Autumn comes with new additions @British library

After one month’s holiday, on 1 September the library @British in Bucharest opened its gates for those who love books, films or want to learn more about British culture.

We refreshed the graded reader’s collection with titles that will make your days more serene. You can choose "Tom Jones", "Escape", "Tales from Longpuddle” or, if you prefer an audio-visual experience, "127 Hours" and "The King's Speech" and many more are waiting for you on the New Arrivals shelf. Come and pick your favorite from over 100 new materials!

Latest arrivals @British: The art of Business&Debate

This week, the British Council library, @British expands its collection with over 30 brand new business titles and enriches the collection on debate.

Ever fancied of building up your own business but unawere how? Books such as “ Brilliant Business Creativity” or “How they started” are here to help you. And if your aims are closer to marketing and selling come and pick one of our new titles : Brain Tracy’s “The Psychology of Selling” or Jim Collins’ “Good to Great in the Social Sectors”.

Also, materials such as “Brilliant Presentation”, “Louder Than Words” or “The Lost Art of the Great Speech” from the Debate corner, can teach you how to gain an analytical thinking or to amaze future customers through your speech and argumentation skills. Find the new titles on the New Arrivals shelf!

New treats @British!

An entire collection of Midsomer Murders, brand new Blu-ray titles such as The Hurt Locker, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Avatar and many more are waiting for your pick!

Spring arrives with new arrivals @British

Let the sunny days find you smiling and laughing, because now you’ll find new comic books @British: the complete Peanuts comics by Charles Schulz, Calvin and Hobbes, or Simon’s Cat. And if you’re into some reading and improving your English language, you’ll find over 40 new titles in our graded readers collection, half of them which come with audio CD’s!

Keep watching us, because we’re preparing more surprises for you in the next weeks. Until then, continue to enjoy your reading and don’t forget to welcome spring with the best books, movies and English language materials @British!

Develop yourself @British

This week, you’ll find more than thirty new books in the library @British, all helpful for your development. Ten new titles for preparing for an English language certificate, be it IELTS or Certificate in Advanced English are now introduced in our Exams collection! In addition, over twenty personal development books to help you enrich your life – browse through titles like The Relationship Cure, Positive Psychology in a Nutshell, In Praise of Slow, or Alain De Botton’s ninth title in the collection @British, the number 1 bestseller The Consolations of Philosophy. All the books can be found on our New Arrivals shelves.

This week @British: receipes for branding and cooking - May 2010

The library @British enriches its collection this week with three new collections on branding, management and cooking. Would you like to try out some new recipes? Pick one (ore several), from our complete collection of Jamie Oliver books or learn How to Cook Everything from Mark Bittman’s series. You can also check out books from the “One Minute Manger” series by Ken Blanchard or read about branding according to authors like Duncan Bruce or Allen P. Adamson.

New titles @British - May 2010

This week, you can find some new and interesting materials @British. A crisp new collection of Graded Readers is on our shelves, which will allow you to read well-known novels no matter if your English language knowledge is at a beginner level or at an advanced one. You can take your pick from over 25 new titles, some of which are accompanied by Audio CDs.

You can also browse through our newest DVDs: over 50 movies, documentaries and live concerts, including Children of Men, A Clockwork Orange, Top Gear and concerts by Deep Purple, Queen, The Who and Coldplay.

Pursue your passion @British with our newest acquisitions - March 2010

This week, the British Council library, @British, is nurturing your passions with brand new albums on architecture, photography and urban arts and a fresh collection of culinary recipes. You can have Jamie Oliver or Mark Bittman as your chef or see Glasgow through Harry Benson’s lens. Kids can learn about the world from the 3 brand new encyclopaedias for them: My First Planet Earth Encyclopaedia, Children’s Knowledge Encyclopaedia and Children’s Great Explorers Encyclopaedia.

Read & watch the new additions @British - March 2010

As spring settles in, our resources collections @British have brand new clothes! Come and enjoy the new materials we recently received: great series on DVD, such as Prison Break, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development and others, Collections of the Best of British Mystery and Thriller films, and many more movies to watch with a cup of tea and some biscuits.

Parents and kids can also stop by our library @British to check out the new collections of Children’s fiction and Parenting books, while professionals interested in Public Relations and new media can borrow one of the newest acquisitions on PR, communication, or the Internet.

Hear your favourite stories @British - January 2010

Eager to know what’s new @British? This week, you can find a brand new collection of books - “The Chronicles of Narnia” series in a special format - audio books! Just press a button and listen as a BBC Radio full cast team performs all the seven stories - “The Magician’s Nephew”, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, “Prince Caspian”, “The Horse and His Boy”, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, “The Silver Chair” and “The Last Battle”.

And if your way of relaxing is reading success stories, then stop by @British and skim (not sure if the word sounds ok) through “The Snowball”, which tells you about the richest man in the world, Warren Buffett, or through the books of Sir Richard Branson’s, one of the most successful men in the UK. All these books can be found in our newest business books collection, together with other 15 just as interesting, in our New Acquisitions section.

Discover 2 new book collections! - January 2010

If you are you interested in the world that surrounds you and how your actions influence it, then our Climate Change collection is where you’ll find your reading material. You can choose books from 15 new titles, starting with Friedman’s best sellers “The World is Flat” and “Hot, Flat and Crowded” all the way to titles such as “The Economics of Climate Change” by Nicholas Sterm.

Communication is one of the fields that influences businesses and corporations more and more. Titles such as “The New Rules of Marketing and PR” or “Effective Writing Skills in PR” can be your starting point in learning more about Marketing, PR and Advertising.

New music, flicks and stories @British

Some 30 new acquisitions can be found on the shelves @British these days. If you’re a big reader, then you can snuggle in your favourite armchair with a cup of tea and one of Ian McEwan’s, Neil Gaiman’s or Alain de Botton’s stories.

Is music your big passion? Then sing along with British artists like Jamiroquai, The Sex Pistols, Faithless, The Clash, Placebo and others.

And if movies are your thing, then get your popcorn and watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Alexander or the complete series of Doctor Who. You can find them all @British!

In with the new @British - October 2009

Fancy a new read @British? Stop by the library and take your pick from our 200 new titles –Wii games, Exams books, a brand new For Dummies collection, travel guides, parenting books and some new award-winning fiction books. Also, watch great artists in live in concert – Robbie Williams, The Prodigy, Boyzone, The Corrs, Deep Purple and Eric Clapton are all waiting on our shelves to play their music for you.

Personal MBA collection - starting July 2009

In 2005, Josh Kaufman raised a question – why are MBA programmes in control of the information for the business field? Instead of paying tens of thousands of euros on an MBA programme, you could teach yourselves everything you need to know; you just have to read the right books.

On his website, he explains this concept and promotes non-formal education. In order to help those interested, he also published a list of essential readings that help assimilate MBA level knowledge.

Today, British Council endorses the Personal MBA concept and offers its readers this book collection, useful to anyone interested in the business field and in personal development. You can gain access to this collection by acquiring a special membership at the library or by adding an extra-option to your Standard or Youth membership.

Prepare for the ACCA Qualification with our brand new study guides.