The world is a big place full of interesting things. And The Grand Tour has seen some of them. That’s why few people are better placed to lead you around this vast planet of ours than Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. As long as you don’t mind getting hot and lost. Welcome, everyone, to The Grand Tour Guide to The World.
In this indispensable guide, you will find an abundance of information, most of which is probably wrong and possibly dangerous. As well as occasionally accurate guides to the places visited on the show, you’ll find exclusive interviews with the presenters and discover their favourite locations for car-based cocking about.
As well as being a factually dubious encyclopaedia, The Grand Tour Guide to the World is also a travel companion for those of you who have been inspired by the Grand Tour circus. You’ll find tips on how to sing like a native in the Bahamas, how to speak Welsh (wrongly), and how to navigate the magic roundabout in Swindon. On top of all this, we reveal the world’s fastest cop cars and the greatest car makers. And there’s a picture of James May in an anorak.

The Grand Tour Guide to the World

Biographies & Memoirs

May, James

Hammond, Richard

Clarkson, Jeremy

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

The world's #1 guide to retail success, complete with crucial, up-to-date insights--including new case studies, ideas, strategies, and tactics from today's best retailers, like TopShop, IKEA, and Best Buy. Smart Retail incorporates several valuable chapters, including: 
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<li>Opportunities to learn from past retail pioneers: simple yet effective strategies your competitors have forgotten. </li>
<li>How to use data to drive profit and growth. </li>
<li>How to do more with less, and maximize the value each team member brings to the table. </li>
<li>How to use new technology to develop highly productive, innovative "Remote Teams".</li> </ul>Covering everything from creating the ultimate retail experience to understanding the customer and the importance of motivated workers, this is the book that will equip managers, team-workers, retail entrepreneurs and indeed anybody who sells direct to customers, with practical winning ideas and strategies.

Smart Retail: Winning Ideas and Strategies from the Most Successful Retailers in the World

Business & Money

Industries

Ft Pr

Retail is amazing. It's immediate, exciting, risky - and downright tough. Running shops gets into your bloodstream. But even though retail has been credited for saving whole economies, it is still possibly the least understood of all business practices. This is the first 'how to' retail handbook. It uncovers the key elements that separate the great retailers from the average, the killer teams from the also-rans and the High Street success stories from the back street strugglers. Covering everything from creating the ultimate in-store experience to understanding your customer and from promotional strategies to building energized and motivated teams, this is the book that will equip store managers, aspiring team-workers, retail entrepreneurs and indeed anybody who sells direct to customers, with practical winning ideas and strategies for retail success.

Smart Retail: How to Turn Your Store into a Sales Phenomenon

Work in retail for any length of time and it gets into your system. There's something about shop-based selling - it's immediate, exciting, risky and hard to predict. Most retailers love it. But in many ways it's the least understood of all business practices. Now in its second edition, this bestselling book provides you with even more crucial insights into how retailing works. Fully revised and updated with the latest success stories, new ideas, strategic and tactical thinking, Smart Retail is the how-to retail bible. New chapters include learning from the past pioneers of retail - the simple yet effective strategies your competitors have forgotten and how use data to drive profit and growth. Covering everything from creating the ultimate retail experience to understanding your customer and the importance of motivated shop floor workers, this is the book that will equip managers, ambitious team-workers, retail entrepreneurs and indeed anybody who sells direct to customers, with practical winning ideas and strategies. This book is the first 'how to' retail handbook. It uncovers the key elements that separate the great retailers from the average, the killer teams from the also-rans and the High Street success stories from the back street strugglers. Covering everything from creating the ultimate in-store experience to understanding your customer and from promotional strategies to building energised and motivated teams, this is the book that will equip store managers, aspiring team-workers, retail entrepreneurs and indeed anybody who sells direct to customers, with practical winning ideas and strategies for retail success.

PRENTICE/HALL

Discover the secrets of some of the world’s leading shops and online businesses. This is the book which reveals what the most successful businesses in the world already know.
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<li>Find your ‘Big Idea’ and learn how that sets you apart from the competition</li>
<li>Learn critical lessons from the pioneers of retail</li>
<li>Understand what customers really want from your format</li>
<li>Find out how to build strong store teams</li>
<li>Become skilled in delighting your customers</li>
</ul>
Covering everything from creating the ultimate retail experience to understanding the customer and the importance of motivated shop floor workers, this is the book that will equip managers, team-workers, retail entrepreneurs and indeed anybody who sells direct to customers, with practical winning ideas and strategies.

It's cold, wet and dangerous, so why do we do it? 
Richard Hammond's A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MOTORCYCLE attempts to explain what it is about bikes and biking that calls to some people, leaving them powerless to resist. 
This entertaining guide charts the history of the bike from its origins as a cheap and modest means of transport for the masses to its modern incarnations: a terrifying symbol of rebellion and menace, a high-tech racing machine and the rich kid's plaything. We look at the bikes that have propelled people across the world to work, to school and to their doom.
As for the bikers ... Edwardian ladies did it, though not in large numbers. Young bucks desperate to prove their manhood did it, because it was the cheapest speed available. Hammond examines bikers of every type, from the happy farmer trundling through fields on their Honda Cub to the Hell's Angel terrorising Californian towns on their hog.
Wittily written and lavishly illustrated, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MOTORCYCLE is a thrilling ride for bikers and non-bikers alike.

A Short History of the Motorcycle

Humor & Entertainment

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Loaded with information and wit, this hilarious overview is a must-have for anyone even remotely interested in cars. Its topics include car and traffic etiquette, how to buy a car, how to avoid giving murderers a lift, the seven ages of the motorist from learning how to drive at 18 to driving the wrong way down highways at 80, a spotter's guide to motorists in the style of a World War II manual, customizing, the alternative guide to road rage, and even organizing that last journey—cool hearses to be buried in. Several top 10's are also listed, including the top 10 noble failures, remembering Chrysler's car for women, the "Femme," which came in one color—shocking pink—and a matching shocking pink handbag and lipstick. Lastly, a "What Not to Drive 2007" update covers all the new cars in a cut-out-and-keep guide—everything a driver needs to know. The odd, the mad, the bad, the curious, and the ridiculous are all here in this wonderful, witty, and incredibly useful compendium of all we ever needed to know about the modern world of driving.

Richard Hammond's Car Confidential: The Odd, the Mad, the Bad and the Curious

Humor

Orion Publishing

Richard Hammond has had a longstanding love affair, bordering on the obsessive some might say, with caravans. He has researched their origins and history, celebrity owners, the uses to which they have been put, their place in history, names, jargon, games with, things to do in, recipes to cook in, and future of. He also gives sound practical advice on how to use them to best advantage, race them (ensuring first they are of the nonstatic variety), and how to destroy them in interesting ways (of which he has much experience—80 or so at the last count). An essential guide for any owner or prospective owner or indeed anyone with even a passing interest in caravans, of whatever sex or age, or race, or inclination. Or even perhaps someone with apparently no interest in caravans who might have a previously latent interest aroused. Some even talk in hushed tones of a parallel universe, though he has no personal experience of this, yet. Anything is possible.

A Short History of Caravans in the UK

What Not to Drive

Richard Hammond is one of our most in-demand and best-loved television presenters. On September 20, 2006, he suffered a serious brain injury following a high-speed car crash, and the nation held its breath. On the Edge is his compelling account of life before and after the accident and an honest description of his year of recovery, full of drama and incident. It is also, perhaps, his explanation of why, as a married man and father of two young daughters, he was prepared to risk all by strapping himself to the front of a jet engine with the power of eleven Formula One cars. A daredevil and a petrolhead long before his association with Top Gear, Richard tells the story of his life as an adrenalin junkie, from the small boy showing off with ridiculous stunts on his bicycle to the adolescent with a near-obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of petrol. After a series of jobs in local radio, he graduated to television and eventually to Top Gear, one of the world's most popular shows, upgrading his car with each step up the ladder. His insights into the personalities, the camaraderie and, of course, the stunts for which Top Gear has become famous make compulsive reading. It was whilst filming for Top Gear, driving a jet-powered dragster at speeds over 300mph, that a tyre burst and the car left the track and rolled over, burying him in the earth. He was airlifted to hospital and hovered near death for several days. His wife Mindy tells the story of the anxious hours and days of watching and waiting until he finally emerged from his coma. In an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing, she and Richard then piece together the stages of his recovery as his shattered mind slowly reformed, leaving him sometimes lucid and plausible, sometimes confused and angry, and often exhausted. The final chapter recounts his return home and his triumphant reappearance in front of the cameras.

On the Edge: My Story

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The Grand Tour Guide to the World

Smart Retail: Winning Ideas and Strategies from the Most Successful Retailers in the World

Smart Retail: How to Turn Your Store into a Sales Phenomenon

Smart Retail: How to Turn Your Store into a Sales Phenomenon

Smart Retail: Winning Ideas and Strategies from the Most Successful Retailers in the World

A Short History of the Motorcycle

Richard Hammond's Car Confidential: The Odd, the Mad, the Bad and the Curious

A Short History of Caravans in the UK

What Not to Drive

On the Edge: My Story