By Tom Butler-Bowdon
ISBN: 9781857885040
About the Book
50 Prosperity Classics is the first book to highlight the landmark titles in this fast-expanding field, illustrated by the phenomenal success of The Secret. It focuses on the great works on wealth, entrepreneurship, personal finance, investing, economics and philanthropy, providing guidance and encouragement to develop the millionaire mindset, become a wealth creator, make wise investment decisions and - once you've made it - give a little back.
The phenomenal success of The Secret has helped many people discover a field of writing that seems new but actually goes back a century. 50 Prosperity Classics covers many of the great writings on wealth and abundance - encompassing books on the psychological aspects of creating wealth; more worldly titles on the nuts and bolts of personal finance, entrepreneurship and investing, and thought-provoking economics and political economy. 50 Prosperity Classics is about making your money and making it work for you, but it does not just show readers how to ‘get rich’, it also highlights why the creation of wealth can mean the fulfillment of personal potential and peace of mind.
Praises for the Book
"A terrific compendium of the best books ever written on the sources of prosperity, from famous classics to off-beat unknowns, distilled to the point of joyous clarity"
- Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle, The 80/20 Individual and Living the 80/20 Way
"Anyone interested in achieving an understanding of true prosperity and demonstrating a higher level of fulfillment should read this book...50 Prosperity Classics is a treasure chest of golden nuggets to use in realizing a life more abundant.”
- John Randolph Price, author of The 40 Day Prosperity Plan
By Gareth Moore (Compiler)
ISBN: 9781845298050
About the Book
Have you ever gone into a room and forgotten why you are there? The synaptic connections between neurons in your brain degenerate with lack of use. So you need to exercise it – and ALL of it, not just a small part. Keep your brain in tip-top condition, and the rest will follow!
This brilliant new puzzle collection has been specially formulated to challenge, stimulate and train all the key parts of your brain. It’s the most complete brain workout programme available, with a whole month’s supply of workouts – comprising over 400 individual puzzles and exercises.
Each daily workout contains a carefully balanced mixtures of puzzles designed to improve your problem solving, to stimulate your creativity, to enhance your concentration, to improve your memory, and to boost your mind power. They’ll leave you feeling refreshed and alive.
By Peter Cave
ISBN: 9781851685318
About the Book
In this book of puzzles and paradoxes, Peter Cave introduces a smorgasbord of life’s important questions with tales and tall stories, jokes and arguments, common sense and bizarre conclusions.
From how to get to heaven to speedy tortoises, Can a Robot be Human? takes the reader on a taster tour of the most interesting and delightful conundrums in philosophy – prepare yourself to be perplexed!
Praises for the Book
“Unputdownable… a must-read book for anyone who is interested in philosophical problems and ideas.”
- Imre Leader, Professor of Mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge
- Timothy Chappell, Professor of Philosophy, The Open University
“With skill and good humour, Peter Cave guides the reader through a maze of intriguing philosophical puzzles.”
- Lawrence Goldstein, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kent
LIVE WELL, LOVE
MUCH, LAUGH OFTEN
By Apelles Poh
ISBN: 978-981-05-9575-3
About the Book
Have you ever wished that life could be less complicated and more fulfilling
in today’s ever-shifting terrain of modern living? In
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often,
author Apelles Poh Presents an inspirational, holistic approach to
enlighten, empower and enrich those who wish to find greater fulfillment and
a better balance in their personal life, relationships and work. With
penetrating insights, both personal and culled from great minds past and
present, Apelles flavours the book with engaging anecdotes to put forth an
appealing and timely message that is badly needed in an increasingly hectic
and chaotic world.
Divided into four parts and twenty-seven thought-provoking chapters,
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often
is a fount of wisdom and practical advice that is both entertaining and easy
to grasp. Peppered with illuminating quips, quotes, short stories, and a
dash of humour, the book is also a good resource for leaders, educators,
managers, presenters and anyone who wants to become a better communicator.
About the Author
Apelles Poh has achieved the coveted Million Dollar Round Table
qualification for the past fourteen consecutive years, with the last
four years as Court Of The Table (the world’s top one percent of
insurance and financial practitioners). He has won numerous awards
in financial planning and in public speaking and has been regularly
featured in various newspapers and magazines. His thought-provoking
yet humorous teaching has made him a sought-after speaker in
By David Meckin
ISBN: 9781857883947
About the book
This is not an accounting book!
What Managers need to know - but are afraid to ask!
Naked Finance is a friendly, accessible jargon-free guide which makes finance fun and interesting for ordinary humans - essential reading for all managers (not just the financial ones!)
David Meckin explains the financial basics in practical, easy-to-understand terms and shows how they can be applied on a daily basis, providing managers with all the financial skills they will ever need in a straightforward, non-technical way. It is not an accounting book !
Stripping the subject down to basics, Naked Finance provides a clear view of the three key skill sets necessary for all managers - know where you are going, understand what’s going on around you and take control of where you are going - making the principles readily understandable for ordinary human beings.
Successful management of the finances of a business requires an understanding of some key principles - and that is what Naked Finance is all about. It strips away all the technical issues surrounding financial management and lays bare the practical basics needed to make sound financial decisions. Firstly, Meckin shows how to identify financial objectives so you know where you are going - explaining the importance of profit and cashflow, how to measure financial performance and which are the key figures to watch. He then outlines how to use financial information to understand what’s going on around you, covering the format and content of financial statements and how they can be used to assess past trading performance. Finally he describes how to ensure financial control and create a financial plan so you can take control of where you are going, managing costs, sales, profit and cash flow and long-term projects.
Purely and simply, Naked Finance provides the skills necessary to manage a profitable business.
Praises for the Book:
“Nobody makes this subject more interesting and enjoyable to understand.
If you want to be credible in any business conversation this book is an essential tool. You can try and pretend that understanding finance is not important to you, but actually it is essential in any business role. If you don't know your asset turnover from your cash flow, read this now!”
Fraser Longden, Director of Retail HR, B & Q
“Naked Finance combines many aspects that are not seen in books that introduce finance to managers. It is written by an outstanding practitioner, it has a high degree of sophistication which will not be perceived by the technically untrained reader, it outlines how managers can understand and use finance in their jobs, and it explains it all in a clear, witty and informative manner. It is a practical and reliable guide for managers in any type of business. All in all it is a stunning introduction to finance which should be part of every manager’s toolkit.”
John Smullen, Senior Academic Advisor, University of Greenwich
“A straightforward and easy to read book, with very clear concepts and content, extraordinary well explained, great examples."
Fernando Pina, Stores Training Manager, Nike Europe
By John Breen (Editor)
ISBN: 9789810595265
About the Book
This book is the first authoritative volume in English on Yasukuni, the controversial Shinto shrine in the heart of Tokyo, dedicated to the Japanese war dead. Twelve convicted and two suspected Class A criminals are enshrined at Yasukuni, while the shrine’s museum narrates and account of Japan’s actions in the Second World War that is best described as revisionist. Visits to the shrine by cabinet members often set off protests at home and abroad, especially in China, Korea and Taiwan, and Yasukuni remains a source of considerable mistrust between the Chinese and Japanese governments.
This volume sets out neither to commend Yasukuni nor to condemn it; it seeks, rather, to present authoritative yet divergent views. It accommodates chapters by Japanese
Praises for the Book
“By bringing together a wide range of perspectives and casting Yasukuni in multiple historical, ideological, political and religious frameworks that cut across Japanese, Chinese and international perspectives, this volume contributes much that is fresh and provocative.”
- Mark Selden, Japan Focus
By Robert Matthews
ISBN: 9781851685516
About the book:
What happens if you fall into a black hole? Which properties give you the best chance of winning Monopoly? And why is it always so difficult to get ketchup to come out of a full bottle? Award-winning science writer Robert Matthews provides answers to the most baffling, intriguing, and occasionally downright trivial questions submitted by members of the general public. From the mysterious fate of odd socks to the farthest reaches of the universe, this collection unravels the science behind the world around us. Entertaining, enlightening, and often inspired, this book is a must-read for all inquisitive minds.
Robert Matthews is Visiting Reader in Science at Aston University, Birmingham, in the UK. He has published pioneering research in fields ranging from code-breaking to the probability of coincidences, and won an Ig Nobel Prize for his studies of Murphy's Law, including the reasons why toast so often lands butter-side down. He is also an award-winning journalist who writes about science for many publications, including Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, Focus, and New Scientist. He lives in Oxford, UK.
By Mary
Gomes
ISBN:
978-981-05-0393-2
About the Book
Mary Gomes, author of bestseller
The Eurasian Cookbook, presents
her latest book
Mary ’s
Recipes – A Celebration of a Singapore Kitchen, a collection of local
favourites and more Eurasian dishes.
Peranakan heritage, but that of a true Singapore
Kitchen.
Mary
Gomes follows the successful publication in 2001 of her first book,
The Eurasian Cookbook, with a
collection of recipes featuring the myriad ethnic cuisines of her home, Singapore
In this long awaited second cookbook, Mary
shares with us her family’s secret recipes from chicken
sambal buah keras to braised duck
and shrimp sambal bostadar to
nonya bak chang. Learn to make
hawker favourites such as harlock
prawns and old family dishes such as yam rice, all simplified for the modern
cook.
Mary has proved
she is among the best in a dazzling array of women cookbook authors that we
are so fortunate to have in
Singapore
–
From foreword by David Kraal
About the Author
Mary
Gomes learnt to cook from her mother and aunts. This
was in the days of hand-grinding spices, scraping coconut, with no more help
than a kuali and cleaver in the
traditional Eurasian kitchen. No such modern accoutrement such as a blender
or cake mixer. When she married her Chinese husband, she learnt the secrets
of the nonya kitchen from her
mother-in-law. Before long, she was fixing Sunday meals for her extended
family and the community of St. Joseph ’s
Church on Victoria Street Singapore
SMary
has been a feature in heritage festivals, cooking classes and demonstrations
and has even participated in The Pasar Malam Besar, the largest Eurasian
festival in the world held annually at The Hague
in the Netherlands
S
THE MONGOL ART OF WAR
By Timothy May
ISBN: 978-981-05-7898-1
About the Book
The Mongol armies that established the largest land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into Eastern Europe , are imperfectly understood. Often they are viewed as screaming throngs of horsemen who swept over opponents by sheer force of numbers rather than as disciplined regiments that carried out planned and practiced manoeuvres.
In this pioneering book, Timothy May demonstrates that the Mongol military developed from a tribal levy into a disciplined and complex military organization. He describes the make-up of the Mongol army from its inception to the demise of their empire, and he shows how it was the strength, quality and versatility of
Mongol military organization that made them the pre-eminent warriors of their time.
• First book-length study of organization of war under Genghis Khan
• Exposes myths and misunderstandings about Mongol warfare
• Analyzes Mongol strategy, tactics, fighting methods
• Vivid accounts of Mongol armies in action
HE 80/20 PRINCIPLE
By Richard Koch
ISBN: 978-1-85788-399-2
About the Book
In the ten years since its first publication,
The 80/20 Principle has become a business classic and a global
bestseller. The special anniversary edition of this original,
provocative and practical book contains an entirely new chapter in
which Richard Koch discusses some of the many hundreds of responses
he has received from readers of the book – including a rap song! –
and outlines a fresh understanding of the true power of the
principle.
And it is powerful: the 80/20 principle – the counter-intuitive yet prevalent fact that
80% of results flow from 20% of causes – is the one true principle
of highly effective people and organisations and has stood the test
of time. Many thousands of people throughout the world have found
the principle useful at work, in their careers and in their personal
lives.
Koch outlines how with the 80/20 principle we can achieve much
more with much less effort, time and resources simply by concentrating on the all-important 20% thus controlling events instead of being controlled by them, and with several times the results.
About the Author
Richard Koch was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and
partner of Bain & Company. He co-founded LEK Consulting, rescued
Filofax and Plymouth Gin from near-death, built up Zola Hotels,
started the Belgo restaurant chain, and played a key part in making
Betfair by far the world’s leading betting exchange. He is the
author of 18 books, including the self-help guide
Living the 80/20 Way. A
self-confessed ‘lazy entrepreneur’, he lives 80/20 way in
25 BIG IDEAS
The Science that's Changing Our World
By Robert Matthews
ISBN: 978-1-85168-391-7
About the Book
From the Big Bang to the Theory of Everything via the Selfish Gene and GM Corps, award-winning science writer Robert Matthews unveils twenty-five of the most revolutionary ides in 21 st century science. He describes the astonishing insights they give into the workings of nature – and the human story behind their discovery. The result is an essential guide to the cutting edge of science and what it reveals about the universe and our place within it.
Killer Vampires from Hell
By Ralph Modder
ISBN 981-05-6985-8
Price S$13.00 (excl. GST)
About The Book
Must Read!
Benny Wong (The Boy Who Talks to Ghosts) battles against “Killer Vampires From Hell”, another best-selling action-thriller written by Benny and his mother, Alice Wong.
In this story, Benny Wong follows his Auntie Nancy to the Spirit World where he meets T'a-kung, the Lord of The Hills and Valleys of the peaceful Shang-aya, ‘a region somewhere near Paradise '. T'a-kung asks Benny to help to recapture Ah Chak, the demon vampire, who had escaped from hell with other vampires and returned to the World of the Living. After three thrilling battles with the vampires, Benny heroically recaptures Ah Chak with the help of the powerful ‘Lightning Sword' given to him by T'a-kung.
The Red Cheong-sam
And Other Old Tales of Malaya and Singapore
By Ralph Modder
ISBN 981-05-0390-3
Price S$19.00 (excl GST)
About The Book
The thirty-one stories selected for this volume portray the scandalous, tragic, violent, romantic and lighter sides of life at various levels of the segregated English and Asian communities in Malaya (now Malaysia ) and Singapore under British colonial rule. It began with the founding of Singapore in 1819 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles of the British East India Company. It ended during the dismantling process of the British Empire at the end of World War II in 1945.
The stories originated from various sources and were passed on by word-of-mouth or recalled from memory and jotted down over a period of several years. While many were ‘lost in time,' others may have found their way into Far Eastern stories by Somerset Maugham and Joseph Conrad.
The ‘good old (colonial) days' may still be remembered with nostalgia by a steadily dwindling number of survivors from that era or recalled with mixed feelings by others who might ask, ‘What were so good about those days, anyway?' – remembering the eternal clashes of cultures and those between peoples from two vastly different moulds. It had prompted Kipling to note, ‘Oh, East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.'
But, despite the ‘twain' not meeting or whether they did meet without anyone noticing, life moved on, or stumbled along, with all its inherited (Eastern and Western) dogmas, stigmas and human frailties; some of which are recounted in this volume.
TRAIN MAN - The Story of the Train Man who fell in love witht he girl, Hermes
by Nakano Hitori
ISBN : 1845293517
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD
Train Man is the unfolding story of how socially inept computer nerd "Train" gets it together with the girl of his dreams - with the help of a virtual cheer-squad of anonymous messages, who vicariously revel in his progress and offer dubious cyberspace advice on how to woo the lovely Hermes.
Train Man has since become a Japanese social phenomenon, generating a hit movie, a television series, a stage play, five manga realizations, a guidebook and three companion books.
The Boy Who Talks To Ghost
By Benny and Alice Wong
Edited by Ralph Modder
ISBN: 9810503911
Price: S$13.00
An Incredible True Story!
This a true story about a thirteen-year-old boy Benny Wong, who is able to talk to good ghosts and those who are members of his family. He is also able to see other spirits, evil spirits ones, too!
His parents James and Alice Wong say:
“Benny is telling the truth, We're not saying this because he happens to be our son. We were involved in many of the incredible events he describes. It is a sensitive story that concerns our family as well as others who have passed away and who may have families still
Why the Toast Always Lands Butter-Side Down
by Richard Robinson
ISBN: 1845291247
Price: S$20.00
The frustrating component of life known as Murphy's (or Sod's) Law is no respecter of persons. The more you are desperate for things to go right, the more they go wrong. But, is that really the case, and, if so, is there a rational explanation? So: when you drop the toast how do you know it will land butter-side down? Why does the queue you're in always go slowest? That tune you hate – isn't it the one you can't get out of your head? However odd it seems, there is generally a scientific explanation. Much of Murphy's Law stems from the way the mind works – its physical limitations, evolutionary biases and social impressionability. In this fascinating book, popular-science presenter Richard Robinson teases out the answers, accessibly and entertainingly.
search, the author draws on more than 350 interviews with executives at Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and other companies, including Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt. Battelle explores how search technology works, the amazing power of targeted advertising as a business model, and the frenzy of the Google IPO when the company tried to rewrite the rules of Wall Street and declared ?don't be evil? as one of its core goals.
"A must read for anyone endeavoring to understand one of the most important trends of this generation: organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible."
Mary Meeker, Managing Director, internet Analyst, Morgan Stanley