| ||||
 The Empire of Credit: The Financial Revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1688-1815Best Price: $50.22 The Empire of Credit explores crucial questions arising from the initial creation of public... |  The Complete Book of Personal TrainingBest Price: $53.24 I have not read this entire book as I have not had it long enough. But, I bought it as a... |  False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management And Why Their Ideas Are Bad For Business TodayBest Price: $8.61 Hoopes' book presents a gallery of management thinkers and introduce their work through the... |  Levi Strauss & Co. (CA) (Images of America)Best Price: $14.11 Bavarian immigrant Levi Strauss opened his wholesale dry goods warehouse on the San Francisco... |  Carvel Ice Cream, GA (IMG) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))Best Price: $12.00 When an unassuming, wide-eyed, young Greek immigrant arrived in America in 1910, the world did... |
 The Imaging of an OrganizationBest Price: $3.55 If you are interested in small gas engines from the 1950's on up, AND/OR reading how this... |  The Invisible Powers: The Language of BusinessBest Price: $5.99 Let me walk you into this book, just to whet your appetite: Clancy discusses the "web of... |  Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American MealBest Price: $19.89 This review is on the audiobook version of "Fast Food Nation" on six cassettes. ... |  Corporate Espionage: What It Is, Why It's Happening in Your Company, What You Must Do About ItBest Price: $80.96 Ira Winkler does a superb job in illustrating methods of collecting 'business... |  The Arrogance Cycle: Think You Can't Lose, Think AgainBest Price: $11.88 What is the arrogance cycle? We've just lived through it. As market bubbles build, our... |
 Saving Big Blue: Leadership Lessons & Turnaround Tactics of IBM's Lou GerstnerBest Price: $24.90 Let's see. Gerstner comes to IBM during a recessionary period when IBM is making no money.... |  Readings in the Strategy ProcessBest Price: $48.99 This anthology integrates the human relations aspects of Strategic Management (Organizational... |  The Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational TransformationBest Price: $2.50 This book nicley discussed like what will be the management focus, tactics and techniques of... |  Redesigning the FirmBest Price: $0.66 this was a remarkable book filled with insights. the chapters were written by wharton faculty... |  Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain CompetitiveBest Price: $61.00 How do firms cope with changing environments? Is flexibility really the solution? Based on an ... |
 The Formation of Inter-Organizational NetworksBest Price: $47.50 In recent years, both managers and management scholars have regarded the networked firm as a... |  Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, CultureBest Price: $52.85 Why and how has the Business Corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American... |  Creating Corporate Culture: From Discord to Harmony (International Management)Best Price: $5.50 |  Upsizing the Individual in the Downsized Organization: Managing in the Wake of Reenineering, Globalization, and Overwhelming Technological ChangeBest Price: $2.45 Here is the human-centered strategy that has helped some of the world's largest corporations... |  Wilson's Coca-Cola Price GuideBest Price: $26.87 This book has updated values and includes the old as well as recent items. The sections on... |
 Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of EnronBest Price: $10.00 Power Failure is not a book I would normally read. I'm a straight fiction reader, but... |  The Franklin Automobile Company: The History of the Innovative Firm, Its Founders, the Vehicles It Produced (1902-1934), and the People Who Built Them (Historic Motor Car Company Series)Best Price: $657.38 Great fun to read about an industrial manufacturer located 'way off' the main path of... |  Northern enterprise |  Global ShowdownBest Price: $3.00 |  Don't Die Broke: How to Turn Your Retirement Savings into Lasting Income, SetBest Price: $24.98 on't Die Broke takes a careful, practical, step-by-step approach to ensure that you know how... |
 Lustron Homes: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing ExperimentAn exceptionally well-researched and informative study of these historically-significant... |  The Lustron Home: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing ExperimentBest Price: $37.75 Hopefully this book will do more to bring awareness to Lustron. So many are being demolished.... |  Ford in the Service of America: Mass Production for the Military During the World WarsBest Price: $35.00 Great information for a 'Fordafile' or general history buff. An easy read with new... |  Governing Boards: Their Nature and Nurture (Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Sector Series)Best Price: $27.02 Governing Boards: A Publication of the National Center for Nonprofit Boards By Cyril O. Houle... |  Concentrated Corporate Ownership (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)Best Price: $48.43 Standard economic models assume that many small investors own firms. This is so in most large... |
 Understanding the Social Economy, Social Capital and the Third SectorBest Price: $39.67 Simon Bridge brings together all of the debates surrounding the social economy, the third sector... |  The Future of Pricing: How Airline Ticket Pricing Has Inspired a RevolutionBest Price: $44.84 The Future of Pricing is a short book which presents some of the scientific techniques that... |  How Disruption Brought Order: The Story of a Winning Strategy in the World of AdvertisingIn his previous bestselling books, global advertising icon Jean-Marie Dru explored the... |  True and Fair: Price WaterhouseBest Price: $109.44 Price Waterhouse is one of the oldest established accountancy practices in the world. It is also... |  Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (Music in American Life)Best Price: $18.94 My first experience of the "Motown Sound" was listening to a BBC radio show devoted to... |
 Beer, Sociability, and Masculinity in South Africa (African Systems of Thought)Best Price: $16.00 Beer connects commercial, social, and political history in this sobering look at the culture of... |  From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry (History of Computing)Best Price: $14.04 From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry - by the... |  The Stakeholder CorporationBest Price: $24.50 I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to know about socially responsible business,... |  Hecla: A Century of Western MiningBest Price: $118.84 |  To the Desert and Back: The Story of One of the Most Dramatic Business Transformation on Record |
 Confession And Bookkeeping: The Religious, Moral, And Rhetorical Roots Of Modern AccountingBest Price: $40.00 |  Strategies That Win Sales: Best Practices of the World's Leading OrganizationsBest Price: $13.25 Today's selling environment is more complex than ever. This complexity presents problems and... |  To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)Best Price: $20.00 This a truly great book documenting history of MOS technology. Even though it focuses on MOS, it... |  Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)Best Price: $16.06 Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and... |  Relentless Change: A Casebook for the Study of Canadian Business HistoryBest Price: $23.55 I find that most of the books I read are about Leadership and Business, although occasionally I... |
 Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing DynastyBest Price: $4.70 Auerbach's book about the history, rise and fall of America's most famous racing stable,... |  Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies)Best Price: $16.79 This book tells the story of Dalton, Georgia, and how the textile mill led to its development. ... |  A History of Small Business in AmericaBest Price: $6.90 There are so many good books and articles on the rise of big business in American history, but... |  Blue Magic: The People, Power and Politics Behind the IBM Personal ComputerBest Price: $12.00 A consistently engrossing account of how IBM overcame the inertia of its own corporate culture... |  A Portrait Cast in Steel: Buckeye International and Columbus, Ohio, 1881-1980 (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)Best Price: $119.95 |
 Information Technology as Business History: Issues in the History and Management of Computers (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)Best Price: $7.35 This comprehensive overview of the history of computing and its industry, and of commercial... |  The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the WorldBest Price: $18.95 Of the books I've recently read on the subject of diamonds, "The Last Empire" is... |  Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic BillionaireBest Price: $11.28 Although this book is lacking on investment/trading ideas, I feel that by reading it, invaluable... |  The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 EditionBest Price: $2.40 What a simple, yet compelling, concept. Scour all of the business magazines (mostly major ones,... |  Say it and Live itBest Price: $8.95 Say It and Live It was published in 1995, and still leads the pack on creating organizational... |
 The Billionaire Shell Game: How Cable Baron John Malone and Assorted Corporate Titans Invented a Future Nobody WantedBest Price: $6.99 It's a history of Malone's cable empire that grew out of TCI, and the early struggle... |  Guts!: Companies that Blow the Doors Off Business-As-UsualBest Price: $1.52 The husband-and-wife time of Kevin and Jackie Freiberg offer up a book filled with leadership... |  Closing: The Life and Death of an American FactoryBest Price: $5.91 This book does an excellent job of demonstrating the effects of a factory closing in a small... |  Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall StreetBest Price: $44.70 A really fascinating, jarring look at a corner of Wall Street that I did not know existed. Takes... |  Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual WorkplaceBest Price: $6.19 Maverick, written by Ricardo Semler, is one of the most powerful and inspiring books I've... |
 M&A Titans: The Pioneers Who Shaped Wall Street's Mergers and Acquisitions IndustryBest Price: $14.00 The only useful information in this book is contained in the Introduction. There readers will... |  BlackBerry Planet: The Story of Research in Motion and the Little Device that Took the World by Storm (Wiley)Best Price: $5.34 I liked this book because it gave me an insight into the history of RIM (the company that... |  The Making of a Market Guru: Forbes Presents 25 Years of Ken FisherBest Price: $0.85 Interesting from the historical perspective and demonstrates Ken Fisher's knowledge and... |  None of Us is As Good As All of Us: How McDonald's Prospers by Embracing Inclusion and DiversityBest Price: $6.95 While it's trendy and easy to be for diversity, staying in it for the long haul in a... |  Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of MattelBest Price: $8.43 Well, I was always a big fan of Mattel toys - mainly because of the creativity behind them. I... |
 The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service CompanyBest Price: $4.75 A Seattle-based chain of department stores, Nordstrom is acknowledged as `best practice' in... |  Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control CyberspaceBest Price: $0.99 This is one of the best written books out there on Bill Gates and the reason seems to be the... |  The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical GiantBest Price: $13.58 Merck is one of the most honest drug companies in the world. Given their recent troubles with... |  The John Deere Way: Performance that EnduresBest Price: $11.99 This sincerely earnest book is a good example of why corporate biography remains, perhaps, the... |  FedEx Delivers: How the World's Leading Shipping Company Keeps Innovating and Outperforming the CompetitionBest Price: $14.00 Fred Smith and FedEx overcame incredible obstacles in the company's start-up, and cannot be... |
 Managing Outside Pressure: Strategies for Preventing Corporate DisastersBest Price: $30.94 I'm reading this book for an article I'm writing on crisis management. So far, this is... |  Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937Best Price: $42.00 Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to... |  Inside IG Farben: Hoechst During the Third ReichBest Price: $29.31 In 1925, the three leading chemical firms in Germany - BASF, Bayer, and Hoechst - merged,... |  Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of EnronBest Price: $71.60 Excellent audio and engaging story. My first time with an audio book. Wonderful way to pass... |  The Takeover Dialogues: A Discussion of Hostile TakeoversBest Price: $16.53 A longtime critic of hostile cash takeovers of large corporations, Edmund Kelly believed that if... |
 Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson FortuneBest Price: $102.98 This book will wholly satisfy lawyers (& everyone else) interested in a well-informed,... |  The End of Insularity: Essays in Comparative Business HistoryBest Price: $95.00 The Cossacks who wore German uniforms saw their service not as treason to the motherland, but as... | To the Desert and Back: The Story of One of the Most Dramatic Business Transformation on Record | Confession And Bookkeeping: The Religious, Moral, And Rhetorical Roots Of Modern Accounting Best Price: $40.00 | Strategies That Win Sales: Best Practices of the World's Leading Organizations Best Price: $13.25 Today's selling environment is more complex than ever. This complexity presents problems and... |
| To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) Best Price: $20.00 This a truly great book documenting history of MOS technology. Even though it focuses on MOS, it... | Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) Best Price: $16.06 Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and... | Relentless Change: A Casebook for the Study of Canadian Business History Best Price: $23.55 I find that most of the books I read are about Leadership and Business, although occasionally I... | Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty Best Price: $4.70 Auerbach's book about the history, rise and fall of America's most famous racing stable,... | Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies) Best Price: $16.79 This book tells the story of Dalton, Georgia, and how the textile mill led to its development. ... |
| A History of Small Business in America Best Price: $6.90 There are so many good books and articles on the rise of big business in American history, but... | Blue Magic: The People, Power and Politics Behind the IBM Personal Computer Best Price: $12.00 A consistently engrossing account of how IBM overcame the inertia of its own corporate culture... |  On Target: How the World's Hottest Retailer Hit a BullseyeBest Price: $11.99 This book, written by a cousin of designer Cynthia Rowley, covers the basics of the Target... |  A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success, and ReckoningBest Price: $6.95 I just finished reading this book and I just wanted to say that I think this story is very... |  Kindred Spirits: Harvard Business School's Extraordinary Class of 1949 and How They Transformed American BusinessBest Price: $6.79 I bought this book for a friend of mine as a congratulations gift on her acceptance to the... |
 Inside Business Incubators and Corporate VenturesSally Richards has tapped into a wide range of Silicon Valley experts-experts through their... |  Guts: 8 Laws of Business from One of the Most Innovative Business Leaders of Our TimeBest Price: $19.99 This book is a refreshing collection of straightforward thoughts and observations about business... |  Wheels of Fortune: The History of Speculation from Scandal to Respectability |  The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and MoneyBest Price: $4.65 Did I get the wrong book from Amazon.com? The book is advertised to be a book about Cheney and... |  The Bombardier Story: Planes, Trains, and SnowmobilesBest Price: $20.99 Strengths of The Bombardier Story: * Comprehensive, but non-controversial, chronology of company... |
 Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldComBest Price: $19.97 It's a pity that the only currently available book on the WorldCom meltdown is... |  On Target: How the World's Hottest Retailer Hit a Bull's-EyeBest Price: $10.95 My two rating is graded on the curve. Could have been a one. I found myself skimming most of... | |||
Biographies & Primers Books
See also for Biographies & Primers Books