Profile Books imprint: 206 books
The Age of Instability
The Global Financial Crisis and What Comes Next
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Bored with endless grandstanding and people being wise after the event? Then The Age of Instability is the one book you should read on the financial crisis. Setting the near collapse of the international financial markets and banking system in a global and historical context, Sunday Times economics...
Something Will Turn Up
Britain’s Economy, Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
As the prevailing winds of the global economy have changed, so Britain has been buffeted from boom to bust and back again. But how much is our country's economic landscape shaped by the huge forces of international capital - and the hope that 'something will turn up' - and how much by the individual...
by David Kynaston
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
An engaging account of the rise and dominance of the City of London, arguably the most important phenomenon of British history in the last 300 years. 'The City today is the most dynamic and world-beating sector of the British economy. Increasingly, it is the City that calls the shots. More than ever,...
Blue Eyed Salaryman
From world traveller to lifer at Mitsubishi
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Why on earth would anyone give up a life on the open road for the regimen of a vast Japanese conglomerate? And is it really so different in Japan from everywhere else? Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveller - hitchhiking to Istanbul, bussing to Kathmandu and crossing the Atlantic in a home-built...
Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime
The Story of Daily Life From Breakfast to Bedtime
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Why do so many people go on about queuing? Have we always been obsessed with traffic? And why do so many of us now eat lunch at our computers - al desko? We spend our days catching buses and trains, writing emails, shopping, queuing...But we know almost nothing about these activities. Exploring the...
Africa: Crude Continent
The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Based on thirty years in the global oil game, intimate knowledge of African history and direct experience of over forty countries, this comprehensive book shows that Africa's flaws are not the whole story, when it comes to the continent's history. A definitive yet original account of the rush for...
Flashes of Thought
Lessons in life and leadership from the man behind Dubai
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
If you thought it was worth hearing the insights of a man at the head of a major corporation or who has turned around a disaster-prone technology company, here's a new level. This book is packed with ideas for governance, leadership and life from the man behind the city that's home to the world's...
The Art of Understanding Art
A new perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Have we completely missed the point of the modern western revolution in the arts? Hugh Moss thinks so, and here he presents a refreshingly original and thought-provoking new approach to understanding art. It not only makes sense of western art over the past century or more, but applies equally to...
Clarks: Made to Last
The story of Britain's best-known shoe firm
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Clarks' reach extends to all corners of the globe and yet it remains a family-owned business firmly rooted in its Quaker origins, (unlike other well known Quaker firms like Cadburys, now part of US giant Kraft.) Founded in 1825 by two brothers, Cyrus and James Clark, the company began as a rug-making...
by Leonardo Da Vinci
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance and Western...
Armchair Nation
An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question: since its beginnings during WW2, television has assumed a central role in our houses and our lives, just as satellite dishes and aerials have become features...
On Roads
A Hidden History
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
In this history of roads and what they have meant to the people who have driven them, one of Britain's favourite cultural historians reveals how a relatively simple road system turned into a maze-like pattern of roundabouts, flyovers, and spaghetti junctions. Using a unique blend of travel writing,...
Novartis
How a leader in healthcare was created out of Ciba, Geigy and Sandoz
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The Swiss pharmaceutical industry is world-famous, and of today's top five global pharmaceutical businesses, two are Swiss - Roche and Novartis. Novartis was created in 1996 from a merger between three other major companies, Ciba, Geigy and Sandoz (the merger was the biggest ever in business history...
The Reality Test
Still relying on strategy?
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
How is it that the most carefully-laid business strategies can go horribly wrong when put into practice? Robert Rowland Smith's answer, based on years of experience in high-level consultancy, is that 'reality eats strategy for breakfast': strategy, based on projections and assuming business is a rational...