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A penniless émigré who made a fortune and became one of the great philanthropists of the twentieth century, George Soros has led a remarkable life. This biography brings forth his story in unprecede……続きを見る

The first book to explore the unique leadership style of Boeing’s acclaimed CEO Jim McNerney was one of Jack Welch’s top protégés at General Electric and a finalist to replace the retiring Welch as ……続きを見る

For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Süskind’s novel Perfume, but his story is in fact ……続きを見る

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Maytag, Kellogg. Now……続きを見る

John Ilhan: A Crazy Life tells the fascinating story of John Ilhan -- a working-class immigrant who overcame incredible odds to become one of the richest men in Australia. Founder of phenomenally su……続きを見る

Steve Jobs created the iPhone and launched the smartphone wars. He was also CEO of one of the richest, biggest, best-run companies in the world. This had nothing to do with marketing. 続きを見る

Success is not the absence of failure and the Milton Snavely Hershey story is concrete proof of this aphorism: he had a string of successive failures and only one success, the formation of Hershey C……続きを見る

“He is to American broadcasting as Carnegie was to steel, Ford to automobiles, Luce to publishing, and Ruth to baseball,” wrote The New York Times of William S. Paleyーthe man who built CBS, the “Ti……続きを見る

A collection of inspirational stories of ordinary people who took a great idea and turned it into a hugely successful business. Learn how the founders of enormously profitable enterprises like Just ……続きを見る

The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens ……続きを見る

With the extraordinary investigative acumen and sensitive narrative skills that informed her best-selling Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, Barbara Goldsmith now gives us the most sensational case ……続きを見る

Forget Torres, Rooney, Beckham and the like. This is what football is really about. One man’s story of a career in the lower leagues. Chris Hargreaves has been a professional footballer for twenty y……続きを見る

No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. Now the acclaimed author of Desert Queen delivers the definitive biography of America’s first female tycoon, “an investment pioneer who ……続きを見る

BP - Where did it all go wrong? is a quick-read business biography; it is a history and current breakdown of British Petroleum. The book introduces the reader to BP, how the company was formed, the ……続きを見る

  “419” is a confidence trick known as ‘Advanced Fee Fraud’. The victim is asked to join a business venture to provide capital for a scheme that will make money fast. They are thenn asked fo……続きを見る

“A delightful, and surprisingly moving, tale” -- Michael Lewis, bestselling author of Moneyball “Karlgaard flies in with a companion concept to David Brooks’s On Paradise Drive” -- Tom Wolfe “While ……続きを見る

The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon "Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages."-Newark Star Ledger "Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected al……続きを見る

This first book in a series of four books; includes the success stories of business and professional women who won the title of "South Australian Executive Woman of the Year". These women are the fo……続きを見る

Biographical profile of one of the titans of American broadcasting, David Sarnoff, a pioneer in the field of radio and television who founded the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and established ……続きを見る

See how thirty-six of China’s most successful and innovative entrepreneurs are creating the global economy of tomorrow. In these pages you’ll learn valuable lessons from remarkable business leaders,……続きを見る

My literary efforts covering my experiences as a National Serviceman in the 1950s (A Reluctant Recruit) generated such a favourable reception. So much so that I embarked on a second, more or less t……続きを見る

Two friends, in their search for financial freedom, start a "business." What they didn't know was that they didn't know anything about business. After placing an ad in the paper,the two hit the stre……続きを見る

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Maytag, Kellogg. Now……続きを見る

Ernie Kriewaldt’s successes in business ventures as a college student and later, after WW2 he was living in the Territory of Papua, New Guinea as a customs officer and started his own business there……続きを見る

Memoirs of James Inglis (1845-1908) who ran an Indigo Plantation on the borderlands between India and Nepal in the years 1863-1875. The book describes the everyday lives of the Planters and the Ind……続きを見る

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Hertz, Gerber. Nowhe……続きを見る

Facebook executive, Sheryl Sandberg's # 1 book of 2013, Lean In, is reviewed and summarized. Saving readers time and money. Book Club Reviews gets right to the important parts with interesting detai……続きを見る

In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of th……続きを見る

In When Hollywood Had a King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industryー businessman, poli……続きを見る

Fighting the Good Fight Have you ever had a problem and you just couldn’t get it solved? When you feel like you’re making a difference, do more roadblocks seem to be placed in your way? Do you belie……続きを見る