Crown: 5430 books
eBoys
The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
In eBOYS, Randall Stross takes us behind the scenes and inside the heads of the gutsy entrepreneurs who are financing the hottest businesses on the Web. The six tall men who started Benchmark, Silicon Valley's most exciting venture capital firm, put themselves at the cutting edge of the new economy...
The Education of an Accidental CEO
My Journey from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
David Novak—one of today’s most engaging, unconventional, and successful business leaders—lived in thirty-two trailer parks in twenty-three states by the time he reached the seventh grade. He sold encyclopedias door to door, worked as a hotel night clerk, and took a job as a $7,200-a-year advertising...
Everyone Else Must Fail
The Unvarnished Truth About Oracle and Larry Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Karen Southwick’s unauthorized account provides the full story of Larry Ellison’s brilliant, controversial career. Ellison’s drive and fierce ambition created Oracle out of the dust and built it into one of America’s great technology companies, but his unpredictable management style keeps...
Building Wealth in China
36 True Stories of Chinese Millionaires and How They Made Their Fortunes
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
See how thirty-six of China’s most successful and innovative entrepreneurs are creating the global economy of tomorrow. In these pages you’ll learn valuable lessons from remarkable business leaders, such as:
• Zhang Yin, chairwoman of Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited, who trans-...
A Global Lesson
Success Through Cooperation and Compassionate Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Reinhard Mohn, legendary entrepreneur and father of the global media giant Bertelsmann, offers penetrating insights into his motives, beliefs, and hopes as one of the world’s foremost businesspeople.
Reinhard Mohn has grappled with the political and cultural changes of recent decades like...
Life 2.0
How People Across the Country Are Transforming Their Lives to Make Their Own American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
“A delightful, and surprisingly moving, tale” -- Michael Lewis, bestselling author of Moneyball
“Karlgaard flies in with a companion concept to David Brooks’s On Paradise Drive” -- Tom Wolfe
“While counterintuitive to those on the conventional fast-track, Life 2.0 offers...
Key Moments
Experiences in a Dedicated Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
"You always saw the world as your workplace."
In 2009, this was how Reinhard Mohn--the man who turned Bertelsmann AG from an unremarkable, postwar German business into a successful, international media conglomerate--described the professional dedication of his wife, Liz Mohn. Born...
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My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Everybody loves beauty products. Even if you think you know nothing about them, or even if you think you hate them, you actually know plenty about them and, in fact, have several of them that you love. You have major opinions that lie barely beneath the surface. Women whomodestly/moralistically claim...
by Neil Chenoweth
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
If you want to understand how modern media has changed the world, this is the one book you must read.
Rupert Murdoch is the man everyone talks about but no one knows. He’s everywhere, a larger-than-life media titan who has spent a lifetime building his company, News Corporation, from a small,...
Good Things Happen Slowly
A Life In and Out of Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch.
Hersch’s prodigious talent as a sideman—a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Art Farmer and Joe Henderson—blossomed further in the eighties and beyond into a compositional genius that...
by Cynthia Lennon
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
The New York Times bestselling exposé of the real John Lennon, written by his ex-wife.
The time has come when I feel ready to tell the truth about John and me, our years together and the years since his death. There is so much that I have never said, so many incidents I have never spoken of...
Rod
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.
With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic...
by Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Michael Jackson tells the story of his life, in his words.
In this intimate and often moving personal account of Michael Jackson’s public and private life, he recalls a childhood that was both harsh and joyful but always formidable. Michael and his brothers...
Not Dead Yet
The Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Phil Collins pulls no punches—about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that’s inspired his music.
In his much-awaited memoir, Not Dead Yet, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles’ legendary film A Hard Day’s...