Nonfiction category: 1132351 books
by Paul Parry
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
When Paul Parry – also known as ‘Pazza’ – was told he was going to lose his job in the British television industry, he had no idea what to do next.But, month by month, he built a new career, moving from clueless and distressed to the work he loves and does best: writing.A ten-year...
Mastership
The Journey From Bankruptcy to a New Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
In 1996 at the age of 48, Lorne Davidson declared bankruptcy and was forced to take a hard look at his life as a touring musician. With debts racking up and no answers in sight, he felt he had hit rock bottom. After a suggestion from his wife to try taekwondo to help him relax and release some stress,...
by Dr. Robert M. Toguchi
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
The Winning Habits of Steve Jobs provides a glimpse into the successful attributes of this remarkable icon of the technology industry. Often characterized as one of the founders of the personal-computer revolution, Steve Jobs displayed distinct habits and behaviors of entrepreneurship that were the...
Chasing China
How I Went to China in Search of a Fortune and Found a Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
An astonishing, cautionary tale of how Westerner Mark Kitto built a successful media empire in China, creating and running 3 magazines, only to have the state take his business, and his livelihood, away.
I had fought off attacks from jealous rivals and been investigated by every bureau with...
Becoming Ginger Rogers
How Ballroom Dancing Made Me a Happier Woman, Better Partner, and Smarter CEO
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
“An absorbing, inspirational memoir” about finding joy in the midst of challenge and hardship—step by step (Publishers Weekly).
If you’ve spent most of your life pursuing your career, raising your family, and/or caring for loved ones who may be ill or infirm, your own needs may have...
Phil the Logger
A working man, a boy, and lessons in life and leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
According to statistics, children who grow up without a father figure are more likely to abuse drugs, take part in criminal behavior, live in poverty, and struggle with emotional issues.
When Brandon J. Wright was fifteen. his father died. Angry and alone. he could have easily become another...
by Alberto Mingardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Thomas Hodgskin fu una figura anomala e avventurosa, nell’ambiente culturale britannico. “Consegnato” dal padre alla Royal Navy all’età di dodici anni, combatté nelle guerre napoleoniche. Rientrato nella vita civile, scrisse un potente attacco alla disciplina in uso sulle navi della Marina...
by Ian Rodwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
I have worked in construction for many years (since 1978) and worked in many countries including the UK, the Channel Islands, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Qatar, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Kuwait. I have enjoyed the work (a bit) and experienced loads of new and interesting things.
However...
Self-help Messiah
Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
An illuminating biography of the man who taught Americans “how to win friends and influence people”
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Before Stephen Covey, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm Gladwell there was Dale Carnegie. His book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, became a best seller worldwide, and Life magazine named...
The Fall of the House of Speyer
The Story of a Banking Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the twentieth century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It...
They Told Me Not to Take that Job
Tumult, Betrayal, Heroics, and the Transformation of Lincoln Center
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Reynold Levy joined Lincoln Center in 2002. When he did so America's leading arts venue was routinely described in terms like this:
Behind the scenes, however, Lincoln Center is a community in deep distress, riven by conflict over a grandiose 1 billion redevelopment plan
instead of uniting...
The McCashin's Story
How Craft Beer Got Started in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
**The small business success story of New Zealand's first craft beer & the revolution it started.**This is the story of a revolution - a very Kiwi kind of revolution, involving more beer than blood, although there was also plenty of sweat and tears. There was a time, not so very long ago, when...
Two Good Rounds Titans
Leaders in Industry & Golf
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Two Good Rounds Titans: Leaders in Industry & Golf is the third book in the Two Good Rounds series. This book continues the exploration of golf and the feel-good golf lifestyle by navigating the connection between golf and business as conveyed by an array of successful leaders from a variety...
by Ian Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In 1959, sixteen-year-old Ian ‘Spike’ Sykes left school and, after a short period of work at Leeds University, joined the RAF. Already a keen climber, he signed up on the promise of excitement and adventure and was posted to the remote RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue Team in the north of Scotland....