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The Trouble With Markets, Why Did Credit Crunch?
The Trouble with Markets charts the cause of the Credit Crunch or Roger Bootle's Great Implosion. It is a surprisingly optimistic, and well considered view of the future.
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Williams, Cultural Insight into a F1 Racing Team
Sir Frank Williams's long career in Formula One has had many highs and lows. Maurice Hamilton charts that history with personal stories from those most closely involved.
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Review – Madoff, The Man Who Stole $65 Billion
Bernie Madoff was convicted of a Ponzi fraud and sentenced to 150 years imprisonment. It is a story of failure by investors, financial services advisers and regulators.
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Recession or Redundancy, How to Get a New Life
Recession creates change and provides an opportunity, or a need, to make lifestyle changes or choose a new career.Here are reviews of some guides how to get a new life.
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India's Global Powerhouses – Rise of a New Power
Economic power is shifting East; to China and India. Review of Kumar's book shows it is not low costs but fundamental factors that drives progress of Indian business.
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The Adventures of an IT Leader – Novel Guidance
A strong story makes this management self-help book a good read. Is it a novel or a guide for a new Chief Information Officer or IT Director? Surprisingly it is both.
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Strategy for Sustainability – Long Term Success
This new approach to strategy shows how businesses can plan for long-term success when resource constraints affect markets, customers, communities and the environment.
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Retire Retirement; Opportunity for a Fresh Start
No need to worry about a Credit Crunch reduced pension as this book shows the alternatives to retirement as the workforce shrinks and expertise need to be retained.
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The Ascent of Money, a Darwinian View of Finance
Occasionally a book is perfectly timed; The Ascent of Money sets recent financial crises, not just the Credit Crunch and dot-com boom and bust, in a historical context.
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Chasing Alpha, City Collapse and Credit Crunch
A sober history of financial services and the City of London from 1987 until 2008 when financial markets were in turmoil as banks collapsed and the Credit Crunch struck.
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How To Get Rich, Felix Dennis Way to Make Money
Felix Dennis guides those with an inner compulsion to get rich and are ready to work hard. It is not a get rich quick book of false promises and unrealistic "secrets".
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Fresh Start – Getting Unstuck by Timothy Butler
How Dead Ends Become New Paths sums up this self-help guide to overcoming crisis and self-doubt by making it an opportunity for change based on one's deepest interests.
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The Best Book on the Market, How Business Works
Economics is usually dry and impenetrable but in this slim volume Eamonn Butler explains the workings of market economies in a light but non-trivial way.
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4-hour Work Week, Escape the 9-5. Get a New Life
This book demonstrate a way of enjoying better work-life balance by spreading mini-retirements through a lifetime: it argues wealth is not the aim but the lifestyle is.
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