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The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
Christopher Leonard · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover |
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The biggest takeover in American business that you've n ever heard of The American supermarket seems to represent the best in America: abundance, freedom, choice. But that turns out to be an illusion. The rotisserie chicken, the pepperoni, the cordon bleu, the frozen pot pie, and the bacon... |
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The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
CROWN. · CROWN
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become... |
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Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
Jessica Bennett · Harperwave
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work - a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club - but without... |
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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
David Sax · PublicAffairs
Pages: 282
Format: Print book |
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"The more advanced our digital technologies, the more we come to realize that reality rules. David Sax reassures us surviving members of team human that material existence is alive and well, and makes a compelling case for the reclamation of terra firma and all that comes with it. "... |
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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
Bob Harris · Walker & Company
Format: Print book |
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Hired to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: he would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like... |
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Sebastian Mallaby · Penguin Press
Pages: 781
Format: Print book |
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The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings... |
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Inequality: What Can Be Done?
Anthony B. Atkinson · Harvard University Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of the problemtalk about the 99 and the 1 is entrenched in public debatebut there has been little discussion of what we can do but despair.... |
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Avid Reader: A Life
Robert Gottlieb · Farrar
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf... |
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A Truck Full of Money
Tracy Kidder · Random House
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Kayak.com founder Paul English, an American maverick and a man who had a mind for the age that was coming. Tracy Kidder, the "master of the nonfiction narrative"... |
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Market Sense and Nonsense: How the Markets Really Work
Jack D. Schwager · Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Bestselling author, Jack Schwager, challenges the assumptions at the core of investment theory and practice and exposes common investor mistakes, missteps, myths, and misreads When it comes to investment models and theories of how markets work, convenience usually trumps reality. The simple... |
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Knock 'em Dead Resumes: A Killer Resume Gets MORE Job Interviews!
Martin Yate · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Expert advice on building a resume to get the job you want! Your resume is the most important financial document you'll ever create. When it works, so do you. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience, bestselling author Martin Yate shows you how to write a dynamic, effective resume... |
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High-Hanging Fruit: Build Something Great by Going Where No One Else Will
Mark Rampolla · Portfolio
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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ZICO founder Mark Rampolla is building a social good movement: how to make money starting a company that is good for you, your colleagues, customers, and the worldWhen Mark Rampolla filled a notebook with potential startup ideas, his wife asked him some tough questions. What about this... |
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