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Sin in the Second City
Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named...
Bitter Brew
The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
“Bitter Brew deftly chronicles the contentious succession of kings in a uniquely American dynasty. You’ll never crack open a six again without thinking of this book.”
—John Sayles, Director of Eight Men Out and author of A Moment in the Sun
The creators of Budweiser and Michelob beers,...
In The Plex
How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, the most successful and most admired technology company of our time, told by one of our best technology writers.
Few companies in history have ever been...
by Blake Mycoskie
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good.
“A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—The Wall Street Journal
Why this book is for you:
• You’re ready...
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science Monitor
The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants...
by Joe Bastianich
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
**The New York Times Bestselling Book--Great gift for Foodies
“The best, funniest, most revealing inside look at the restaurant biz since Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.” —Jay McInerney**
With a foreword by Mario Batali
Joe Bastianich is unquestionably one of...
The Mailroom
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more...
by Carlos Marquez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2014
"Ponte las pilas" no solamente es la historia personal de un hombre que aprendió a triunfar, es también el acto generoso de compartir una lección de vida que llevó a su autor, Carlos Márquez, a la consolidación económica a partir de su desarrollo pleno como hijo, hermano, amigo, padre...
A Doctor on the Inside
From the County Jail to the Supermax
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Get both of Dr. William Wright’s best-selling, award-winning books in a single
volume!
Maximum Insecurity chronicles Wright’s true-life metamorphosis from suburban
ear surgeon to life as the sole physician at Colorado’s maximum-security prison.
Jailhouse Doc follows Wright’s...
The Emperor of Scent
A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Süskind’s novel Perfume, but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true. It concerns how he made use of his powerful gifts to solve one of the...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Jack Warner epitomized the great Hollywood studio chief. He was admired as much as he was feared, engaged in battles with some of Hollywood's greatest legends from Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney to Olivia de Havilland and Bette Davis. Under his tutelage Warner Bros. gave us some of the most memorable...
Adam Smith
Father of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time
Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent...
Morgan
American Financier
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U.S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal...
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street
More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
In this astounding account, Wall Street’s notorious bad boy—the original million-dollar-a-week stock chopper—leads us through a drama worthy of The Sopranos, from the FBI raid on his estate to the deal he cut to rat out his oldest friends and colleagues to the conscience he eventually found....