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by Steven Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline...
The Last Tycoons
The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank
Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood...
The Accidental Billionaires
The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times
Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s...
Money and Power
How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
The bestselling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success.
From the outside, Goldman Sachs is a perfect company. The Goldman PR machine loudly declares it to be smarter, more ethical, and more profitable...
Roots of Steel
Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
When Deborah Rudacille was a child growing up in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the local Sparrows Point steel mill made more than enough to comfortably support a family. But in the decades since, the decline of American manufacturing has put tens of thousands out of work...
I Stand Corrected
How Teaching Western Manners in China Became Its Own Unforgettable Lesson
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A fascinating fusion of memoir, manners, and cultural history from a successful businesswoman well versed in the unique challenges of working in contemporary China.
During the course of a career that has, quite literarily, moved her around the world, no country has fascinated Eden Collinsworth...
by Philip Dray
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.
In this stirring new history, Philip Dray...
Letters to a Young Artist
Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From the most exciting individual in American theater” (Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith’s brass tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In vividly anecdotal letters to the young BZ, she addresses the full spectrum of issues that people starting out will face: from questions of confidence,...
The Next 100 Years
A Forecast for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
China fragments, a new Cold War with Russia, Mexcio challenges U.S., the new great powers Turkey, Poland and Japan. The Next 100 Years is a fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists.
In his provocative...
The Next Decade
Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade’s leaders.
In...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.
The years...
Flashpoints
The Emerging Crisis in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years), with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines “flashpoints,” unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted throughout history,...
by Tamara Draut
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Drowning in student loans? Can’t afford to get married, buy a home, have children? Up to your ears in credit card debt? At last, a book for the under-35 generation that explains why it’s not their fault, and what can be done about it. Strapped offers a groundbreaking look at the new obstacle course...
The Mind and the Market
Capitalism in Western Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how...