Publicaffairs imprint: 611 books
by Andy Rooney
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2007
Every Sunday evening, millions of viewers tune in to 60 Minutes to hear Andy Rooney riff on everything from coffee percolators to the state of the union. Millions more read his weekly newspaper column. Why? Because Rooney tells it like it is. But Rooney fans have never seen him quite like this. Andy...
by Betty Rollin
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
At a time when tempers flare over the Oregon assisted suicide law and Jack Kevorkian's physician-aid-in-dying, Last Wish, Betty Rollin's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, is due for a rereading. Last Wish is an intimate, fiercely honest memoir of a daughter's struggle to come to terms with...
Banker To The Poor
Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2007
The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world.
Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members...
When the Wolves Bite
Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street's biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players--Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman--and Herbalife, the company caught in the middle
With their billions of dollars and their business savvy, activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman have...
The Space Barons
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier
The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into...
The Oligarchs
Wealth And Power In The New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men- Alexander Smolensky, Yuri Luzhkov, Anatoly...
Creating a World Without Poverty
Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe. But traditional capitalism has been unable to solve problems like inequality and poverty. In Muhammad Yunus' groundbreaking sequel to Banker to the Poor, he outlines the concept of social business-business where the creative vision of the...
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 King Of California
J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come.
J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while...
Quirky
The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The science behind the traits and quirks that drive creative geniuses to make spectacular breakthroughs
What really distinguishes the people who literally change the world--those creative geniuses who give us one breakthrough after another? What differentiates Marie Curie or Elon Musk from...
Mike Bloomberg
Money, Power, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Michael Bloomberg is not only New York City's 108th mayor; he is a business genius and self-made billionaire. He has run the toughest city in America with an independence and show of ego that first brought him great success-and eventually threatened it. Yet while Bloomberg is internationally known...
When That Rough God Goes Riding
Listening to Van Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces between words that become musical events in themselves.
A Global Life
My Journey Among Rich and Poor, from Sydney to Wall Street to the World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
As president of the World Bank for a decade, James Wolfensohn tackled world poverty with a passion and energy that made him a uniquely important figure in a fundamental arena of change. Using a lifetime of experience in the banking sector, he carved a distinct path in Asia, Africa, Latin America,...
The Billionaire Who Wasn't
How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
The astonishing life of the modest New Jersey businessman who anonymously gave away 10 billion dollars and inspired the "giving while living" movement.
In this bestselling book, Conor O'Clery reveals the inspiring life story of Chuck Feeney, known as the "James Bond of philanthropy."...