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When Genius Failed
The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
**“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”—**The New York Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUSINESSWEEK
In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which...
The Truth About the Drug Companies
How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing...
It's Always Personal
Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
An innovative study of gender, emotion, and power, It’s Always Personal is an essential companion for everyone navigating the challenges of the contemporary workplace.
How often have we heard “It’s nothing against you, it’s not personal—it’s just business”? But in fact, at work it’s...
Connectography
Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers—and people—will win.
Connectivity is the most revolutionary...
Nobodies
Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who aren’t paid for their labor–people who are trapped financially, and often physically. In Nobodies, award-winning journalist John Bowe exposes the outsourcing,...
The Inner Game of Work
Focus, Learning, Pleasure, and Mobility in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2001
This groundbreaking book tells you how to overcome the inner obstacles that sabotage your efforts to be your best on the job.
Timothy Gallwey burst upon the scene twenty years ago with his revolutionary approach to excellence in sports. His bestselling books The Inner Game of Tennis and The...
Life Inc.
How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Now includes “The Life Inc. Guide to Reclaiming the Value You Create”
In Life Inc, award-winning writer Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. The resulting ideology, corporatism, has infiltrated...
by Thomas Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
“Examines why the set-in-its-ways Coca Cola Company tampered with a drink that had become an American institution—and blundered into one of the greatest marketing triumphs of all time.”—New York
On April 23, 1985, the top executives of the Coca-Cola Company held a press conference in...
Polk
The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought...
Kingfish
The Reign of Huey P. Long
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will,...
The Three Lives of James Madison
Genius, Partisan, President
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president
“In order to understand America and its Constitution, it is necessary to understand James...
The Translator
A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me.
The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living...
Be Your Own Mentor
Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
Surprising secrets of success from some of America's women leaders; all the things a mentor would tell you are revealed in this mentor-in-a-book. Sheila Wellington, the president of Catalyst, draws on Catalyst research, contacts, and know-how to tell you how to understand the unspoken rules in the...
Risk/Reward
Why Intelligent Leaps and Daring Choices Are the Best Career Moves You Can Make
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A persuasive and eye-opening look at the importance of embracing risk in our working lives—and how to use it to achieve lifelong career success
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Some of us relish the chance to fly without a net, others . . . not so much. But no matter how adventurous we might be in our personal lives, most...