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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins

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From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposof international corruptionand an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner...
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Out of Nowhere: The Inside Story of How Nike Marketed the Culture of Running
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Out of Nowhere: The Inside Story of How Nike Marketed the Culture of Running
by Geoff Hollister

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How does a boy from a small Oregon farm town get swept up in the politics of his chosen sport? Out of Nowhere takes the reader along on Geoff Hollister's 33 year journey at the center of Nike, the company that would change not only the world of athletic...
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins

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In his controversial book, John Perkins tells the gripping tale of the years he spent working for an international consulting firm where his job was to convince underdeveloped countries to accept enormous loans, much bigger than they really needed, for...
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunnus

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Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of...
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Wall Street: America's Dream Palace (American Icons)
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Wall Street: America's Dream Palace (American Icons)
by Steve Fraser

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Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street an unbreachable bulwark defending...
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The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
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The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
by Mark Arax

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J.G. Boswell is the biggest farmer in America. Over the past fifty years he has built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields....
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The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
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The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
by Steven Watts

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A definitive biography of the controversial entrepreneur who transformed the world of American business explores the dramatic contradictions of Henry Ford's life, providing a revealing study of the man behind the myths and assessing his accomplishments...
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

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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...
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Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sport
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Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sport
by Barbara Smit

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The fascinating story of the enemy brothers behind adidas and puma, whose rivalry shaped the modern sports business Adidas and Puma are two of the biggest global brands in sports, paying stars, clubs, and competitions to show off their labels in...
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
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Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
by Michael Lewis

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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...
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
by Julia Flynn Siler

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An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built — and then spectacularly lost — a global wine empire Set in California's lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of...
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The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America's Most Troubled Companies
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The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America's Most Troubled Companies
by Steve Miller

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For the past thirty years, Steve Miller has done the messy, unpleasant work of salvaging America's lost companies with such success that the Wall Street Journal has dubbed him "U.S. Industry's Mr. Fix It." From his very first crisis assignment as point...
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Sweet and Low (07 Edition)
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Sweet and Low (07 Edition)
by Rich Cohen

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Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria...
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Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection
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Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection
by Gordon Ramsay

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From the author of "In the Heat of the Kitchen" comes this new meditation on life as "the Simon Cowell of the food world." The explosive, outspoken star chef tells the story of his rise in kitchen ranks....
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
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The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
by Julia Siler

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An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built--and then spectacularly lost--a global wine empire. Award-winning journalist Flynn Siler brings to life both the place and the people in this riveting family drama....
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Tough Choices: A Memoir
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Tough Choices: A Memoir
by Carly Fiorina

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The New York Times bestseller by the most talked about woman in American business. For five and a half years, Carly Fiorina led Hewlett-Packard through major internal changes, the worst technology slump in decades, and the most controversial merger in...
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Legends: Pioneers of the Amusement Park Industry
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Legends: Pioneers of the Amusement Park Industry
by Tim O'Brien

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OBriens multi-book series pays homage to the greatest of the great--those who made the amusement parks, theme parks, and waterparks what they are today....
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Skunk Works (94 Edition)
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Skunk Works (94 Edition)
by Ben R. Rich

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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...
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro

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One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few...
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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
by Donald L. Barlett

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Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This book breaks through the image to reveal the man....
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