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Private Empire: Exxonmobil and American Power by Steve Coll Publisher Comments In Private Empire Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil’s annual revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of... (read more) Your price: $36.00 New - Hardcover 
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Staff Pick The roots of the bubble and the story of Wall Street's collapse can be told no clearer — nor with as much humor — as by Michael Lewis. If you read only one book that explains the current economic crisis, make it The Big Short.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce G. Hoffman Publisher Comments THE INSIDE STORY OF THE EPIC TURNAROUND OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF CEO ALAN MULALLY. At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben Rich Publisher Comments Skunk Works is the true story, told for the first time, of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the story of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a high... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank Publisher Comments On a warm September night in 2002, former acquaintances Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis reconnected at a mixer for new students at Harvard Business School. Alexis had just ended a four-year run at eBay during the dotcom boom and bust. Alexandra had... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall Publisher Comments To Steve Jobs, Simplicity was a religion. It was also a weapon. Simplicity isn’t just a design principle at Apple—it’s a value that permeates every level of the organization. The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie Publisher Comments The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good “A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—The Wall Street Journal... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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An American Hedge Fund; How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Market Operator & Created a Hedge Fund by Timothy Sykes Publisher Comments $2 trillion is invested in the hedge fund industry, and yet, due to industry regulations, the general public knows little about them. This book will change everything. Timothy turned $12,000 of Bar Mitzvah gift money into $1.65 million trading thousands... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize Winner -- and Now an Epic PBS Series The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guaranteed to Last: L.L. Bean's Century of Outfitting America by Jim Gorman Synopsis L.L. Beans story is also Americas story. The ideas and events that drove the companys development are all related to what was happening in the wider world. From the rugged, individualistic legacy of Teddy Roosevelt in the 1910s to soldiers experiences in... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Staff Pick Lewis describes the causes of the financial crisis with clarity, while putting it all in a very human context by focusing on a few of the individuals involved. It would have been easy for Lewis to second guess — in retrospect, it seems crazy to have... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood Publisher Comments John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael Hiltzik Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Impresario The photograph shows a handsome man in a checked sport shirt, his boyish face half-obscured by a cloud of pipe smoke. Robert W. Taylor looks amused and slightly out of date, his sandy hair longer than one might wear it today but... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a Lot Of) Success in America by John D Gartner Publisher Comments Why is America so rich and powerful? The answer lies in our genes, according to psychologist John Gartner. Hypomania, a genetically based mild form of mania, endows many of us with unusual energy, creativity, enthusiasm, and a propensity for taking risks.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World by Steve Kemper Publisher Comments Kemper delivers a masterful narrative about the art of invention, the soul of an inventor, and the birth of a revolutionary machine--the much anticipated firsthand chronicle of the behind-the-scenes action in Dean Kamen's secret compound.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. Michael Lewis is our jungle guide through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history: the crash of '87, the Russian default (and the subsequent collapse of Long-Term... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.98 Used - Trade Paper
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I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards Publisher Comments “An exciting story [that] shines light on the inner workings of the fledgling Google and on the personalities of its founders.”—The Daily Beast In its infancy, Google embraced extremes—endless days fueled by unlimited free... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Beer from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery by Sam Calagione Publisher Comments Brewing Up a Business reveals how Sam Calagione built Dogfish Head Craft Brewery from a tiny operation to one of the fastest growing breweries in America by dreaming big, working hard, and thinking differently. Packed with real-world lessons every... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon by Julie Macintosh Publisher Comments Praise for Dethroning The King "Julie MacIntosh has given us not just an anatomy of a deal, but an anatomy of a company, a community, and a family. From cover to cover, it is a compelling story bound to be acclaimed as the business book of the year... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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