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Will Greenwood is best-known for being an integral part of the 2003 World Cup-winning rugby team. Ben Fennell has spent over 16 years helping the world’s biggest businesses and brands grow. Together, they understand that peak performance – in both business and sport – requires a modern approach, and a new set of rules. Gone are the days when good leadership was about hiring in your image or who could shout the loudest. Having spoken to the world’s finest thinkers across all areas of business and sport – including Rio Ferdinand, Tracy Neville, Jason Fox, Dave Lewis and Sir Clive Woodward – the authors discovered that just one simple principle unites all kinds of world-class performance.
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This is untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War. In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre – Auschwitz. It was only after arriving at the camp that he started to discover the Nazi’s terrifying designs. Over the next two and half years, Witold forged an underground army that smuggled evidence of Nazi atrocities to the West, culminating in the mass murder of over a million Jews.
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James O’Brien has made a career of listening to people phoning in to his daily show on LBC to point the blame at benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists and immigrants. But what makes James’s show such essential listening – and has made James a standout social media star – is the careful way he punctures their assumptions and dismantles their arguments live on air, every single morning. In this title he provides an hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with faulty opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue in current affairs, James tells the stories of the conversations he’s had, explains why people have been fooled into thinking the way they do, and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards. This edition features a new afterword.
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50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson started his first business. In his new autobiography, the Virgin founder shares his personal, intimate thoughts on five decades as the world’s ultimate entrepreneur. He shares the secrets that have seen his family business grow from a student magazine into a global brand, his dreams of private citizens flying to space develop from a childhood fantasy to the brink of reality and his focus shift from battling bigger rivals to changing business for good.
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50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson started his first business. In his new autobiography, the Virgin Founder shares his personal, intimate thoughts on five decades as the world’s ultimate entrepreneur. He shares the secrets that have seen his family business grow from a student magazine into a global brand, his dreams of private citizens flying to space develop from a childhood fantasy to the brink of reality and his focus shift from battling bigger rivals to changing business for good.
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Actress, model, producer, director, author and granddaughter of film legend John Barrymore, Drew Barrymore is a film and popular culture icon. This collection of autobiographical essays includes stories about Barrymore living on her own at fourteen, getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross-country road trip, saying goodbye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures and lessons that have led to the most important thing in her life, which is motherhood.
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Step into a time of hot jazz and even hotter all-night dance halls, as Alison Maloney shares the gossip about life in the roaring twenties. Read all about high society’s scandalous exploits, fresh new fashions, the Charleston dance craze, costume parties, talking movies and, of course, the feisty flapper.
