Hints and tips:
...I have a beautiful 1930s book of ikebana flower arrangements; each plate is hand-printed and I’m poring over a different page every couple of days....
...Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power and History’s First Global Manhunt, by Steven Johnson, Prentice Hall, RRP£23.99/Riverhead, RRP$28, 304 pages John Gapper is editor-at-large of Nikkei...
...Messrs Page and Brin will remain on the board, however, and still control a majority of votes in Alphabet....
...The ship gets stuck in the frozen sea in the opening scene, remaining there until the Arctic ice finally begins to thaw in the opera’s closing pages....
...Sir, I have to object to the ageist sentiments emanating from your pages....
...After You Die, by Eva Dolan, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99, 384 pages...
...192 pages Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture 1945-75, by Elain Harwood, Yale University Press RRP£50/$125 736 pages This Brutal World, by Peter Chadwick, Phaidon RRP£29.95/$49.95, 224 pages...
...Prentice’s rejection seemed an intimation of the literary scrap heap....
...Black Arts, by Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil, David Fickling Books, RRP£12.99, 496 pages The first in a series about magic in Elizabethan London, Black Arts pits young pickpocket Jack against sinister...
...Martin Sandbu is the FT’s economics leader writer and author of ‘Just Business: Arguments in Business Ethics’ (Prentice Hall)...
...John Authers is the FT’s senior investment columnist and author of ‘The Fearful Rise of Markets’ (Financial Times/Prentice Hall)...
...Rare and lengthy, it would seem, since the ruling now issued by the appeal board runs to 107 pages. But the Panel takes this sort of thing very seriously....
...The Fearful Rise of Markets: A Short View of Global Bubbles and Synchronised Meltdowns, by John Authers, Financial Times/Prentice Hall RRP£20, 232 pages The financial world seems to turn faster on its axis...
...Dipping into the pages feels like a bracing escape from urban life....
...Gordon Prentice, a Labour backbencher, said “the whole shooting match” should have been left with Sir Christopher....
...With fiction seemingly confirmed as fact, I next spoke to Steve Prentice of Gartner, an IT consultancy, in search of the bigger picture....
...Glow: How You Can Radiate Energy, Innovation and Success By Lynda Gratton FT/Prentice Hall £14.99, 248 pages A rare foray into the personal development section of the business bookshelves, Gratton’s vibrant...
...And surely by “cicratization” [sic], used repeatedly on the same page, he means “cicatrisation” (the process of scarification)?...
...Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation, and Others Don’t By Lynda Gratton FT/Prentice Hall £20, 232 pages FT bookshop price: £16 London Business School’s own hot property, Gratton...
...“What Las Vegas built in 40 years, Macao will build in 10,” says Prentice Salter, a former executive of Mr Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands group who is now with Superesorts, a Macao-based consultancy....
...Living Supply ChainsHow to Mobilise the Enterprise Around Delivering What Your Customers Want By John Gattorna Financial Times Prentice Hall, £35 Managing supply chains well has become one of the toughest...
...TRADERS, GUNS AND MONEY Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives By Satyajit Das Prentice Hall Financial Times, £20 As a financial reporter in Japan a few years ago, I attended a training...
...Prentice Salter, managing director of Macao-based consultancy Super Resorts, noted that “a majority of [Macao’s existing hotels] don’t come even close to the three-star level” and argued that Sands and other...
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