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A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
Written by Turney Duff
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $26.00
The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements. A remarkable writing debut, filled with indelible moments, The Buy Side shows as no book ever...
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A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
Written by Turney Duff
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $12.99
The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements. A remarkable writing debut, filled with indelible moments, The Buy Side shows as no book ever...
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A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
Written by Turney Duff
Read by Turney Duff
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $20.00
The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements. A remarkable writing debut, filled with indelible moments, The Buy Side shows as no book ever...
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Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
Written by Janet Wallach
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green, America’s first female tycoon. A strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth at least $100 million by the end of her life in 1916—equal to about $2.5 billion today.
Green was mocked for her simple...
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Written by George Cohon and David Macfarlane
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $12.99
You might think that an autobiography by the senior chairman of McDonald’s in Canada and Russia would be a modestly boastful, ho-hum business story of expansion and board-room debates, wrapped in some nice reminiscences about his family. You would be very wrong. Because this is George Cohon’s autobiography, and George Cohon... Read more >
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Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
Written by Janet Wallach
Read by Coleen Marlo
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $20.00
A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time.
No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at least 100 million dollars, equal...
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Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
Written by Janet Wallach
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $14.99
A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time.
No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at least 100 million dollars, equal...
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Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
Written by Janet Wallach
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $27.95
A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time.
No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at least 100 million dollars, equal...
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Made In America
Written by Sam Walton
Contribution by John Huey
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2012
Price: $7.99
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable... Read more >
American Financier
Written by Jean Strouse
Format: eBook, 816 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
A century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U.S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal Reserve replaced the private system he had... Read more >
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The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
Written by Joe Carlen
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $25.00
Warren Buffett—widely considered the most successful investor of all time—has repeatedly acknowledged Benjamin Graham, a man he personally studied and worked under, as the primary influence on his investment approach. Indeed, there is a direct line between the record-shattering investing performance of Buffett (and other value investors) and Graham’s life. In... Read more >
The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
Written by Joe Carlen
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $12.99
Warren Buffett—widely considered the most successful investor of all time—has repeatedly acknowledged Benjamin Graham, a man he personally studied and worked under, as the primary influence on his investment approach. Indeed, there is a direct line between the record-shattering investing performance of Buffett (and other value investors) and Graham’s life. In... Read more >
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Experiences in a Dedicated Life
Written by Liz Mohn
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $23.00
"You always saw the world as your workplace."
In 2009, this was how Reinhard Mohn--the man who turned Bertelsmann AG from an unremarkable, postwar German business into a successful, international media conglomerate--described the professional dedication of his wife, Liz Mohn. Born into a seemingly hopeless world, this girl from Wiedenbrück, Germany, grew... Read more >
Experiences in a Dedicated Life
Written by Liz Mohn
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $11.99
"You always saw the world as your workplace."
In 2009, this was how Reinhard Mohn--the man who turned Bertelsmann AG from an unremarkable, postwar German business into a successful, international media conglomerate--described the professional dedication of his wife, Liz Mohn. Born into a seemingly hopeless world, this girl from Wiedenbrück, Germany, grew... Read more >
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Written by Blake Mycoskie
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $14.00
The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good
“A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—The Wall Street Journal
Why this book is for you:
• You’re ready to make...
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The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting
Written by Sally Bedell Smith
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 29, 2012
Price: $13.99
The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting
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The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
Written by Ron Chernow
Format: eBook, 880 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2012
Price: $16.99
Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and estates, assembled libraries, endowed charities, and advised a German kaiser and two American presidents. But their very success made the Warburgs lightning rods for... Read more >
The Money Adventures of a Quixotic Capitalist
Written by Andrew Tobias
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2011
Price: $11.99
"This book will make you rich. Filthy stinking rich. You will never need to work again. You will spend the rest of your life on the Riviera sipping piña coladas and listening to Sinatra. And even if this doesn't happen, Andrew Tobias will provide you with such a wealth of wit... Read more >
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The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
Written by H.W. Brands
Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
In this grand-scale narrative history, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America.
American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen transformed the United... Read more >
Warriors of the Information Superhighway
Written by Ken Auletta
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $11.99
A struggle is taking place--not just among corporate titans, but among entire industries. At stake is control of the world's fastest-growing industry: communications. The contestants are Hollywood studios, television networks, and cable, telephone, computer, publishing, and consumer-electronics companies. All are vying to collect a toll on the information superhighway. And as... Read more >
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Written by Blake Mycoskie
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $9.99
The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good.
“A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—The Wall Street Journal
Why this book is for you:
• You’re ready to make...
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Written by Blake Mycoskie
Read by Blake Mycoskie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $17.50
Love your work, work for what you love, and change the world—all at the same time.
What matters most to you? Should you focus on earning a living, pursuing your passions, or devoting yourself to the causes that inspire you? The surprising truth is that you don’t have to choose—and that you’ll...
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Written by Blake Mycoskie
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $22.00
Love your work, work for what you love, and change the world—all at the same time.
What matters most to you? Should you focus on earning a living, pursuing your passions, or devoting yourself to the causes that inspire you? The surprising truth is that you don’t have to choose—and that you’ll...
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Written by Barbara Goldsmith
Format: eBook, 285 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2011
Price: $14.99
With the extraordinary investigative acumen and sensitive narrative skills that informed her best-selling Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, Barbara Goldsmith now gives us the most sensational case of a contested will in American history—weaving a hypnotic tale of vast wealth and moral corruption.
When J. Seward Johnson... Read more >
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How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Written by Richard Branson
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $17.00
"Oh, screw it, let's do it."
That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Records and V2), to cola (Virgin Cola), to retail (Virgin Megastores), and nearly a hundred others... Read more >
