Industry and industrial studies Books

Becoming Elektra tells the incredible true story of the pioneering Elektra Records label and its farsighted founder, Jac Holzman, who built a small folk imprint into a home for some of the most groundbreaking, important, and enduring music of the rock...

The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and landscape...

Meet the makers as Gather & Nourish offers an aromatic insight into the motivations and challenges of artisan food producers.Food is not just a way to fill our stomachs but is representative of the culture and time we live in. It tells a...

Ian Logan fell in love with American railroads back in the 1950s. Inspired by the songs of folk and Motown, he set off to see the places, the trains, the locomotives, and the everyday life of the first machine-powered transportation system on the North...

Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a...

Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial...

Two screenwriters once walked into a Hollywood producer's office and said three words: Jaws in space. Those three words won them the contract for the blockbuster movie Alien. The ability to pitch well is essential for all writers, directors and producers...

Guiding the emergence of a new green economy, based on a green industrial system and on green growth for its propagation, is the core challenge of our time. Efforts so far to switch to renewables in power generation have succeeded in partially...

While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in...

Explore the culinary delights of God of War as you travel across the nine realms.Enter the world of Santa Monica Studio's beloved video game franchise with God of War: The Official Cookbook. This cookbook is filled with recipes inspired by the nine...

A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's livesIn recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development,...

Natural gas pricing should be as critically important to the general public as it is to industry specialists. Pricing is the basis of balancing the interests of European and Asian consumers of power and electricity with those of the limited number of...

Let legendary rock manager Simon Napier-Bell take you inside the (dodgy) world of popular music - not just a creative industry, but a business that has made people rich beyond their wildest dreams.This book describes the evolution of the music industry...

Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing...

In this unique book, one of British broadcasting's most experienced voices examines how the news can be made better at a time of existential threat.Amid a welter of fake news, clickbait, rogue voices on social media, demographically dwindling...

'Compelling, inspiring, and radiant.' -FOREWORD "Excels in showing the camaraderie of the 'Ghost Girls.'-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Will keep readers engaged in these women's stories from the first...

How censorship turned a terrible disease into an assault on rightsAs COVID-19 spread around the world, so did government censorship.The Infodemiclays bare not just old-fashioned censorship, but also the mechanisms of a modern brand of "censorship through...

People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be so...

President Trump has torn up the TTIP and TPP. Britain is distancing itself from the European Union. Does this means that corporate globalisation is in retreat? Privatized Planet exposes the truth about 'free trade' in this new era of...

In this fully updated new edition, the authors lift the lid on blacklisting. They detail the historic court victory for construction workers in the UK and the ongoing Pitchford public inquiry into undercover policing. It links developments in the UK with...

The world food system is put under the microscope in this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food. Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and economic disaster. He...

In Future Luxe: What's Ahead for the Business of Luxury, Erwan Rambourg identifies the major forces and emerging trends that are set to reshape luxury over the next decade. The expansion of Chinese consumption and the boost in women's spending power...

**One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2023****Esquire's August 2023 Book Club Pick** 'If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well...

Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it.Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to...

Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award Finalist for the 2023 Ottawa Book Award in English Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2023 National Business Book Award The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most...

The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it's because of books, what they are, what they release...

'Newsrooms were these crazy universities, full of experts on the strangest things, people with real understanding and experience of things that mattered, places where you could ask anybody anything, though you might get your head bitten off if you...

Age range 10+You don't need to be an adult to break news and change the world. You can start your career as a young reporter right now! Fun, informative and easy to use, Kid Reporter is packed with inspiring stories from young people who've already...

Revised edition of a landmark bookAt the height of the building boom in the 1970s, a remarkable campaign stopped billions of dollars worth of indiscriminate development that was turning Australian cities into concrete jungles. Enraging employers and...

Wedding and event florist and founder of the Chapel Designers floral community, Holly is a creative visionary and a highly recognised and sought-after floral designer whose work has been published in countless prestigious publications and top industry...

Local journalism is on the verge of extinction and this is bad for democracy. This book explains why.Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. Reporting on news-impoverished areas in...

A human-centric guide to solving complex problems in engineering management, from sizing teams to handling technical debt.There's a saying that people don't leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the...

"Len tells his story as only he can: forthright, confident and witty. What emerges is a hard-hitting assessment of dramatic times, and a message of hope for the future." -Jeremy CorbynLen McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the...

This book is the first book to be written about hydroponic farming inside a shipping container. It is a true story about the first African American to own and operate a hydroponic farming shipping container. Readers get a glimpse in the life of DeMario...

Web3 may be the next big disrupter in business. Don't be caught unprepared.Blockchain and crypto aren't just for speculators anymore - they're the backbone of the rising decentralised internet. Web3 has the potential to rewrite...

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech - all in one place.Easy-to-use AI tools, contactless commerce, crypto for business, the mature metaverse - new technologies like these are reshaping organisations at the hybrid office, on factory...

The crypto era has arrived, and business will never be the same.Real applications of crypto technology are growing exponentially: cryptocurrency payments are moving frictionlessly across borders; NFTs are generating real value for creators and consumers...

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines can help you prepare.Artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted many industries around the world - banking and finance, pharmaceuticals,...

Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivers a powerful combination of memoir, leadership lessons, and big ideas on how we can all drive meaningful change.Ginni Rometty led one of the world's most iconic companies, and in Good Power she recounts her...

Two world-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives for transforming companies in the new digital era.Digital transformation is critical. But winning in today's world requires more than digitisation. It requires understanding...

In Japan it's called the 'Ghosn Shock' - the stunning arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the jet-setting CEO who saved Nissan and made it part of a global automotive empire.Even more shocking was his daring escape from Japan, packed into...

How to unleash "human magic" and achieve improbable results.Hubert Joly, former CEO of Best Buy and orchestrator of the retailer's spectacular turnaround, unveils his personal playbook for achieving extraordinary outcomes by...

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on...

The biggest technology and management ideas of the year, all in one place.This collection of the top ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review will keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking...

Brian Armstrong stepped onto the stage with quiet confidence. He turned to the audience and shared his idea with the simple slogan: 'Coinbase, the easiest way to get started with Bitcoin'For a moment late in 2018, one Bitcoin, which physically amounts to...

Mikhail Tomsky (1880-1936) was one of the most important and influential leaders of the early Soviet Union.This first English-language biography of Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the stormy...

In Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century.After the depletion...

Farewell to Work? presents the large process of capital's productive restructuring, triggered in the 1970s-a process with tendencies to both intellectualize labour power and increase the levels of the working class' precariousness on a global scale. This...