This is a guide to green building, which offers advice and information for both renovators and builders. The book shows readers how to design a sustainable home, and explains which approaches make the best commercial and environmental sense.

This title provides a clear, practical guide for leaders of organisations who wish to create a more connected, agile, and customer-oriented organisation in a digitally connected, customer-driven 21st century business environment. It lays out the key factors of the connected organisation and the leadership behaviours that will allow these factors to become embedded and sustainable.

How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? Customer development research is a method for validating your product and company ideas - before you waste months and millions on solving a problem no one needs. Through customer development, you'll learn how your customers behave, what problems they need to solve, and what frustrates and delights them. Through a combination of open-ended interviewing and fast and flexible research...

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and modern organisational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.In What You Do Is Who You Are, Ben Horowitz, bestselling author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things, turns his attention to a question crucial to every organisation:...

'It doesn't get better' - that was the unofficial motto of Red Platoon, stuck at Command Post Keating, one of the most isolated and dangerous US army bases in Afghanistan, in the middle of a free-fire zone. At the bottom of a deep valley, Keating was the worst place imaginable to build a base - like a fish bowl, the Taliban could see every move the men made. Once it became glaringly obvious that the base was a failure, Black Knight Troop was sent...

The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, the Third Reich expended and exhausted all its moral and physical reserves, leading to total defeat in 1945. Yet 70 years on - despite whole libraries of books about the war's origins, course, and atrocities...