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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg Publisher Comments Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss Publisher Comments From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and... (read more) Your price: $28.00 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: $8.50 Used - 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: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Idea Factory (13 Edition) by Jon Gertner Publisher Comments The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of technological innovation In this first full portrait of the legendary Bell Labs, journalist Jon Gertner takes readers behind one of the greatest collaborations between business and science in... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman 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: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Worldly Philosophers 7TH Edition by Robert L Heilbroner Publisher Comments The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Publisher Comments Now in paperback: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments New York Times Bestseller, With a New Afterword “Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Age of Capital,1848-1875 (96 Edition) by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs Review "The Economy of Cities is an astonishing book. It blows cobwebs from the mind, and challenges assumptions one hadn't even realized one had made. It should prove of major importance." -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times "This... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Mass Market
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The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff by Tom Mccluskie Publisher Comments The full history from a well-known ex-employee and advisor to James Cameron for Titanic Harland and Wolff, the shipbuilder to the world, enjoyed a mighty heyday before crashing into obscurity. This illustrated book chronicles its history from its... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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Slingshot: AMD's Fight to Free an Industry from the Ruthless Grip of Intel by Hector Ruiz Publisher Comments When Hector Ruiz joined AMD, quickly ascending to the CEO’s suite, he took the helm of a dynamic company that was nonetheless struggling against perceptions that it could not contend with Intel, the Goliath of the microchip industry. Though AMD... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics (NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development) by Robert William Fogel Publisher Comments We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t... (read more) Your price: $32.00 New - Hardcover
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Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall Publisher Comments Simplicity isn’t just a design principle at Apple—it’s a value that permeates every level of the organization. It’s what helped Apple recover from near death in 1997 to become the most valuable company on earth in 2012. As ad... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joel Glenn Brenner Publisher Comments Corporate candy giants Milton Hershey and Forrest Mars built business empires out of one of the world's most magical, sought-after substances: chocolate. In The Emperors of Chocolate, Joël Glenn Brenner--the first person to ever gain access to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford History of Contemporary Indian Business by Dwijendra Tripathi Publisher Comments No other period in the entire history of India ever witnessed such momentous developments, affecting so profoundly the life of its people as the half century that followed the end of British colonialism. Business was one realm that experienced a great... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Hardcover
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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States by Michael Lind Publisher Comments How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus? From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster Publisher Comments The second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of If You Were Here takes us back to the hair metal 80's. Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago high school, Lissy Ryder doesn’t understand why her glory days ended... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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