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Oil and Ice

A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynas ty

by Peter Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010

"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read." -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived,...

The Art of Woo

Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas

by G. Richard Shell, Mario Moussa
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007

You may need The Art of War to defeat your enemies, but if you prefer to win them over, read The Art of Woo G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa know what it takes to drive new ideas through complex organizations. They have advised thousands of executives from companies such as Google, Microsoft,...

While America Aged

How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis

by Roger Lowenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008

The retirement crisis facing America-and the road map for a way out-from The New York Times bestselling author of Origins of the Crash In the last several decades, corporations and local governments made ruinous pension and healthcare promises to American workers. With these now coming due,...

The Man Who Knew

The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

by Sebastian Mallaby
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid...
by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007

Brilliant distillations of the strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature Robert Greene’s groundbreaking guides, The 48 Laws of Power,* The Art of Seduction*, and Mastery, espouse profound,...

Bargaining for Advantage

Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People

by G. Richard Shell
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006

BRAND NEW FOR 2019: A fully revised and updated edition of the quintessential guide to learning to negotiate effectively in every part of your life "A must read for everyone seeking to master negotiation. This newly updated classic just got even better."—Robert Cialdini, bestselling...

Never Wrestle with a Pig

And Ninety Other Ideas to Build Your Business and Career

by Mark H. McCormack
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2001

Drawing upon forty years of experience from his own sports and celebrity management practice, Mark H. McCormack is back with common-sense advice aimed at business owners and would-be CEOs. McCormack's tips include: End your day on time People who say they can keep a secret usually can't It...

The Partnership

The Making of Goldman Sachs

by Charles D. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008

The inside story of one of the world?s most powerful financial Institutions Now with a new foreword and final chapter, The Partnership chronicles the most important periods in Goldman Sachs?s history and the individuals who built one of the world?s largest investment banks. Charles D. Ellis,...

Sister Ceo

The Black Woman's Guide to Starting Your Own Business

by Cheryl D. Broussard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998

In this idea-packed, can-do handbook on entrepreneurship, successfully self-employed businesswoman Cheryl Broussard shows you how to take control of your destiny by taking control of your work. Sister CEO arms the would-be entrepreneur with all the basics—from finding the right niche and overcoming...

The Quest

Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011

This long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic change A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting...

A Fine Mess

A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System

by T. R. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017

New York Times bestelling author T. R. Reid travels around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unravelling a complex topic in plain English - and telling a rollicking story along the way. The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special...

America's Bank

The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve

by Roger Lowenstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so...

Cotton

The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber

by Stephen Yafa
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006

In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt, this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world's most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the destiny of nations. Ranging from its domestication 5,500 years ago to its influence in creating Calvin...

True Wealth

How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

by Juliet B. Schor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011

A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live. In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the insight that social innovations and new technology can simultaneously...
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