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A Bazaar Life
The Autobiography of David Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
At the age of thirteen, David Alliance was taken out of school by his father and apprenticed into the Grand Bazaar in Tehran, where he learned the business skills that were to prove invaluable in one of the most successful business careers of modern times. In 1950, with just ?14 in his pocket, he...
Building Blocks
Buckeye CableSystem’s Communications Revolution, From Printer’s Ink to Cable to Fiber
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Building Blocks is the history of Buckeye CableSystem. Buckeye is part of a family empire started in 1900 by the son of an immigrant in upstate New York. This book is a fascinating tale of the family’s progression into the fourth generation and through the myriad of daily newspapers, radio and television...
Risk Game
Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Prior to the real-estate boom of the 1980s, Francis J. Greenburger risked it all to buy three older loft buildings at 50 West Street near the current 9/11 Memorial. He ultimately dreamed of one day erecting a magnificent skyscraper in their place. But disaster struck in 2008, just as his plans were...
Priceless
The Case that Brought Down the Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Lloyd Constantine began his career in legal services, representing impoverished clients in civil rights and constitutional cases. Decades later, he would make headlines for representing retailers and consumers against a cartel that undermined one of the fundamental tenets of commerce in America: competition....
by To Be Confirmed
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
A Signal Press Book. Signal Press has a great book for every reader.
This Is Not a T-Shirt
A Brand, a Culture, a Community--a Life in Streetwear
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himself
Streetwear occupies that rarefied space where genuine "cool" coexists with big business; where a star designer might work concurrently with Nike, a tattoo artist, Louis Vuitton,...
The King Of California
J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come.
J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while...
by Billy Yeargin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
North Carolina�s tobacco history comes alive in this selection of remembrances from Billy Yeargin and others born and bred in the American tobacco culture.When early settlers struggled to grow anything at all in North Carolina�s sandy soil, tobacco was a boon. The lives of many North Carolinians...
Roy D. Chapin
The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
"John Cuthbert Long’s Roy D. Chapin is a thorough and detailed biography of a remarkable, but little-known Detroit automobile industry pioneer. Historians should include Roy Dikeman Chapin (February 23, 1880–February 16, 1936) in any listing of significant American auto industry pioneers, along with...
The Real Deal
The Autobiography of Britain’s Most Controversial Media Mogul
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
From the age of five, when he helped his deaf father negotiate advertising contracts, Richard Desmond has always had an eye for business. In The Real Deal he offers a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary career that has taken him from cloakroom attendant at a north London club to billionaire...
The Alchemists
The INEOS Story – An Industrial Giant Comes of Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
One of the world’s top 40 manufacturing companies, one of the largest global petrochemicals producers and the biggest private company in the UK, INEOS has risen to prominence over the past twenty years led by three unassuming northern grammar school boys: majority owner Jim Ratcliffe and his business...
Driven to Succeed
How Frank Hasenfratz Grew Linamar from Guelph to Global
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Frank Hasenfratz grew up in Hungary learning to dodge bullets and avoid land mines during the Second World War. When the 1956 revolution erupted, he and his army unit joined the insurgents. After the revolution was crushed, he fled to Guelph, Ontario, where he gambled everything on a one-man operation...
For Time and All Eternity
The Sterling and Ellie Colton Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Eleanor Ricks left her Idaho home and journeyed to Salt Lake City to enroll at the University of Utah. Entering the freshman girls' dorm, she got on the elevator from the front. At the same moment Nancy Colton entered the back of the elevator, with her brother Sterling, who carried her luggage. Both...
Oilfield Revolutionary
The Career of Everette Lee DeGolyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hats—and he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil exploration. Though not a politician, he played an important role in the national politics of energy. Though trained as a geologist, he became an important...