The new alchemists

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This text examines in words and pictures the way particular individuals, like Anita Roddick, have created businesses and careers from nothing but their own drive and talent.

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Title Statements

Full title :The new alchemists / Charles Handy ; photographed by Elizabeth Handy.

Summary

This text examines in words and pictures the way particular individuals, like Anita Roddick, have created businesses and careers from nothing but their own drive and talent.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2004.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Hutchinson
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

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The Physical Object

Description:240 pages : : color illustrations, portraits ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0091799953, 9780091799953
oclc:on1158846776
LC Classification:BF408
Dewey Decimal:153.35

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Subjects

Biographies Businesspeople Businesspeople -- Biography Creative ability Créativité creativity Entrepreneuriat entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship Gagneurs -- Biographies Gens d'affaires -- Biographies Successful people Successful people -- Biography