Crown imprint: 1774 books
Confronting Reality
Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about it. Through a completely new way to understand and use the business model as the primary...
Online Investing
Become a Successful Internet Investor
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
The only book investors need to reap the rewards and avoid the treacheries of the investing cyber jungle.
When it comes to personal investing, the Internet has changed all the rules. The sophisticated tools and access to information once enjoyed only by financial professionals and the most...
Your Call Is Important to Us
The Truth About Bullshit
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell—while we’re laughing like fiends. A book like this one.
Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who’s sick and tired of the twenty-first...
The Wall Street Journal. Complete Identity Theft Guidebook
How to Protect Yourself from the Most Pervasive Crime in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
It could happen when you make a routine withdrawal from an ATM, respond to an e-mail asking for information about an online account, or leave a new box of checks unattended in your mailbox. Identity theft is one of the easiest crimes to commit in America—and one of the hardest to prosecute. As thieves...
The Fiefdom Syndrome
The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers and Companies - And How to Overcome Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
The turf battles and territorial “fiefdoms” that undermine so many companies—and how to break through them, by long-term Microsoft COO Robert J. Herbold
There is a potentially infectious condition inside virtually all organizations that can cause more damage than economic downturns, management...
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Senge's best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the "new guru" of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building "learning organizations" of their own.
Life Is What You Make It
Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
From composer, musician, and philanthropist Peter Buffett comes a warm, wise, and inspirational book that asks, Which will you choose: the path of least resistance or the path of potentially greatest satisfaction?
You may think that with a last name like his, Buffett has enjoyed a life of endless...
The Female Advantage
Women's Ways of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Now in Currency paperback -- Sally Helgesen's classic study of female leaders and how their strategies represent a highly successful revision of male leadership styles. Sixty thousand copies in print! In her bestselling 1990 book, Sally Helgesen discovered that men and women approach...
The Agenda
What Every Business Must Do to Dominate the Decade
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
The agenda: nine powerful and practical business ideas for today’s world of fierce competitors and even fiercer customers.
These are tough times for business. Pressures from all sides are greater than ever. The old solutions don’t work anymore, and the silver bullets of the late 1990s have...
The Last Line of Defense
The New Fight for American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli leads the historic fight against the unprecedented overreach of the federal government.
With Obamacare and agencies like the EPA, the FCC, and the National Labor Relations Board attempting to exercise unprecedented control over the American people, the...
The Price of Admission
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A disturbing exposé of the influence that wealth and power still exert on admission to the nation’s most prestigious universities.”—The Washington Post Book World
“A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege.”—Michael Wolff, author...
Hope Is Not a Method
What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States Army has been reengineered and downsized more thoroughly than any other business. In the early 1990s, General Sullivan, army chief of staff, and Colonel Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War army into the Information Age. Faced with...
by A.M. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Warfighting is an authentic American philosophy of action that will thrill the millions of fans of SunTzu's The Art of War and Musashi's The Book of Five Rings. This modern classic of strategy and philosophy is the quintessential guide to prevailing in competitive situations, be it war, work, play,...
Your First Year As a Nurse, Second Edition
Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Survive and Thrive as a Nurse in Today's New Health-Services Landscape
Welcome to the compassionate and caring world of nursing! You are entering a profession that offers great rewards and endless opportunities. But you must prepare for the challenges ahead and do everything you can to ensure...