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Wall Street: America's Dream Palace (American Icons)
by Steve Fraser  Publisher Comments 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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Fortune's Children
by Arthur T Vanderbilt Publisher Comments Chapter One: The Commodore (1794 - 1877) That Wednesday morning, May 10, 1876, reporters from every New York City newspaper gathered in front of the townhouse at 10 Washington Place, waiting for some sign that eightytwo-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt...
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We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law
by Alexander Tsesis Publisher Comments Despite America’s commitment to civil rights from the earliest days of nationhood, examples of injustices against minorities stain many pages of U.S. history. The battle for racial, ethnic, and gender fairness remains unfinished. This comprehensive...
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The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America
by Katherine S. And Victor Tan Chen Newman Publisher Comments An urgent examination of the lives of millions of hardworking Americans--neither poor nor middle class--who live without a safety net The Missing Class gives voice to the 57 million Americans--including 21 percent of the nation's children-- who are...
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Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
by Ben Mezrich Publisher Comments From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, this is the startling rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the oil...
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Security Metrics : Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (07 Edition)
by Andrew Jaquith Publisher Comments & lt; & gt; < b> The Definitive Guide to Quantifying, Classifying, and Measuring Enterprise IT Security Operations< /b> < p> < /p> < p style=margin: 0px; > & nbsp; < /p> < p style=margin: 0px; > <...
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Managing Strategic Intelligence: Techniques and Technologies
by Mark Xu Synopsis Environments needing information technology and management skills combined often find that strategic information and intelligence is not always readily available. How to scan management environments for relevant information and then make sense of the...
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Oil Crusades: America Through Arab Eyes
by Abdulhay Yahya Zalloum Publisher Comments Oil is the lifeblood of modern economics. It is the precious resource at the heart of empire-building---from the British empire to the American empire today. It underpins the world's financial markets. But seventy per cent of the world's oil supplies lie...
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The Perfect Engine
by Anand Sharma Publisher Comments Most manufacturing companies with batch-and-queue "push" production systems have been blindsided by today's consumer who expects quality products and services delivered on demand and customized to individual taste. In The Perfect Engine, manufacturing...
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Howard Hughes: The Secret Life
by Charles Higham Publisher Comments His wealth was legendary. His passions were bizarre. Now, the truth about the money, the madness, and the man behind the enigma. Howard Hughes is one of the best known and least understood men of our times--famed for his wealth, his daring, and his...
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Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory
by Kevin Murphy Publisher Comments Nearly all recognition of the unparalleled democracy the Russian Revolution established has been destroyed by the legacy of the Stalinist regime that followed. Kevin Murphy's writing, based on exhaustive research, is the most thorough investigation to...
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Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Agriculture
by George Pyle Publisher Comments In Raising Less Corn, More Hell George B. Pyle shows us how the famous breadbasket of America is being bought up by large corporations, who produce less food per acre than the small farmer, push those farmers further into debt, pollute the earth and wear...
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The Illusive Trade-Off: Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation Systems, and Egypts Pharmaceutical Industry (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy)
by Basma I Abdelgafar Book News Annotation Bioethics researcher Abdelgafar (Carleton U. and U. of Toronto) analyzes how TRIPS, the World Trade Organization's agreement on intellectual property, impacts the pharmaceutical industry and public health sector in Egypt. She argues that there is no...
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The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America
by Robert F. Dalzell Publisher Comments What it was like to be as rich as Rockefeller: How a house gave shape and meaning to three generations of an iconic American family One hundred years ago America’s richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above...
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The Ugly Truth about Managing People: 50 (Must-Get-Right) Management Challengesand How to Really Handle Them
by Ruth King Synopsis The Honest Truth about Managing Managing people is one of the toughest jobs in business. Make the right choices, and there is no limit to how you and your business can grow. Make the wrong choices, and there is sure to be trouble ahead. The problem is...
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Small Business Start-Up Guide (Quick Start Your Business)
by Hal Root Publisher Comments Filled with essential checklists, worksheets and advice, The Small Business Start-Up Guide will get you up and running The Small Business Start-Up Guide is a must-have resource for anyone starting a business. Covering everything you need to know to start...
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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
by Justin Kaplan Publisher Comments Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, two heirs of arch-capitalist John Jacob Astor battled with each other for social primacy. William Waldorf Astor (born 1848) and his cousin John Jacob Astor IV (born 1864) led incomparably privileged...
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Linking Housing and Services for Older Adults
by Jon Pynoos Et Al Book News Annotation This text focuses on the connection between housing and supportive services for aging adult Americans. Pynoos (gerontology, University of Southern California), Feldman (Visiting Nurse Service of New York), and Ahrens (Center for Home Care Policy and...
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Essentials of Supply Chain Management (Essential Series)
by Michael Hugos Synopsis Fully revised and expanded, the Second Edition contains valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices. This handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies...
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Marketing That Works: How Entrepreneurial Marketing Can Add Sustainable Value to Any Sized Company
by Leonard M. Et Al Lodish Publisher Comments Focus your marketing on what really works--and make the most of every marketing investment Every dime you spend on marketing needs to work harder, smarter, faster. Every dime must differentiate your company based on your most valuable competencies. Every...
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