by John W. Gardner (1993)
Another timeless leadership text from an author who was both a senior political leader as well as an academic and researcher. The book explores in a highly logical and humorous way the nature, tasks, context and attributes of leadership. It advances some very practical recommendations for developing leaders from aspiring to in-situ leaders. The core of Gardner's belief is that leadership can be learnt and that leadership is defined by the socio-historical context.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Rory Rooney likes to be prepared for anything, but when he inexplicably turns green and finds himself in an experimental hospital ward with his nemesis, school bully Tommy-Lee "Grim" Komissky, everyone is baffled but Rory believes he and Grim have become superheroes.
B.K. Ridley
There are some wonderfully bizarre ideas in physics, and it seems a pity to keep them locked up in small boxes, available only to an esoteric coterie of key holders. Brian Ridley's book sets out to survey in simple, non-mathematical terms what physics has to say about the fundamental structure of the universe. He deals with all the basic concepts of modern physics: elementary particles, black holes, gravity, quantum theory, time, mass, relativity and energy; this new edition also includes coverage of more recently emerging ideas including strings, imaginary time and chaos. Ridley's clear and witty account gives an exciting introduction to the non-specialist while offering a fresh perspective to scientists themselves.
Richard Barnett
Starting from the point of having no water in the house, and with only a wheelbarrow by way of farm equipment, this hilarious account of starting up in farming, in a remote part of upland Wales, covers some three years of the early 1950s. The difficulties and indignities suffered are offset by the marvellous sense of adventure and real living that underpin the story, to say nothing of the humorous idiosyncrasies of the neighbours and the intangible satisfaction that comes from working close to Nature.
Tony Husband
Tony Husband is one of the UK's leading cartoonists. In a long career, beginning in 1984, he has created cartoons for many leading publications, including The Spectator, Private Eye, The Times, and Punch. Tony has won more than fifteen major awards, including the prestigious Pont Award. Black humor never goes out of fashion and the truths about human nature revealed by Husband's work never cease to tickle the funny bone, no matter how many times readers leaf through these pages.