Corporate category: 1876 books
Merchants of Culture
The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
"All you need to know about the industry at a time of momentous change."
-Drake McFeely, chairman and president, W.W. Norton & Company
For nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the industry faces...
Perfume
The Alchemy of Scent
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
**Explore the world of scent with “**one of the world’s greatest perfumers” whose clients include Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, and Hermès (The Times, London).
To women the whole world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume, Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar....
Remember the Magic...
The Story of Horizon Air
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Remember the Magic is the inspiring story of the birth of Horizon Air and how it became one of the top regional airlines in the United States under the leadership of Milt Kuolt, one of the great entrepreneurs of the twentieth century.
When Money Was In Fashion
Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the Founding of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
This epic biography tells the story of the rise of Wall Street and the growth of Goldman Sachs from a small commercial paper company to the international banking business we know today. At its heart is the story of Henry Goldman, a man who spoke out passionately for his beliefs, understood the importance...
The Gold Standard Peripheries
Monetary Policy, Adjustment and Flexibility in a Global Setting
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The remarkably successful gold standard before 1914 was the first international monetary regime. This book addresses the experience of the gold standard peripheries; i.e. regime takers with limited influence on the regime. How did small countries adjust to an international monetary regime with seemingly little room for policy autonomy?
Building the Skyline
The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles...
Good Guys and Bad Guys
Behind the Scenes with the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Every thing in Between)
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
The greatest columns and profiles by the bestselling coauthor of All the Devils Are Here.
What's it like to be a top tobacco executive when your kid asks you about smoking? How did a young liberal arts major become the hottest tech-stock analyst of the '90s, and why did he self-destruct? How...
Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology, has spawned a global social movement with utopian ambitions. The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology...
Apple « Think different »
L’épopée de la firme de Cupertino
Language: French
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre rapidement le succès des produits Apple !
Chaque année, des milliers de consommateurs impatients guettent la sortie des nouveaux appareils de la célèbre firme à la pomme. iMac, iPhone, iPod, iPad et, depuis peu, iWatch se vendent à plusieurs...
Remembering Woolworth's
A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Remembering Woolworth's brings back to life all the nostalgia and magic of the famous five-and-dime that captured the hearts of Americans for over a century
Millions of Americans have fond memories of shopping at Woolworth's, wandering the aisles in search of a humble spool of Woolco thread,...
by Barbara Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
With the extraordinary investigative acumen and sensitive narrative skills that informed her best-selling Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, Barbara Goldsmith now gives us the most sensational case of a contested will in American history—weaving a hypnotic tale of vast wealth and moral corruption.
When...
The Secret Club That Runs the World
Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“Commodity players are a shrewd and indomitable lot. And the contracts they trade are still so loosely regulated that the correct combination of money and skill creates irresistible opportunity. That’s why I’m only half joking when I call them the secret club that runs the world.”
When...
Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good
The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
The captivating story of the mavericks who emerged from the dot-com rubble to found the multibillion-dollar companies taking the Web into the twenty-first century
Once You?re Lucky, Twice You?re Good is the story of the entrepreneurs who learned their lesson from the Internet bust of 2000 and...
One Click
Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: Make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: "Buy now with one click."
Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the...