Random Publishing: 10591 books
Carlisle vs. Army
Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
A stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Carlisle vs. Army recounts the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that pitted one of America’s finest athletes, Jim Thorpe, against the man who would become one of the nation’s greatest heroes, Dwight D. Eisenhower. But beyond telling the tale of this momentous...
by Norman Mailer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing.” The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a...
Never Die Easy
The Autobiography of Walter Payton
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best."
His legacy is towering. Walter Payton—the man they called Sweetness, for the way he...
I Am Zlatan
My Story On and Off the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Daring, flashy, innovative, volatile—no matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of soccer’s brightest stars. A top-scoring striker and captain of the Swedish national team, he has dominated the world’s most storied teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan,...
Dare to Lead
Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • **Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and...
Skin in the Game
Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
*#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the *author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility
In his most provocative and practical book yet,one of the foremost thinkers of...
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...