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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Henry J Heinz, the man who invented tomato ketchup William Lever who made millions from soap Michael Marks, founder of the Marks and ……続きを見る

A fascinating chronicle of how celebrity has inundated the world of fashion, realigning the forces that drive both the styles we covet and the bottom lines of the biggest names in luxury apparel. Fr……続きを見る

“Fascinating, strange, sad, funny, and entirely engrossing, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble is a smart, engaging book that’s as much about the odd saga of these plush toys as it is about the nature of ……続きを見る

Management History is not simply a book about the history of business or even the history of management. The goal of this book is to demonstrate that despite the relative newness of management scien……続きを見る

L’ebook 9 storie di ordinaria innovazione, curato da Giusi Carai e Alessio Neri, vuole rispondere alla domanda "Cos'è l'innovazione?", attraverso la viva voce dei 9 team di innovatori reggini che ha……続きを見る

Gael Linn celebrates its sixtieth birthday in 2013. To mark the occasion, this book describes one of the most imaginative and innovative organisations in Irish social, cultural and business life. Be……続きを見る

From Fruit Shed to Fortune 500: The inside story of ROLM and its continuing influence on Silicon Valley Decades before Facebook, seven years before Apple, four young men were hard at work in a prune……続きを見る

From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, an……続きを見る

Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a country’s economic organization and its corporate governance system. Most research on corporate networks focuses on indiv……続きを見る

For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in f……続きを見る

What does the world want? According to John Battelle, a company that answers that questionーin all its shades of meaningーcan unlock the most intractable riddles of business and arguably of human cu……続きを見る

"Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about…the Coca-Cola systemーpast and present." ーTed Ryan, the Coca-Cola Company By examining “the real thing” ingredient by ingredient, ……続きを見る

Ferdinand Pecora investigated with ruthlessly abandon the nation’s most influential bankers and stockbrokers to determine what caused the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which in turn led to the Great De……続きを見る

This edited volume offers a new and original approach to the study of technological change in retail finance. Documenting developments in the US alongside case studies from Mexico and Europe, Techno……続きを見る

A super-sweet guide to all your favourite sweets from years gone by. A History of Sweets in 50 Wrappers is a colourful and comical history of sweets and chocolates. If you ever dreamt of being the M……続きを見る

Casebooks in business history are designed to instruct students in classrooms and boardrooms about the evolution of business management. The first casebook for the study of business history in a Can……続きを見る

The behind the scenes story of the world’s most notorious and controversial video games company – Rockstar Games. Jacked is the incredible story behind the phenomenon that changed video games for ev……続きを見る

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Mayer Amschel Rothschild who started a bank which made his family rich Cornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest people in t……続きを見る

The fascinating tale of how one company spawned a huge international business success story, created legions of new gamblers and revolutionised the worlds of gambling and sport for ever. In 2000 a c……続きを見る

The first official account of the iconic record label. An NME Book of the Year 2013 A Rough Trade Book of the Year 2013 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2013 This Mortal Coil, Birthday P……続きを見る

A’ NO LOGO’ for the net Generation – a no-holes barred story of the battle for the control of the internet, that reads like a thriller. In November 1999, at the height of the e-commerce gold rush, a……続きを見る

In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Over the course of the ne……続きを見る

An in-depth, hard-hitting account of the mistakes, miscalculations and myopia that have doomed America’s automobile industry. In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high.……続きを見る

"Deftly and compassionately captures [Ben's] genius in all its entrepreneurial splendor...This tale will keep you entertained."--New York Times Book Review. A former CEO of Ben & Jerry's tells how t……続きを見る

Thousands of readers remember with pleasure Oscar Lewis’s fine book on the Western railroad robber barons, The Big Four. Silver Kings is a companion piece, dealing as it does with the big four of th……続きを見る

Lately the headlines have delivered dispiriting news about wrongdoing and scandal in business. But behind the headlines lies a surprising, untold story: Corporate America is changing for the better.……続きを見る

How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist R……続きを見る

"A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The Economist Rescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects th……続きを見る

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. B……続きを見る

A real-life thrillerーthe story of kickbacks and payoffs, of shady deals struck in secret with known felons; a story in which half a million people lose enormous sumsーsome their life’s savingsーin ……続きを見る