Crown: 5430 books
Wal-Mart: The Bully of Bentonville
How the High Cost of Everyday Low Prices is Hurting America
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week....
Women Make the Best Salesmen
Isn't It Time You Started Using Their Secrets?
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Inc. magazine Entrepreneur of the Year and International Automotive Hall of Fame member Marion Luna Brem reveals the strategies she learned that have made her successful in sales—and in life. As Brem makes clear, we’re all salesmen in one way or another. Whenever we try to make a good first impression...
Soap Opera
The Inside Story of Procter & Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
As the maker of Ivory soap, Tide detergent, and Crest toothpaste, Procter & Gamble is a household name. It is America’s thirteenth largest company, lauded by business schools as a model for success. But behind P&G’s wholesome image is a control-obsessed company so paranoid that Wall Street...
Success Without College
Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now--and May Not Have to Go At All
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
If your child seems indecisive about college, don't read the riot act, read this landmark book instead. College is not the only alternative. A New York Times editor and concerned parent tells you why and helps you to find happy alternatives to starting college before your child is ready.
As...
Don't Try This at Home
How to Win a Sumo Match, Catch a Great White Shark, Start an Independent Nation and Other Extraordinary Feats (For Ordinary People)
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
A step-by-step guide to performing the death-defying stunts you thought were only possible in the movies.
For the millions of armchair daredevils who made Worst Case Scenario a mega bestzseller, Hunter Fulghum offers an even more hair-raising handbook. The result of persistent probing, diligent...
Kicks
The Great American Story of Sneakers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity
When the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart...
The Wealth of Choices
Use the New Economy to Put Power in Your Hands and Money in Your Pockets
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
The world has been turned upside down. The economy is unpredictable. And it’s time for you to take control.
There’s no better guide to being a savvy buyer and a smart investor than Alan Murray, the Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal. A clear and confident voice in times...
Washington Burning
How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The Riveting Story of the Federal City and the Men Who Built It
In 1814, British troops invaded Washington, consuming President Madison’s hastily abandoned dinner before setting his home and the rest of the city ablaze. The White House still bears scorch and soot marks on its foundation stones....
The BAP Handbook
The Official Guide to the Black American Princess
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
"Finally, a book about the Black American Princess! If you're already a BAP or just want to act like one, this book is for you!"
— E. Lynn Harris, author of Not a Day Goes By
In the bestselling tradition of The Official Preppy Handbook, here isa must-have manual for the BAP and...
This Day in the Life
Diaries from Women Across America
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Did You Ever Want to Read a Friend’s Diary?
In suburban neighborhoods and on family farms, in uptown lofts and homeless shelters, women across America chronicled their lives on the same day—June 29, 2004. This Day in the Life shares more than thirty complete diaries and hundreds of additional...
Trapped Under the Sea
One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results
A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations,...
Intelligent Business Alliances
How to Profit Using Today's Most Important Strategic Tool
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Alliances between companies have become a major competitive tool, allowing companies to exploit their complementary. However, many comapnies mishandle their alliances, wasting money, time, and effort. Now, international business consultant Larraine D. Segil shows how to establish and manage profitable alliances. "A breakthrough."--Bestselling business author Ken Blanchard.
by Andy Cope, Stuart Spendlow
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
On a good day, being a primary school teacher is the best job in the world. However, in the interests of grounding The Art of Being a Brilliant Primary Teacher in pure realism, Andy Cope and Stuart Spendlow readily acknowledge that it can also be the worst. The purpose of this book is to help you...
Collaborate or Perish!
Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is...