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  • Today and Tomorrow

    Timeless Wisdom for a Modern Digital Age

    Henry Ford's impact on industry, business, and society continues to drive us to reach for seemingly impossible goals. He turned an automobile into an industry, transformed the world of farming with a tractor, and launched the airplane into a new era of mass production. Ford didn't just revolutionize transportation; he completely transformed the way we work, the way we create, and the way we live. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Management Explosion and the Next Environmental Crisis

    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.David Ehrenfeld examines the consequences of "the extraordinary proliferation of administration, of bureaucracy, of management, the increasing percentage of people in our society who control events but do not themselves produce anything real." He ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Redpath

    The History of a Sugar House

    Redpath, today a household name for sugar in Canada, has its roots in the story of an enterprising Scots immigrant, initially a stone mason and later a building contractor during the boom days of Montreal’s growth from a small provincial centre to a major North American city. In 1854, the ever-energetic John Redpath, by then a self-made millionaire in his late fifties, launched a new career as an ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fourth Wave

    Business in the 21st Century

    Applying the concept of historical waves originally propounded by Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave, Herman Maynard and Susan Mehrtens look toward the next century and foresee a "fourth wave," an era of integration and responsibility far beyond Toffler's revolutionary description of third-wave postindustrial society. Whether we attain this stage of global well-being, however, will depend on how well ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Corporation and Its Stakeholders

    Classic and Contemporary Readings

    Edited by Max Clarkson ...
    Series series Heritage
    There is an active debate over whether the traditional purpose of the corporation – to maximize profits and financial value for the benefit of shareholders – can adequately encompass the interests of all other participants or stakeholders in the corporation's activities. Since a corporation cannot operate optimally without the support of its most important stakeholders, particularly its employees ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Management Innovators

    The People and Ideas that Have Shaped Modern Business

    Here is a who's who of business, thirty-one profiles of inventors, financiers, organizers, motivators, and gurus--a vivid, informative look at the history of management as seen through the lives of its most influential figures. We meet Eli Whitney, creator of the cotton gin and father of the machine tool industry, who failed to profit from his genius; Thomas Edison, who once vowed he would never ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Two Centuries of Panic

    A history of corporate collapses in Australia

    by Trevor Sykes ...
    Two Centuries of Panic is a book of breathtaking energy and scope. Rich in sensation and scandal, it is the first history ever published of corporate collapses in Australia from the first bank closure in the 1820s through the four great recessions of the 1840s, 1890s, 1920s and 1970s to the downfall of the house of Gollin.The book's pages are peopled with some of the most famous names in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Fumbling the Future

    How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer

    Ask consumers and users what names they associate with the multibillion dollar personal computer market, and they will answer IBM, Apple, Tandy, or Lotus. The more knowledgable of them will add the likes of Microsoft, Ashton-Tate, Compaq, and Borland. But no one will say Xerox. Fifteen years after it invented personal computing, Xerox still means "copy."Fumbling the Future tells how one of America ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Harvests of Joy

    How the Good Life Became Great Business

    A true story of midlife transformation by the Napa Valley entrepreneur who put California’s wine industry on the map.In 1965, after a notorious family feud, Robert Mondavi—then fifty-two years old—was thrown out of his family’s winery. Far from defeated, Mondavi was dedicated to a vision of creating a superior wine. What has happened since that fateful day is one of the greatest success stories of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of Rothschild

    Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848

    Series Book 1 - The House of Rothschild
    From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the TowerIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family's vast political network, which gave it access to and influence ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Pan Am

    Series series Images of Aviation
    Pan American World Airways could be considered a corporate Cinderella�a rags-to-riches-and-back-again phenomenon. From its founding in 1927 and its relatively obscure inauguration as a mail carrier on a 90-mile mail run from Florida�s Key West to Cuba, Pan Am�s route system grew to span the globe. The company that would eventually become famous for its blue-and-white-world logo grew into a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collaborative Advantage

    Winning through Extended Enterprise Supplier Networks

    Why has Chrysler been twice as profitable as GM and Ford during the 1990s even though it is a much smaller company with plants that are less efficient than Ford's? Why does Toyota continue to have substantial productivity and quality advantages long after knowledge of the Toyota Production System has diffused to competitors? The answer, according to Jeff Dyer, is that Toyota and Chrysler have been ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • When Genius Failed

    The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

    **“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”—**The New York TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUSINESSWEEKIn this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of Long ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • eBoys

    The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

    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 by backing billion dollar start-ups like eBay and Webvan. The risks were enormous--but the rewards ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

    A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders

    In 1999, MCI WorldComm and Sprint agreed to merge. Valued at $129 billion, this expected transaction was the largest in history. However, it fell victim to regulators in Europe concerned with the potential monopoly power of the merged firm. This M&A action was merely the latest in a growing trend of "blockbuster" mergers over the past several years. Once a phenomenon seen primarily in the United ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • "La chasse à l'hectolitre"

    La Brasserie Müller à Neuchâtel (1885-1953)

    Series series Histoire économie et société
    Lorsqu’en 1861, Frédéric Müller crée une petite brasserie à Neuchâtel, personne n’imagine qu’elle deviendra en un siècle l’une des plus grandes brasseries de Suisse romande. La brasserie Müller a marqué, pendant près de 150 ans, la vie sociale et associative neuchâteloise. Elle a accompagné les changements de mœurs, les changements de consommation. C’est cette merveilleuse aventure que nous ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Race on the Line

    Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980

    by Venus Green ...
    Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green—a former Bell System employee and current labor historian—presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of the telephone in 1876 to the period immediately before the break-up of the American Telephone and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Big Steel

    The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901-2001

    At its formation in 1901, the United States Steel Corporation was the earth’s biggest industrial corporation, a wonder of the manufacturing world. Immediately it produced two thirds of America’s raw steel and thirty percent of the steel made worldwide. The behemoth company would go on to support the manufacturing superstructure of practically every other industry in America. It would create and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • dot.bomb

    My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath

    by J. David Kuo ...
    J. David Kuo had a ringside seat at one of the biggest busts of the Internet age. Value America (NASDAQ: VUSA) was supposed to revolutionize retailing by using the Internet -- no more retailers or distributors needed. Fred Smith, legendary founder of Federal Express, called it the best business model he'd ever seen and invested millions of dollars. In a few short years, the company raised and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Remember the Magic...

    The Story of Horizon Air

    by Bill Endicott ...
    Remember the Magic is the inspiring story of the birth of Horizon Air and how it became one of the top regional airlines in the United States under the leadership of Milt Kuolt, one of the great entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

    From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred controversy within industry and media circles around the country ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Five Faces of Genius

    Creative Thinking Styles to Succeed at Work

    What do Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci, and Ray Kroc, the man who created the McDonald's franchise enterprise, have in common? They have all mastered the skills of creative genius-essential tools in today's business climate.Having researched the lives and techniques of past and present geniuses for this inspiring and provocative new handbook, Annette Moser-Wellman helps workers at all ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Oil in Texas

    The Gusher Age, 1895–1945

    Series series Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series
    The dramatic story of the oil boom that transformed the history of a state, drawn from archives and first-person accounts.As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a booming economy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stagecoach

    Wells Fargo and the American West

    Sweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West, by award-winning writer Philip L. Fradkin.The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold Rush, the Pony Express, the transcontinental railroad, the Civil and Indian Wars. From the Great Plains ... Read more

    $15.99 USD