A level Business Studies - Resource reviews

The list below is a summary of the reviews of books, on-line material and CD roms which have been reviewed in the EBEA magazine, Teaching Business and Economics. Follow the link to the relevant magazine to read the review.  



AQA Business Studies for AS, 4th edition Malcolm Surridge and Andrew Gillespie.  Spring 2012
p 29
AQA Business Studies for AS 2nd Edition, Ian Marcousé, Malcolm Surridge, Andrew Gillespie & Nigel Watson. Autumn 2011
p 32
Case Studies for A-Level Business Studies (AQA) 2011/12, Ian Marcousé. Autumn 2011
p 32
The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick. Autumn 2011
p 34
Wilful Blindness: Why we ignore the obvious atour peril, Margaret Heffernan Autumn 2011
p 35
Macrowikinomics – Rebooting Business and The World, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. Autumn 2011
p 35 
Time2Revise AQA AS and A2 Business Studies Resources, BUSS Guides 1-4, Helen Coupland-Smith and Carlo Mencattelli. Autumn 2011
p 36

 


Learnloads, textbooks minus paper, www.learnloads.com, £99 annual subscription. Summer 2011
p 42
Local Heroes: how Loch Fyne Oysters embraced employee ownership and business success, David Erdal, Viking, 2008, hardback, 233 pages, ISBN 978 0 670917 54 9 Summer 2011
p 40 
Mind Maps for Business, Tony Buzan, BBC Books, 2010, 280 pages, paperback, £14.99, ISBN 978 1 406642 90 2 Summer 2011
p 39 
Cambridge International AS and A level Business Studies, 2nd edn., Peter Stimpson and Alastair Farquarson, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 680 pages + student CD, £29.95, ISBN 978 0 521 12656 4
 
Spring 2011
p 32
Fortune & Venture Educational Game, free for the first year, annual subscription after that £150, www.fortuneadventure.com Spring 2011
p 32
 
Arsenal Business Case Studies, Paul Kitchen, Jon Pettigrew and Guy Portman, £10 per case book + £10 for Teacher Guide. Order from https://eshop.londonmet.ac.uk/
 
Summer 2010
p 30
AS-Level Business Studies, The Revision Guide, CGP, 2009, 110 pages, £9.99, ISBN 9781847621337
A2-Level Business Studies, The Revision Guide, CGP, 2009, 190 pages, £10.99, ISBN 9781847622730.
Summer 2010
p 29
 
Marketing: A guide to the fundamentals, Patrick Forsyth, The Economist, Profile Books, 208 pages, £12.99, ISBN 978-1-84668-193 -6
 
Spring 2010
p 30 
AS Worksheets for Business Studies,  Ian Marcousé and Claire Marcousé A-Z Business Training Ltd, 2008, photocopiable, £95 + VAT + p&p, discount for second copy. Tel. 020 8540 4188.,
 
Autumn 2009
p 35

Fortune and Venture, Fortune & Venture Ltd. £49.99. Available from 5 Saunders Crescent, Pocklington, East Yorkshire.Y042 2GU. More details from www.fortuneadventure.com 
 

Summer 2009
p 30
Sim Venture, Venture Simulations Ltd, a “business start up” computer game. Site licence £750. A trial version is available to download from www.simventure.co.uk.
 
Summer 2009
p 29
AQA Business Studies AS, Peter Stimpson, Steven Foden and Diane Mansell, Nelson Thornes, 2008, £17.99, ISBN 9780 7487 9846 9.
 
Summer 2009
p 25
AQA AS Business Studies, John Wolinski and Gwen Coates, second edition, Philip Allan Updates, 2008, 520 pages, £19.99, ISBN 9780340959343
 
Summer 2009
p 24
Business Studies A Level AQA, Dave Hall, Rob Jones, Carlo Raffo and Alain Anderton, fourth edition, 564 pages, £24.99, Pearson Education, ISBN 978-1-4058-9221-6 Spring 2009
p 30


AS Essential Business Studies for AQA, Jonathan Sutherland and Diane Cantwell, £18.99, Folens,ISBN 978-1-85008-360-3 .

Autumn 2008

p 27
 
AQA Business Studies for AS, Third Edition, Malcolm Surridge and Andrew Gillespie,287 pages, £19.99, Hodder Education, ISBN 978 0340 957172 Autumn 2008
p 27
 
AQA Business Studies for AS, Ian Marcousé et al., 336 pages plus dynamic learning CD-ROM,£19.99, Hodder Education, ISBN 978-0-34095-864-3 Autumn 2008
p 27
 
OCR AS Business Studies, Andy Mottershead,Steve Challoner and Alex Grant, second edition,310 pages, £16.99, Philip Allan Updates, ISBN 978 0 340 95933 6 Autumn 2008
p 27
 
AS Business Studies, Andrew Ashwin, Stuart Merrills, Richard Thompson and Denry Machin, £19.99, Collins, ISBN 13-978 0 00 727037 8 Autumn 2008
p 27
 
The UK Economy 1997–2007, Ian Black, £7.95, Anforme, ISBN 978-1-905504-16-9 Autumn 2008
p 27
 
The Times 100, free of charge, accessible at www.times100.co.uk eBusiness Course Companion, price £350 for a site licence, eHarris Learning Summer 2008
p 32
 
Business and Management, Paul Hoang, 750 pages, £35, IBID Press, ISBN 1-876659-63-7 Summer 2008
p 32
 
Cheap – The real cost of the global trend for bargains, discounts and consumer choice, David Bosshart, Koogan Press 2006, £14.99, ISBN 0 7494 4534-3 Summer 2006
p 44
 
Business, Economics and Enterprise, Peter Davies and Jacek Brant, Routledge(www.routledge.co.uk), 2006,241 pages, hardback, £65,ISBN 0-415-36357-8, paperback,£18.99, ISBN 0-415-34432 Spring 2006
p 34
 
AS Applied Business for Edexcel, Michael Fardon, Frank Adcock and John Prokopiw, Osborne Books Ltd, 389 pages,ISBN 1-872962-34-3 Spring 2006
p 34
 
Open for Business, Orange Education, free internet resource Autumn 2006
p 28
 
Understanding Brands, Peter Cheverton, Kogan Page, 139 pages, £8.99, ISBN 0-7494-4665-X Autumn 2006
p 28
 
OCR National Level 3 Business, Karen Hough, Jackie Tye and Nick Colburn, Heinemann, ISBN 978-0-435449-80-3 Autumn 2006
p 28
 
Business and Administration S/NVQ Level 3, Carol Carysforth, Maureen Rawlinson and Alison Chadwick, Oxford: Heinemann, £20.99, June 2006, ISBN 9780435463342 Autumn 2006
p 28
 
Teaching Business Education 14–19, Martin Jephcote and Ian Abbott, eds, David Fulton Publishers, 2005, 236 pages, paperback,£20 (£16 to EBEA members orderingthrough office@ebea.org.uk),ISBN 1-84312-254-5 Spring 2006
p 34