White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Boston, Mass: Beacon Press, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. More about White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
London: Penguin Books, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. Alan Greenspan wielded more power than the presidents he worked for, from Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to George Bush and his son. He was in the command room of the world economy for longer than any other single figure. One word from him... More about The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
The New Emerging Market Multinationals: Four Strategies for Disrupting Markets and Building Brands
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. From smartphones and computers to blue jeans and beer, companies from China, India, Taiwan, Mexico, Turkey, and other emerging markets are now winning leading market shares with their own-branded, high-quality products―rather than with poorly produced products sold under others' brand names. These emerging-market... More about The New Emerging Market Multinationals: Four Strategies for Disrupting Markets and Building Brands
The Checklist Manifesto
Metropolitan Books, 2010. Hardcover. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. An intellectual adventure... More about The Checklist Manifesto
Nickel and Dimed - On (not) getting by in America
New York: Picador Modern Classics, 2017. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... More about Nickel and Dimed - On (not) getting by in America
Key Performance Indicators: The 75 measures every manager needs to know
Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2012. First Edition. Reprint. Softcover. By identifying and describing the most powerful financial and non-financial KPIs, this book will make life easier for you by defining them, explaining how and when they should be used and providing a rich library of KPIs that have been proven... More about Key Performance Indicators: The 75 measures every manager needs to know
Quantum Learning: Unleashing the Genius In You
New York: Delta/Dell Publishing, 1992. Softcover. More about Quantum Learning: Unleashing the Genius In You
Prediction: How to See and Shape the Future With Game Theory
London: Vintage Books, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. From international terrorism to corporate fraud, from climate change to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has been predicting the future for decades. Using Game Theory (a theory based on the rationale that everyone acts in their own self-interest) he can foretell and... More about Prediction: How to See and Shape the Future With Game Theory
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs
London: Penguin Books, 2009. Uodated edition with a new chapter. First Printing. Paperback. The Partnership chronicles the most important periods in Goldman Sachs's history and the individuals who built one of the world's largest investment banks. Charles D. Ellis, who worked as a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for more... More about The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs
Give & Take: The Complete Guide to Negotiating Strategies and Tactics
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Publishers, 1974. First Edition, Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. More about Give & Take: The Complete Guide to Negotiating Strategies and Tactics
Writers on Organizations
Harmondsworth: Penguin Modern Management Texts, 1977. Second Edition. Paperback. An illuminating overview of the field of organization studies through the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. Authors Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson do a masterful job of capturing the... More about Writers on Organizations
Letters to a Young Chef
New York: BasicBooks, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. More about Letters to a Young Chef
Big Dragon - China's Future: What It Means for Business, the Economy, and the Global Order
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. In BIG DRAGON, Dan Burstein joins with China specialist Arne de Keijzer to offer a comprehensive look at China and its future. They suggest that no other country poses such significant business and political questions for the West and... More about Big Dragon - China's Future: What It Means for Business, the Economy, and the Global Order
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
New York: The Free Press, 2008. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. Pulitzer Prize winner. More about The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
The Big Con: the Story of the Confidence Man
Anchor Books, 1999. “Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat.” THE BIG CON is a casual narrative that eases you into the world of the modern (1940s) confidence man as its pages offer you true third party insight with the occasional tale or anecdote from those... More about The Big Con: the Story of the Confidence Man
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
New York: Portfolio Penguin, 2014. First U.K. Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. More about Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
The Personal Trainer Business Handbook
Santa Ana, CA: Pierpoint-Martin, 2003. Softcover. Outsized. More about The Personal Trainer Business Handbook
By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Hardcover. More about By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World
The Trumps: The Generations That Built an Empire
New York: Touchstone, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. More about The Trumps: The Generations That Built an Empire
On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors: John Z. De Lorean's Look Inside the Automotive Giant
New York: Avon Publications, Inc., 1980. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. More about On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors: John Z. De Lorean's Look Inside the Automotive Giant
The American Challenge
See annotation, 1968. Hardcover. Appears to be a Taiwanese pirated edition. Sold for its collectible value only since cannot guarantee accuracy of contents. From the front cover: A startling report on the impact of American Industry, Technology and Culture on Europe and the World. Translated from the French by Ronald Steel. More about The American Challenge
How to Run a Small Business
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982. Fifth Edition (Revised and Enlarged). Hardcover. More about How to Run a Small Business
China Airborne
New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 2012. First Edition (Stated). Hardcover. More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the... More about China Airborne
China Shakes The World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. Steve Turner (design). Reprint. Hardcover. Authoritative and fully up-to-date account by leading China expert on China's economic rise and how it will affect the world The new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition is becoming an industrial powerhouse... More about China Shakes The World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation
