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9789881294371 BRANDING ELEMENT: LOGO 3 Hardback

Another thick treasury of logo design examples coinciding perfectly with the multitude of today’s trends taking inspiration from geometric naturalistic patterns. 300 examples of successful logo designs, including Arteria, Samsung, Cadbury, and more, demonstrate how to create a cohesive brand, with examples ranging from simple stationary to high-concept promotional materials. Each project also features profiles and mission statements by designers, as well as explorations of their creative process when designing the perfect logo to expertly represent a client.

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9780062075871 CLEAN GUT: THE BREAKTHROUGH PLAN FOR ELIMINATING THE ROOT

By ALEJANDRO JUNGER Paperback

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In Clean Gut, Alejandro Junger, M.D, New York Times bestselling author of Clean and creator of the world-famous Clean Program, delivers a complete toolkit for reversing disease and sustaining life-long health.

9789810792343 BRANDS WITH CHARACTER

By WEIMING HUANG Hardback Showcasing the strongest in brand identities employing characters to capture people’s attention. The featured designs are based on humans, animals and even anthropomorphized logos and words that reflect the unique principles and backgrounds of each brand.

The identities range from sleek and modern to playful and childlike and are sure to delight and inspire. A diverse selection that ranges from small cafes, independent clothing lines to large corporations, schools and events fully immerses the reader in the dynamic world of character branding.

9781864705522 GREEN WALLS GREEN ROOFS

By GINA TSAROUHAS Hardback With dense urban living and less green space available, green walls and roofs are helping to fill that gap. These living structures can be created with vegetation, which helps to absorb rainwater, provide insulation, and lower temperatures while creating a habitat for natural flora and fauna. ‘Green Walls Green Roofs’ features projects from all over the world, showing how these elements work in various climates. Ranging from the tropical houses in Singapore to inner-city buildings in North America, this richly illustrated book will show you how living architecture can enrich our world.

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9781409113942 THE SIXTH EXTINCTION,

By JAMES ROLLINS Trade Paperback

9781848316492 INTRODUCING PRODUCTIVITY: A PRACTICAL GUIDE

By GRAHAM ALLCOTT Paperback

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9789814408523 BUDDHIST TEMPLES OF THAILAND: A VISUAL JOURNEY THROUGH THAILAND’S 42 MOST HISTORIC WATS

By JOE CUMMINGS Hardback

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By Philip & Milton Kotler Hardback

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Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names were Shirane, ‘white root’, and Kurono, ‘black field’.

Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s friends announced that they didn’t want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.

Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he’s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down.

Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it’s personal.

9781455556564 THE BEST OF ME (MEDIA TIE-IN)

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They were teenage sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks - with a passion that would change their lives forever. But life would force them apart. Years later, the lines they had drawn between past and present are about to slip ...Called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter when they needed it most, they are faced with each other once again, and forced to confront the paths they chose. Can true love ever rewrite the past?

Euny Hong recounts how South Korea vaulted itself into the twenty-first century, becoming a global leader in business, technology, education, and pop culture.

Featuring lively, in-depth reporting and numerous interviews with Koreans working in all areas of government and society, The Birth of Korean Cool reveals how a really uncool country became cool, and how a nation that once banned miniskirts, long hair on men, and rock ‘n’ roll could come to mass produce boy bands, soap operas, and the world’s most important smart phone.

9784805313251 CLUELESS IN TOKYO: AN EXPLORER’S SKETCHBOOK OF WEIRD AND WONDERFUL THINGS IN JAPAN

By BETTY REYNOLDS Paperback

9781849839693 Gold

By Matthew Hart Paperback Since the 2008 financial crisis the price of gold has sky-rocketed. In Gold Matthew Hart takes readers on a journey around the world and through history to tell the story of how gold became the world’s most precious commodity, the highlights of its dramatic, tempestuous history and the intrigue of the current boom.

9781452128306 GOODNIGHT DARTH VADER

By JEFFREY BROWN Hardback

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9781250045119 The Birth of Korea Cool

By Euny Hong Trade Paperback 9780593073834 PERSONAL

By LEE CHILD Trade Paperback

9781846558337 COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE

By HARUKI MURAKAMI Hardback

9781742207384 LONELY PLANET: THAILAND’S ISLANDS & BEACHES

By BRASH, ET.AL. Paperback

9780307744623 The Blood Telegram

By Gary J.Bass Trade Paperback A riveting history--the first full account--of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in its wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world today.

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Some people take photos, but artist Betty Reynolds captures memories with her paintbrush and watercolors. Clueless in Tokyo provides an outsider’s take on everyday life in Japan’s capital city—a place where vending machines talk, toilets can be terrifying, and centuries-old festivals unfold against a backdrop of space-age architecture. During the seven years Reynolds lived in Japan, she filled thirty sketchbooks with everything that caught her eye. Whether it’s fashion, food, sport, transport, seasonal rituals, or Japanese pastimes, and Reynolds’ witty hand-lettered captions in both Japanese and English provide an entertaining resource for beginning learners of Japanese.

Jamie’s new cookbook brings together 100 ultimate comfort food recipes from around the world. It’s all about the dishes that are close to your heart, that put a smile on your face and make you feel happy, loved, safe and secure. Inspired by everything from childhood memories to the changing of the seasons, and taking into account the guilty pleasures and sweet indulgences that everyone enjoys, it’s brimming with exciting recipes you’ll fall in love with.

9780600628866 TOP 10 OF EVERYTHING 2015

By CAROLINE ASH Hardback Top 10 of Everything continues to amaze and inform. This edition takes a fresh look at the universe, revealing jaw-dropping facts about machines, animals, sport, music, space, epic structures and more.

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9789814523394 FOOD PLAYER Paperback

9781409353058 The Planets Hardback

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9780718159535 JAMIE’S COMFORT FOOD

By JAMIE OLIVER Hardback

9789814516068 DOING BUSINESS IN THAILAND: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO COMMERCE FOR FOREIGNERS

By PETER NORTH & BEA TOEWS Paperback

9780141355207 PERCY JACKSON AND THE GREEK GODS

By RICK RIORDAN Paperback ‘If you like horror shows, bloodbaths, lying, stealing, backstabbing and cannibalism, then read on . . .’ Who could tell the true stories of the gods and goddesses of Olympus better than modern-day demigod Percy Jackson?In this action-packed tour of Greek mythology, Percy gives his hilarious personal views on the feuds, fights and love affairs of the Olympians. Want to know how Zeus came to be top god?

9781409565284 1000 DINOSAUR STICKER Paperback 1000 dinosaur stickers and a selection of prehistoric scenes in a chunky, bag-sized book. Children can use the colourful stickers to complete scenes of dinosaurs fighting, hunting and grazing, or to decorate their own pictures, handmade cards or other belongings. Features the names and habitats of all the well-known dinosaurs, including Triceratops, Stegasaurs and Oviraptors .

The perfect present for dino-mad children.

9780385385206 THE MAZE RUNNER, (MOVIE-TIE-IN)

By JAMES DASHNER Paperback Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive. Perfect for fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games, this special movie tie-in edition of the New York Times bestseller The Maze Runner features an eight-page fullcolor insert with photos from the film.

The Maze Runner movie, featuring the star of MTV’s Teen Wolf, Dylan O’Brien, as Thomas, hits theaters September 19, 2014!

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เคยสงสัยบ้างมั๊ย ทำ�ไมเรื่องราวของหลายคน ถูกเล่าออกมาไม่ครบ เรามักจะได้ฟังแต่ตอน ที่เขาลำ�บาก กับตอนที่เขาประสบความสำ�เร็จ แล้ว คำ�ถามก็คอื แล้วจุดเปลีย่ นของเขามันคือ อะไร? แล้วตอนที่ชีวิตติดลบ เขาผ่านมันมา ได้อย่างไร? หนังสือเล่มนี้ไม่ใช่แค่วิธีคิด แต่จะ เปิดเผยถึง “เทคนิค” ที่ใช้ในการเปลี่ยนชีวิต ไปตลอดกาล และเป็นเทคนิคที่ใช้ได้จริงกับ ทุกคน

Any business person knows that one of the ways to grow your business is to seek out new markets. More and more companies are venturing into other countries. While the basic idea is good, they soon realize that doing business in a foreign country is different than back home.

Besides the differences in rules and regulations, there are also many cultural norms and unspoken codes of conduct that stand as obstacles in the path to success. In a country such as Thailand where there is the added challenge of a different language, doing business may seem even more daunting.

9786162870194 เมื่อโลกไม่ได้หมุนรอบอเมริกา โดย ฟารีด ซาคาเรีย ปกอ่อน

9781905802937 RAILROAD OF DEATH

By JOHN COAST Trade Paperback

9786162870620 ใช้คน 2 คน ให้ได้ผลเท่า 7 คน โดย ไบรอัน เทรซี่ ปกอ่อน

A bestseller in 1946, Railroad of Death is the first and best account of forced labour on the Burma Railway. John Coast was a young officer in the Norfolk Regiment who was taken prisoner at the Fall of Singapore in February 1942. This new edition has an introduction and appendices which takes Coast’s legacy of dealing with his experiences in the camps forward through to his groundbreaking 1969 BBC programme Return to the River Kwai and beyond and includes transcriptions of his BBC interviews with his Japanese captors and Takashi Nagase.

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9780812987041 Morgan: American Financier

By Jean Strouse Paperback NATIONAL BESTSELLER The definitive full-scale portrait of J. Pierpont Morgan’s tumultuous life, both in and out of the public eye. History has remembered him as a complex and contradictory figure, part robber baron and part patron saint. J. Pierpont Morgan earned his reputation as “the Napoleon of Wall Street” by reorganizing the nation’s railroads and creating industrial giants such as General Electric and U.S. Steel. At a time when the country had no Federal Reserve system, he appointed himself a one-man central bank.

9781118760239 WHY MOATS MATTER: The Morningstar Approach to Stock Investing

By BRILLIANT & COLLINS Hardback This book will: Introduce Morningstar’s approach to stock investing Explain the concept of economic moats and the five sources of sustainable competitive advantage--Intangible Assets, Switching Costs, Network Effect, Cost Advantage, and Efficient Scale Establish the difference between business quality and undervalued stocks Discuss industry standards for evaluating moats Help determine how moats affect stock returns and stock valuation.

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9781781252734 THE ECONOMIST POCKET WORLD IN FIGURES : 2015

By THE ECONOMIST Hardback

Harry Boxer’s proven techniques for short-term traders Written in easy-to-understand language, Profitable Day and Swing Trading + Website explains the trading tactics that draw on price, volume, and pattern recognition. Highly regarded trader Harry Boxer offers the information needed to recognize chart patterns, identify trades, and execute entries and exits that will maximize profits and limit losses.

The 2015 edition of this perennial favourite has been completely updated, revised and expanded with many new features. Full of facts and figures about the world today - on subjects as diverse as geography, population and demographics, business, finance and the economy, transport, tourism and the environment, society, culture and crime - it is a mine of fascinating data that will both inform and entertain.

9781422196052 ALIGNING STRATEGY and SALES

By Frank V. Cespedes Hardback

It’s time to address the enormous cost of the strategy-sales gap.

The most crucial connection in an organization seeking to grow is between sales and strategy. But if your company is like most, instead of a strong connection there is a widening gap and too little bang for the buck. This book will help turn the tide for your organization.

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9780071823708 MONEY

By STEVE FORBES Hardback

Develop your own trading system with practical guidance and expert advice In Building Algorithmic Trading Systems: A Trader’s Journey From Data Mining to Monte Carlo Simulation to Live Training , award-winning trader Kevin Davey shares his secrets for developing trading systems that generate tripledigit returns. Davey guides you step-by-step through the entire process of generating and validating an idea, setting entry and exit points, testing systems, and implementing them in live trading. You’ll find concrete rules for increasing or decreasing allocation to a system, and rules for when to abandon one.

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Why a return to sound money is our only hope for a true recovery and a healthy global economy. Few topics are as misunderstood today as the subject of money. Since the U.S. abandoned a gold-linked dollar more than four decades ago, the world’s governments have slid into a dangerous ignorance of the fundamental monetary principles that guided the world’s most successful economies for centuries.

9781591844730 DRIVING HONDA

By Jeffrey Rothfeder Hardback

For decades there have been two iconic Japanese auto companies.

One has been endlessly studied and written about. The other has been generally underappreciated and misunderstood. Until now.

Since its birth as a motorcycle company in 1949, Honda has steadily grown into the world’s fifth largest automaker and top engine manufacturer, as well as one of the most beloved, most profitable, and most consistently innovative multinational corporations.

9780749471521 UNDERSTANDING MARKETS AND STRATEGY

By Malcolm Morley Paperback

Real Luxury examines what a ‘luxury brand’ is from economic, sociological and psychological standpoints. It spells out the challenges the luxury industry is facing and puts forward a brand new and practical model to revive and protect luxury brands, based on the authors’ experience with leading global luxury brands. Linking luxury with market forces including sustainability, the Slow Movement, and the impact of technology, this book provides an accessible and innovative way of thinking about luxury brand management.

9780071835794 THE SAMSUNG WAY

By Jaeyong Song Hardback Based on ten years of research inside Samsung and interviews with 80 of Samsung’s top executives, this book tells the story of how Samsung has grafted Western business practices onto its essentially Japanese system, combining its low-cost manufacturing prowess with an ability to bring highquality, high-margin branded products swiftly to market.

Explains the context, meaning and value of markets. This book shows you how to analyze them, develop appropriate strategies and respond appropriately to changing competitive dynamics, ensuring that resources are used to create the greatest chances of success. Explains the context, meaning and value of markets. This book shows you how to analyze them, develop appropriate strategies and respond appropriately to changing competitive dynamics, ensuring that resources are used to create the greatest chances of success.

9780670923267 Finish Big: How Great entrepreneurs exit Their Companies On Top

By Bo Burlingham Paperback

9781137395566 REAL LUXURY

By Misha Pinkhasov Hardback

Bo Burlingham, the bestelling author of Small Giants, returns with Finish Big, an original guide to exiting your company successfully and gracefully.

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Fewer, Bigger, Bolder will teach you how to make billions by scaling back, expanding less and betting bigger. It’s a game-changing book that couldn’t be more timely.

The world’s most forward-looking CEOs recognize the real challenge facing business today: a fundamental shift in the nature of commerce.

While sustainability programs, government action, and nonprofits are all parts of the solution, CEOs and other leaders must focus on social, environmental, and economic benefit--not only because it will make the world a better place, but because it will ensure lasting profitability and success in the business climate of tomorrow.

INNOVATIVE @WORK

A radical new method--adapting the latest techniques honed by successful start-ups--for managing innovation in established businesses. Call it “lean start-up,” “design thinking,” or “agile.”

No matter the name, it’s clear that a new method is revolutionizing how to successfully create, refine, and bring ideas to market.

9781250058294 NINETY PERCENT OF EVERYTHING

By Rose George Paperback

On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots.

Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy, and so we must ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. Without all those dots, the world would not work. Yet freight shipping is all but invisible. Away from public scrutiny, it revels in suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system of “flags of convenience.” And then there are the pirates.

9780749471644 Customer Innovation

By Marion Debruyne Paperback

A new set of organizations have discovered a new formula.

They combine customer centricity with innovative power. These organizations have created a completely outside-in approach to the market. They are not driven by what they’re good at.

They start with the market and design their strategy around it.

They replace practices of the past with a new set of capabilities, which enable them to be ahead of the curve in discovering new market opportunities. This enable them to develop new products and services faster than ever before and they hit the bull’s eye in the market.

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9780241181041 #Girlboss

By Sophia Amoruso Trade Paperback A #Girlboss is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.’ The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn’t fashion - it was a stolen book.

Sophia Amoruso turned her hobby selling vintage clothes on Ebay into a $1million plus company in just eight years.

Why do most growth companies stop growing? What can their leaders do to overcome the barriers to growth? The Curve Ahead tackles these questions focusing in on “gazelles,” defined as highgrowth companies that growrevenue 20% annually. Their challenge is to transition from entrepreneurial focus to a repeatable process for innovation and sustained growth - and the stakes are high. The Curve Ahead utilizes the power of storytelling to teach company leaders how to sustain long-term growth.

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The world’s most popular job-search book is updated for 2015 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today’s job-hunters and career-changers.

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9781907794575 The Ideas Book: 50 Ways to Generate Ideas Visually

By Kevin Duncan Hardback Ideas are the fuel of business. Distilled into this single, handy-sized volume are 50 of the most useful diagrams and visual techniques to help them think of and create great ideas. Structured into five key parts , the 50 diagrams are each visually presented and then explained in an accessible manner, including tips and advice on how you can apply them to your own situations.

9781781251485 THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY

By RYAN HOLIDAY Hardback

A modern guru who shows the way to turn problems into opportunities. We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.

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New comfort with social sharing, combined with the proliferation of new social tools, offer easy, useful means of sharing not just what we do but how we get things done. This title supports productivity, improves performance, encourages reflective practice, speeds communication, and helps to surface challenges, bottlenecks, and that elusive tacit knowledge.

The world of digital media is changing at a phenomenal pace.

Constantly evolving technologies, and the way people are using them, are transforming not just how we access our information but how we interact and communicate with one another on a global scale. This title offers a guide to digital marketing channels and strategy.

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9781137279224 THE CURVE AHEAD

By DAVE POWER Hardback

9781118863626 Show Your Work

By Jane Bozarth Paperback

9780749471026 Understanding Digital Marketing

By Damian Ryan Paperback

9781625271464 THE INNOVATOR'S METHOD

By FURR & DYER Hardback

9781591846284 trust me I’m lying

9780241004371 SHOW AND TELL

By Dan Roam Hardback

Dan Roam is an award-winning presenter who has taken his whiteboard everywhere, from tiny start-ups to the White house.

In this powerful book he introduces new tools for making extraordinary presentations in any setting.You’ll learn how to understand your audience, organize your content, build a clear storyline, create effective visuals and channel your fear into fun.

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9781591847601 FEWER, BIGGER, BOLDER

By Sanjay Khosla Paperback

9781118539699 THE BREAKTHrOUGH CHALLENGE

By Elkington & Zeitz Hardback

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9780071834902 THE Talent Selection and Onboarding Tool Kit: How to find, Hire and Develop The Best Of The Best

By Lamont & Bruce Paperback Suitable for recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new employees - from two longtime veterans of HR strategy and operations, this book shows HR professionals how to assess their existing “HR toolkit” and determine what needs to be added, updated, or pitched to decision makers.

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9780071838962 The Key: How Corporations Succeed by Solving the World's Toughest Problems

By Lynda Gratton Hardback Income inequality. World poverty. Who can solve these global problems? Corporations. The author shows that it is now critical that these corporations step up to play positive role in the world by building inner resilience, actively anchoring themselves in their communities and leveraging their unique capabilities to address complex global challenges such as unemployment.

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