DANIEL DIEHL

Imagine por un momento que le conceden la posibilidad de retroceder en el tiempo para conocer a algún personaje histórico con quien conversar un rato y, de paso, pedirle algunos consejos para llevar adelante sus proyectos. ¿A quien escogeria? ¿A Benjamin Franklin? ¿A Confucio? Quiza preferiria pedir una audiencia al rey Salomon, viajar hasta el Londres isabelino para conocer a William Shakespeare o aprovechar la oportunidad y visitar Florencia para entrevistar a Nicolas Maquiavelo.

Cómo manejaron y solucionaron problemas de gestión empresarial relevantes personajes históricos. Imagine por un momento que le conceden la posibilidad de retroceder en el tiempo para conocer a algún personaje historico con quien conversar un rato y, de paso, pedirle algunos consejos para llevar adelante sus proyectos. ¿A quien escogeria? ¿A Benjamin Franklin? ¿A Confucio? Quizas preferiria pedir una audiencia con el rey Salomon, viajar hasta el Londres isabelino para conocer a William Shakespeare o aprovechar la oportunidad y visitar Florencia para entrevistar a Nicolas Maquiavelo. Aunque por el momento nadie le haya propuesto nada semejante, no tiene por que dar la espalda a las grandes figuras del pasado. Daniel Diehl y Mark P. Donnelly han recorrido la historia de la humanidad en busca de veinte personajes cuyo legado ha resistido la prueba del tiempo. Con ellos, aprendera todo cuanto debe saber acerca de la gestion y el liderazgo.

If you could go back in time and ask any historical figure for advice on how best to manage your business or staff, who would it be? Benjamin Franklin, Niccolo Machiavelli, Elizabeth I or Helena Rubinstein? Well, they are all here, and more... Featuring nearly 20 figures from across two and a half millennia, this fascinating book brings you peerless advice on, and insights into, the essential nature of leadership and the human condition. Presented in their own words - through diaries, letters and published works (plus contemporary analysis and commentary from Diehl and Donnelly) - the advice is sometimes extreme, occasionally humorous, always profound.

Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of cannibalism there is some dark fascination with the subject. Appalling crimes of humans eating other humans are blown into major news stories and gory movies: both Hitchcocks Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were based on the crimes of Ed Gein, who is profiled, along with others, in this book. In Eat Thy Neighbour the authors put the subject of cannibalism into its social and historical perspective.

For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankinds very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of torture appears to us today, for at least 3,000 years it formed part of most legal codes throughout Europe and the Far East. The Big Book of Pain is an exploration of the systematic use throughout the ages of various means of punishment, torture, coercion and torment. It takes the reader into the Ancient Roman Coliseum, the medieval dungeon, the Inquisitional interrogation, the auto-da-fe, the witch-trial, and the worst of prisons. It is a shocking and compelling study of the shameful methods and motives of the torturer and the executioner, and of the heinous duty they have performed through the ages.

Highly enjoyable AncestorsA fascinating recreation of the Tower as the life-and-death blood of the nation Oxford TimesServing as both a palace and a prison, the Tower of London has been at the centre of more intrigue, terror and crucial turning points in history than any other site in England. Diehl and Donnelly take us behind the grim, grey walls which circumscribe Englands greatest fortress to discover true stories of the rebels, rogues, despots, lovers, spies and conmen who lived or were held captive there, and whose various, strange fates have added to the Towers sinister reputation. It is a place where court intrigues, clandestine liaisons, gruesome tortures and grisly executions took place with frightening regularity.Tales from the Tower of London is more than the factual history of a great building; it is storytelling at its best. The fifteen stories in this book are made all the more poignant by the fact that they are all true and focus on individuals royal and common, good and bad, heroic and villainous, who lived, loved, plotted and died there.The characters you will meet include:William the ConquerorRichard II and the forlorn Princes in the TowerWat TylerLady Jane GreyGuy FawkesColonel Thomas BloodHenry LaurensSir Roger CasementWhether you are a lover of history, adventure, intrigue and romance, or just appreciate a ripping good yarn, you will find Tales from the Tower of London a classic page turner.