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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin Publisher Comments A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Hardcover 
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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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The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer That Changed the World by Stephen Mansfield Publisher Comments The history of Guinness, one of the world's most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and crushing descents of a great family and an innovative business. It began in Ireland in the late 1700's. The water in Ireland, indeed throughout Europe, was... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Art of the Steal : Inside the Sotheby's-christie's Auction House Scandal (04 Edition) by Christopher Mason Publisher Comments The Art of the Steal is the only book that tells the whole truth about the price-fixing scandal that rocked the auction world and put one of America's richest men behind bars. It's the story of billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman; the most powerful woman... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta Publisher Comments A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media Landscape. There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein Publisher Comments Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissent the full extent of War-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the U.S. and world economy.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Informant: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald Publisher Comments From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy – which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man... It was one of the FBI's biggest... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything But the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks by Bryant Simon Publisher Comments Everything but the Coffee casts a fresh eye on the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America. Bryant Simon visited hundreds of Starbucks around... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose--Doing Business by Respecting the Earth by Ray Anderson Publisher Comments In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can't be replaced by the earth. Now, in the most inspiring business book of our time, Anderson leads the... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind Publisher Comments Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the President's Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it allaand was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks. In his fifties, Michael Gates... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery by Sam Calagione Publisher Comments This is the exhilarating success story of a man who really likes beer—so much so that he decided to make a business of it. Starting with nothing but a home brewing kit, Sam Calagione turned his entrepreneurial dream into a foamy reality and built... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from Ideo, America's Leading Design Firm by Thomas Kelley and Jonathan Littman Publisher Comments IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein Publisher Comments John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best — and the brainiest — bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Revolt on Goose Island by Kari Lydersen Synopsis I think they're absolutely right... what's happening to them is reflective of what's happening across this economy. --President Barack Obama on the workers at Republic Windows & Doors December 5, 2008: It wasn't supposed to work like this. Days after... (read more) Your price: $16.00 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 $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Madoff: Corruption, Deceit, and the Making of the World's Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme by Peter Sander Synopsis In December 2008, with financial crisis sweeping America and the globe, Bernard “Bernie” Madoff, a leading Wall Street figure and former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market, reportedly made a stunning admission: For years hed bilked thousands... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $27.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind Publisher Comments Until the spring of 2001, the Houston energy giant Enron epitomized the triumph of the new economy. Feared by rivals, worshiped by investors, Enron seemingly could do no wrong. Its profits rose every quarter; its stock price surged ever upward; its... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Blue Pages: A Directory of Companies Rated by Their Politics and Practices (Blue Pages: A Directory of Companies Rated by Their Politics & Practices) by Angie Crouse Synopsis "The Blue Pages" includes valuable information on companies' political contributions to each major party, employee benefits and labor practices, lawsuits and investigations, and community and charitable programs. It organizes companies alphabetically... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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