Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
Youtility for Accountants
Why Smart Accountants Are Helping, Not Selling (A Penguin Special from Portfolio)
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Youtility fundamentally changes how accountants and accounting firms think about marketing and their business.
Jay Baer defines “Youtility” as information and resources given away for free to build awareness and trust. Youtility creates awareness, customers, and loyalty over the long-term....
The House of Rothschild
Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
**From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals...
Ahead of the Curve
Two Years at Harvard Business School
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Two years in the cauldron of capitalism-"horrifying and very funny" (The Wall Street Journal)
In this candid and entertaining insider's look at the most influential school in global business, Philip Delves Broughton draws on his crack reporting skills to describe his madcap years at Harvard...
The Wal-Mart Effect
How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and HowIt's Transforming the American Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Wal-Mart isnt just the worlds biggest company, it is probably the worlds most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented...
The Truths We Hold
An American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
**A New York Times bestseller
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.**
Senator Kamala...
The Hellhound of Wall Street
How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
A gripping account of the underdog Senate lawyer who unmasked the financial wrongdoing that led to the Crash of 1929 and forever changed the relationship between Washington and Wall Street.
In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put...
The Mind at Work
Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Featuring a new preface for the 10th anniversary
As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Mike Rose’s revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses making lightning-fast calculations,...
Mind and Matter
A Life in Math and Football
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
**A New York Times bestseller
John Urschel, mathematician and former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, tells the story of a life balanced between two passions**
For John Urschel, what began as an insatiable appetite for puzzles as a child developed into mastery of the elegant...
Frenemies
The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of Googled
Advertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible...
by Adrian Matejka
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
A finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in Poetry—a collection that examines the myth and history of the prizefighter Jack Johnson
The legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent...
The China Fantasy
Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
**The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans
"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country,...
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast
A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings--and Life (A Penguin Special from Por tfolio)
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a haze—often after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee,...
Lords of Finance
The Bankers Who Broke the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
**Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize
"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now."—The New York Times Book Review**
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events...
Give and Take
Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the bestselling author of Originals
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success...