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Navigating the Nonprofit Rapids
Strategies & Tactics for Running a Nonprofit Company
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Are you looking to make a real difference in your community? Are you in academia looking for a textbook for teaching students who are studying nonprofit leadership? Do you have a passion to bring about change that will benefit others? Are you looking for a way to harness that passion and give it some...
The Fall of the House of Forbes
The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Forbes: the legendary name in finance journalism. Synonymous with wealth, grand excess, glamour, and fun as well as style, insight, gossip, and hard-nosed reporting, the media empire and the family behind it form a remarkable story that has never been told. Now, in The Fall of the House of Forbes,...
by Fred Vogelstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google—and how it's reshaping the way we think about technology
The rise of smartphones and tablets has altered the industry of making computers. At the center of this change are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies, leaders, and commercial...
Chocolate Wars
The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
With a cast of characters that wouldn't be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the late...
Soros
The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
A penniless émigré who made a fortune and became one of the great philanthropists of the twentieth century, George Soros has led a remarkable life. This biography brings forth his story in unprecedented depth, from his childhood as a Jew in occupied Budapest during World War II to his conquests...
Banking on the Future of Asia and the Pacific
50 Years of the Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
This book is a history of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development bank established 50 years ago to serve Asia and the Pacific. Focusing on the region’s economic development, the evolution of the international development agenda, and the story of ADB itself, this book raises several...
by Devin T. Frick
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
From the store's beginnings in March 1907 until its closing on June 25, 1983, Bullock's was Los Angeles's store of choice. Throughout its 76 years of operation, Bullock's flagship department store became an icon, a commercial beacon in the vast city. The name Bullock's has engendered many memories...
by Susie J. Pak
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Gentlemen Bankers focuses on the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers, J. P. Morgan, to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and friendships among the Wall Street aristocracy during the first half of the twentieth century.
The Smartest Guys in the Room
The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive reporting. And thirty years later, if you're going to read only one book on Watergate, that's still the one. Today, Enron is the biggest business story...
The Man Who Solved the Market
How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Bestselling author and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?
Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. His track record bests those of legendary investors including...
Marshall Field's
The Store that Helped Build Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Anyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room's Great Tree can attest that Chicago's loyalty to Marshall Field's is fierce. Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around town to apologize for changing the Field's hallowed green bags. And with good reason--the store and those who...
Meet You in Hell
Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry—Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick—and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end,...
Braves and Businessmen: A History of Montana, Volume III
Montana History Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Montana’s history is rich, colorful, and full of excitement in this fully-illustrated third volume of the state’s history. Montana Territory had 20,595 people in 1870 and the vast majority were Indians. Those Indians would fight for their lands, and much of the territory’s focus...
by Katrina Pescador, Mark Aldrich, San Diego Air and Space Museum
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Founded by Reuben H. Fleet in 1923, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (later Convair) became one of the most significant aircraft manufacturers in American history. For roughly 60 years, this prolific company was synonymous with San Diego. In fact, whole sections of the city were designed to provide...