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ADVANCE INFORMATION How to: Be a Better Leader Stefan Stern 9781509821266 Business, Finance & Management > Leadership Bluebird ǀ Rs 399 ǀ 160pp ǀ PB ǀ B Format March 07, 2019 Become the leader you've always wanted to be with this essential guide, and learn how the latest research can help you lead your team effectively for the best possible creativity and productivity. We know that businesses and organisations expect people at all levels to show initiative and display good leadership qualities, but to put this into practice is easier said than done. This book will show you how you can become a better leader, whether you're already in charge of a large team, or you're paving the way for your future career. How to Be a Better Leader is designed to help you truly understand what it means to be a leader, as well as what good and bad leadership look like. Stefan Stern investigates the different ways in which men and women lead - and, crucially, how we can get nearer to genuine equality at work. He also highlights the language of leaders, and gives examples from around the world of different prominent leaders from business and politics, including Jeff Bezos, Indra Nooyi, Winston Churchill and Rosa Parks. Author Bio: Stefan Stern has been writing about management and leadership for over two decades. He has worked for the BBC, Management Today magazine and the Financial Times, where he was the management columnist between 2006 and 2010. He continues to write for the FT, the Guardian and other publications. He is Visiting Professor in Management Practice at Cass Business School, City University of London. He was also until recently director of the High Pay Centre, a think tank that looks at the issue of top pay. Pan Macmillan India Rights: Indian Subcontinent ADVANCE INFORMATION How To Negotiate Christopher Copper-Ind 9781509814633 Business, Finance & Management > Negotiation Bluebird ǀ Rs 399 ǀ 128pp ǀ PB ǀ B Format March 07, 2019 Negotiation is a fundamental part of all of our lives, and by understanding how the psychology of it works, you will be able to conduct all types of negotiation with greater ease and efficiency. Negotiation is such a familiar part of our everyday lives that we often fail to recognize it's even happening, let alone identify the power battles and psychological warfare it entails. In our busy everyday lives, we seldom pause to reflect that negotiating is, in fact, a complex and strategic mind game. In How To Negotiate, Christopher Copper-Ind shows the inner workings of all types of negotiations, from the mundane division of household chores to pay rises and high-powered business deals. By understanding the psychology and essential skills involved, you'll be able to bring enviable insight to your own negotiations going forward giving you the confidence to succeed. Author Bio: Christopher Copper-Ind is publisher of International Investment, a financial news organisation in London. He also writes tailored reports on Turkey and Iran for a Middle East consultancy. Before this he was editorial director of a media company in Istanbul covering the economies of the Middle East and Central Asia. From 2004 to 2010 Copper- Ind was a company director at the publishing house Stacey International, for whom he negotiated contracts across the Middle East and Asia for high-end book projects and business guides. As a publisher and Middle East consultant, he has worked on projects in over twenty-five countries. His business trips did not always go according to plan, however. Negotiating for a contract in Iran in 2009, he found himself briefly imprisoned on charges of espionage. He divides his time between London and Paris. Pan Macmillan India Rights: Indian Subcontinent ADVANCE INFORMATION The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Picador Classic Rebecca Skloot 9781509877027 Autobiographies, Biographies & Memoirs > Medical Picador ǀ Rs 450 ǀ 464pp ǀ PB ǀ B Format March 07, 2019 The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone, Sarah Moss Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . Rebecca Skloot's fascinating account is the story of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world for ever. Balancing the beauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who owns the stuff our bodies are made of, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is an extraordinary journey in search of the soul and story of a real woman, whose cells live on today in all four corners of the world. Now a HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne. Author Bio: Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and O, the Oprah Magazine, among others. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR's RadioLab and PBS's Nova ScienceNOW, and blogs about science, life, and writing at Culture Dish, hosted by Seed magazine. She also teaches creative non-fiction at the University of Memphis. Pan Macmillan India Rights: Indian Subcontinent ADVANCE INFORMATION Lucky: Picador Classic Alice Sebold 9781509873937 Autobiographies, Biographies & Memoirs > Personal Memoirs Picador ǀ Rs 399 ǀ 256pp ǀ PB ǀ B Format March 07, 2019 A inspiring, painful and redemptive memoir from Alice Sebold, bestselling author of The Lovely Bones. With an introduction by the author of Circe and The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller In Lucky, a memoir long-hailed for its blistering honesty and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was irrevocably changed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was raped and beaten inside a tunnel near her campus. In this same tunnel, a girl had been raped and dismembered. By comparison, Alice was told by police, she was lucky. Though Alice's friends and family try their best to offer understanding and support, in the end it is Alice's formidable spirit which resonates most in these pages. In a narrative both painful and inspiring, Alice Sebold shines a light on the true experience of violent trauma. Sebold's redemption turns out to be as hard-won as it is real. Author Bio: Alice Sebold is the author of the bestselling novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and the memoir Lucky. She lives in California. Reviews 'A rueful, razor-sharp memoir . Sebold tells what it's like to go through a particular kind of nightmare in order to tell what it's like - slowly, bumpily, triumphantly - to heal.' Sarah Kerr, Vogue 'Ms. Sebold [has] the ability to capture both the ordinary and the extraordinary, the banal and the horrific, in lyrical, unsentimental prose.' New York Times Pan Macmillan India Rights: Indian Subcontinent ADVANCE INFORMATION Gomorrah: Picador Classic Roberto Saviano 9781509882182 Non-Fiction > True Crime Picador ǀ Rs 399 ǀ 336pp ǀ PB ǀ B Format March 07, 2019 The explosive international bestseller uncovering one of Naples' most notorious organized criminal gangs. With an introduction by Misha Glenny. Since Gomorrah was first published in Italy in 2006, Roberto Saviano has received so many death threats that he has been assigned police protection in his native Naples. A groundbreaking study and a searing exposé, Gomorrah is the astonishing true story of the renowned crime organization the Camorra, known by insiders as 'the System'. With a global reach, large stakes in construction, high fashion, illegal drugs and toxic waste disposal, the Camorra exerts a malign grip on cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast. Now an international sensation, it is at once a bold and gripping piece of investigative journalism as well as the story of one brave young man, his life in Naples and his contempt for the murderous organization who destroyed the place he calls home. Author Bio: Roberto Saviano is a journalist and novelist. He was born in Naples, where he still lives. Reviews 'Powerful and poetic' Sunday Telegraph 'After reading Gomorrah, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again' New York Times Pan Macmillan India Rights: Indian Subcontinent ADVANCE INFORMATION King Leopold's Ghost: Picador Classic A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild 9781509882205 History > True Crime Picador ǀ Rs 450 ǀ 400pp ǀ PB ǀ B Format March 07, 2019 A riveting and highly readable account of the Congo massacre, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust.

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