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The Mark Inside

A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con

by Amy Reading
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012

In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle. He did what many other marks did—he went home, borrowed more money from his family, and returned for another round of swindling.     Only after he lost that second fortune did he reclaim control of his story....

The Crowd Sounds Happy

A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball

by Nicholas Dawidoff
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,...

13 Bankers

The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

by Simon Johnson, James Kwak
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010

In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this...

Take on the Street

What Wall St. and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know / What You Can Do to Fight Back

by Arthur Levitt
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002

In Take on the Street, Arthur Levitt--Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission for eight years under President Clinton--provides the best kind of insider information: the kind that can help honest, small investors protect themselves from the deliberately confusing ways of Wall Street. At...

The Work of Nations

Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalis

by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

There is no longer such a thing as an American economy, say Robert Reich at the beginning of this brilliant book.  What does it mean to be a nation when money, goods, and services know no borders?  What skills will be the most valuable in the coming century? And how can our country best ensure that...
by John Brady
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011

John Brady, editor of Writer's Digest and himself an accomplished interviewer, has put together an indispensable guide to the art of questioning. In a lively, down-to-earth manner, "The Craft of Interviewing" covers all aspects of the interview process -- getting the interview, doing research,...

El factor Fred

Ponerle pasion a lo que usted hace puede convertir lo ordinario en lo extraordin

by Mark Sanborn
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 17, 2011

Aproveche la oportunidad de ser extraordinario.Existen personas que con su inagotable entusiasmo por la vida logran inspirar en otros esa chispa de pasión que los motiva a superarse. El conferencista motivacional Mark Sanborn conoció a una persona así, y en el libro El factor Fred nos relata la...

The Master Switch

The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010

A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers–Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T–Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. It is easy...
by Jeanine Basinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars. With revelatory insights and delightful asides, Jeanine Basinger shows us how the studio “star machine” worked when it...

Game Over

How Nintendo Conquered The World

by David Sheff
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011

More American children recognize Super Mario, the hero of one of Nintendo’s video games, than Mickey Mouse. The Japanese company has come to earn more money than the big three computer giants or all Hollywood movie studios combined. Now Sheff tells of the Nintendo invasion–a tale of innovation and cutthroat tactics.
by David A. Price
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year ***The Pixar Touch***is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the...

DarkMarket

How Hackers Became the New Mafia

by Misha Glenny
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011

"This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." --Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The...

The Image

A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

by Daniel J. Boorstin
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012

First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported—and the contemporary definition of celebrity as “a person who is known for...

The People's Tycoon

Henry Ford and the American Century

by Steven Watts
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...
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