John Brooks: 41 books
The Girl Behind the Door
A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
“A moving and riveting memoir about one family’s love and tragedy…beautifully researched, and expressed” (Anne Lamott).
Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter’s room. Casey was gone, but she had left a note: The car is parked at the Golden Gate Bridge....
The Wizards of Wall Street
Business Adventures, Once in Golconda, and The Go-Go Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
A collection of true stories about money, the stock market, and high finance from the Gerald Loeb Award–winning “unbelievable business writer” (Bill Gates).
For decades, author and New Yorker staff writer John Brooks was renowned for his keen intelligence, in-depth knowledge, and uniquely...
Once in Golconda
A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920–1938
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures comes the chronicle of the stock market crash of 1929 and its aftermath
Legend had it that anyone who passed through Golconda, a city in southern India, attained tremendous wealth. But Golconda, now in ruins, ran out of riches,...
The Go-Go Years
The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A humorous and keen look at the roller-coaster boom and bust of the 1960s and 1970s by the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures
John Brooks blends humor and astute analysis in this tale of the staggering “go-go” growth of the 1960s stock market and the ensuing crashes...
Business Adventures
Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal
What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf...
Preludes: A Story of Child Sexual Abuse from a Child's Perspective in a Middle Class American Family
Preludes: A Story of Child Sexual Abuse from a Child's Perspective in a Middle Class American Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
When a nine-year-old boy in a "respectable," middle class family is raped, then repeatedly molested by his father, how does the boy experience the abuse and how does he manage to survive?“Preludes” examines these questions.The boy wakes in the middle of the night to find his father...
by John Brooks
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Em artigo para o Wall Street Journal, Bill Gates diz que mais de duas décadas depois de Warren ter lhe indicado o livro, ele permanece como o melhor livro de negócios que leu na vida. Em um dos cases, John Brooks usa a política de preço fixo da General Electric para detalhar a falta de comunicação...
by John Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
This is a major new account of the Battle of Jutland, the key naval battle of the First World War in which the British Grand Fleet engaged the German High Seas Fleet off the coast of Denmark in 1916. Beginning with the building of the two fleets, John Brooks reveals the key technologies employed,...
Business Adventures
Zwölf lehrreiche Geschichten aus der Welt der Wall Street
Language: German
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Wenn Bill Gates in seinem Blog ein Buch zum "besten Wirtschaftsbuch" kürt und nebenbei erwähnt, dass er es sich vor Jahren von Warren Buffett geliehen hat, dann kommt das dabei heraus: Ein seit Jahren vergriffenes Werk wird wieder zum Bestseller. "Business Adventures" wurde erstmals...
Internal Coaching
The Inside Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Internal Coaching: The Inside Story provides a window into the world of internal coaching: the challenges and rewards for the coaches themselves and the ways in which organisations can ensure that they can get best value for money from their investment in them.Internal coaching is booming. A recent...
The Rays of Sun
An Adventure of Mind and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
In the southwestern corner of the country once known as France, the future looks bleak for Earth’s survivors. Without any borders or countries, there are only tribes trying to stay alive.Following numerous disasters, the remaining people have established themselves as hunters and gatherers. They...
by John Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Christianity hangs its whole hope upon this thing that is called grace and many live as if the scales of balance are skewed. They see God as the great bookkeeper, pouring over accounts on a cluttered desk as he strikes a black line through the names of those who don’t meet His standards. It is truly...
Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland
The Question of Fire Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many naval historians now believe that, consequently, Br
by John Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
If we can't be honest with ourselves, how can we be honest with God. HONEST TO GOD is a clear and unvarnished look at faith as we know it, in light of the realities of daily life. Hope and disappointment, struggles, defeats and victories, fear and faith, all play a part in who we are and who we will...