Agate B2 imprint: 33 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
From his office in Omaha, Nebraska, without even the benefit of a computer, Warren Buffett has racked up an investment record that far surpasses his counterparts on Wall Street—or anyone else in the world, for that matter. While traditionally stock exchanges have returned about 11 percent annually...
The Chicago School
How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
When Richard Nixon said We are all Keynesians now” in 1971, few could have predicted that the next three decades would result in a complete transformation of the global economic landscape. The transformation was led by a small, relatively obscure group within the University of Chicago’s business...
The End of the Euro
The Uneasy Future of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The End of the Euro begins with an overview of the birth of the euro itself. Understanding this history is essential to understand the anomalies built into the project from the beginning. These anomalies form the subject of chapter two, along with how they led to the situation that turned Greece,...
Play It Forward
From Gymboree to the Yoga Mat and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Play It Forward details the remarkable journey of Joan Barnes, the founder and former CEO of Gymboree, and how she learned to align her inner life with outward success.
Forty years ago, Joan Barnes founded a modest play center in a church basement with $3,000. Determined to enable women to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore based out of his garage. Since then, the ever-expanding enterprise has revolutionized shopping and, in many important ways, invented e-commerce as we know it. Today, Amazon is the third-most valuable company in the world, and Bezos's vast customer-oriented...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
As one of only nine women in a class of 500 at Harvard Law School when she enrolled in 1956 and one of only four female Supreme Court justices in the history of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is frequently viewed as a feminist trailblazer and an icon for civil rights.
Ginsburg has always...
How to Play the Game at the Top
The 9 Rules for Consummate Corporate Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Before starting his own successful company, Fenorris Pearson was a top executive with Dell and Motorola with responsibilities in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. He worked with top people on top teams building and selling top products to global audiences. Smart people like to...
Change Better
Survive - and Thrive - During Change at Work and Throughout Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Due to the economic crisis, organizations are accelerating the dramatic changes they're making in the way they run their businesses. Employees, faced with these rapid and often undesirable changes, need help — and so do the organizations they work for. If change is going to be a constant in people’s...
A Giant Reborn
Why the US Will Dominate the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
The world is in turmoil. Whether one looks at Europe, Asia, North America, the Middle East, Africa, or Latin America, uncertainty and upheaval seem to be the order of the day. Nevertheless, there seems to be an odd certainty in the minds of many pundits, writers, and citizens in this highly volatile...
Baked In
Creating Products and Businesses That Market Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
The old way of selling was to create safe, ordinary products and combine them with mass marketing. The new way is to create truly innovative products and build the marketing right in. But how does a brand make the transition from old to new? According to advertising gurus Alex Bogusky and John Winsor,...
Opportunity Knocking
Lessons from Business Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Known as the producer with the trillion-dollar Rolodex, Lori Ann LaRocco knows how to get business leaders and entrepreneurs to talk. Many of the world’s most well-known executives are so trusting of LaRocco, senior talent producer at CNBC, that she consistently gets scoops on billion-dollar deals...
Bernanke's Test
Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, and the Drama of the Central Banker
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The consensus on Alan Greenspan's performance as Fed chair used to be extremely positive, but more and more it's been called into question. Now, 2008 has seen Ben Bernanke in the eye of a storm that was created largely during Greenspan's tenure. His management of the bubble of all bubbles will be...
Arts & Numbers
A Financial Guide for Artists, Writers, Performers, and Other Members of the Creative Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
The creative class-artists, actors, writers, musicians, freelancers, dancers, performers, and the like-are known for applying their passion for creative expression to everything they do. Perhaps the one thing that most fills this group with apprehension is the rigid world of numbers. This leads to...
The Human City
Urbanism for the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
"***The Human City* presents the most cogent, evidence-based and clear-headed exposition of the pro-suburban argument. . . . enriching our understanding of what cities are about and what they can and must become.” -*Wall Street Journal***
Around the globe, most new urban development has...