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...Here the men partied, planned and plotted; later, the survivors gathered to mourn the senseless loss of Scott, Bowers, Wilson, Oates and Evans, none of whom made it back from the South Pole....
...Myers, who won the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for his novel The Gallows Pole, excels at conjuring rural England....
...In further reading, to celebrate the launch of this year's FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award — and its sister Bracken Bower Prize, which provides a platform for young business writers — we have...
...“Fed purchases cannot turn bad debt into good debt,” says Scott Minerd, global chief investment officer at Guggenheim Investments....
...Linda Scott’s book The Double X Economy is based on her academic work examining the systematic exclusion of women from the economic system....
...They salvaged doors from scrapyards, festooned antique beds in burlap, and converted the pigsty and stables into bedrooms with balconies and bowers of jasmine. Word spread....
...The Bracken Bower Prize is named after Brendan Bracken, former chairman of the FT and Marvin Bower, former managing director of McKinsey....
...and Fall of American Growth by economist Robert Gordon; What Works, Iris Bohnet’s guide to how organisations can help offset unconscious bias against women and manage diversity; Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott...
...But what do the rich worry about more generally and — to rephrase F Scott Fitzgerald — are their worries different to yours and mine?...
...Scott Hartley’s book The Fuzzy and the Techie appeared this year, and Irene Yuan Sun’s The Next Factory of the World is published next month....
...But for Robert Bowers, as he prepared to point his AR-15 at elderly worshippers, this was, as he put it, “sugar-coated evil”; “genocide”; participation in an “invasion” bent on slaughtering “my people”....
...Scott Wallace and Jim Boere both picked rugby union. Scott pointed out how the Welsh rugby team had instilled the "growth mindset" in its players....
...‘No longer here and not yet there’ In 1934, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote that “on the long-roofed steamship piers one is in a country that is no longer here and not yet there . . ....
...Judges have selected three book proposals to go forward for the 2016 Bracken Bower Prize....
...We are joined by Nora Rosendahl, winner of the latest Bracken Bower Prize, and finalists Scott Hartley and Igor Pejic, who pose their questions direct to the panel....
...The shortlisted authors for the 2016 Bracken Bower Prize are: Sophie Dickins Scott Hartley Simon Hedlin Gavin McLoughlin Ross Murdoch Igor Pejic Nora Rosendahl Pavan Soni Alexander Webb Penguin...
...Mr Hartley’s book on the relevance of the liberal arts in a tech-led world was born from a proposal that made the final of last year’s Bracken Bower Prize for budding younger authors....
...The initial proposal for The Fuzzy and the Techie was a finalist for the FT/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize in 2016....
...The closing date for entries to the Bracken Bower Prize is September 30. Read more about the longlist, judges and the judging process on our book award page....
...Mr Kaye has led the development of The Bower, an east London scheme in which Helical said this month it would buy out its joint venture partners for £248m....
...David Bowers, head of research at Absolute Strategy Research, agrees: “The core risks are around where unemployment is going....
...Henry “Birdie” Bowers, who is a hero of mine and was with Scott on his fatal last journey. If I’ve got to stick to the living, then Ranulph Fiennes would be an excellent choice....
...Ernest Bower, a Southeast Asia expert at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, said: “There was lack of inter-agency co-ordination, failure to name a lead co-ordinator and spokesman...
...His adviser John Bowers said Shane did groundbreaking work on high-frequency, silicon-based transmission lines. “He was very smart, motivated, determined,” Bowers said....
...Virtually from the moment Scott Thompson of PayPal was selected to take the helm at Yahoo last week, analysts and commentators started picking at the online media and advertising holes in his curriculum...
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