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,…
“Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.”
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…
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation's Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is bot…
This is a collection of stories to read aloud, aimed specifically at seven-year-old children. It can be used at school, in storytelling groups or for bedtime reading.