Crown imprint: 1774 books
The Moneymakers
How Extraordinary Managers Win in a World Turned Upside Down
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
When real money is at stake, it tends to clarify the mind, and for over a decade, Anne-Marie Fink has had literally billions of dollars resting on her assessments of companies. As an equity analyst and professional investor, she has been charged with understanding whether businesses are solid, long-term...
Every Business Needs an Angel
Getting the Money You Need to Make Your Business Grow
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
What’s the biggest problem most entrepreneurs face? Raising money: Without cash, you can’t get a
business off the ground or keep it running.
However, many entrepreneurs have a problem. On one hand, the traditional sources of financing—family, friends, personal savings, the local bank—are...
The Ghosts of Eden Park
The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
“Gatsby-era noir at its best.”—Erik Larson
In the early...
Makers
The New Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
**3D Robotics co-founder and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. **
In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design...
The Psychopath Whisperer
The Science of Those Without Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A compelling journey into the science and behavior of psychopaths, written by the leading scientist in the field of criminal psychopathy.
We know of psychopaths from chilling headlines and stories in the news and movies—from Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, to Hannibal Lecter and Dexter Morgan....
by Roger Ebert
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.
Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offered a fresh and...
Breaking Out of Bedlam
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Cora Sledge is horrified when her children, who doubt her ability to take care of herself, plot to remove her from her home.
So what if her house is a shambles? Who cares when she last changed her clothes? If an eighty-two-year-old widow wants to live on junk food, pills, and cigarettes, hasn’t...
Jefferson's America
The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration—and in presiding over that era of discovery, forged a great nation.
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, as Britain, France, Spain, and the United States all jockeyed for control of the vast...
by Jerry Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
This intimate, shocking—and thoroughly unauthorized—portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family’s amazing odyssey from poverty and obscurity to glory and glamour.
From Conrad Hilton, the eccentric “innkeeper to the world” who built a global empire beginning with a fleabag in a dusty...
Life of the Party
The Remarkable Story of How Brownie Wise Built, and Lost, a Tupperware Party Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The incredible story of Brownie Wise, the Southern single mother—and postwar #Girlboss—who built, and lost, a Tupperware home-party empire
Before Mary Kay, Martha Stewart, and Joy Mangano, there was Brownie Wise, the charismatic Tupperware executive who converted postwar optimism into a...
Both of Us
My Life with Farrah
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett. He was the handsome Academy Award–nominated star of Paper Moon and the classic romance Love Story. She was the beautiful, all-American Charlie’s Angel, whose poster adorned the bedroom walls of teenage boys everywhere. One of the most storied love affairs in Hollywood...
by John Cleese
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
John Cleese’s huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy’s DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway…, Cleese takes readers...
Memories Are Made of This
Dean Martin Through His Daughter's Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Deana Martin's captivating, heartfelt memoir of her father, Dean Martin
Charming, debonair, and impeccably attired in a black tuxedo, Dean Martin was coolness incarnate. His music provided the soundtrack of romance, and his image captivated movie and television audiences for more than fifty...
Born on a Mountaintop
On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories of...