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Outraged
How Detroit and the Wall Street Car Czars Killed the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
In Outraged, an auto insider provides an inspiring account of what it means to lose your rights, property, and, in essence, the American dream. It begins with roughly two thousand men and women whose companies were destroyed by two automakers, General Motors and Chrysler, during their government-led...
by Hans-Hermann Diestel
Language: German
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Es gibt nur wenige Vertreter in Wirtschaft und Politik, die über Jahrhunderte im gleichen Umfang wie der Kapitän mit Attributen und Mythen bedacht wurden. Da geistert immer noch das »Master next God« durch die maritime Literatur, Victor Hugo stellte ihn über den König, der Bremer Professor Ulrich...
Junk to Gold, De Chatarra a Oro
Del Salvamento a La Subasta De Automotores En Línea Más Grande Del Mundo Vendiendo Un Auto Cada 5 Segundos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Conoc a Willis en 1998. Fue obvio que l era nico. Willis sabe perfectamente quin es y en qu cree. Su enfoque es claro e inquebrantable: la familia, la religin y Copart.
Willis construy Copart a partir de un depsito de chatarra y lo convirti en una empresa de subastas de 4.5 mil millones de...
Junk to Gold
From Salvage to the World’S Largest Online Auto Auction
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Junk to Gold is about one man's journey from humble beginnings to unimaginable success. Willis Johnson, the founder of Copart [CPRT], offers up a personal and inspirational account of this journey to the top including lessons he learned from love, war and building a global, multi-billion dollar business....
Across Boundaries
A life in the media in a time of change
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Ton Vosloo’s remarkable career in the media spanned nearly 60 years in South Africa’s history. During this turbulent time, South Africa went through the transition from Afrikaner Nationalist rule to an ANC government. At the helm of the leading press group founded in 1913 to support nascent Afrikaner...
Taking Aviation to New Heights
A Biography of Pierre Jeanniot
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
To chart the inspiring journey of Pierre Jeanniot is to trace the remarkable development of the air transport industry. In his youth, Jeanniot survived the bombing of Rome, the occupation of France, and was a witness to the Resistance in the Jura Mountains. In 1963, after the Sainte-Thérèse air...
The King of Content
Sumner Redstone’s Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The remarkable story of Sumner Redstone, his family legacy, and the battles for all he controls.
Sumner Murray Redstone, who lived by the credo "content is king," leveraged his father’s chain of drive-in movie theaters into one of the world’s greatest media empires through a series...
by Rex Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
This is the story of 25 tumultuous years in the life of the South African mining company of Gold Fields, one of the greatest in the world. If it is true that ‘Big Business’ is the last adventure frontier, then mining for gold has to be the most adventurous, dangerous and unpredictable business...
Becoming a Somebody
The Biography of Ignat Kaneff
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2019
The fascinating life story of Ignat Kaneff, one of Canada’s leading residential and commercial builders.
When Ignat Kaneff arrived in Canada in 1951, he had a mere five dollars to his name, no proficiency in English, and very little education. Yet, this was the beginning of one of Canada’s...
A Road Taken
My Journey from a CN Station House to the CN Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Nineteen years ago, David McLean was appointed by the prime minister of Canada to the board of directors of CN, after which he was elected chairman. McLean has been reelected each year and will retire in April 2014. In A Road Taken, the longest-serving chairman of the board in CN history explains...
The Speed of Sound
Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The remarkable story of rising to the top of the music charts, a second act as a tech pioneer, and the sustaining power of creativity and art.
Thomas Dolby’s hit songs “She Blinded Me with Science” and “Hyperactive!” catapulted him to international fame in the early 80’s. A pioneer...
Jim Henson
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson
He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people...
Ladies Who Punch
The Explosive Inside Story of "The View"
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.
When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d...
Grace
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret...