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Gower
Founded in 1967 and widely recognized as a specialist publisher of project management books and resources, Gower is now part of the Routledge / Taylor and Francis Group. Over the years, Gower published over 1000 business and project management books addressing some of the most challenging and cutting edge topics.
The Gower series on Advances in Project Management can be found at https://www.routledge.com/Advances-in-Project-Management/book-series/APM. The newest project management titles from Routledge publishers including Gower can be found here.
Before being acquired, Gower provided copies of selected new books to PM World for review, after which the book reviews were published in the PM World Journal and posted in the PM World Library. Those reviews are accessible below. To read a book review, click on the title. To learn more about the book, click on the cover image. To learn something about the reviewer, click on her or his name.
– Book Reviews
![Managing Quality in Projects](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Managing-Quality-in-Projects-book-cover-1.jpg?fit=150%2C225&ssl=1)
By: Ron Basu
Reviewed by: Sarah Delgado Visser, Jan 2024
![Managing Sustainable Development Programmes: A Learning Approach to Change](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Managing-Sustainable-Development-Programmes-book-cover.jpg?fit=150%2C217&ssl=1)
Managing Sustainable Development Programmes: A Learning Approach to Change
By: Göran Brulin, Lennart Svensson
Reviewed by: Jemillatu I. Lewally, Dec 2023
![Tame, Messy and Wicked Risk Leadership](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wisked-Risk-Leadership-book-cover.jpg?fit=150%2C235&ssl=1)
Tame, Messy and Wicked Risk Leadership
By: David Hancock
Reviewed by: Paul L. Lagattuta, Jul 2023
![Leading Complex Projects](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Leading-Complex-Projects-book-cover.jpg?fit=150%2C211&ssl=1)
By: Kaye Remington
Reviewed by: Amalia Quintero, Feb 2023
![The Essentials of Managing Quality for Projects and Programmes](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Managing-Quality.jpg?fit=120%2C180&ssl=1)
The Essentials of Managing Quality for Projects and Programmes
By: John Bartlett
Reviewed by: Venkata Ramana Edagottu, Dec 2017
![The Essentials of Managing Risk for Projects and Programmes](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Essentials-book-cover.jpg?fit=120%2C181&ssl=1)
The Essentials of Managing Risk for Projects and Programmes
By: John Bartlett
Reviewed by: Jen Duenhoelter, Nov 2017
![The Performance of Projects and Project Management: Sustainable Delivery in Project Intensive Companies](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/pmwj57-Apr2017-Cockrell-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C179&ssl=1)
By: Laurence Lecoeuvre, Editor
Reviewed by: Catherine Cockrell, PhD, Apr 2017
![Net Present Value and Risk Modelling For Projects](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/pmwj56-Mar2017-Jantrania-BOOK.jpg?fit=100%2C140&ssl=1)
Net Present Value and Risk Modelling For Projects
By: Martin Hopkinson
Reviewed by: Ash Jantrania, PMP, CSM, Mar 2017
![Project Leadership, 3rd Edition](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Project-Leadership.jpg?fit=100%2C150&ssl=1)
Project Leadership, 3rd Edition
By: Sarah Coleman and Donnie MacNicol
Reviewed by: John Holderman, Mar 2017
![The Social Project Manager](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/pmwj55-Feb2017-Riewe-BOOK2.jpg?fit=80%2C127&ssl=1)
By: Peter Taylor
Reviewed by: Susan Riewe, PMP, Feb 2017
![The Social Project Manager](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Social-PM-80x.jpg?fit=80%2C127&ssl=1)
By: Peter Taylor
Reviewed by: Heather Creer-Rygalski, Jan 2017
![Culture and Project Management: Managing Diversity in Multi-Cultural Projects](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj42-Jan2016-Estrella-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C176&ssl=1)
Culture and Project Management: Managing Diversity in Multi-Cultural Projects
By: Omar Zein
Reviewed by: Luis Gallardo Estrella, Jan 2016
![Management Science, Operations Research and Project Management: Modeling, Evaluation, Scheduling, Monitoring](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj40-Nov2015-Gao-BOOK.jpg?fit=150%2C219&ssl=1)
By: Jose Ramón San Cristóbal Mateo, PhD
Reviewed by: Jack Gao, Nov 2015
![Project Management for Supplier Organizations](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj38-Sep2015-GallardoEstrella-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C176&ssl=1)
Project Management for Supplier Organizations
By: Adrian Taggart
Reviewed by: Luis Gallardo Estrella, Sep 2015
![Project Ethics](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj37-Aug2015-Azam-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C179&ssl=1)
By: Haukur Ingi Jonasson and Helgi Thor Ingasson
Reviewed by: Javed Azam, Aug 2015
![Exercising Agency](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj36-Jul2015-Freeland-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C176&ssl=1)
By: Mark Mullaly
Reviewed by: Butch Freeland, Jul 2015
![Reinventing Communication](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj31-Feb2015-Martin-IMAGE1-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C176&ssl=1)
By: Mark Phillips
Reviewed by: Rodger Martin, Feb 2015
![Bridging the Business-Project Divide](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj31-Feb2015-Morris-IMAGE1-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C176&ssl=1)
Bridging the Business-Project Divide
By: John Brinkworth
Reviewed by: Diane Johnson Morris, PMP, Feb 2015
![Requirements Management](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj30-Jan2015-Dodd-BOOK-COVER.jpg?fit=120%2C175&ssl=1)
By: Mario Kossman
Reviewed by: Douglas Dodd, Jr, Jan 2015
![Applying Lean Six Sigma in the Pharmaceutical Industry](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj28-nov2014-Tripathi-BOOK-COVER.jpg?fit=120%2C176&ssl=1)
Applying Lean Six Sigma in the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Bikash Chatterjee
Reviewed by: Arvind Tripathi, Nov 2014
![The Secret Life of Decisions](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj26-sep2014-Mehrooz-IMAGE1-BOOK.gif?fit=120%2C170&ssl=1)
By: Meena Thuraisingham, in collaboration with Wolfgang Lehmacher
Reviewed by: Nazanin Mehrooz, Sep 2014
![Validating Strategies: Linking Projects and Results to Uses and Benefits](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj25-aug2014-Gan-IMAGE1-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C174&ssl=1)
Validating Strategies: Linking Projects and Results to Uses and Benefits
By: Phil Driver
Reviewed by: Johnny Gan, Aug 2014
![Trust in Virtual Teams](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj25-aug2014-Suresh-IMAGE1-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C176&ssl=1)
By: Thomas P. Wise
Reviewed by: Shailaja Suresh, Aug 2014
![Project Ethics](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj24-jul2014-Kelley-IMAGE1-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C179&ssl=1)
By: Haukur Ingi Jonasson and Helgi Thor Ingason
Reviewed by: Patty Kelley, Jul 2014
![Project Think: Why Good Managers Make Bad Decisions](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj23-jun2014-Hermanson-IMAGE1-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C176&ssl=1)
Project Think: Why Good Managers Make Bad Decisions
By: Lev Virine and Michael Trumper
Reviewed by: Brad Hermanson, PE, PMP, MBA, Jun 2014
![Business Leadership for IT Projects](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj23-jun2014-Suresh-IMAGE1-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C176&ssl=1)
Business Leadership for IT Projects
By: Gary Lloyd
Reviewed by: Shailaja Suresh, Jun 2014
![The Rules of Project Risk Management](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/pmwj23-jun2014-Washburn-IMAGE1-BOOK.jpg?fit=120%2C174&ssl=1)
The Rules of Project Risk Management
By: Robert J. Chapman, PhD
Reviewed by: Walter R. Washburn, Jun 2014
![Project Risk Governance](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/pmwj22-may2014-Morlan-IMAGE1-BOOK-1.jpg?fit=120%2C175&ssl=1)
By: Dieter Fink
Reviewed by: Conrado Morlan, May 2014
![Project Management – Tenth Edition](https://i0.wp.com/pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/pmwj21-apr2014-Morris-IMAGE1-BOOK.png?fit=120%2C171&ssl=1)
Project Management – Tenth Edition
By: Dennis Lock
Reviewed by: Diane Johnson Morris, PMP, Apr 2014