The Long Tail – Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More

In one of the most important business books since The Tipping Point, Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn’t in hits, or the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses–the endlessly long tail of that same curve.

The Long Tail is a New York Bestseller from Author Chris Anderson.

Outliers – The Story of Success

Outliers – The Story of Success is a brilliant new book from the bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell of The Tipping Pointand Blink .

Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things.

This book takes us on a journey to show us what makes an overachiever. It reveals that we pay more attention to what successful people are like, and little attention to where successful people are from.

Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward.

The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk ? and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder …that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta?

Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered ? and that more violent deaths will follow…

Orphan boy Cirrus Flux is being watched. Merciless rogues are conniving to steal the world’s most divine power, which they believe Cirrus has inherited.

Now he faces a perilous journey through the dirty backstreets of London as a sinister mesmerist, a tiny man with an all-seeing eye, and a skull-collecting scoundrel pursue him.

The Story of Cirrus Flux is written by Matthew Skelton and published by Puffin Books.

The Ascent of Money was written by the bestselling author of Empire, Niall Ferguson. The book is published by renowned book publishers Penguin Books.

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money , Niall Ferguson shows that finance is the foundation of all human progress and the lifeblood of history. From the cash injection that funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that sparked the French Revolution.

From the bonds that fueled Britain’s war effort to the Wall Street Crash and today’s meltdown, this is the story of boom and bust as it’s never been told before.

The heart-lifting spectacle of South Africa’s first free election in April 1994 was, for Nelson Mandela and his followers, a triumph unimaginably sweet, but perilously incomplete. Mandela was keenly aware that his party’s victory, secured by a landslide of black votes, lacked the endorsement of alienated whites, and that whites retained sufficient wealth and weaponry to endanger his new democracy if they felt threatened. As John Carlin puts it in “Playing the Enemy,” paraphrasing Garibaldi on the birth of Italy, the election had created a new South Africa; now Mandela’s task was to create South Africans. This wonderful book describes Mandela’s methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby

The perfect beer, braai and half-time break companion. Sports masterminds David O’Sullivan and Kevin McCallum have been collecting sports trivia for years. Now they have pooled their resources and spent countless hours of deliberation and phone calls to friends and famous sportsmen and women (not to mention several cases of beer) to bring you the most fascinating, and at times mind-boggling, collection of sports trivia.

Read hundreds of fascinating questions about South African sport through the years and see if you can anticipate their answers.. Do you know: Which one-eyed Norwegian captained the SA cricket team?