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Live to Ride
The Rumbling, Roaring World of Speed, Escape, and Adventure on Two Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Live to Ride is pure adrenaline—a full-throttle exploration of motorcycles that pushes to the limit, with heart-pounding accounts of riding the greatest bikes of all time, all over the world.
“Live to ride, ride to live.” For many motorcycle riders, these words express life’s...
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Dan Ford learned to fly at the age when most men are well into retirement. In this short book, he tells how it was to have a flight instructor one-third his age, to make a Sentimental Journey to the Pennsylvania airport where the Piper Cub first saw the light of day, to practice spins and aerobatic...
The End of Detroit
How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2003
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. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely...
Reach for the Skies
Ballooning, Birdmen, and Blasting into Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
One of the world's most famous business leaders (and a well-known avian fanatic) explores the pioneers of flight.
Bestselling author and billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has always been obsessed with the skies. To promote a new Virgin Airlines route, he became the first man to water...
by James Fallows
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011,...
by Tosh Cole
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Find financial freedom as a freight broker
The growing freight brokerage field could be the ticket to your dreams if you want a lucrative work-from-home business offering:
Minimum educational requirements
Minimum start-up requirements
The chance to set your own hours
The chance to make...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Biographical profile of Jay Gould railroad tycoon and baron of Wall Street. Jay Gould one of the richest and most hated men in America in the 1880s was an elusive slippery character difficult to assess and more difficult to understand. The secretive tycoon was brilliant and ruthless perhaps the quintessential...
by Eileen Sandlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Are you looking to open a business that offers an endless stream of repeat customers, has a flexible work schedule, and allows you to make as much money as you are willing to put into it? If the answer is yes, then perhaps the car detailing business is for you. The average price for a complete car...
Barons of the Sea
And Their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award-winning author of In the Heart of the Sea).
There was...
The People's Tycoon
Henry Ford and the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off...
Harriman vs. Hill
Wall Street’s Great Railroad War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In 1901, the Northern Pacific was an unlikely prize: a twice-bankrupt construction of the federal government, it was a two-bit railroad (literally—five years back, its stock traded for twenty-five cents a share). But it was also a key to connecting eastern markets through Chicago to the rising West....
Aerotropolis
The Way We'll Live Next
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future—and the way we will do business too.
Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern—the...
Storms of Controversy
The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
The development of the Avro Arrow was a remarkable Canadian achievement. Its mysterious cancellation in February 1959 prompted questions that have long gone unanswered. What role did the Central Intelligence Agency play in the scrapping of the project? Who in Canada's government was involved in that...
Where the Suckers Moon
The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
"For all the right reasons." "Cars that can." "What to Drive." "The perfect Car for an Imperfect World." Only one of these slogans would be chosen by Subaru of America to sell its cars in the recession year of 1991.
As six advertising agencies scrambled...