(Hardback)

(Hardback)

In this extraordinary investigation based on extensive documentary research and dozens of interviews with the key players, Brian Brivati sets out to provide new answers to the key questions that comprise the story of the rise and fall of the Abraaj Group.

(Paperback)

Nice women never wore makeup. Even the word was taboo in polite society - until Max Factor entered the scene. Born in Poland in 1877, Factor worked as a beautician for the Russian royal family, the Romanovs. In 1904, he fled to America, where he opened a cosmetics store in Los Angeles. This book tells his story.

(Hardback)

The exclusive in-house perfumer to Hermes reveals for the first time the secrets behind the art and business of creating perfume.

(Hardback)

Explore how eco-fashion centers around sustainable design & businesses that put people, livelihoods and sustainability central to everything they do.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The collection is made up of twenty four stories selected from the Margaret River Short Story Competition. There is a strong sense throughout this collection of stories of characters playing their parts-sometimes on a large stage, but more frequently in a single room, or its equivalent.

(Paperback)

Founded in 1976 by Olivier Baussan, the world-renowned fragrance company L'Occitane, (which means "a woman of Provence" in Old French) was inspired by the essences of lavender and honeysuckle, rosemary, sage, and thyme, indigenous to his childhood home in the south of France.

(Paperback)

Many people would like to consider ethical issues when going on holiday but don't know where to start. This guide gives an introduction to the issues. It aims to demystify the impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world. It also takes in themes like the gap year, and the role of travel and vacations in western cultures.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This book tells how Universal Studios shook up the multibillion dollar theme park industry, one so long dominated by Walt Disney and his legacy.

(Paperback)

No one knows more about starting and running a bed and breakfast business than successful cook, author and hotel owner Amy Willcock. The hotel that she runs with her husband and their business partner, The George on the Isle of Wight, was described in the Daily Mail as being run 'in the way in which you imagine the hotel of your dreams to be run'.

(Hardback)

This text pulls together the various analytical concepts, models and techniques of traditional corporate strategy against a backdrop of the service industry environment in the light of a new global context. It expounds the central role of the service industries and redefines them within a new international framework.

(Paperback)

Provides solutions on ways to tailor clothing for all body types. With illustrated instructions, this manual shows users how to measure, calculate and mark basic patterns to customised dimensions. It also includes a pack of 29 slopers - basic patterns for garment sections, without style lines or seam allowances.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

This book focuses on the causes and effects of consumer purchasing and forming strategies for targeting and catering to the needs of that consumer population.