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
By: Ron Basu
Reviewed by: Sarah Delgado Visser, Jan 2024
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
By: David Hancock
Reviewed by: Paul L. Lagattuta, Jul 2023
By: Kaye Remington
Reviewed by: Amalia Quintero, Feb 2023
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
By: John Bartlett
Reviewed by: Jen Duenhoelter, Nov 2017
By: Laurence Lecoeuvre, Editor
Reviewed by: Catherine Cockrell, PhD, Apr 2017
Net Present Value and Risk Modelling For Projects
By: Martin Hopkinson
Reviewed by: Ash Jantrania, PMP, CSM, Mar 2017
Project Leadership, 3rd Edition
By: Sarah Coleman and Donnie MacNicol
Reviewed by: John Holderman, Mar 2017
By: Peter Taylor
Reviewed by: Susan Riewe, PMP, Feb 2017
By: Peter Taylor
Reviewed by: Heather Creer-Rygalski, Jan 2017
Culture and Project Management: Managing Diversity in Multi-Cultural Projects
By: Omar Zein
Reviewed by: Luis Gallardo Estrella, Jan 2016
By: Jose Ramón San Cristóbal Mateo, PhD
Reviewed by: Jack Gao, Nov 2015
Project Management for Supplier Organizations
By: Adrian Taggart
Reviewed by: Luis Gallardo Estrella, Sep 2015
By: Haukur Ingi Jonasson and Helgi Thor Ingasson
Reviewed by: Javed Azam, Aug 2015
By: Mark Mullaly
Reviewed by: Butch Freeland, Jul 2015
By: Mark Phillips
Reviewed by: Rodger Martin, Feb 2015
Bridging the Business-Project Divide
By: John Brinkworth
Reviewed by: Diane Johnson Morris, PMP, Feb 2015
By: Mario Kossman
Reviewed by: Douglas Dodd, Jr, Jan 2015
Applying Lean Six Sigma in the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Bikash Chatterjee
Reviewed by: Arvind Tripathi, Nov 2014
By: Meena Thuraisingham, in collaboration with Wolfgang Lehmacher
Reviewed by: Nazanin Mehrooz, Sep 2014
Validating Strategies: Linking Projects and Results to Uses and Benefits
By: Phil Driver
Reviewed by: Johnny Gan, Aug 2014
By: Thomas P. Wise
Reviewed by: Shailaja Suresh, Aug 2014
By: Haukur Ingi Jonasson and Helgi Thor Ingason
Reviewed by: Patty Kelley, Jul 2014
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
By: Gary Lloyd
Reviewed by: Shailaja Suresh, Jun 2014
The Rules of Project Risk Management
By: Robert J. Chapman, PhD
Reviewed by: Walter R. Washburn, Jun 2014
By: Dieter Fink
Reviewed by: Conrado Morlan, May 2014
Project Management – Tenth Edition
By: Dennis Lock
Reviewed by: Diane Johnson Morris, PMP, Apr 2014
