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Power Failure: The Inside Story Of The Collapse Of Enron Follows The Story Of Enron From The Perspective Of Sherron Watkins, The Vice President Who Exposed ...

A fascinating and candid memoir about successful leadership from the former CEO of General Electric, named one of the "World's Best CEOs" three times by Bar...

In April of 2000, Gary Erickson turned down a $120 million offer to buy his thriving company. Today, instead of taking it easy for the rest of his life and...

An inspiring book for readers of Sheryl Sandberg and Arlene Dickinson Lisa Lisson’s life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, appl...

Warren Buffett: The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success He’s been consistently voted one of the wealthiest people in the world.Time Magazine also voted...

The Empowering Story Of Larry Hite’s Unlikely Rise To The Top Of The Hedge Fund World—with Critical Insights And Lessons You Can Take To The Bank In The...

Traces The History Of The Maybelline Cosmetics Company, From Its Inception By Founder Tom Lyle Williams To Its Growth Throughout The Twentieth Century As A ...

The history of Guinness, one of the world’s most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business. It...

In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hi...

It’s as Canadian as hockey and beer, and almost every town has at least one. Manyknow that it was hockey legend Tim Horton who opened the first Tim Horto...

For would–be entrepreneurs, innovation managers or just anyone fascinated by the special chemistry and drive that created some of the best technology co...

Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person acco...

“A hair-raising account of a Barbie Dreamhouse-size Jarndyce and Jarndyce.”―Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This provocative work spotlights the legal ba...

The First Biography In Over Thirty Years Of Condé Nast, The Pioneering Publisher Of Vogue And Vanity Fair And Main Rival To Media Magnate William Randolph...

This is a tale about big business, an imploding dynasty, a mogul at war, and a deal that sums up an era of change. The main character, rocked by feuding fa...

This Is The First Post-mortem, Unauthorized Insight Into Merv Griffin, A Failed Singer And Unsuccessful Actor Who Unexpectedly Rewrote The Rules Of America'...

In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-–2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia P. Dawson tell the story of Cleveland-Cliffs, th...

Elon Musk, The Entrepreneur And Innovator Behind Spacex, Tesla, And Solarcity, Sold One Of His Internet Companies, Paypal, For $1.5 Billion. Ashlee Vance Ca...

Publisher Fact Sheet In The Vein Of Business Bestsellers Like Blur & Cluetrain Manifesto, This Book By New York/london-based Consultant Tom Demarco Is A...

What Happens When A Young Wall Street Investment Banker Spends A Small Fortune To Have Lunch With Warren Buffett? He Becomes A Real Value Investor. In This ...

DisneyWar is the breathtaking, dramatic inside story of what drove America's best-known entertainment company to civil war, told by one of our most acclai...

Alex Doulis, a Greek-Canadian geologist and financial legend, came to Bay Street from Vancouver in the 1970s. Though he never went astray once in the desert...

An extension of Prof. Landes' chapter in Volume VI of the Cambridge Economic History of Europe includes a full-scale analysis of modern industrial Europe fr...

Finalist for the National Business Book Award National Bestseller In Bet On Me, leading entrepreneur Annette Verschuren lays out her surprising and inspiri...

In Francisco Pizarro and His Brothers, Rafael Varón Gabai breaks fresh ground in his reconstruction of the Pizarros’ conquest as a new form of busi...

From The Author Of The Bestselling Biographies Of Benjamin Franklin And Albert Einstein, This Is The Exclusive Biography Of Steve Jobs. Based On More Than F...