Industries Professions category: 12443 books
by Vivienne Westwood, Ian Kelly
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Vivienne Westwood è una delle icone della nostra era. Stilista di moda, attivista, co-creatrice del punk, brand globale. Mamma, più volte moglie e compagna, nonna. Una vera leggenda vivente. La sua carriera ha attraversato con successo cinque lunghi decenni, e il suo lavoro influenzato milioni di...
Gods and Kings
The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. Both wanted to revolutionize fashion in a way no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring,...
by Rick Phillips, Mary Helen Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Desperadoes and Dumbasses is the life story of a Texas raised 40-year career oil and gas accountant, fraud examiner and consultant who lived in and worked in and traveled to Indonesia, India, Egypt, Argentina, Mexico and Italy.
The story includes management teams described as All in the Family,...
Das verschollene Erbe der Wertheims
Die Geschichte meiner deutsch-jüdischen Familie
Language: German
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Diese Geschichte startet lautlos und endet mit einem Paukenschlag. Sie beginnt mit Carlos Guilliard, einem jungen Mann, der in der Stille eines Lesesaals Akten durchkämmt, um seinen familiären Wurzeln auf die Spur zu kommen. Und sie endet mit einer brisanten Meldung, die sich wie ein Lauffeuer um...
A Bazaar Life
The Autobiography of David Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
At the age of thirteen, David Alliance was taken out of school by his father and apprenticed into the Grand Bazaar in Tehran, where he learned the business skills that were to prove invaluable in one of the most successful business careers of modern times. In 1950, with just ?14 in his pocket, he...
Building Blocks
Buckeye CableSystem’s Communications Revolution, From Printer’s Ink to Cable to Fiber
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Building Blocks is the history of Buckeye CableSystem. Buckeye is part of a family empire started in 1900 by the son of an immigrant in upstate New York. This book is a fascinating tale of the family’s progression into the fourth generation and through the myriad of daily newspapers, radio and television...
Risk Game
Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Prior to the real-estate boom of the 1980s, Francis J. Greenburger risked it all to buy three older loft buildings at 50 West Street near the current 9/11 Memorial. He ultimately dreamed of one day erecting a magnificent skyscraper in their place. But disaster struck in 2008, just as his plans were...
Priceless
The Case that Brought Down the Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Lloyd Constantine began his career in legal services, representing impoverished clients in civil rights and constitutional cases. Decades later, he would make headlines for representing retailers and consumers against a cartel that undermined one of the fundamental tenets of commerce in America: competition....
by To Be Confirmed
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
A Signal Press Book. Signal Press has a great book for every reader.
This Is Not a T-Shirt
A Brand, a Culture, a Community--a Life in Streetwear
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himself
Streetwear occupies that rarefied space where genuine "cool" coexists with big business; where a star designer might work concurrently with Nike, a tattoo artist, Louis Vuitton,...
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...
by Billy Yeargin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
North Carolina�s tobacco history comes alive in this selection of remembrances from Billy Yeargin and others born and bred in the American tobacco culture.When early settlers struggled to grow anything at all in North Carolina�s sandy soil, tobacco was a boon. The lives of many North Carolinians...
Roy D. Chapin
The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
"John Cuthbert Long’s Roy D. Chapin is a thorough and detailed biography of a remarkable, but little-known Detroit automobile industry pioneer. Historians should include Roy Dikeman Chapin (February 23, 1880–February 16, 1936) in any listing of significant American auto industry pioneers, along with...
The Real Deal
The Autobiography of Britain’s Most Controversial Media Mogul
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
From the age of five, when he helped his deaf father negotiate advertising contracts, Richard Desmond has always had an eye for business. In The Real Deal he offers a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary career that has taken him from cloakroom attendant at a north London club to billionaire...