The End of Detroit
How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market
Written by Micheline Maynard
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $23.00
An in-depth, hard-hitting account of the mistakes, miscalculations and myopia that have doomed America’s automobile industry.In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely believed that Detroit had miraculously overcome the threat of...
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Get Out of Your Own Way
The 5 Keys to Surpassing Everyone's Expectations
Written by Robert K. Cooper
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $25.00
A Powerful Road Map for Surpassing Everyone’s Expectations
Break through your self-imposed limitations by learning how your own brain can be your biggest obstacle—or your greatest ally.
You’d expect your brain to be an always-reliable ally in your quest for a successful, satisfying life, but surprisingly the opposite is usually true. That’s because...
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24/7
Living It Up and Doubling Down
Written by Andres Martinez
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $15.00
In the spring of 1998, mild-mannered, Ivy League-educated Andrés Martinez took $50,000--most of the advance his publisher was paying for this book--and headed to Las Vegas for thirty days, ten casinos, and a wild ride through the belly of a neon beast. The result: this brilliant, often hilarious chronicle of flesh...
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Jesus, Entrepreneur
Using Ancient Wisdom to Launch and Live Your Dreams
Written by Laurie Beth Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2002
Price: $15.00
He didn’t work for money. He was willing to walk away. He invested his emotions wisely. He did sweat the small stuff.
Beyond work, beyond entrepreneurism, there is “spiritreneurism”—work that allows you to do well by doing right. In
Jesus, Entrepreneur, Laurie Beth Jones, bestselling author of
Jesus, CEO, shows you how...
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Pushing the Limits
New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $14.95
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology.
Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along...
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Buying In
The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
Written by Rob Walker
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $25.00
“Fascinating … A compelling blend of cultural anthropology and business journalism.”
— Andrea Sachs, Time Magazine
“An often startling tour of new cultural terrain.”
— Laura Miller, Salon
“Marked by meticulous research and careful conclusions, this superbly readable book confirms
New York Times journalist Walker as an expert on consumerism. …...
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The Last Tycoons
The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
Written by William D. Cohan
Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $29.95
A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank
Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were...
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