First Hill Books

There is a clear economic and social rationale in providing a second chance to failed entrepreneurs and deriving positive experiences from negative situations. Value of Failure is a comprehensive attempt at understanding the various aspects of the phenomenon of business failure.

Smart writing on deep culture, Horowitz wrestles with the meaning of Russian literature, Jewish history, Right-wing Zionism, and the Holocaust

A collection of quotable thoughts on various subjects.

This work of narrative non-fiction deals with common questions and doubts people have about vaccines, using very accessible, conversational, non-technical language.

Jimmy, Ann and Kaz are fed up with the System. So, swearing to a suicide pact, they vow to take it down.

The Great Battle or The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman describes the origins of Unilever and the role former CEO Paul Polman (2009-2019) played in Unilever’s quest for acting responsibly in a world that is being threatened by climate change, lack of biodiversity, pollution and growing tensions between rich and poor. In The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman Smit reconstructs the lessons we can learn from a courageous pioneer who was also ahead of his time.

Christian Lehmann brings his experience as a musicologist, singer and academic to this fascinating journey through the origins of music and its role in human development, culture and society.

The Insider’s Secrets to Finding Your School Leadership Job: This practical 125-page self-help professional guide coaches school and district leadership candidates step-by-step through the hiring process for their dream jobs in public education.

The Graft provides insight into a long-forgotten kidney transplant that helped spark the modern age of organ transplantation.

Robert Neild traces how Cambridge – having since 1945 received money, public and private, that carried it to the top of the world rankings of universities – is suffering at the hand of cuts in government funding and a tide of political intervention.

The End of the World and the Last God is a philosophical work that poses a disturbing existential question: what if mankind is definitively bored with Earth? And if so, what will happen if we fail to find a way out of our planet?

Work by artists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), interviews and first-hand accounts form the core of this book about the development of the country’s art history. Learning about artists and seeing how their practices fit into global art historical discourses can help viewers gain insight into an art not made to be understood.