Harpercollins E Books: 5637 books
Consulting Demons
Inside the Unscrupulous World of Global Corporate Consulting
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this gripping and colorful account of the American dream gone astray, Lewis Pinault provides the essential guidelines on how to get ahead and an enlightening perspective on the brutal infighting that can engulf even the most civilized consulting firm. This stunning exposé of some of the most prestigious...
Common Sense Business
Managing Your Small Company
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Do you own or plan to own a small business?
Do you work for a small business and desire to better understand your boss?
Do you know someone who owns a business and wants to be stronger, more focused, and more successful?
This is the book for you.
The truth is that many business books...
The Chasm Companion
A Fieldbook to Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In The Chasm Companion, The Chasm Group's Paul Wiefels presents readers with a new analysis of the ideas introduced in bestselling author Geoffrey Moore's classic books, Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, and focuses on how to translate these ideas into actionable strategy and implementation...
The Myth of the Rational Market
A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
“Do we really need yet another book about the financial crisis? Yes, we do—because this one is different….A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we’re in.”
—Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review
“Fox makes business history thrilling.”
—St. Louis...
Go It Alone!
The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
There is an epidemic of unhappiness in the American workplace. A full 70 percent of workers in the United States report that they are disengaged from their jobs. When asked, "Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?" only 20 percent of nearly 2 million employees said...
Power
Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
“Pfeffer [blends] academic rigor and practical genius into wonderfully readable text. The leading thinker on the topic of power, Pfeffer here distills his wisdom into an indispensable guide.”
—Jim Collins, author of New York Times bestselling author Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall
Some...
Living on the Fault Line, Revised Edition
Managing for Shareholder Value in Any Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The fault line -- that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where powerful innovations and savage competition meet and create market-shattering tremors. Every company lives on it; no manager can control it.
In the original edition of Living on the Fault Line, Geoffrey Moore presented a compelling...
How Companies Win
Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You’re In
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In a world of contracting markets and diminished consumer demand, The Cambridge Group founder Rick Kash and Nielsen Company CEO David Calhoun show companies how to find new customers and bigger profits. How Companies Win makes The Cambridge Group’s proprietary demand model—a strategy which multi-million...
The Secret Code of Success
7 Hidden Steps to More Wealth and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Americans spend more than $11 billion a year on self-help products—everything from books to diet pills to career coaches to seminars. So why—with all this time, money, and energy being spent—are so few people living the life they really want? Why are millions of smart, talented, motivated people...
The Engaged Customer
The New Rules of Internet Direct Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the age of the Internet, how do you keep your customers coming back--again and again--when your competitors are always just one click away? How do you turn casual, anonymous surfers into profitable, "engaged" customers?
The answers to these questions can be found in The Eng@ged...
Stock Market Wizards
Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The third in the bestselling Market Wizards series, this time focusing on the barometer of the economy—the stock market.
It has been nearly a decade since the publication of the highly successful The New Market Wizards. The interim has witnessed the most dynamic bull market in US stock history,...
Badass: The Birth of a Legend
Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most Merciless Gods, Monsters, Heroes, Villains, and Mythical Creatures Ever Envisioned
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Ben Thompson—author of Badass, creator of the epic website badassoftheweek.com, and the Internet’s foremost expert on badassitude—is back to enthrall lovers of skull-smashing, bone-crushing bad behavior with his latest compendium, Badass: The Birth of a Legend. Like its macho predecessor, Badass:...
Gallows Thief
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The year is 1820. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, returns to London to wed his fiancée. But instead of settling down to fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where high unemployment and social unrest rage, and where men—innocent or guilty—are hanged for the merest of crimes.
When...
by Annie Dillard
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood; the Northwest pioneer epic The Living; and the nonfiction narrative Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. A gregarious recluse, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.