's Brighton
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. His friend Graham Bartlett was a long-serving detective in the city once described...
by Peter Wildeblood
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter Wildeblood
In March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu case. Wildeblood was sentenced to eighteen...