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Lid Editorial Las Cuatro Vidas de Steve Jobs
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Urano La Tercera Ola: El Futuro de Internet Segun Uno
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Sanage Publishing House LLP My Life and Work
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Taylor & Francis The Equilibrium Economics of Leon Walras
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Harry Van Arsdale Jr.
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Taylor & Francis People and Industries 22 Routledge Library Editions Industrial Economics
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Taylor & Francis People and Industries Routledge Library Editions Industrial Economics
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Cambridge University Press Wall Street to Main Street
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Cambridge University Press Sir John Brunner
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Cambridge University Press Wall Street to Main Street
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Cambridge University Press Medicine Science and Merck
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Cambridge University Press Nugget Coombs
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Cambridge University Press Dudley Docker
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Cambridge University Press Making Boswells Life of Johnson
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Harper Business Haunted Empire
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Back Bay Books Factory Man
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Back Bay Books Billion Dollar Loser
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Back Bay Books THAT WILL NEVER WORK
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Random House USA Inc The Wolf of Wall Street
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Random House USA Inc A Long Way From Home Growing Up in the American
Book SynopsisReflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty yearsFrom his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career in the Fifties and the tumultuous Sixties, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, the culture and the values that shaped him then and still do today. His father, Red Brokaw, a genius with machines, followed the instincts of Tom’s mother Jean, and took the risk of moving his small family from an Army base to Pickstown, South Dakota, where Red got a job as a heavy equipment operator in the Army Corps of Engineers’ proj
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Random House USA Inc Broken Code
Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • By an award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak outBroken Code fillets Facebook’s strategic failures to address its part in the spread of disinformation, political fracturing and even genocide. The book is stuffed with eye-popping, sometimes Orwellian statistics and anecdotes that could have come only from the inside. —New York Times Book ReviewOnce the unrivaled titan of social media, Facebook held a singular place in culture and politics. Along with its sister platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, it was a daily destination for billions of users around the world. Inside and outside the company, Facebook extolled its products as bringing pe
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W. W. Norton & Company Liars Poker Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall
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Little, Brown & Company Lincoln On Leadership
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Crown Archetype House of Nutter The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row
Book SynopsisThe strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men’s fashion—and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film. From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing up in an austere apartment above a café catering to truck drivers, both boys seemed destined to lead rather humble lives in post-war London—Tommy as a civil servant, David as a darkroom technician. Yet the strength of their imagination (plus a little help from their friends) transformed them instead into unlikely protagonists of a swinging cultural revolution. In 1969, at the age of twenty-six, Tommy opened an unusual new boutique on the “golden mile” of bespoke tailoring, Savile Row. While shocking a haughty establishment resistant to change, “Nutters of Savile Row” became an immediate sensation among the young, rich, an
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Penguin Putnam Inc Leaders
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Diversified Publishing The Ride of a Lifetime
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of leadership and success: The CEO of Disney shares the ideas and values he embraced while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life. AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARRobert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets. Today, Disney is the largest, most admired media company in the world, counting Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox among its properties. Under Iger’s leadership, Disney’s value grew nearly five times what it was, making Iger one of the most innovating and successful CEOs of our era.In The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger answers the question: What are the qualities of a good leader? He shares the lessons he learned while running Disney and leading its 220,000-plus employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership, including:• Optimism. Even in the face of difficulty, an optimistic leader will find the path toward the best possible outcome and focus on that, rather than give in to pessimism and blaming.• Courage. Leaders have to be willing to take risks and place big bets. Fear of failure destroys creativity. • Decisiveness. All decisions, no matter how difficult, can be made on a timely basis. Indecisiveness is both wasteful and destructive to morale. • Fairness. Treat people decently, with empathy, and be accessible to them. This book is about the relentless curiosity that has driven Iger since the day he started as the lowliest studio grunt at ABC. It’s also about thoughtfulness and respect, and a decency-over-dollars approach that has become the bedrock of every project and partnership Iger pursues, from a deep friendship with Steve Jobs in his final years to an abiding love of the Star Wars mythology. “The ideas in this book strike me as universal,” Iger writes. “Not just to the aspiring CEOs of the world, but to anyone wanting to feel less fearful, more confidently themselves, as they navigate their professional and even personal lives.”
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Random House Publishing Group Building
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Penguin Random House India Harsh Realities
Book SynopsisHarsh Mariwala founded Marico in 1987, breaking away from family-run Bombay Oils. Marico is now a leading FMCG giant with products like Parachute and Saffola. The company's success is attributed to trust, transparency, and innovation. "Harsh Realities" by Harsh Mariwala and Ram Charan tells the story of Marico's growth and success.
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DK What Would You Do If You Werent Afraid
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Refreshingly honest, [Michal] doesn't project a veneer of perfection but rather shatters the illusion that perfection is something to strive for. The format of the book allows for self-reflection at one's own pace, making it very approachable for readers of any or no religious persuasion." – Booklist"This is a magnificent book – combining the best of rigorous self-reflection, professional and personal counsel and Jewish wisdom. Michal Oshman shows, in this beautifully construed, wisely informed and always engrossing work, how Jewish wisdom can serve its intended purpose – practical guidance – en route to making one's life happier, more fulfilling and better." – Mark Gerson, Co-Founder and Chairman, United Hatzalah and author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, The Telling"Reading this beautiful book is like sitting with a wise friend who is helping you make sense of your life. In drawing on the insights of Jewish tradition, Michal Oshman shows us how to nurture our souls, the 'flame within a shell,' and turn pain into growth. Read this book gratefully, and then give it to someone you love." – Yossi Klein Halevi, Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute and author of the New York Times bestseller, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. Rogers v. Rogers
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HarperCollins Focus Me and Paul
Book SynopsisDiscover the untold stories and unbreakable bond between country music icon Willie Nelson and his longtime drummer, Paul English.Trade Review'A genuine testament to the power of friendship, loyalty, and what it means to live from the heart'. * Kirkus Reviews *'Nelson writes about friendship with soulful panache. The lyrical ode to an incredible bond will tug at readers' heartstrings.' * Publisher's Weekly *
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Twilight on the Bay
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Chicago Review Press Building Atlanta
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Not many people alive in Atlanta today can look back and say they were involved with Dr. King, but Herman can do that. He's been an important person in the history of this city." --Arthur Blank, cofounder, the Home Depot; owner, Atlanta Falcons"Herman has been one of the pillars of the Atlanta community for many years, as a businessperson but also as a caring, concerned citizen. He's made a lasting contribution, not just to Atlanta but to the nation." --John Lewis, U.S. representative, Georgia fifth congressional district"I think that Herman Russell had as much to do with the rise of Atlanta as Ted Turner. Ted did a tremendous job in taking Atlanta all over the world via CNN and Herman did the same with his building empire." --Hank Aaron, Hall-of-Fame baseball player"Mr. Russell is a towering figure in the city of Atlanta, and I can't think of Atlanta without him. His name in telephone's address book is simply 'Great Man.'" --Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed"Herman Russell is one of that group of African Americans in Atlanta, Horatio Alger types, who are proof of the American Dream." --Jane Fonda"Here's a man who, from his humble start working in his father's plastering business, has gone on to reshape the urban landscape of many of America's greatest cities." --Earl Graves, founder and publisher of Black EnterpriseTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction by Former US Ambassador Andrew YoungProloguePART I: Growing, Working, and Learning1. Life, One Word at a Time2. High School Hero3. Tuskegee Institute: An Educated ClassPART II: H. J. Russell & Company: Atlanta’s Do-It-All Contractor4. Black Entrepreneurship Takes Hold, Part 15. Otelia Hackney: A Black Woman EmergesPART III: Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement6. Swimming at the Deep End of Social Change7. Black Entrepreneurship Takes Hold, Part 28. My Big Greek Brother (From Another Mother)9. Desegregating the Good Ol’ Boys10. A Leg Up and Over: Joint VenturesPART IV: It’s a Living11. Before Takeoff and Landing, Visit Us at Concessions International12. The Beer Years13. The H. J. Russell Institute of Good Common Sense14. Mixing Business and PoliticsPART V: Family First15. The Wonders of Otelia16. Born Leaders17. . . . And Hello to SylviaPART VI: Sixty Years Later18. All the Rest of My DaysAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Authors
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St Martin's Press Prince of Darkness
Book SynopsisThe amazing and forgotten story of Wall Street's first black millionaire in pre-Civil War New York.
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St. Martin's Publishing Group The Fund
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Elvis and the Colonel
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Arcturus Publishing Bill Gates
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) Meet You in Hell
Book SynopsisTwo founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price.“Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today“The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami HeraldThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, Meet You in Hell captures the majesty and danger of steel manufacturing, the rough-and-tumble of the business world, and the fraught relationship between “the world’s richest man” and the ruthless coke magnate to whom he entrusted his companies. The result is an extraordinary work of popular history.Praise for Meet You in Hell“To the list of the signal relationships of American history . . . we can add one more: Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick . . . The tale is deftly set out by Les Standiford.”—Wall Street Journal“Standiford tells the story with the skills of a novelist . . . a colloquial style that is mindful of William Manchester’s great The Glory and the Dream.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review“A muscular, enthralling read that takes you back to a time when two titans of industry clashed in a battle of wills and egos that had seismic ramifications not only for themselves but for anyone living in the United States, then and now.”—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Harry Gunnison Brown
Book SynopsisHarry Gunnison Brown was born in 1880 and died in 1975. He was part of a important group of American economists that included Herbert J. Davenport, E.R.A. Seligman, J. B. Clark, Alvin S. Johnson, Frank A. Fetter, Richard T. Ely and Frank Knight. In some ways Brown represented an orthodoxy in economics that was slipping away as neoclassical economics assumed a particular shape. For example, Brown argued for the separate influences of both land and capital goods on the pricing of goods and services and did not follow the trend in orthodox circles of considering land just another form of capital. Brown supported land value taxation at a time when the leading economists of his day rejected Henry George's ideas and the possibility of Georgist economics. Ryan explores the work of Harry Gunnison Brown, one the most important innovators in American economic history Summarizes Brown's theoretical insights as well as the intellectual contexts in which they were developed Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments to this Edition. 1. Introduction. 2. Land as a Factor of Production. 3. Capital and Interest T heories. 4. Monetary Economics. 5. Taxation. 6. Land Value Taxation. 7. Regulation and Rate-Making. 8. International Trade and Finance. 9. Contributions as an Educator. 10. Conclusion. Books, Articles and Letters by Harry Gunnison Brown. Co-Edited or Co-Authored Books and Articles. Secondary Sources. Index.
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Pelican Publishing Co Tom Benson A Billionaires Journey
Book SynopsisFrom the boardroom to the headlines! From salesman to dealership owner, New Orleans-born billionaire Tom Benson started in business with cars, which paved the way for his other profitable enterprises that include banks, real estate, and the New Orleans Saints. Kathy Finn’s biography of this self-made tycoon reveals some of the mystery behind the legend. Beginning with his working-class childhood in New Orleans, Finn delves into the contention surrounding Benson, from the controversial near-relocation of the Saints to the dramatic legal battle with his daughter. Including interviews with friends, family, and acquaintances, this extensive compilation sheds light on the man behind the empire—his successes and his tragedies.
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Arcadia Publishing Bambergers New Jerseys Greatest Store
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Arcadia Publishing Auerbachs
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History Press Georgia Made
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History Press Tattered Cover Book Store
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History Press Outer Banks Visionaries
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Amazon Publishing Truthful Living: The First Writings of Napoleon Hill
New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer brings you the very foundation of Napoleon Hill’s self-help legacy: his long-lost original notes, letters, and lectures—now compiled, edited, and annotated for the modern reader. Twenty years before the publication of his magnum opus Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill was an instructor, philosopher, and writer at the George Washington Institute in Chicago, where he taught courses in advertising and sales. These rare, never-before-seen lectures were thought to be lost to history. Until now. Given exclusive access to the archives of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, Jeffrey Gitomer has unearthed Hill’s original course notes containing the fundamental beliefs in hard work and personal development that established Hill as a global leader of success and positive attitude. In Truthful Living, Gitomer has captured Hill’s foundational wisdom for the twenty-first century. These easy-to-implement real-world strategies for life, family, business, and the bottom line prove as energizing and inspiring today as they were nearly one hundred years ago.
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NewSouth, Incorporated Why Not Win?: Reflections on a Fifty-Year Journey
Book SynopsisAspiring business owners and executives seeking to climb to the next rung, young to mid-career professionals seeking tools for life achievement, and general readers interested in biographies of successful people will like Larry Thornton’s "Why Not Win?". The book is a front-row seat to how one man altered his thinking to transform his life. The book begins with his growing up with brown skin in the 1960s in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. A desegregation school pioneer, Thornton was a classroom failure until a perceptive English teacher showed him he had value and encouraged him to go to college. Like the educator who changed his life, Thornton became a classroom teacher. But budget cuts took his job, and he decided to rewrite his story using his artistic talent. Thornton’s artistry and work ethic got him attention at Coca-Cola, both for the good and the bad. He had to figure out a way to navigate this new world, where higher-ups praised him but co-workers reminded him of his "blackness" by drawing a noose in his workstation. He persevered by learning to appreciate and embrace diversity, people resources, and conflicting opinions. While his success grew at Coca-Cola, Thornton did the unthinkable: set out to be the first African American to own a McDonald’s franchise in Birmingham. This thorny journey was peppered with threats, attempts to thwart his mission and a marriage he could not keep from falling apart. He absorbed the "try, try and try again" motto, and came to see that failure was a prelude to feasting upon the sweet fruit of success. Thornton’s own mother never had a checking account, but years after her passing he found himself on the board of directors for a major financial institution. He slowly became a part of a small fraternity of captains of industry and fought past guilt and insecurity to pave the way for others who look like him to join him at the table. Trying to fit into this new world, he learned that "Thank you," "Please," and "Excuse me" are perhaps three of the most powerful phrases in communication. Thornton made up his mind that he would spend each day on a mission to show his unbending gratitude for his life and its benefits by fostering a supreme attitude and maintaining consistency in vision, purpose, and an unwavering commitment to principles. Thornton’s journey from Madison Park, Montgomery, has been a long one. "Why Not Win?" reflects on his most useful lessons and the anecdotes associated with them. If he were a Zen monk, his koan might well be: "Plan your past." By that he means, think ahead one day, one week, one year, even twenty years out, and decide today your desired outcome, and work for it. "Thank God for memories," he says; "Let’s plan to make them pleasant ones.
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Penguin Putnam Inc #GIRLBOSS
Book SynopsisIn the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called “Lean In for misfits,” Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world.Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school—a job she’d taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay.Flash forward to today, and she’s the founder of Nasty Gal and the founder and CEO of Girlboss. Sophia was never a typical CEO, or a typical anything, and she’s written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success, even when that path is windy as all hell and lined with naysayers.#GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isn’t about where you went to college or how popular you were in high school. It’s about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly.“A witty and cleverly told account . . . It’s this kind of honest advice, plus the humorous ups and downs of her rise in online retail, that make the book so appealing.” —Los Angeles Times“Amoruso teaches the innovative and entrepreneurial among us to play to our strengths, learn from our mistakes, and know when to break a few of the traditional rules.” —Vanity Fair “#GIRLBOSS is more than a book . . . #GIRLBOSS is a movement.” —Lena Dunham
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