Just as ancient Vikings took the world by storm with swords and fast ships, modern Scandinavians have done the same with such innovative companies as Volvo, IKEA, and Absolut. This accessible and witty business study reveals how Nordic companies are making a huge impact on the corporate landscape and what lessons other businesses can learn from them. Unlike many European and American companies,…
For fans of 500 Days of Summer, Notting Hill and New Girl, This is a Love Story is a very exciting first vel from Jessica Thompson. This is a love story. Boy meets girl and girl falls for boy - that much is true. But when Sienna meets Nick it's t the way it happens in love stories. It's because of a squirrel on water skis...She sees Nick's dangerous brown eyes and thinks, Don't. Fall. Into. The…
I promise you'll giggle, you may well cry and you'll definitely be surprised. Then you'll want to tell all your friends about it. Three little words? Buy. It. Now! (Fabulous - The Sun on Sunday) I had high expectations for this book as the author's first book won me over and has been a book I have been recommending throughout the year. the book gets off to a gripping start, I was in shock an…
This thought-provoking book examines life before there was vision and considers how it changed when the image-forming eye evolved. It goes back to the earliest life on Earth to trace the evolution of vision and color in nature.For color to exist there needs to be light, an image-forming eye, and a brain to process the data. We know that more than 543 million years ago there were no image-formin…