Corporate History category: 769 books
by Paul Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
BP - Where did it all go wrong? is a quick-read business biography; it is a history and current breakdown of British Petroleum. The book introduces the reader to BP, how the company was formed, the chequered past it has, and discusses the recent disaster of one of the biggest oil spills in history....
Sex, Lies, and Headlocks
The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
“Current fans and recovering Hulkamaniacs alike should find [Sex, Lies, and Headlocks] as gripping as the Camel Clutch.” —Maxim
Sex, Lies, and Headlocks is the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at the backstabbing, scandals, and high-stakes gambles that have made wrestling an enduring television...
The House of Harper
The Making of a Modern Publisher
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
An updated edition of this definitive history of Harper—a fascinating look into the history of American letters from the unique perspective of one of the country’s most distinguished and enduring publishers—now with a new introduction that brings the book up to the present day. From Moby Dick...
The King of Vodka
The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
“A operatic tour-de-force.” —Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of The Widow Clicquot
“An impressive feat of research, told swiftly and enthusiastically.” —San Francisco Chronicle
From Vanderbilt and Rockefeller to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, America’s captains of industry are paragons...
Exploding the Phone
The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
“A rollicking history of the telephone system and the hackers who exploited its flaws.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computers, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the...
Bananas
How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A lively and insightful cultural history of the coveted yellow fruit, as well as a gripping narrative about the infamous rise and fall of the United Fruit Company.
In this compelling history of the United Fruit Company, Financial Times writer Peter Chapman weaves a dramatic tale of big business,...
Reach for the Skies
Ballooning, Birdmen, and Blasting into Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
One of the world's most famous business leaders (and a well-known avian fanatic) explores the pioneers of flight.
Bestselling author and billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has always been obsessed with the skies. To promote a new Virgin Airlines route, he became the first man to water...
Since Yesterday
The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
A “wonderfully written account of America in the ’30s,” the follow-up to Only Yesterday examines Black Tuesday through the end of the Depression (The New York Times).
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Opening on September 3, 1929, in the days before the stock market crash, this information-packed...
Fordlandia
The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon
In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project...
More Money Than God
Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
"Splendid...the definitive history of the hedge fund, a compelling narrative full of larger-than-life characters and dramatic tales." —The Washington Post
Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-first- century capitalism. Beating the...
by Ferdinand Pecora
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Ferdinand Pecora investigated with ruthlessly abandon the nation’s most influential bankers and stockbrokers to determine what caused the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which in turn led to the Great Depression. Pecora, as Chief Counsel of Senate launched investigation, shined a vivid light on the shocking...
Roots of Steel
Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
When Deborah Rudacille was a child growing up in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the local Sparrows Point steel mill made more than enough to comfortably support a family. But in the decades since, the decline of American manufacturing has put tens of thousands out of work...
Temp
How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
**Named a "Triumph" of 2018 by New York Times Book Critics
Shortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award
The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy" --how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the 50s and 60s upended the stability...
Crashed
How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
**WINNER OF THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK
"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's...