Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1998
The classic by the renowned economist: “One of those rare works that forces a nation to re-examine its values” (The New York Times).
One of the New York Public Library’s “Books of the Century”
Hailed as a “masterpiece” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), this examination of the “economics...
Ambitious Brew
The Story of American Beer
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2007
A “fascinating and well-documented social history” of American beer, from the immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it (Chicago Tribune).
Grab a pint and settle in with Ambitious**Brew, the fascinating, first-ever history of American beer. Included here are...
The Good Society
The Human Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1997
The legendary economist explains how a nation can remain both compassionate and fiscally sound, with “common sense raised to the level of genius” (The New Yorker).
This compact, eloquent book offers a blueprint for a workable national agenda that allows for human weakness without compromising...
by Therese Huston
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
“An authoritative guide to help women navigate the workplace and their everyday life with greater success and impact” (Forbes).
So, you’ve earned a seat at the table. What happens next?
We all face hard decisions every day—and the choices we make, and how others perceive them,...
Creative Change
Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
“This book completely changed the way I think about creative innovation. . . . A must read” (Cal Newport, bestselling author of Deep Work).
Business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive. But according to startling research from management professor...
Napa
The Story of an American Eden
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
The New York Times–bestselling history of the rise of California’s wine country and its most famous vintners—from the author of Napa at Last Light.
James Conaway’s remarkable bestseller delves into the heart of California’s lush and verdant Napa Valley, also known as America’s Eden....
The Physics of Wall Street
A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
A look inside the world of “quants” and how science can (and can’t) predict financial markets: “Entertaining and enlightening” (The New York Times).
After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, “beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But while many of the mathematicians...
Money Mischief
Episodes in Monetary History
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1994
The Nobel Prize–winning economist explains how value is created, and how that affects everything from your paycheck to global markets.
In this “lively, enlightening introduction to monetary history” (Kirkus Reviews), one of the leading figures of the Chicago school of economics that rejected...
The Bright Continent
Breaking Rules & Making Change in Modern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
“For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start” (Reuters).
Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she...
The Robber Barons
The Classic Account of the Influential Capitalists Who Transformed America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
“The best, the liveliest and most illuminating” account of Rockefeller, Morgan, and the other men who seized American economic power after the Civil War (The New Republic).
John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E. H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick . . ....
What Your Financial Advisor Isn't Telling You
The 10 Essential Truths You Need to Know About Your Money
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Protect your money with this “accessible and practical” guide to hiring and working with financial advisors (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Hiring a trained expert to safeguard and grow your wealth seems like a foolproof decision, but it can go awry for many people. You should never...
Dangerous Doses
A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters, and the Contamination of America's Drug Supply
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
An investigation into crime and corruption that offers “a journey into the underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry” (Buzz Bissinger).
Stolen, tainted, and compromised counterfeit medicine has increasingly made its way into a poorly regulated distribution system—reaching vulnerable and...
The Men Who Would Be King
An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
“The definitive history of the studio” created by the larger-than-life team of Spielberg, Geffen, and Katzenberg (Los Angeles Times).
For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood’s Circus Maximus—created by director Steven...
Organic, Inc.
Natural Foods and How They Grew
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
A “lively, comprehensive, and . . . definitive account of organic food’s rise” from a “first-rate business journalist” (Michael Pollan).
Who would have thought that a natural food supermarket could have been a financial refuge from the dot-com bust? But it had. Sales of organic food...