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The Sages
Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Throughout the violent financial disruptions of the past several years, three men have stood out as beacons of judgment and wisdom: Warren Buffett, George Soros, and Paul Volcker. Though their experiences and styles vary-Buffett is the canny stock market investor; Soros is the reader of shifting global...
Comeback
America's New Economic Boom
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Charles R. Morris's The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback, Morris reveals that the United States is on the brink of a strong recovery that could last for twenty years or more.
The...
Vernon Can Read!
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
As a young college student in Atlanta, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. had a summer job driving a white banker around town. During the man’s post-luncheon siestas, Jordan passed the time reading books, a fact that astounded his boss. “Vernon can read!” the man exclaimed to his relatives. Nearly fifty...
by Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
A New York Times bestseller
America’s unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world’s greatest consumer economy. It was innovative and dynamic;...
Who Can You Trust?
How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?
From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it.
In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are...
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How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A modern, no-nonsense guide to getting rid of email anxiety, reclaiming your productivity, and spending more time on the work that matters.
Let's face it: Email is killing our productivity. The average person checks their email 11 times per hour, processes 122 messages a day, and spends 28...
by Andy Rooney
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
"Andy Rooney's Sunday evening observations on 60 Minutes are an American institution, shaping the way people see everything from coffee percolators to the state of the nation. Rooney's books, most rece"
Fortune Makers
The Leaders Creating China's Great Global Companies
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Fortune Makers analyzes and brings to light the distinctive practices of business leaders who are the future of the Chinese economy. These leaders oversee not the old state-owned enterprises, but private companies that have had to invent their way forward out of the wreckage of an economy in tatters...
by George Soros
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
George Soros is one of the world's leading philanthropists. Over the past 30 years, he has provided more than 7 billion to his network of foundations, known collectively as the Open Society Institute, for projects around the world and in the United States.
In this e-book, Soros writes in detail...
The Smartest Places on Earth
Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The remarkable story of how rustbelt cities such as Akron and Albany in the United States and Eindhoven in Europe are becoming the unlikely hotspots of global innovation, where sharing brainpower and making things smarter—not cheaper—is creating a new economy that is turning globalization on its...
Madness Rules the Hour
Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
"The tea has been thrown overboard-the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." --Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860
In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North...
The Deal from Hell
How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive in to bankruptcy and public scandal? The Deal from Hell is the riveting narrative in which veteran editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to that ongoing disaster.
The Match King
Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after his suicide in 1932, it became clear that Kreuger...
Waiting for ""SUPERMAN""
How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Each book includes a 15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need.
The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have...