Max: 3227 books

If you want to get rich, no matter how inexperienced you are in investment, this book can help you. Its message is that you must learn neither to avoid risk nor to court it foolhardily, but to manage it - and enjoy it too. The 12 major and 16 minor Zurich Axioms contained in this book are a set of principles...

The Very, Very Rich provides revealing insights into the intriguing world of big money, recounting the spectacular success stories of 15 men who made it to the very, very top. In 1972, Max Gunther invited readers to take a journey with him through a gallery of America's most prominent millionaires. The...

In this book you will meet three dozen impatient people. They weren't satisfied with the slow, plodding, money-saving route to financial security, the safe route that most of us feel stuck with. They wanted instant wealth - and they got it. As Max Gunther points out, our folklore frowns on the idea of...

This handy primer offers answers to a question that has confronted business owners since the dawn of the digital age – How do I best use the growing number of ways to promote my product? Do I post on social media? Do I advertise online? Do I place ads in traditional media, like newspapers? This...

**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography) A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War.** Praised as a “superb scholarly achievement” (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms...

A major work of documentary history–the brilliantly edited and annotated transcripts, most of them never before published, of the presidential conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson regarding the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath. The transition from John F. Kennedy to Johnson was arguably...

The Future Makers is a groundbreaking new work by wine writer Max Allen, set to redefine Australias wine landscape for the new century. As global warming and continued drought threaten the state of the Australian wine industry, many winemakers are beginning to think long-term, and in doing so are starting...

November 1949.A spymaster is ambushed and caught red-handed. However, when the British traitor is handed to the embassy in Washington D.C., he's still having a marvelous trick up his sleeves.A battle of mind and might ensues.UPDATE, August 2012: 3rd edition.Sequel short story to the novel, "Spy Hunt in Dixie."

In Chasing the White Dog, journalist Max Watman traces the historical roots and contemporary story of hooch. He takes us to the backwoods of Appalachia and the gritty nip joints of Philadelphia, from a federal courthouse to Pocono Speedway, profiling the colorful characters who make up white whiskey's...

Five side-splitting years in the life of a big-city journalist who decided to pack it in and head for the simple life in rural Maine. But the simple life turned out to be a complicated business. While his wife homeschooled their two kids on a boulder-strewn farm, Alexander battled firewood poachers,...

By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained unclear. The ensuing drama—that ended in Japan's utter devastation—was acted out across the vast theater of Asia in massive clashes between army, air, and naval forces. In...

Elizabeth Smart had found the perfect man in Deven Richardson. He was handsome, rich, and ready to marry her—a once in a lifetime time find, except for one thing—Deven was dead. When Elizabeth Smart met Deven Richardson, her life had finally taken a turn on the bright side of life. Devin...

Democracy in South Africa turns twenty on 27 April 2014. In A Rumour of Spring, Max du Preez investigates and analyses the progress and lack of progress the country has made during these twenty years. A Rumour of Spring looks at the legacies of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki in an attempt to understand...

Riotous tales of the college playboy-next-door**—the basis for the iconic television show. “Shulman’s creation was born a sitcom hero” (The A.V. Club).** Including stories first published in Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic...