Success through Partnership

Written by Reinhard Mohn

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: May 1, 1996
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48593-7 (0-385-48593-X)

The American businessman has traditionally turned to top American leaders and academics for information on management techniques. But in an increasingly global economy, the lessons to be learned from the experience of foreign business leaders are essential for all American managers. Reinhard Mohn's revised edition of Success Through Partnership -- expanded... Read more >

Executioner's Current
Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Written by Richard Moran

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72446-6 (0-375-72446-X)

In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other.

In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when... Read more >

Illicit
How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
Written by Moises Naim

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7884-4 (1-4000-7884-9)

Pick up a newspaper anywhere, any day, and you will find reports of illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons, and laundered money or counterfeit goods. Illicit trades are booming and so are the traffickers’ revenues—and their political influence. Hamstrung bureaucracies in rich and poor countries alike are losing the battles against... Read more >

Market Sentiments
Middle-Class Market Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Written by Elizabeth White Nelson

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-290-4 (1-58834-290-5)

In this brilliant study, Elizabeth White Nelson challenges a central tenet of 19th-century American history: namely, that men and women lived in separate spheres. Women, supposedly, lived lives focused around hearth and home; men focused on trade and commerce. Market Sentiments turns this theory on its head, arguing that the market... Read more >

A Nation of Deadbeats
An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
Written by Scott Reynolds Nelson

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47432-2 (0-307-47432-1)

Pundits will argue that the 2008 financial crisis was the first crash in American history driven by consumer debt. But in this spirited, highly engaging account, Scott Reynolds Nelson demonstrates that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation’s history. From William Duer’s attempts to profit off... Read more >

A Nation of Deadbeats
An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
Written by Scott Reynolds Nelson

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27269-0 (0-307-27269-9)

The story of America is a story of dreamers and defaulters. It is also a story of dramatic financial panics that defined the nation, created its political parties, and forced tens of thousands to escape their creditors to new towns in Texas, Florida, and California. As far back as 1792, these... Read more >

Boeing versus Airbus
The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business
Written by John Newhouse

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7872-1 (1-4000-7872-5)

From the author of the classic study of the aviation industry, The Sporty Game, a new book that chronicles the high-stakes rivalry between the world’s two largest aircraft manufacturers—companies that will bet the house on a single airplane.

Long one of America’s most successful and admired corporations—and its biggest exporter—Boeing struggled to... Read more >

At Any Cost
Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit
Written by Thomas F. O'Boyle

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 7, 1999
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70567-0 (0-375-70567-8)

In At Any Cost, Thomas F. O'Boyle dissects the reign of General Electric CEO Jack Welch.  Welch is, according to many, the archetypal CEO of the nineties and has made GE into a model company for the next century, but at what cost?  While GE stock has risen 1,155 percent and net profit... Read more >

Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Written by Thomas Petzinger, Jr.

Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: December 24, 1996
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-2835-8 (0-8129-2835-0)

Doing for the airline industry what Den of Thieves did for Wall Street, this book exposes the machinations of the men's club hat runs the world's major air carriers. At once a de facto primer in modern business practices and a riveting history of the world's largest industry, Hard Landing presents... Read more >

Wealth and Democracy
A Political History of the American Rich
Written by Kevin Phillips

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $18.99
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0534-3 (0-7679-0534-2)

One of BusinessWeek's Top 10 Business Books of 2002

From one of America’s most prominent economic commentators and The New York Times bestselling author of The Politics of Rich and Poor, this timely mixture of history and forecast provides a well-documented warning that the coupling of financial wealth and political power may... Read more >

The Great Transformation
The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Written by Karl Polanyi

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 28, 2001
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-5643-1 (0-8070-5643-X)

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the “great transformation” of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory... Read more >

The Pixar Touch

Written by David A. Price

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27829-6 (0-307-27829-8)

The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot... Read more >

Movies and Money

Written by David Puttnam

Format: Trade Paperback, 364 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 25, 2000
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76741-1 (0-679-76741-X)

“A fascinating history.”—Time Out New York

The acclaimed producer of such classic films as Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields, and the only European ever to head a major Hollywood studio, former Columbia Pictures chief David Puttnam has written a fascinating behind-the-scenes history of the movie business and of the unique... Read more >

Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich?
The Full Story of Bernard Cornfeld and I.O.S.
Written by Charles Raw, Bruce Page and Godfrey Hodgson

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
On Sale: May 17, 2005
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2006-3 (0-7679-2006-6)

In the fall of 1955, Bernard Cornfeld arrived in Paris with scant money in his pocket and a tenuous relationship with a New York firm to sell mutual funds overseas. Cornfeld, a former psychologist and social worker, knew how to make friends fast and soon targeted two groups of people who... Read more >

The Work of Nations
Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalis
Written by Robert B. Reich

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 1992
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73615-8 (0-679-73615-8)

There is no longer such a thing as an American economy, says Robert Reich at the beginning of this brilliant book. What does it mean to be a nation when money, goods, and services know no borders? What skills will be the most valuable in the coming century? And how can... Read more >

The Chip
How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
Written by T.R. Reid

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75828-7 (0-375-75828-3)

Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert... Read more >

In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Written by Robert Rubin and Jacob Weisberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 472 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75730-3 (0-375-75730-9)

From his early years in the arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs to his current position as chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup, Robert Rubin has been a major figure at the center of the American financial system. He was a key player in the longest economic expansion in U.S. history... Read more >

The Honda Myth: The Genius and His Wake

Written by Masaaki Sato

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Vertical
On Sale: December 19, 2006
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-932234-26-8 (1-932234-26-8)

Winner of the Ohya Award

From the top Japanese auto-industry journalist comes this inimatably informed account of Honda Motor Company's birth out of the ashes of World War II and subsequent rise.

Honda was the brainchild of two very different men. One, a genius engineer who never went to college but became... Read more >

See America First
Tourism and National Identity 1880-1940
Written by Marguerite Shaffer

Format: Trade Paperback, 438 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: September 17, 2001
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 978-1-56098-976-9 (1-56098-976-9)

In See America First, Marguerite Shaffer chronicles the birth of modern American tourism between 1880 and 1940, linking tourism to the simultaneous growth of national transportation systems, print media, a national market, and a middle class with money and time to spend on leisure. Focusing on the See America First slogan... Read more >

Irrational Exuberance

Written by Robert J. Shiller

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2363-7 (0-7679-2363-4)

In this timely and prescient update of his celebrated 2000 bestseller, Robert Shiller returns to the topic that gained him international fame: market volatility. Having predicted the stock market collapse that began just one month after the first edition was published, he now expands the book to cover other markets that... Read more >

The Genome War
How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
Written by James Shreeve

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-43374-9 (0-345-43374-2)

The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science the race to map the human genome.

On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming... Read more >

Demand
Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It
Written by Adrian Slywotzky and Karl Weber

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-88732-0 (0-307-88732-4)

In DEMAND: Giving People What They Love Before They Know They Want It (Crown Business; October 2011), Adrian Slywotzky, named by Industry Week one of the world’s six most influential management thinkers, provides a radically new way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical applications—not... Read more >

The Upside
The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs
Written by Adrian J. Slywotzky and Karl Weber

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-35101-2 (0-307-35101-7)

The world is moving so quickly that every business in every industry faces big threats. The music business is the victim of a technology shift; GM and Ford face customer shifts as the preferences and demographics of car buyers change; publishing, pharmaceuticals, and the movies make bets on blockbuster projects that... Read more >

Who Stole the American Dream?

Written by Hedrick Smith

Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6966-8 (1-4000-6966-1)

To read the author's essay about Who Stole the American Dream? go to http://tinyurl.com/b78df7e.

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.

In his bestselling The Russians,... Read more >

The Billion Dollar Game
Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Day In American Sport - Super Bowl Sunday
Written by Allen St. John

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2815-1 (0-7679-2815-6)

A fascinating portrait of the National Football League, the Super Bowl, and all the position players who come together to create the biggest cultural phenomenon in American sports.

Think the Super Bowl is only about two teams of titans clashing on the field? Think again. The Super Bowl is about fans, hundreds... Read more >