Industry and industrial studies

Transport managers perform an essential and rewarding function in society, controlling the infrastructure that allows people and goods to move around conveniently and swiftly.

A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like .

In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today.

How apprenticeship shaped the English economy Apprenticeship dominated training and skill formation in early modern Europe.

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West.

This is the dramatic story of the development and history of Sugarloaf ski resort from its beginnings as a hand-cleared path to an international ski and golfing resort of world renown.

"No veo cine argentino" es el mantra repetido hasta el infinito por buena parte del público de cine que menosprecia o, al menos, no siente la necesidad de ver representantes de su propia cinematografía.

In this ';highly entertaining snapshot of a wild-frontier moment in pop culture' (Rolling Stone), discover the wild and explosive true story of the early years of MTV directly from the original VJs.

How do you make a song into a global smash hit that is guaranteed to make millions?

Meet Dell Glover the accidental pirateMeet Kali the mastermindAnd meet Karlheinz the man who made it all possibleHow Music Got Free is a blistering story of obsession, music and obscene money.

Entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries are heading West to seek their fortune.

All Our Todays is the first book about the BBC's most influential news and current affairs programme, published to celebrate Today's 40th anniversary in October 1997.

LEGO is one of the world's best-loved and most familiar brands, adored by generations of children.

"e;Genuinely touching, wonderfully revealing"e; NEW YORKERGarlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted and highly prestigious job of New York Times restaurant critic.

Despite many wanting him to fail, Piers Morgan took over from US TV legend Larry King at CNN in 2010 and went on to cover some of the most shocking news events in recent US history, such as the killing of Osama bin Laden, the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and horrific shooting rampages including the Newtown school massacre.

Long before Gordon Ramsay and Antony Bourdain, there was Marco Pierre White: the first and the greatest enfant terrible of the cookery world.

We have reached a pivotal moment for fishing, with seventy-five percent of the world's fish stocks either fully exploited or overfished.

Fast approaching his fortieth birthday, Andrew is cornered at a family gathering by the nine-year-old son of his brother-in-law's sister.

North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth.

Spontaneous, hilarious, irrepressible and, of course, trailblazing - Kenny Everett was revolutionary in television and radio comedy.

When Ian Gregg was just a boy he joined his father at work selling pies from his van to miners wives around Newcastle.

At 1pm on 26 June 1996 the Sunday Independent's crime reporter Veronica Guerin was shot dead by a motorcycle pillion passenger as she waited at traffic lights on the outskirts of Dublin - the victim of her own crusading expos-s of leading criminals.

For decades, Grace Coddington s personal touch has steered wildly imaginative fashion spreads in Vogue magazine.

Paper Tigers is a riveting, authoritative and in-depth study of newspaper barons of the world men and women who wield immense power, and whose ever-changing media empires make compelling case studies of business success and failure.

From the catwalks of Paris to the sweatshops of South Korea; from Seventh Avenue glitz to Tokyo new-wave The sophisticated brokings of the fashion conspiracy have generated a powerful new force in the world economy; designer money.

Do you know the difference between 'Use by' and 'Best before'?

Our lust for sugar has changed the shape of the world economically culturally and scoially.

A marvellously funny and sharply observed account of a journey to Russia by one of Britain's most talented young writers.

Selling the Family Silver is, moreover, the controversial 'warts and all' story of Britain's privatization programme, past and future.

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Computers have been in daily use at work for nearly half a century.

There are model agents and there is Carole White Every decade in Carole White s life has been extraordinary, from her childhood in Colonial Ghana, her rebellious teenage years and own modelling career, to spending 30 years at the helm of her iconic London agency Premier.

Have you ever been stitched up to the national press by your best mate?

It s now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.

Thousands of people want to break into the exciting, glamorous and hard-working music industry, but don't know how to go about it.

On 26 May, 2010 Apple Inc.

Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his wildly popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection.

No one knows more about starting and running a bed and breakfast business than successful cook, author and hotel owner Amy Willcock.

The BBC is the world's most famous and powerful cultural institution.

Gone are the days when recording an album required a large, expensive recording studio and piles of ultra hi-tech equipment.

What makes a restaurant hot?

'The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING TRUE STORY BEHIND ITV S THE HACK**WITH EXPLOSIVE NEW EVIDENCE, THIS IS THE UPDATED EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE PHONE HACKING SCANDALCrime, conspiracy, abuse of power this is the inside story of the scandal that blew the lid off Rupert Murdoch s empire.

In December 2009 the US government launched an air strike against the tiny Yemeni village of al-Majalah where al-Qaeda militants were believed to be in hiding.

Whether you know him as El Amigo, the Banana Man, the Gringo, or simply Z - whether you even know him at all - Sam Zemurray lived one of the greatest untold American stories of the last hundred years.