Free Press: 1051 books
by David M. Oshinsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1997
In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the civil rights era—and beyond.
Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s...
by David A. Aaker
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The most important assets of any business are intangible: its company name, brands, symbols, and slogans, and their underlying associations, perceived quality, name awareness, customer base, and proprietary resources such as patents, trademarks, and channel relationships. These assets, which comprise...
The SPEED of Trust
The One Thing that Changes Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Over two million copies sold.
Stephen M. R. Covey shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and all stakeholders—is the single most critical component of a successful leader and organization.
Stephen M. R. Covey, widely known as one of the...
by Joan Magretta
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
A beginner's guide and a bible for one of the greatest social innovations of modern times: the discipline of management.
Whether you’re new to the field or a seasoned executive, this book will give you a firm grasp on what it takes to make an organization perform. It presents the basic principles...
All Standing
The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
All Standing The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship recounts the journeys of this famous ship, her heroic crew, and the immigrants who were ferried between Ireland and North America. Spurred by a complex web of motivations—shame, familial obligation, and sometimes...
My Hero
Extraordinary People on the Heroes Who Inspire Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
In My Hero, some of the brightest lights from around the globe share -- in their own words -- stories about the people who have been the greatest source of strength and inspiration to them. With essays by military heroes, political leaders, and Nobel Prize winners, sports heroes, firefighters, scientists,...
by Chris Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Chris Matthews has been playing "hardball" since the day he was born. From his first political run-in in the first grade to his years working as presidential speechwriter for Jimmy Carter and top aide to Tip O'Neill, Matthews grew up loving his country and dreaming of his chance to protect it. As...
It Takes a CEO
It's Time to Lead with Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2005
Should CEOs act as moral compasses for their companies? Leo Hindery thinks they should. If every CEO did so, then Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco would not have become poster children for greed. They would not have become corporate embarrassments -- living illustrations of all that can go wrong...
John McCain
An American Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
From the Naval Academy to the POW camps of Vietnam to Capitol Hill and possibly to the White House -- one of America's most remarkable men
In 1998, at the dedication of the National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia, former Attorney General Griffin Bell, a Democrat, introduced Senator...
Outgunned
Up Against the NRA-- The First Complete Insider Account of the Battle Over Gun Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Ours is a nation in the grip of a strange kind of mania. Why after President Reagan was shot was there virtually no handgun legislation? Why after the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado, was nothing done to regulate the tools that children most frequently use to kill one another? Why was there...
by Talcott Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Talcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr. Parsons does his.
In this collection of nineteen essays, Dr. Parsons focuses his attention on subjects ranging from the social structure of Japan to propaganda...
by Dennis Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
At the end of the twentieth century, many fear that the bonds holding civil society together have come undone. Yet, as the noted scholar Dennis Wrong shows us, our generation is not alone in fearing a breakdown of social ties and a descent into violent conflict.
The Face-to-Face Book
Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
THE BEST MARKETING BOOK OF THE YEAR
Winner of the American Marketing Association’s Berry-AMA prize
In 1848 gold was discovered in California, setting off a frenzy that sent men and women from across the American continent flocking to the West Coast in search of fortune. The Gold Rush...
The Emerging Markets Century
How a New Breed of World-Class Companies Is Overtaking the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
In this vital book, visionary international investment manager Antoine van Agtmael -- the pioneer who coined the term "emerging markets" -- pulls back the curtain on the new powerhouses of the world economy. Picking up where Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat left off, he persuasively demonstrates...