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First in Thirst by Darren Rovell Synopsis Rovell chronicles every astonishing milestone of Gatorade's history--based on unprecedented access to the inventors, the marketers, the analysts and observers, and key company figures past and present.... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years — as well as interviews with more... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner Publisher Comments The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation, the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies, including the integrated circuit, the communications satellite and the cell phone.From its... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner Publisher Comments The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Publisher Comments Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this... (read more) Your price: $32.00 New - Hardcover
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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 Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prizeandndash;winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed Publisher Comments With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Hardcover
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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900 by Stephen Bown Publisher Comments Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow Publisher Comments The landmark biography of a true American original-and the first written since the opening of Rockefeller's papers -- masterfully rendered by the National Book Award -- winning author of The House of Morgan. William James said of John D. Rockefeller that... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida Publisher Comments The Rise of the Creative Class gives a provocative new way to think about why people live as they do today — and where they might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Florida traces the growing role of creativity... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Let My People Go Surfing : Education of a Reluctant Businessman (05 Edition) by Yvon Chouinard Publisher Comments The founder and owner of Patagonia, Inc., one of the world's most inspiring companies, relates his story and the core philosophies that have sustained his company, renowned for its maverick innovation and long-term responsibility to the environment.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? by Steve Keen Publisher Comments Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition, now including a downloadable supplement for courses, exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Trade Paper
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill Staff Pick Enter the secretive world of the most powerful private army on the planet. Here Scahill exposes the disturbing story of Blackwater, a shadowy private company offering specialized military services for hire. A dark study of both the organization and the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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 Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&l Industry by William K. Black Publisher Comments The catastrophic collapse of companies such as Enron, WorldCom, ImClone, and Tyco left angry investors, employees, reporters, and government investigators demanding to know how the CEOs deceived everyone into believing their companies were spectacularly... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States by Michael Lind Publisher Comments From one of America’s leading intellectuals comes a sweeping and original work of economic history, recounting the epic story of America’s rise to become the world’s dominant economy. In Land of Promise, bestselling author Michael Lind... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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