Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
A Path Appears
Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.
In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles...
Now What?
The Young Person's Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
From the author of the classic bestselling career guide The Pathfinder, Now What? is the essential guide to for young people looking to find satisfying and successful work, perfect for high school students, recent college graduates, and even twentysomethings and millennials already in the working...
by Nicholas Wapshott
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
“I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New Yorker
As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies...
The Curve
How Smart Companies Find High-Value Customers
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
It’s the ultimate business question of our time: How do real companies make money when customers expect (and often get) products for free?
There are millions of potential customers in the world. Most of them won’t pay anything for your product. But some will pay almost anything. The
challenge...
Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes—Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness,...
The Crowd Sounds Happy
A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed,...
The Bed of Procrustes
Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
***Bed of Procrustes *is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black...
What Customers Crave
How to Create Relevant and Memorable Experiences at Every Touchpoint
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Think you know your customers? You better be more assured than just thinking you do, because your success depends on it! The best companies in the world first research exhaustively what their customers desire, and then they deliver it in memorable and deeply human experiences--resulting in success...
by Nicholas Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
A page-turning narrative about Marissa Mayer's efforts to remake Yahoo as well as her own rise from Stanford University undergrad to CEO of a $30 billion corporation by the age of 38.
When Yahoo hired star Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on...
Selling to the C-Suite: What Every Executive Wants You to Know About Successfully Selling to the Top
Selling to the C-Suite: What Every Executive Wants You to Know About Successfully Selling to the Top
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
It’s the goal of every salesperson: getting access to senior client executives—the C-Level decision makers responsible for approving top-dollar deals. Selling to the C-Suite is the first book that reveals how to land those career-making sales in the words of CEOs themselves!
With 60 years...
Kissinger the Negotiator
Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Foreword by Henry Kissinger
In this groundbreaking, definitive guide to the art of negotiation, three Harvard professors—all experienced negotiators—offer a comprehensive examination of one of the most successful dealmakers of all time.
Politicians, world leaders, and business...
by Nicholas Lovell
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Free is coming. We all know how artists and are at risk from filesharing; now digital manufacturing and 3D printing mean that no industry is immune. But the same technology that enables easy piracy also offers a huge opportunity: artists and businesses can share what they do at low cost, while building...
by Nicholas Eames
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A retired group of legendary mercenaries get the band back together for one last impossible mission in this award-winning debut epic fantasy.
"Fantastic, funny, ferocious." - Sam Sykes
Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries...
by H. Nicholas Spinelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
It's 1941, the world is at War, and England stands alone against the German onslaught. A young Egyptologist at the Royal London Museum, Reginald Billings, in a burst of patriotic fervor joins the RAF and is assigned to an observation platform in the middle of the Egyptian desert. The lieutenant's...