This volume explores sustainability through the lens of governance and the environmental and social impact of corporate decision-making, addressing the key questions facing those who are leading this transformation: What organisational and procedural models are most effective? What are the real costs of a sustainability-oriented culture, and to what extent must it permeate every level of the company? Among the topics examined are the importance of legal support and the role of artificial i...

Bloomsbury presents Dancing with the Octopus written and read by Debora Harding.For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood, named one of the Best True Crime Books by Marie Claire.One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ran...

Discover the first three books in the number one Sunday Times bestselling ALL SOULS series.'Haunting in every way. A story thick with family secrets, human heartache, and the kind of deep magic only Harkness can conjure. You will be enchanted' LEIGH BARDUGOA DISCOVERY OF WITCHESWhen historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordere...

"A refreshing and enlightening new perspective on what it means to be powerful." - SUSAN CAIN, bestselling author of QuietAn eye-opening exploration of power and how we can harness it using performance techniques borrowed from actors.What if instead of worrying about getting more power, we focus on using the power we do have better?Stanford business professor Deborah Gruenfeld combines 25 years of social psychology research...

Former lawyer Merrin McKenzie has returned to her hometown of St Ives, the stunning coastal town in Cornwall. She has settled back into life there in a lovely cottage, and new friendships are beginning to blossom. An old friend, Jane Faulkner is going through a messy divorce, and her daughter Emily is keen to stay with Merrin, but just three days into the holiday, she disappears. Emily has pushed a note through Merrin's bedroom door to say she is going back home to Bristol but has left beh...

Destiny has set their path, now fate will challenge them with another...When fate's curse sweeps upon Danielle and Cayden, the secrets behind their destiny begin to be revealed...Will they be able to fight the darkness seeping in ans swaying them, or give in to the power and passion of their all-consuming love, risking Cayden's pure soul and crossing them to the dark side...?Seperated by miles for the first time, and Cayden's premonitions warning him of the life thr...

‘This is history as it should be. It is stunningly written, I could not put it down. This is the best account of the French Revolution I have ever read.’ Alison Weir, author of ‘Henry VIII, King and Court’The fascinating, moving story of the brief life and many possible deaths of Louis XVII, son of Marie-Antoinette.Louis-Charles Bourbon enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the Dauphin, heir to the most powerful ...

A girl, a dog and a summer they won't forget.Twelve-year-old Paige Coopersmith and her family have won a house in an essay-writing contest. Excited to leave their cramped apartment and move to a sprawling property in rural Ontario, they're more than a little surprised to find the house is old and in need of major repairs. They're even more shocked to discover that Iggy — the old dog who lives there — comes with the house. Apparently it was all in the fine print!

Lexi is haunted by her past...One hot summer night, Lexi takes a chance and surrenders to temptation. She’s been interested in mysterious Gabe for a long time and isn’t surprised to discover he understands pleasure well enough to have invented it. But secrets come to light in the morning: Gabe and Lexi have met before—he remembers what she has tried to forget. He doesn’t know about the baby she gave up and she didn’t know about the wife he took to honor his brother’s memor...

To tame a shrew...By king’s decree one of the de Burghs must marry the daughter of their fallen enemy. She’s a notorious hellion rumored to have murdered her first husband on their wedding night, and none want to be her second.A scholar as well as a knight, Geoffrey de Burgh values knowledge as much as his sword. But he can’t explain why he’s drawn to the maddening woman he must make his wife. And someone wants him dead. Is it his bride?Elene Fitzhu...

Sometimes the key to the future lies in the past . . .In the horseshoe bay of Kalami in Corfu, a tumultuous love affair begins between a renowned novelist and a woman escaping scandal. Years later, her daughter Melissa, running from her own past, returns to the island ...Melissa's life in England is in disarray. There are cracks in her perfect marriage, and her elderly mother, Elizabeth, is losing her memory and slowly drifting away. In the last glimmers of lucidit...

The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Includes a foreword by Jon Savage and an introduction by Joy Division drummer, Steven Morris.Revered by his peers and idolized by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. Mesmerizing on stage but introverted and prone to desperate mood swings in his private life, Curtis died by his own hand on 18 May 1980.Touching from a Distance documents how...