The Gower Handbook of Management (4th ed.)

If any book was designed to intimidate a reviewer, or to be coveted by the user, then surely it is this 1,300‐page, three‐inch thick, 72‐chaptered book by management publishers Gower, on everything to do with management! To take the user first, I can see the morning’s first‐comers diving straight to the reference shelves to claim The Gower for the day, and so joining that select band of standard texts like Haralambos on Sociology, or Cheshire and Fifoot on the Law of Contract which are never there! The three‐inch gap on the shelf will, I am certain, become a pretty permanent...