There's no waste, no flowery prose - only an intelligent flow of insights, advice, stories and illumination ... I defy you to read it without a highlighter pen in your hand.

Velocity is the best ‘industry’ book I have read since The Tipping Point

A game-changing book on management philosophy

A blueprint for winning

Seven ‘laws’ to keep us on the digital pace

When it comes to innovation, Ajaz Ahmed, founder of agency AKQA, and Stefan Olander, vice-president of digital sport at Nike, wrote the book.

The most important advance in selling for many years.

Liberty does not come easily. Many populations suffer from an ineffective state and are stuck in a cage of norms and traditions, of self-appointed chiefs, dispute adjudicators, guardians of souls and husbands turned tyrants. Others are subdued by a despotic Leviathan. In this highly original and gratifying fresco, Daron Acemoglu and Jim Robinson take us on a journey through civilizations, time and locations. Their narrow corridor depicts the constant and often unstable struggle of society to keep the Leviathan in check and of the Leviathan to weaken the cage of norms. A remarkable achievement that only they could pull off and that seems destined to repeat the stellar performance of Why Nations Fail

Conn laments the betrayal of the sport in a beguiling book – it’s absorbing and downright shocking

Comprehensive and thoroughly researched

Remarkable

David Conn pulls no punches in his account of Fifa’s crookedness

A chronicle of the history and scale of corruption which has haunted football for decades, with revealing portraits of the men at the centre of the organisation