Product Description: Shortlist: 2016 CMI Management Book of the Year Thinking of buying a franchise, creating your own franchise, or franchising a product more effectively? Packed with real-life case studies and key insights from the owners and operators of successful franchise systems—including Domino’s Pizza, Dunkin’ Donuts, Haagen Dazs, Café2U, Snappy Snaps, Ramada Encore, and Burger & Lobster—this book is the essential contemporary guide for aspiring franchisees or ambitious franchisors...read more

Product Description: Beneath the streets and towering buildings of London, there is a realm of shadow and secrets. This little book is the first concise guide to the hidden world of underground London. Informative, authoritative and richly illustrated, this volume takes you on a subterranean tour of the many remarkable constructions that few even knew existed...read more

Product Description: Old television embraces more than eighty years of progress, from the crude experiments of John Logie Baird in 1925, through the pioneering 405-line days at Alexandra Palace just before the Second World War, to the era when television entered most homes in the 1950s, and the growing sophistication of the 1960s, with the introduction of 625-line colour transmissions...read more

Product Description: From its demonstration to Queen Victoria in 1878, through the bake light models of the 1920s and '30s to the chic plastic designs of the 1970s and '80s, Andrew Emmerson traces the evolution of the humble telephone over more than an a century...read more

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Product Description: Old television embraces more than eighty years of progress, from the crude experiments of John Logie Baird in 1925, through the pioneering 405-line days at Alexandra Palace just before the Second World War, to the era when television entered most homes in the 1950s, and the growing sophistication of the 1960s, with the introduction of 625-line colour transmissions...read more