Free Press: 1051 books
by Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out in unnerving detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data and technology companies and government anti-terror initiatives to create something entirely new: a security-industrial complex. Drawing on his years...
Why Business People Speak Like Idiots
A Bullfighter's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
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If you think you smell something at work, there's probably good reason--"bull" has become the official language of business. Every day, we get bombarded by an endless stream of filtered, antiseptic, jargon-filled corporate speak, all of which makes it harder to get heard, harder to be authentic,...
Better, Stronger, Faster
The Myth of American Decline . . . and the Rise of a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Financial meltdown, a deep recession, and political polarization—combined with strong growth outside the United States—have led to a global bubble of pessimism surrounding America’s economic prospects. Bloated with debt, and outpaced by China and other emerging markets, the United States has...
Executive Economics
Ten Tools for Business Decision Makers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
What do economists know that business executives find useful? Economics ought to be indispensable for business decision-makers because it deals with the issues executives face daily: what to pro duce, how and how much, at what price, how best to use resources (time, labor, capital), how to understand...
The 18 Immutable Laws of Corporate Reputation
Creating, Protecting, and Repairing Your Most Valu
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A veteran Wall Street Journal editor and authority on branding, marketing and reputation provides the 18 crucial rules for companies to follow in developing and protecting their reputation, which can be their most valuable asset or their worst nightmare. A must read book for senior executives, consultants,...
Force For Change
How Leadership Differs from Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The critics who despair of the coming of imaginative, charismatic leaders to replace the so-called manipulative caretakers of American corporations don't tell us much about what leadership actually is, or, for that matter, what management is either. Now, John P. Kotter, who focused on why we have...
by H.W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
From the early years of fur trading to today's Silicon Valley empires, America has proved to be an extraordinarily fertile land for the creation of enormous fortunes. Each generation has produced one or two phenomenally successful leaders, often in new industries that caught contemporaries by surprise,...
America's First Dynasty
The Adamses, 1735-1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
They were America's longest lasting dynasty, the closest thing to a royal family our nation has ever known. The Adamses played a leading role in America's affairs for nearly two centuries -- from John, the self-taught lawyer who rose to the highest office in the government he helped to create; to...
by John P. Kotter
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Based on a landmark twenty-year study of 115 members of the Harvard Business School's Class of 1974, this vital and important book describes how the globalization of markets and competition is altering career paths, wage levels, the structure and functioning of corporations, and the very nature of...
Kennedy & Nixon
The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this compelling, smart, and well-researched dual biography, Chris Matthews shows how the contest between the charismatic John F. Kennedy and the talented yet haunted Richard Nixon propelled America toward Vietnam and Watergate.
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon each dreamed of becoming the...
The Influentials
One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2003
One American in ten tells the other nine where to shop, what to buy...even how to vote. The Influentials tells who they are, and how they can be influenced.
Who are they? The most influential Americans—the ones who tell their neighbors what to buy, which politicians to support, and where...
To Conquer the Air
The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.
For years, Wilbur Wright...
Government of Our Own
The Making of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
For four crucial months in 1861, delegates from all over the South met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new nation. Davis (Jefferson Davis: The Man and the Hour, LJ 11/15/91) tells their story in this new work, another example of Davis's fine storytelling skill and an indispensable guide to...
Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington
Nursery Rhymes for the Political Barnyard
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Can anything be poetic in the politicking of Washington, D.C.? Is there poetry in the morning's headlines and in tonight's news tickers? Or, as Seely paraphrases Dr. Seuss, Do W's troubles trouble you, too? America's pundit poet laureate, the man who channeled the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and Phil...