Biography & History

Behind the scenes with the legendary CEO Jack Welch’s innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a st...

Product Description One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike’s Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4...

The eye-opening book that was nominated for a 1998 James Beard Foundation award in the Writing on Food category. In the winter of 1996, Michael Ruhlman do...

A Memoir Of A City, An Industry, And A Dynasty In Decline, And The Story Of A Young Artist's Struggle To Find Her Way Out Of The Ruins. Frances Stroh's Earl...

perkins, A Former Chief Economist At A Boston Strategic-consulting Firm, Confesses He Was An Economic Hit Man For 10 Years, Helping U.s. Intelligence Agen...

A Wall Street Journal Business Reporter Unveils The Story Of How Math Genius Tom Hayes, His Associates, And A Deeply Corrupt Banking System Ignited One Of T...

“Must the end of life be the worst part? Can it be made the best?” At 53, Eugene O'Kelly was in the full swing of life. Chairman and CEO of KPMG, one ...

A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billio...

Scores of books have been published about business, but rarely has a CEO as prominent as Michael Eisner of The Walt Disney Company written so intimately ab...

The Actress Best Known For Her Work On Parks And Recreation And Saturday Night Live Reveals Personal Stories And Offers Her Humorous Take On Such Topics As ...

When Daniel Lubetzky Started Kind Healthy Snacks In 2004, He Aimed To Defy The Conventional Wisdom That Snack Bars Could Never Be Both Tasty And Healthy, Co...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“It was an honor to play Joy on the big screen—she’s such a fearless woman, an incredible business force and an inspiration to everyone ...

"In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon ...

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USA Today BestsellerStories and lessons from John P. Calamos Sr., a rags-to-riches self-made American billionaire Sky's the Limit: Lessons in service, Entr...

From Cnn’s Veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, An Explosive, First-hand Account Of The Dangers He Faces Reporting On The Current White Hou...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A masterful book." --Marc Levinson, The Washington Post "A juicy tour of the company Bezos built."--The New York Times Book Revie...

From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates--one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past fo...

For Tony Hawk, it wasn't enough to skate for two decades, to invent more than eighty tricks, and to win more than twice as many professional contests as an...

In The Shadows Of The Night In Caldwell, New York, There's A Deadly War Raging Between Vampires And Their Slayers. And There Exists A Secret Band Of Brother...

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to b...

One of the most popular television and cultural icons ever, Regis Philbin has been entertaining television audiences for more than fifty years—as a belove...

Love him or hate him, Trump's influence is undeniable. A man of great media savvy, entrepreneurial spirit, and political clout, Trump's career has been plag...

Behind the closed doors of corporate management lurks a manifesto so devious, so insidious, and of such diabolic power, it has the ability to transform nor...

Semler turned his family's business, the aging Semco corporation of Brazil, into the most revolutionary business success story of our time. By eliminating ...

Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicle...

Here is the riveting story of how a second-rate newspaper rose to national greatness, only to become a casualty of war-a civil war within the family that ow...

"Control your destiny or someone else will" is one of the rules by which Jack Welch lives - and wins. Like it or not, the ideas of General Electric's fiery ...

A Manual For Survival And Success That Asks The Most Important Question Today's Leaders, In Any Industry, Can Ask Themselves: What Would Google Do? To Demon...

Fortune Writer And Bestselling Author Of Inside Apple's Expose Of Uber, The Multi-billion Dollar Silicon Valley Upstart That Has Disrupted The Transportatio...

A candid and comprehensive oral history of Silicon Valley's secrets traces the disruptions and start-ups that impacted its economy from the origins of Apple...

Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all h...

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SUCCESS! You already know the Starbucks story. Since 1992, its stock has risen a staggering 5,000 percent! The genius of Starbucks su...

The Definitive Story Of The International Modeling Business--and Its Evil Twin, Legalized Flesh Peddling--model Is A Tale Of Beautiful Women Empowered And S...

Journalist Julie Satow's Thrilling, Unforgettable History Of How One Illustrious Hotel Has Defined Our Understanding Of Money And Glamour, From The Gilded A...

"Being Martha is a personal—at times a searingly personal—account of Martha's life from the inside, by a friend. It's fascinating—very anecdotal and ...

After 9/11, Alan Greenspan, Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Board, Knew, If He Needed Any Further Reinforcement, That We're Living In A New World--the World...

In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Gl...

one Of The Biggest Questions Of The Financial Crisis Has Not Been Answered Until Now.  what Happened At Lehman Brothers And Why Was It Allowed To Fail, ...

The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life o...

Wall Street Legend Alfred Lee Loomis, Who Once Owned Hilton Head Island, Was Devoted To His Hobby Of Science Experiments In His Mansion. During World War Ii...

in The Go-go Nineties Jordan Belfort Proved To Wall Street That You Didn’t Need To Be On Wall Street To Make A Fortune In The Stock Market. But His Compan...

You can achieve your business dream. Beat the odds as you learn from the best – including Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates – and turn your idea in...

What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategi...

Stick Management is out. Carrot management is in! The Carrot Principle offers proven strategies to help recognize and motivate your valued employees.Since ...

In 2007, A Short Blog Post On Valleywag, The Silicon Valley-vertical Of Gawker Media, Outed Paypal Founder And Billionaire Investor Peter Thiel As Gay. Thie...

In December 2008, the world watched as master financier Bernard L. Madoff was taken away from his posh Manhattan apartment in handcuffs, accused of swindli...