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Inconvenient truths about bargain clothing
Elizabeth L. Cline’s ‘Overdressed’ is a manifesto for change that calls for a return to mid-priced and ethical slow fashion, writes Carolo Long
Authoritative take on a corporate leader
Meticulously researched and elegantly written, ‘Private Empire’ is likely to remain the definitive work on ExxonMobil for years, writes Ed Crooks
A slice of the Chinese market
Three new books offer revealing insights into the minds and spending habits of China’s rapidly growing middle classes, writes Patti Waldmeir
Life lessons for the office
The latest book from high-profile professor Clayton Christensen is a guide to finding fulfilment at work and at home, writes Andrew Hill
Chronicle of a premature death foretold
Bricks-and-mortar booksellers see much opportunity in the age of Amazon and the ereader, writes Ravi Mattu
A sober look at workplace scandal
Julie Berebitsky’s ‘Sex and the Office’ shows that that both everything and nothing has changed in the bottom-pinching department, writes Lucy Kellaway
A talent spotter who loves the limelight
Tom Bowers’ biography of Simon Cowell abounds with examples of faulty judgment such as not signing Take That, writes Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
Not all that glitters is gold
Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson’s account of how they started e-commerce site Gilt is jarring and superficial, writes Vanessa Friedman
Book review: Women in Business - navigating career success
Two business school professors reveal how women can avoid missing out on the top jobs
The new markets for profitable ideas
The argument for ‘Reverse Innovation’ depends on heroic assumptions about progress in countries such as India, writes James Crabtree
