Crown imprint: 1774 books
Superforecasting
The Art and Science of Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST
“The most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.”—Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal
Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future,...
The One Minute Millionaire
The Enlightened Way to Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Two mega-bestselling authors with decades of experience in teaching people how to achieve extraordinary wealth and success share their secrets.
Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world’s foremost financial experts,...
by Jack Weatherford
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today's leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing history and peculiar nature of money, tracing our relationship with it from the time when primitive men exchanged cowrie shells to the imminent arrival of the all-purpose electronic cash card. 320 pp. Author tour. National radio publicity. 25,000 print.
Everything Is Obvious
*Once You Know the Answer
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
By understanding how and when common sense fails, we can improve our understanding of the present and better plan for the future.
Drawing on the latest scientific research, along with a wealth of historical and contemporary examples, Watts shows how common sense reasoning and history conspire...
Predator Nation
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’...
Richistan
A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through “Richistan” entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever. Richistanis have 400-foot-yachts, 30,000-square-foot homes, house staffs of more than 100, and their own “arborists.” They’re...
Chasing Goldman Sachs
How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down...And Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
You know what happened during the financial crisis … now it is time to understand why the financial system came so close to falling over the edge of the abyss and why it could happen again.Wall Street has been saved, but it hasn’t been reformed. What is the problem?
Suzanne McGee provides...
The Game-Changer
How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
How you can increase and sustain organic revenue and profit growth . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job.
Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble has tripled profits; significantly improved organic revenue growth, cash flow, and operating margins;...
The Necessary Revolution
How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally...
How Capitalism Saved America
The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Whether it’s Michael Moore or the New York Times, Hollywood or academia, a growing segment in America is waging a war on capitalism. We hear that greedy plutocrats exploit the American public; that capitalism harms consumers, the working class, and the environment; that the government needs to rein...
Global Tilt
Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
New York Times bestselling author Ram Charan gives business leaders the guidance they need to succeed in a world in which economic power has shifted.
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The global tilt is nothing less than an irreversible shift of economic power—jobs, wealth, and market opportunities—from a small part of...
Street Smarts
Adventures on the Road and in the Markets
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.
Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from...
The 5 Big Lies About American Business
Combating Smears Against the Free-Market Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
WHY FEEL EMBARRASSED BY BUSINESS?
Every American benefits every day from the phenomenal productivity of the free market, so why do so many people feel guilty or skeptical about our business system? In this passionately argued, eye-opening book, talk-radio star and bestselling author Michael Medved...
The High-Beta Rich
How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent (1%) broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the American income charts - models of financial...