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A project library

What’s on Eric Woodcock’s bookshelves

This might be called a bibliography, but in fact it is the collection of project-related books, films and

so on which I possess.

These resources are labelled in Harvard reference style, which is how they should be cited in any

academic or published work. The books are the editions on your author’s book shelf; they are often

later paperback versions rather than original hardbacks. Some of the titles, especially text books, will

not be the latest editions. Harvard purists expect to see the authors’ names in capital letters, and up

to three authors to be named, but I think this can make the citation harder to read. In any case, the

whole point of a referencing system is to allow you to find the particular work quickly and that is the

acid test of whether the reference is helpful.

Text books

Project management theory

Andersen, E., et al. 4th ed. 2009. Goal directed project management. London: Kogan Page.

Anon. 2008. Teach yourself project management. London: Hodder Education.

Barker, S. & Cole, R. 2009. Brilliant project management. Harlow, UK: Pearson.

Burke, R. & Barron, S. 2014. Project management leadership. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Coleman, S. & MacNicol, D. 3rd ed. 2015. Project leadership. Farnham, UK: Gower.

Davies, A. 2017. Projects – a very short introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Davies, A. & Hobday, M. 2005. The business of projects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gray, C. & Larson, E. Project management, the managerial process. 4th ed. London: McGraw Hill.

Köster, K. 2010. International project management. London: Sage Publications.

Lock, D. 9th ed. 2007. Project management. Aldershot, UK: Gower Publishing.

Mantel, S. et al. 2008. Project management in practice. John Wiley & Sons.

Mantel, S. et al. 2011. Project management in practice. John Wiley & Sons.

Maylor, H. 3rd ed. 2005. Project management. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education.

Maylor, H. 4th ed. 2010. Project management. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education.


Meredith, J. & Mantel, S. 8th ed. 2012. Project management, a managerial approach. Singapore:

John Wiley & Sons.

Morris, P. 1997. The management of projects. London: Thomas Telford.

Nokes, S. & Kelly, S. 2nd ed. 2007. The definitive guide to project management. Harlow, UK: Pearson

Education.

Obeng, E. 1996. All change! – the project leader’s secret handbook. London: Financial Times

Management.

Pinto, J. 2005. Project management, achieving competitive advantage. Upper Saddle River, NJ, US:

Pearson Prentice-Hall.

Pinto, J. 2nd ed. 2010. Project management, achieving competitive advantage. Upper Saddle River,

NJ, US: Pearson Prentice-Hall.

Peters, T. 1999. The project 50. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Portny, S. 2001. Project management for dummies. New York: Wiley Publishing.

Roberts, P. 2007. The Economist guide to project management. London: Profile Books.

Slatter, S. 1984. Corporate recovery. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books.

Turner, J, ed. 4th ed. 2007. Gower handbook of project management. Aldershot, UK: Gower.

Winch, G. 2002. Managing construction projects, an information processing approach. Oxford:

Blackwell.

Project management practice

Barber, M. 2015. How to run a government so that citizens benefit and taxpayers don’t go crazy.

London: Penguin Random House UK.

Barney, J. & Clifford, T. 2010. What I didn’t learn in business school. Boston: Harvard Business Review

Press.

Brown, M. 1992. Successful project management in a week. Corby, UK: British Institute of

Management.

Frigenti, E. & Comninos, D. 2006. The practice of the project management. London: Kogan Page.

Harrin, E. 2007. Project management in the real world. Swindon, IK: British Computer Society.

Kerzner, H. 3rd ed. 2009. Project management case studies. Hoboken, NJ, US: John Wiley & Sons.

King, A. & Crewe, I. 2014. The blunders of our governments. London: Oneworld Publications.


Koch, R. 1994. The successful boss’s first 100 days. London: Pitman Publishing.

Maister, D. 1997. Managing the professional service firm. New York: The Free Press.

Maister, D. 2001. Practice what you preach. New York: The Free Press.

Maister, D. 2002. The trusted advisor. London: Simon & Schuster.

Newton, R. 2nd ed. 2009. The project manager, mastering the art of delivery. Harlow, UK: Pearson

Education.

Prencipe, A. et al, ed. 2005. The business of systems integration. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Thorne, P. 1989. The new general manager. Maidenhead, UK: McGraw-Hill.

Wickman, L. & Wilcock, J. 4th ed. 2012. Management consulting. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education.

Williams, K. (ed.). 2004. Successful project management. Oxford, UK: Elsevier – Chartered

Management Institute.

Analysis

Arbesman, S. 2012. The half-life of facts. London: Penguin.

Saunders, M. et al. 2nd ed. 2000. Research methods for business students. Harlow, UK: Pearson

Education.

Swift, L. & Piff, S. 3rd ed. 2010. Quantitative methods for business, management and finance.

Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Change

Blake, I. & Bush, C. 2009. Project managing change. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education.

Burnes, B. 4th ed. 2004. Managing change. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education.

Communication and negotiation

Anon. 2006. The masters of impact negotiating. Sevierville, TN, US: Insight Publishing.

Anon. 2010. Style guide. London: Profile Books (The Economist).

Cooper, B. 1964. Writing technical reports. London: Penguin Books.

Cutts, M. & Maher, C. 1984. Gobbledygook. London: George Allen & Unwin.

Fisher, R. & Ury, W. 1987. Getting to yes. London: Arrow Books.

Harrin, E. 2010. Social media for project managers. Newtown Square, PA, US: Project Management

Institute.


Kennedy, G. 1997. Pocket negotiator. London: Profile Books (The Economist Books).

Lancaster, S. 2015. Winning minds, secrets from the language of leadership. Basingstoke, UK:

Palgrave Macmillan.

MacArthur, B., ed. 2nd ed. 1999. The Penguin book of twentieth-century speeches. London: Penguin

Books.

Truss, L. 2003. Eats shoots and leaves. London: Profile Books.

Economics

Blastland, M. & Dilnot, A. 2007. The tiger that isn’t. London: Profile Books.

Harford, T. 2007. The undercover economist. London: Little, Brown.

Levitt, S. & Dubner, S. 2005. Freakonomics. London: Allen Lane.

Ethics

Carmichael, S. & Drummond, J. 1989. Good business. London: Business Books.

Crane, A. & Matten, D. 2004. Business ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dupre, B. 2013. 50 ethics ideas. London: Quercus editions.

Goldacre, B. 2009. Bad science. London: Fourth Estate.

Hamilton, S. & Micklethwait, A. 2006. Greed and corporate failure, the lessons from recent disasters.

Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Houston, P. et al. 2013. Spy the lie. London: Icon Books.

Nader, R. 1966. Unsafe at any speed. New York: Pocket Books.

Panza, C. & Potthast, A. 2010. Ethics for dummies. Hoboken, NJ, US: Wiley Publishing.

Graphics

Powell, D. 1985. Presentation techniques. London: Orbis Publishing.

Tufte, E. 2003. The cognitive style of PowerPoint. Cheshire, CT, US: Graphics Press.

Tufte, E. 1990. Envisioning information. Cheshire, CT, US: Graphics Press.

Tufte, E. 1983. The visual display of quantitative information. Cheshire, CT, US: Graphics Press.

Tufte, E. 1997. Visual and statistical thinking: displays of evidence for making decisions. Cheshire,

Conn., US: Graphics Press.

Wildbur, P. & Burke, M. 1998. Information graphics. London: Thames & Hudson.


Innovation

Arden, P. 2003. It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. London: Phaidon

Arden, P. 2006. Whatever you think, think the opposite. London: Penguin Books.

Dodgson, M. et al. 2005. Think, play, do. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Harrison, I. 2004. The book of inventions. London: Cassell.

Hart-Davis, A. 2004. What the past did for us. London: BBC Books.

Kay, J. 2010. Obliquity. London: Profile Books.

Peters, T. 2005. Design, innovate differentiate communicate. London: Dorling Kindersley.

I.T. systems

Stevenson, N. 2004. Microsoft Project 2003 for dummies. Hoboken, NJ, US: Wiley Publishing.

Law and contracts

Wright, D. 2004. Law for project managers. Aldershot, UK: Gower.

Management theory

Carden, L., ed. 2002. Business, the ultimate resource. London: Bloomsbury.

Francke, A. 2014. Management, how to make a difference and get results. Harlow, UK: Pearson.

Handy, C. 1994. The empty raincoat. London: Arrow Books.

Handy, C. 3rd ed. 1995. Gods of management. London: Arrow Books.

Handy, C. 3rd ed. 1985. Understanding organizations. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books.

Hindle, T. 2000. Guide to management ideas. London: Profile Books (The Economist Books).

Hunningher, E., ed. 1986. The manager’s handbook. London: Marshall Editions (Arthur Young).

Mintzberg, H. 2009. Managing. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education.

Osterwalder, A. & Pigneur, Y. 2010. Business model generation. Hoboken, NJ, US: John Wiley & Sons.

Osterwalder, A. et al. 2014. Value proposition design. Hoboken, NJ, US: John Wiley & Sons.

Peters, T. 2003. Re-imagine! Business excellence in a disruptive age. London: Dorling Kindersley.

Pugh, D. et al. 3rd ed. 1986. Writers on organizations. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books.

Womack, J. & Jones, D. 1996. Lean thinking. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Wood, R. 2000. Managing complexity. London: Profile Books (The Economist Books)


People matters

Anon. 2003. Teach yourself recruitment. London: Hodder Headline.

Atkinson, S. & O’Hara, S., snr. eds. 2012. The psychology book. London: Dorling Kindersley.

Berne, E. 1968. Games people play. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books.

Bloisi, W. et al. 2003. Management & organisational behaviour. Maidenhead, UK: McGraw-Hill.

Bridges, W. 1994. Jobshift, how to prosper in a workplace without jobs. London: Nicholas Breasley.

Brown, W. 1985. 13 fatal errors managers make and how you can avoid them. New York: Berkley

Books.

Cain, S. 203. Quiet, the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking. London: Penguin.

De Mascia, S. 2012. Project psychology. Farnham, UK: Gower.

Frankl, V. 2004. Man’s search for meaning. Random House Group.

Harvey, C. 1992. Successful motivation in a week. Corby: British Institute of Management.

Keursey, D. 1998. Please understand me II. Prometheus Nemesis Book Company.

Landau, C. & O’Hara, S. 2012. The psychology book. London: Dorling Kindersley.

Lombardo, M. & Eichinger, R. 1996. For your improvement. Lominger Limited.

O’Connor, C. 2nd ed. 1998. Successful leadership in a week. Corby, UK: Institute of Management.

Parkinson, C. 1965. Parkinson’s law, or the pursuit of progress. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books.

Peart, M. 1999. Understanding Investors in People in a week. Corby, UK: Institute of Management.

Rubin, B. & Raven, J. 1983. Social psychology. 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

De Saint-Exupery, A. 2000. Wind, sand and stars. London: Penguin Classics.

Shapiro, M. 1998. Understanding neuro-linguistic programming in a week. Corby: Institute of

Management.

Vroom, V. & Deci, E., eds. 1970. Management and motivation. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books.

Problem solving

Thuraisingham, M. 2013. The secret life of decisions. Farnham, UK: Gower.

VanGundy, A. 1988. Techniques of structured problem solving. New York: Van Rostrand Reinhold.

Quality and methodologies


Anon. 6th ed. APM body of knowledge. Princes Risborough, UK: Association for Project Management.

Anon. 3rd ed. 2004. A guide to the project management body of knowledge. Newtown Square, PA,

US: Project Management Institute.

Anon. 4th ed. 2005. Managing successful projects with PRINCE2. UK: The Stationery Office (TSO).

Daetz, D. et al. 1995. Customer integration, the Quality Function Deployment leader’s guide.

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Graham, N. 2010. PRINCE2 for dummies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Hinde, D. 2012. PRINCE2 study guide. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Sewell, R. 1988. Improve your profits satisfying customers. London: Mercury Books.

Risk

Chapman, C. & Ward, S. 2011. How to manage project opportunity and risk. Chichester, UK: John

Wiley & Sons.

Flyvbjerg, B. et al. 2003. Megaprojects and risk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Teale, D. Successful risk management in a week. Corby: Institute of Management.

Sales and marketing

Connor, R. & Davidson, J. 1987. Getting new clients. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

McDonald, M. & Gattorna, J. 1985. Marketing, essential guides for managers, volume 4. London: Gee

& Co.

Miller, R. et al. 1988. Face to face selling, secrets of the complex sale. London: Kogan Page.

Miller, R. et al. 1988. Strategic selling, secrets of the complex sale. London: Kogan Page.

Miller, R. et al. 1991. Successful large account management. London: Kogan Page.

Ogilvy, D. 1985. Ogilvy on advertising. London: Book Club Associates.

Tietjen, T. 1981. So you want to be a success at selling? London: Video Arts.

Turner, H. 1985. The gentle art of salesmanship. Fontana Paperbacks.

Strategy

Ansoff, H. 1968. Corporate strategy. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books.

Boyett, J. & Boyett, J. 1998. The guru guide. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Bradley, G. 2nd ed. 2010. Benefit realisation management. Farnham, UK: Gower.


Grundy, T. & Brown, L. 2002. Strategic project management. London: Thomson Learning.

Hindle, T. et al. 1998. Pocket Strategy. London: Profile Books (The Economist Books).

Johnson, G. & Scholes, K. 1984. Exploring corporate strategy. London: Prentice-Hall.

Morgan, M. et al. 2007. Executing your strategy, how to break it down and get it done. Boston:

Harvard Business School Press.

Sustainability

Allen, P. et al. 2013. Zero carbon Britain: rethinking the future. Machynlleth, UK: Centre for

Alternative Technology.

Teaching

Carroll, J. & Ryan, J. 2005. Teaching international students. Abingdon: Routledge.

Courtney, M. & Xiangping, D. 2015. Study skills for Chinese studies. London: Sage Publications.

Techniques

Bentley, T. 1994. Facilitation, providing opportunities for learning. Maidenhead, UK: McGraw-Hill.

Goldratt, E. 1997. Critical chain. Great Barrington, MA, US: North River Press.

Goldratt, E. & Cox, J. 3rd ed. 2004. Critical chain. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing.

Layton, M. 2012. Agile project management for dummies. Hoboken, NJ, US: John Wiley & Sons.

Turner, S. 2002. Tools for success, a manager’s guide. Maidenhead, UK: McGraw-Hill Professional.

Weston, A. 4th ed. 2009. A rulebook for arguments. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company.

Other books

Anon. 2nd ed. 1994. The Economist desk companion. London: Penguin Group.

Heizer, J. & Render, B. 1999. Principles of operations management. Upper Saddle River, NJ, US:

Prentice-Hall.

Handy, C. 1990. The age of unreason. London: Arrow Books.

Handy, C. 1998. The hungry spirit. London, Arrow Books.

Hart-David, H. ed. cons. 2015. History: the definitive visual guide. London: Dorling Kindersley.

Heizer, J. & Render, B. 1999. Principles of operations management. Upper Saddle River, US: Prentice-

Hall

Heller, R. 2000. Peter Drucker – business masterminds. London: Dorling Kindersley.


Heller, R. 2000. Tom Peters – business masterminds. London: Dorling Kindersley.

Huff, D. 1973. How to lie with statistics. London: Penguin Books.

Jackson, R. & Sorensen, G. 1999. Introduction to international relations. Oxford: Oxford University

Press.

Kotler, P. 1984. 5th ed. Marketing management: analysis, planning and control. London: Prentice-

Hall.

Lees-Maffei, G. 2014. Iconic designs – 50 stories about 50 things. London: Bloomsbury.

Loveday, R. 1970. Statistics, a first course. London: Cambridge University Press.

Mantle, J. 2008. Companies that changed the world. London: Quercus Publishing.

Newstrom, J. & Scannell, E. 1998. The big book of team building games. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Shaw, W. & Day, G. 1987. The businessman’s complete checklist. London: Hutchinson Business.

Slack, N. et al. 3rd ed. 2001. Operations management. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education.

Sparke, P. 2009. The genius of design. London: Quadrille Publishing.

Surowiecki, J. 2005. The wisdom of crowds. London: Abacus.

Walker, D. 1999. Operations management, a supply chain approach. London: International Thomson

Business Press.

Books about projects

Adventure

De Rothschild, D. Plastiki. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Sailing a yacht made from plastic bottles from San Francisco to Sydney.

Lowe, G & Lewis-Jones, H. 2014. The crossing of Antarctica. London: Thames & Hudson.

Describes the 1958/59 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Noble, R. et al. 1998. Thrust. London: Transworld Publishers.

How the world land speed record was broken.

Petit, P. 2002. To reach the clouds, my highwire walk between the twin towers. New York: North

Point Press.

Tremayne, D. 2006. The world’s fastest diesel. Yeovil: Haynes Publishing.

Aerospace


Simons, D. & Withington, T. 2004. The history of flight. Chester UK: Marks and Spencer.

Taylor, J. 1967. Aircraft aircraft. London: Paul Hamlyn.

Airbus

Wicks, R. 2017. Airbus A380. Yeovil, UK: Haynes Publishing.

Boeing

Gilbert, J. 1970. The great planes. Feltham, UK: Hamlyn. Chapter ‘Boeing jetliners’.

Irving, C. 1994. Wide-body, the making of the Boeing 747. London: Coronet.

Sabbagh, K. 1996. 21st century jet, the making of the Boeing 777. London: Pan Books.

Concorde

Glancey, J. 2015. Concorde, the rise and fall of the supersonic airliner. London: Atlantic Books.

Trubshaw, B. 2000. Concorde – the complete inside story. Stroud, UK: The History Press.

Convair

Gilbert, J. 1975. The world’s worst aircraft. Walton-on-Thames, UK: M & J Hobbs. Chapter 20.

Proctor, J. 1996. Convair 880 and 990. Miami: World Transport Press.

Convair burned a mountain of money trying to compete in the jet airliner business.

De Havilland

Falconer, J. & Rivas, B. 2013. De Havilland Mosquito. Yeovil: Haynes Publishing.

The extraordinary tale of a WW2 military aeroplane made out of wood.

Simons, G. 2015. Mosquito – the original multi-role combat aircraft. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword.

NASA

Riley, C. & Dolling, P. 2009. Apollo 11. Yeovil: Haynes Publishing.

Agriculture

Wood, A. 1950. The groundnut affair. London: The Bodley Head.

Arts

Annely Juda Fine Art / Christo and Jeanne-Claude. 2011. Christo and Jeanne-Claude – 40 years 12

exhibitions. Exhibition catalogue, London.

Hytner, N. 2017. Balancing acts – behind the scene at the National Theatre. London: Jonathan Cape.


Kaplan, W, ed. 2011. Living in a modern way: California design 1930 - 1965. Cambridge, US: MIT

Press.

Automotive

Bailey, S. & Chapman, G. (1999). Moving objects – 30 years of vehicle design at the Royal College of

Art. London: Eye-Q.

Chapman, G. 2001. The worst cars sold in Britain. Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing.

Pettifer, J. & Turner, N. (1984). Automania. Book Club Associates.

Womack, J. et al. 1990. The machine that changed the world. New York: Macmillan (Rawson

Associated).

Ford

Bonsall, T. 2002. Disaster in Dearborn. Stanford, US: Stanford General Books.

The full story of the Edsel debacle.

Brooks, J. 1962. The fate of the Edsel. In: Business, twelve classic tales from the world of Wall Street.

London: John Murray Learning. 2014.

Hayes, R. 2012. Ford Cortina, the complete history. Yeovil, UK: Haynes Publishing.

Walton, M. 1997. Car, a drama of the American workplace. New York: W W Norton.

An inside view of the project to develop the 1996 Ford Taurus.

Hillman Imp

Mowat-Brown, G. 2003. Imp. Ramsbury, UK: Crowood Press.

Land Rover Discovery

Taylor, J. 2014. Land Rover Discovery. Ramsbury, UK: Crowood Press.

Leyland National bus

Fogg, A. 1970. A single-deck bus for future urban transport. Proc Instn Mech Engrs 1969-70. Vol 184

Pt 3S: Rapid transit vehicles for city services.

Jack, D. 1994. Beyond reality – Leyland Bus – the twilight years. Glossop, UK: Venture Publications.

Jack, D. 1977. The Leyland bus. Glossop, UK: Transport Publishing Company. Chapter 16.

London Routemaster bus

Aldridge, J., et al. 2004. The birth of the Routemaster. London: Capital Transport Publishing.


Booth, G. 2009. Bus blunders. Horsham, UK: Ian Allan. Chapter ‘Not invented here’.

Curtis, C. 1977. Buses of London. London: London Transport. Chapter 46.

Elborough, T. 2005. The bus we loved, London’s affair with the Routemaster. London: Granta Books.

New Bus for London (2000s)

Aldridge, J., et al. 2013. Boris’s bus – the new bus for London. London: Capital Transport Publishing.

Curtis, M. 2014. New bus for London, the inside story. Manchester: Nostalgia Road / Crecy Publishing.

Buildings and infrastructure

Brown, D. 2005. Bridges, three thousand years of defying nature. London: Mitchell Beazley.

Agrawal, R. 2018. Built. London: Bloomsbury.

Brown, D. 2005. Bridges, three thousand years of defying nature. London: Mitchell Beazley.

Grigsby, D. 2012. Colossal. Pittsburgh: Periscope Publishing.

Newhouse, E. ed. 1992. The builders. Washington DC: National Geographic Society.

It contains helpful short profiles of many important building projects, including the Panama Canal, the

Brooklyn Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, the Channel Tunnel, the Empire State Building, the Great Pyramids

of Giza, and the Duomo in Florence.

Quiney, A. 1986. House and home. London: BBC.

Channel Tunnel

Fetherson, D. 1997. Chunnel, the amazing story of the undersea crossing of the English Channel. New

York: Times Books / Random House.

Wilson, J. & Spick, J. 1994. Eurotunnel, the illustrated journey. London: HarperCollins.

Florence

King, R. 2001. Brunelleschi’s dome. London: Pimlico.

Kuala Lumpur

Singh, G., ed. 1998. Sculpting the sky, Petronas Twin Towers. Al Hilal Publishing.

London

Anon. 2013. The Shard, the official handbook. London: Thames & Hudson.

Carter, E. & Goldfinger, E. 1945. The County of London plan. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books.


Day, B. 1996. This wooden ‘O’, Shakespeare’s Globe reborn. London: Oberon Books.

Doherty, S. 2008. Heathrow’s Terminal 5, history in the making. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Elborough, T. 2013. London Bridge in America. London: Jonathan Cape.

Rose, S. 2007. Eye, the story behind the London Eye. London: Black Dog Publishing.

St John Wilson, C. 1998. The design and construction of the British Library. London: The British Library.

Nicolson, A. 1999. Regeneration – the story of the Dome. London: HarperCollins.

Nicolson, A. 1997. Reconstruction – the rebuilding of Windsor Castle. London: Michael Joseph.

Wilson, T. 2016. The story of the Design Museum. London: Phaidon.

New York

Goldman, J. 1980. The Empire State Building book. New York: St Martin’s Press.

Sabbagh, K. 1989. Skyscraper, the making of a building. London: Macmillan.

San Francisco

Dillon, R. et al. 1979. High steel, building the bridges across San Francisco Bay. Berkeley, Cal., US:

Celestial Arts.

Sydney

Anon. 1989. The story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Sydney: New South Wales Roads and Traffic

Authority.

Moy, M. 2009. Sydney Opera House, idea to icon. Ashgrove, AU: Alpha Orion Press.

Webber, P. 2012. Peter Hall Architect, the phantom of the Opera House. Boorowa, AU: The

Watermark Press.

Roads

Yeadon, H. (2005). The motorway achievement: building the network: the north west of England.

Chichester: Phillimore & Co for the Motorway Archive Trust.

Entertainment and spectacle

Curtis, R. 1995. Four weddings and a funeral. London: BCA.

Grant, R. 2006. The Wah-wah diaries – the making of a film. London: Picador (Pan Macmillan).

Robson, E. 2003. Coen Brothers. London: Virgin Books.

Rubel, D. 2012. Lincoln. New York: Disney Editions.


The story behind the Steven Spielberg movie about the 16th US president.

Taylor, B. 2012. Apocalypse on the set. New York: Overlook Duckworth.

Maritime

Maguglin, R. 1993. The Queen Mary, the official pictorial history. Santa Barbara, CA, US: Albion

Publishing Group.

Peisley, T. (ed.) 1995. Oriana – from dream to reality. London: P&O Cruises (UK) Limited.

Potter, N. & Frost, J. 1969. QE2 – Queen Elizabeth 2. London: Harrap.

Rail

125 Group. 2019. Inter-City 125. Yeovil, UK: Haynes Publishing.

Johnson, P. 2018. Rebuilding the Welsh Mountain Railway. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword.

Jolly, S. & Bayman, B. 1986. Docklands Light Railway. London: Capital Transport Publishing.

Smith, G. 2011. Tornado. Yeovil, UK: Haynes Publishing.

How a group of enthusiasts built a brand new express steam locomotive from 1940s plans.

Telecoms

Bloom, J. 2016. Eccentric orbits. Grove Press UK.

Project managers and architects

Foster and Partners. 2005. Catalogue, Foster and Partners. Munich: Prestel Verlag.

Hall, D. 2011. Fred Dibnah’s Victorian heroes. London: Transworld Publishers.

Long, P. & Thomas, J., eds. 2007. Basil Spence, architect. Trustees of the National Galleries of

Scotland.

Newhouse, V. 1989. Wallace K. Harrison, architect. New York: Rizzoli.

Rolt, L. 1961. Isambard Kingdom Brunel. London: Arrow Books.

Smiles, S. 1897. Industrial biography: iron workers and tool makers. London: John Murray.

Books about business

Freedman, L. (2013). Strategy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Peters, T. & Waterman, R. 1982. In search of excellence – lessons from America’s best-run companies.

New York: Harper & Row.


Apple

Dormehl, L. 2012. The Apple revolution. London: Virgin Books.

Lashinsky, A. 2012. Inside Apple. London: John Murray.

Honda

Sato, M. 2006. The Honda myth. New York: Vertical.

Sony

Morita, A. 1994. Made in Japan. London: HarperCollinsBusiness.

Includes insights into the development of the hugely successful Sony Walkman.

Documentaries (including dramatizations)

All the following titles, whether films, TV programmes or solely found on DVD, are available or have

been available) as DVD editions.

The big mill. 1963. Film. Directed by Laurence Henson. In Steel, a century of steelmaking on film.

DVD box set. UK: British Film Institute.

The construction of the Ravenscraig integrated steel works.

Brief city. 1952. Film. Directed by Maurice Harvey, Jacques Brunius. In Design for today. UK: British

Film Institute.

Reflections on the Festival of Britain.

The building of the new Tyne Bridge. 1928. Film. In Steel, a century of steelmaking on film. DVD box

set. UK: British Film Institute.

The corporation. 2003. Film. Directed by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott. Canada: Big Picture Media.

Creating a diversion. 1980. Film. Directed by David Stevens. In The driving force. DVD box set. UK:

British Film Institute.

Dodging the column. 1952. Film. Directed by Michael Orrom. In Off the beaten track. DVD box set.

UK: British Film Institute.


The exercise to move a long distillation column from Greenwich to Grangemouth presents many

examples of how attitudes to risk and risk planning have evolved since the 1950s.

The edge of the possible. 2009. DVD. Directed by Daryl Dellora. Australia: Film Art Doco.

The story of the design and construction of Sydney Opera House with a strong emphasis towards the

role of Jorn Utzon, the architect.

Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room. 2005. Film. Directed by Alex Gibney. US: 2929 Entertainment.

Experiment under London. 1961-1969. 5 films. Directed by Bob Privett. UK: British Film Institute.

The story of how the Victoria Line underground railway was built in the 1960s.

Filmed in Supermarionation. 2014. DVD. Directed by Stephen La Riviere. UK: Network.

A highly creative team created some of the most popular children’s television series of the 1960s,

featuring technically advanced puppetry and ingenious special effects.

The fog of war. 2003. Film. Directed by Errol Morris. US: Sony Pictures Classics.

Robert McNamara, US Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, reflects on dealing with stark

ethical dilemmas.

Gerrit’s diary. 2011. DVD. Produced by G. Braun et al. Germany: Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg.

The team behind Europe’s largest indoor model railway creates a fully functioning model airport.

Helvetica. 2007. Film. Directed by Gary Hustwit. Switzerland: Plexifilm.

How one of the world’s most familiar typefaces came into being and its effect on the world around us.

Illuminating Hadrian’s Wall. 2010. UK: Hadrian’s Wall Heritage.

Man on wire. 2007. Film. Directed by James Marsh. UK: discovery Films.

Objectified. 2009. Film. Directed by Gary Hustwit. Switzerland: Swiss Dots.

The pacemakers, Basil Spence. 1973. Film. In Design for today. UK: British Film Institute.

The Pruitt-Igoe myth. 2011. Film. Directed by Chad Freidrichs. US: First Run Features.

A huge award-winning housing complex in St Louis came to be so dilapidated and crime-ridden that it

had to be demolished after just twenty years

Revenge of the electric car. 2011. Film. Directed by Chris Paine. US: Dogwoof.

Following ‘Who killed the electric car?’ this film is much more positive, and features the early stages

of Tesla’s car development as well as number of much smaller efforts.


Shackleton. 2001. TV series. Directed by Charles Sturridge. UK: Channel 4.

The Shetland experience. 1977. Film. Directed by Derek Williams. In Shadows of Progress. DVD box

set. UK: British Film Institute.

The space race. 2005. TV series. Directed by Christopher Spencer. UK: BBC Worldwide.

NASA’s Werner von Braun and Sergei Korolev of the USSR compete for supremacy in space through

the 1950s and 1960s.

Three installations. 1952. Film. Directed by Lindsay Anderson. In Shadows of Progress. DVD box set.

UK: British Film Institute.

Who killed the electric car? 2006. Film. Directed by Chris Paine. US:EV Confidential.

General Motors produces a fleet of electric cars and finds enthusiastic drivers in California (including

celebrities), only to recall them all and crush them.

A number of great titles can be found on YouTube, but there is no guarantee how long they will be

around.

Feature films

Many feature films have a project dimension to them. ‘The Italian Job’ (in both its versions) tells the

story of a project, even if it is a criminal one! Many of the themes of planning, stakeholder

engagement, risk management and team motivation come through.

All the President’s men. 1976. Film. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. US: Warner Brothers.

Two investigative journalists work conscientiously to reveal the full scandal behind the break in at the

Watergate building, leading to the resignation of President Nixon.

Apollo 13. 1995. Film. Directed by Ron Howard. US: Universal.

The bridge on the River Kwai. 1957. Film. Directed by David Lean. US: Columbia Pictures.

Chariots of Fire. 1981. Film. Directed by Hugh Hudson. UK. Allied Stars Ltd.

The China Syndrome. 1979. Film. Directed by James Bridges. US: Columbia Pictures.

The day of the Jackal. 1973. Film. Directed by Fred Zimmerman. UK: Warwick Film Productions.

Dr Strangelove. 1963. Film. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. UK: Hawk Films

Fail Safe. 1964. Film. Directed by Sidney Lumet. US: Columbia Pictures.

A few good men. 1992. Film. Directed by Rob Reiner. US: Columbia.

Henry V. 1989. Film. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. UK: Renaissance Films.


Henry V. 1945. Film. Directed by Laurance Olivier. UK: Rank.

I’m all right Jack. 1959. Film. Directed by John Boulting. UK: Charter Film Productions.

The Italian job. 1969. Film. Directed by Peter Collinson. UK: Paramount Pictures.

Path to War. 2002. TV film. Directed by John Frankenheimer. US: HBO.

Rififi. 1955. Film. Directed by Jules Dassin. France: Pathe.

Spotlight. 2015. Film. Directed by Tom McCarthy. US: Spotlight Film.

A team of investigative journalists uncovers widespread child abuse in Boston under the guidance of

a principled and determined editor (project sponsor?).

Titanic. 1997. Film. Directed by James Cameron. US: Paramount Pictures.

To Kill a Mockingbird. 1962. Film. Directed by Robert Mulligan. US: Brentwood Productions.

Twelve Angry Men. 1957. Film. Directed by Sidney Lumet. US: Orion-Nova Productions.

Wah-Wah. 2005. Film. Directed by Richard E. Grant. US/RSA: Scion Films.

The walk. 2015. Film. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. US: Columbia.

Working Girl. 1986. Film. Directed by Mike Nichols. US: 20th Century Fox.

Television programmes

Unfortunately television programmes are generally only available for short periods of time. Sites like

BBC iPlayer will make programmes available for around 30 days, and some programmes find their way

on to sites like YouTube. Some television stations will sell recordings but these tend to be pretty

expensive. That said, here are a few programmes which stand out, if you can find them.

The great tram disaster. 2011. TV. Directed by Craig Williams. UK: BBC Scotland.

Reporter David Miller examines the reasons behind the Edinburgh tram project which descended into

an embarrassing and expensive debacle.

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