Mathemagics: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying
Using proven techniques, this volume shows how to add, subtract, multiply and divide faster than is possible with a calculator or pencil and paper, and helps readers conquer their nervousness about math.
How the City Really Works: The Definitive Guide to Money and Investing in London's Square Mile
How the City Really Works explains the workings of "the City" -- i.e. the City of London, the Wall Street of the UK and the impact of this city on our jobs, our money, and our lives. Davidson explains exactly what is going on. The book presents a precise and candid picture of the City's mechanisms and institutions, and how they relate to those in other global financial centres.
Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. This thoroughly revised second edition updates the book with a new co-author, and includes new chapters on language and power, language extinction, and what it is linguists actually do. Language Matters is sure to engage both general readers and students of language and linguistics at any level.
Who Stole My Customer?? Winning Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Customer Loyalty
It's a complete guide to planning and implementing customer loyalty processes that really work--because they're built around what customers really want. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience redesigning customer-facing processes at IBM, Harvey Thompson shows readers their business through the customer's eyes--and in many cases readers might be shocked at what they actually see.
The Big Book of Bad: The Best of the Worst of Everything (Factoid Books)“The Big Book of Bad” takes a look at things that maybe we really should have thought through better. First we have bad guys, such as Pol Pot, Stalin, Himmler, Basil the Bulgar Slayer, and the worst of the Roman emperors. Then we move over to look at a few of literature’s worst offenders: Moriarty, Modred, Long John Silver, Dracula, and more.
