This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America by Ryan Grim

Publishing by Wiley - July 09

Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: in This is Your Country on Drugs, journalist Ryan Grim will take you on an oh-so-trippy tour of illicit drug use in the US - from agony (the huge DEA bust of an acid lab in an abandoned missile silo in Kansas) to ecstasy (hallucinogens at raves and music festivals). Along the way Grim discovers some counterintuitive truths...

Surviving M&A: Make the Most of Your Company Being Acquired

Surviving M&A: Make the Most of Your Company Being Acquired
By Scott Moeller

To be published by Wiley on August 2009

With so much interest in the final chapter of Scott Moeller and Chris Brady’s last book, Intelligent M&A and the ever more volatile economic climate increasing the number of business mergers, the decision to publish Scott Moeller’s next book, Surviving M&A was easy.

A Glimpse behind the Harvard-Curtain: An Insider’s Perspective by Emily Chan

Harvard Business School Confidential: Secrets of Success

by Emily Chan,
to be published by Wiley on 14 September 2009

ISBN: 9780470822395, £13.99, Paperback

Just why is a degree from Harvard Business School (HBS) so highly respected and sought after in the business world?

Experimental Man: What One Man’s Body Says about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World by David Ewing Duncan

Wiley - July 2009

In Experimental Man, bestselling author David Ewing Duncan takes the ultimate high-tech medical exam, investigating the future impact of what's hidden deep inside all of us. Taking "guinea pig" journalism to the cutting edge of science, he examines his genes, environment, brain, and body, exploring what they reveal about his and his family's future health, traits, and ancestry, as well as the profound impact of this new self-knowledge on what it means to be human.

Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance: 2nd Edition

Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance: 2nd Edition
by Paul Wilmott

ISBN: 9780470748756, £29.99, Paperback

“Getting agreement between finance theory and finance practice is important like never before. In the last decade the derivatives business has grown to a staggering size, such that the outstanding notional of all contracts is now many multiples of the underlying world economy.

“No longer are derivatives for helping people control and manage their financial risks from other business and industries, no, it seems that the people are toiling away in the fields to keep the derivatives market afloat! (Apologies for the mixed metaphor!) If you work in derivatives, risk, development, trading, etc. you'd better know what you are doing, there's now a big responsibility on your shoulders.” Paul Wilmott