Entrepreneur Sanjeev Gupta was going to rescue the Australian, UK, European and US steel industries—and save the planet with green steel. He did none of these things, but he did get very rich. This is the extraordinary story, told for the first time.Sanjeev Gupta is a fast-talking billionaire with all the trappings of success. He boasts world-class charm, a huge appetite for risk, and a remarkable ability to inspire belief. The media love him and christen him the '...

Chaotic, reckless and 100% unfiltered: this is the hilarious world according to hugely popular social media star, TV star and podcaster GK Barry.Before we jump in, I should probably tell you what this book isn’t. It’s not an autobiography (I’m still too fresh out the womb) or self-development guide (er, be real). Neither does it contain a magic formula that’s going to give you the solution to surviving every plot twist life decides to throw at you. None of...

**FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORTWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR'A masterly work of historical witness and moral reckoning' OBSERVERAn immersive and unforgettable novel of one man's life in the aftermath of the American Civil War.**I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things . . . were gone forever.Against the rapidly shifting landscape of post Civil War America, Tennyson Bougu...

Four experts with the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University provide the essential—and now newly updated—guide to becoming a more effective crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for everyday transformative leadershipToday, every leader must be ready to lead through a crisis. In You’re It, the faculty from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University draws on their expansive field research ...

Workload is the reason most teachers leave. Not the children. It's the gap between what the job demands and what any person can actually sustain, week after week, without something giving. This book gives you the tools to close that gap: what schools cannot legally require of you, how to cut marking time without cutting your impact, and what actually works when you're trying to hold the job together without it costing you everything outside it.What's inside:Three mark...

At the birth of the Universe, matter was balanced by anti-matter. A civilization called the Merna exist within this anti-matter and they threatened the existence of not just Earth but the whole Universe. The Merna is constructed from their initial atomic bonds in the Universe and appear as a translucent jelly similar to an amoeba. They are highly intelligent and can transcribe DNA of other matter for brief moments at a time.Dr. Lena Bluesky was an Entomologist who escaped from the ...

From the acclaimed author of Billion Dollar Molecule and The Antidote, a revisionist, passionate history of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing how the nascent industry ushered in an age of cures.For the past thirty-five years, the acclaimed author Barry Werth has been covering one of the most consequential and underappreciated stories of our time—the rise of pharmaceutical companies, along with the science of drug research and the people who m...

**"When you wish upon a car, and if your wish is deep,A starry kind of magic sometimes happens in your sleep . . ."Close your eyes, make a wish**, and join the cars, bikes, jeeps and trucks (and the little dreamers who've driven them to Dreamland) in this brilliant, rhyming adventure.From award-winning author, Barry Timms, with warm and wonderful illustrations by Ben Whitehouse, this brand new picture book i...

Discover long-lost stories of science spanning thousands of years of Life on Earth in this journey through our universe’s most peculiar properties. Amazon to Zodiac takes readers on a journey through science’s biggest, tiniest, weirdest, and wildest stories from the realms of explorers and inventors to space, evolution, myths, and more through 101 bite-sized chapters. Tour the pyramids, learn forgotten languages, re-invent the wheel, sail the seven seas, meet the dinosaurs, roam t...

Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers is what author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls a “blues quilt.” These blues stories, collected by Pearson for thirty years, are told in the blues musicians’ own words. The author interviewed over one hundred musicians, recording and transcribing their stories. These are stories from well-known musicians such as John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, and Little Milton, and from more obscure artists such as Bi...

At the oche with darts' biggest characterStephen Bunting grew up throwing darts in smoky Merseyside boozers, sneaked into pubs under his hood as a twelve-year-old, and learned to count by chalking scores on the side of his wardrobe.Now he's one of the most beloved players in the fastest-growing sport on the planet. His walk-on to Titanium sees grown adults singing their hearts out in arenas from Belfast to Berlin.This is the true, unvarnished story ...

Perfect for fans of Jo Segura, You, Me, & the Conspiracy is an academic adventure romance that finds two history professors trying to unmask a deadly secret society.After a bruising book rejection, tenure-track history professor Jessica Wilson is scrambling for something new to publish to secure her spot at the top of the academic food chain. While researching in the archives, she discovers a coded message written by one of the founding fathers with the po...