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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Companion to the PBS Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives, to defeating segregation. During these times, characterized by some as "worse than slavery," African Americans fought the status quo, acquiring education and land and building businesses, churches,...
The Great American Railroad War
How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took On the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
How two of America's greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly
The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In The Great American Railroad War, Dennis Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed...
Concierge Confidential
The Gloves Come Off---and the Secrets Come Out! Tales from the Man Who Serves Millionaires, Moguls, and Madmen
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
New York City's top concierge gives up a keyhole view into the luxe hotel rooms, private dining and dressing rooms of the ridiculous, rich and demanding
Michael Fazio is the ultimate behind-the-scenes support man. Want two orchestra tickets to the Broadway musical that just won the Tony? Call...
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap
A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
An inspiring true story about losing your place, finding your purpose, and building a community one book at a time.
Wendy Welch and her husband had always dreamed of owning a bookstore, so when they left their high-octane jobs for a simpler life in an Appalachian coal town, they seized an unexpected...
Poised for Success
Mastering the Four Qualities That Distinguish Outstanding Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Secrets to mastering the details that will get you ahead at work, from international etiquette expert and author of BUSINESS CLASS, Jacqueline Whitmore.**
In the past, the business world favored the aggressive "Type A" personality. But in these unsettled times, being courteous and...
Discipline Equals Freedom
Field Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The instant New York Times bestseller!
FIND YOUR WILL, FIND YOUR DISCIPLINE--AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FREEDOM
Jocko Willink's methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander...
The Jersey Sting
A True Story of Crooked Pols, Money-Laundering Rabbis, Black Market Kidneys, and the Informant Who Brought It All Down
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
In the summer of 2009 the blog Gawker stated "Everybody in New Jersey Was Arrested Yesterday." Now for the first time, the real story behind the biggest corruption bust in New Jersey's notoriously corrupt history
Among the forty-four people arrested in July 2009 were three mayors,...
Rebuilding Empires
How Best Buy and Other Retailers are Transforming and Competing in the Digital Age of Retailing
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Rebuilding Empires examines, through retail giants Best Buy and Target, how big box chains are constructing a new future by utilizing mobile devices, social media, and the Internet, the same technologies that once pushed them to the brink of irrelevance. This book features interviews with industry...
Dead Companies Walking
How A Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Unexpected Places
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Unlike most investors, who live in fear of failure, Scott Fearon actively seeks it out. He has earned millions of dollars for his hedge fund over the last thirty years shorting the stocks of businesses he believed were on their way to bankruptcy. In Dead Companies Walking, Fearon describes his methods...
Chicagonomics
The Evolution of Chicago Free Market Economics
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Chicagonomics explores the history and development of classical liberalism as taught and explored at the University of Chicago. Ebenstein's tenth book in the history of economic and political thought, it deals specifically in the area of classical liberalism, examining the ideas of Friedrich Hayek...
Nice Companies Finish First
Why Cutthroat Management Is Over--and Collaboration Is In
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The era of authoritarian cowboy CEOs like Jack Welch and Lee Iacocca is over. In an age of increasing transparency and access, it just doesn't pay to be a jerk—to employees, customers, competitors, or anyone else. In Nice Companies Finish First, Shankman, a pioneer in modern PR, marketing, advertising,...
by Jacqueline Whitmore
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Previously published as part of Business Class.
Effective networking and business etiquette require study and practice before they becomes second nature but both are powerful, practical, and profitable skills you can use when it most counts to get a job, keep a job, or succeed on the job. It...
Hitler's Art Thief
Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a man who never was - he didn't have a bank...
The Private Heinrich Himmler
Letters of a Mass Murderer
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
At the end of World War II, it was assumed that the letters of Heinrich Himmler were lost. Yet sixty years after Himmler's capture by British troops and subsequent suicide, the letters mysteriously turned up in Tel Aviv and, in early 2014, excerpts were published for the first time by the Israeli...