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Powering the Future: The Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the WorldPowering the Future: The Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the World
Best Price: $6.00
With great timing, the Author has delivered great insights into what possibly shall become one...
Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop: How Two Real Guys Built a Business with a Social Conscience and a Sense of HumorBen & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop: How Two Real Guys Built a Business with a Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor
Best Price: $11.00
It's a chronicle of the intriguing journey of junior high friends who split the $5 cost of a...
Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878-2007 (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878-2007 (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)
Best Price: $44.89
This book examines how multinational enterprises and international finance influenced the course...
BAFO: (Best And Final Offer)BAFO: (Best And Final Offer)
Best Price: $21.51
When the Pentagon releases the biggest computer contract in history for bids, it gets everyone...
Corporate Survival: The Critical Importance of Sustainability Risk ManagementCorporate Survival: The Critical Importance of Sustainability Risk Management
Best Price: $24.95
Dr. Anderson's book, Corporate Survival, should be considered essential reading for every...


Silent Takeover: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Death of DemocracySilent Takeover: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Death of DemocracyFreeze My Margarita: A Sam Jones NovelFreeze My Margarita: A Sam Jones Novel
Best Price: $198.68
I'm sorry, but I did not like this book. Her first, Black Rubber Dress, I couldn't put...
The Business of Bliss: How To Profit From Doing What You LoveThe Business of Bliss: How To Profit From Doing What You Love
Best Price: $1.36
The Business of Bliss is a pleasant read with more than 60 stories of businesses created from a...
Crewe Locomotive WorksCrewe Locomotive WorksGilbeys, Wine and Horses: A BiographyGilbeys, Wine and Horses: A Biography
Best Price: $62.00
With a father who ran both an inn and one of the last horse-drawn coach runs, driven into the...


The House of Dimon: How JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Rose to the Top of the Financial WorldThe House of Dimon: How JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Rose to the Top of the Financial World
Best Price: $8.11
A behind-the-scenes look at Wall Street's top banker Following the eleventh-hour rescue of...
Beating the Odds: Eddie Brown's Investing and Life StrategiesBeating the Odds: Eddie Brown's Investing and Life Strategies
Best Price: $13.00
This was a very compelling book, so compelling that once I begin reading it I couldn't put...
Megamedia Shakeout: The Inside Story of the Leaders and the Losers in the Exploding Communications IndustryMegamedia Shakeout: The Inside Story of the Leaders and the Losers in the Exploding Communications Industry
Best Price: $1.45
A tale of big ideas . . . big egos . . . and the billions to be won or lost in the exploding...
Lasting Value: Lessons from a Century of Agility at Lincoln ElectricLasting Value: Lessons from a Century of Agility at Lincoln Electric
Best Price: $36.99
I think that book is very important for the people Lincoln Electric's Co. because is one of...
Guts: The Seven Laws of Business That Made Chrysler the World's Hottest Car CompanyGuts: The Seven Laws of Business That Made Chrysler the World's Hottest Car Company
Best Price: $12.99
In 1991 I spoke with Mr. Lutz about a Marine Corps-related matter. After connecting through a...

The e-Bay Phenomenon: Business Secrets Behind the World's Hottest Internet CompanyThe e-Bay Phenomenon: Business Secrets Behind the World's Hottest Internet Company
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"To lead the people, walk behind them." -- Sun Tzu This quote ends the...
The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr and the Making of IBMThe Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr and the Making of IBMGrowing Global: Corporate Vision MasterclassGrowing Global: Corporate Vision Masterclass
Best Price: $431.02
Stan Shih, a well-known and successful businessman, offers his business knowledge, personal...
Making the Invisible Visible: How Companies Win with the Right Information, People and ITMaking the Invisible Visible: How Companies Win with the Right Information, People and IT
Best Price: $34.89
This is a book that I consider to be one of the most refreshing business texts that I've had...
Wine: A Gentleman's Game - The Adventures of an Amateur Winemaker Turned ProfessionalWine: A Gentleman's Game - The Adventures of an Amateur Winemaker Turned Professional
Best Price: $150.00
How one man and his family made their dream of owning a winery come true--and helped revitalize...

Fame and Fortune: How Successful Companies Build Winning ReputationsFame and Fortune: How Successful Companies Build Winning Reputations
Best Price: $27.90
Finally something I can use to convince my CEO that reputations can and should be managed! The...
Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About ItCorporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It
Best Price: $29.00
Adizes really does explain how and why corporations (indeed all organizations) grow and...
The Eleven Commandments of 21st Century Management: What Cutting-Edge Companies Are Doing to Survive and Flourish in Today's Chaotic Business WorldThe Eleven Commandments of 21st Century Management: What Cutting-Edge Companies Are Doing to Survive and Flourish in Today's Chaotic Business World
Best Price: $6.20
Using detailed profiles of more than 70 leading-edge corporations from Sao Paulo to Singapore,...
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer IndustryWhat the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
Best Price: $6.68
Ah, the 1960s, with its heady mixture of idealism, rebelling against authority, anti-war...
Swoosh: The Unauthorized Story of Nike and the Men Who Played ThereSwoosh: The Unauthorized Story of Nike and the Men Who Played There
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The unauthorized national-bestselling sensation revealing the absorbing story of the rise, fall,...

Convergence of Productivity: Cross-National Studies and Historical EvidenceConvergence of Productivity: Cross-National Studies and Historical Evidence
Best Price: $26.95
This comprehensive study is a collection of original articles that view the current state of...
Firms, Markets and Hierarchies: The Transaction Cost Economics PerspectiveFirms, Markets and Hierarchies: The Transaction Cost Economics Perspective
Best Price: $120.60
This book examines transaction cost economics, the influential theoretical perspective on...
Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain CompetitiveBuilding the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive
This exceptional book presents an in-depth, scholarly examination of flexible organizations. It...
The Firm as a Collaborative Community: The Reconstruction of Trust in the Knowledge EconomyThe Firm as a Collaborative Community: The Reconstruction of Trust in the Knowledge Economy
Best Price: $113.35
This volume explores the changing nature of community in modern corporations. Community within...
The Judas Economy: the triumph of capital and the betrayal of workThe Judas Economy: the triumph of capital and the betrayal of work
Best Price: $20.00
This book takes economics out of abstract textbook equations and applies it to government,...

Competing with Flexible Lateral Organizations (2nd Edition)Competing with Flexible Lateral Organizations (2nd Edition)
Best Price: $2.69
"Competing with Flexible Lateral Organizations" is one of Galbraiths classic books on...
The Organization of IndustryThe Organization of Industry
Best Price: $24.00
The Organization of Industry collects essays written over two decades?pieces prepared...
Industrial Organization: Theory and ApplicationsIndustrial Organization: Theory and Applications
Best Price: $39.99
In my Economics Graduate Program we are fond of referring to big whig economists whom we also...
Breakthrough Strategies for Growth (Ft)Breakthrough Strategies for Growth (Ft)
Best Price: $11.50
Explores the key routes to sustainable corporate growth.
Beautiful Corporations: Corporate Style in ActionBeautiful Corporations: Corporate Style in Action
Best Price: $8.50
"Paul Dickinson rightly points out that business has overtaken politics as the primary...

Playing the Strategy Game: Strategy Is a Skill Not a Formula, Make It One of YoursPlaying the Strategy Game: Strategy Is a Skill Not a Formula, Make It One of Yours
Best Price: $34.99
Behind every good business is a good strategy. Who's behind yours? Strategy is a skill not...
General Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe's Biggest CarmakerGeneral Motors and the Nazis: The Struggle for Control of Opel, Europe's Biggest Carmaker
Best Price: $12.90
Written in a dry and logical style, this informative and well researched book provides a...
Encyclopedia of African American Business HistoryEncyclopedia of African American Business History
Best Price: $173.95
Black business activity has been sustained in America for almost four centuries. From the...
Behavioral Advantage, The: What the Smartest, Most Successful Companies Do Differently to Win in the B2B ArenaBehavioral Advantage, The: What the Smartest, Most Successful Companies Do Differently to Win in the B2B Arena
Best Price: $0.01
Every page of this book is competitive gold. The book beautifully elaborates on the thinking...
Going for Gold: The History of Newmont Mining CorporationGoing for Gold: The History of Newmont Mining Corporation
Best Price: $16.83
From its early entrepreneurial beginnings on Wall Street to its status today as a global gold...

Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic (History Amer Science & Technol)Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic (History Amer Science & Technol)
Best Price: $52.63
This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city...
The Production of Culture in the Music Industry: The Ascap-BMI ControversyThe Production of Culture in the Music Industry: The Ascap-BMI ControversyCommunities and Capital: Local Struggles against Corporate Power and Privatization (Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings)Communities and Capital: Local Struggles against Corporate Power and Privatization (Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings)
Best Price: $11.94
Capitalism has long been idealized as a symbol of success, power, and free enterprise. In...
Dealing with Public Risk in Private Infrastructure (Latin America and Caribbean Studies)Dealing with Public Risk in Private Infrastructure (Latin America and Caribbean Studies)
Best Price: $45.00
Many infrastructure privatizations still leave governments?and thus taxpayers?exposed to...
Building Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda(Africa Human Development Series)Building Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda(Africa Human Development Series)
Best Price: $19.99
Even a subsistence agricultural economy such as Rwanda needs to develop science, technology and...

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880?1980Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880?1980
Best Price: $2.99
Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology...
Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of KnowledgeHitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge
Best Price: $61.45
In Hitting the Brakes , Ann Johnson illuminates the complex social, historical, and cultural...
Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001
When the United States Steel Corporation was formed in 1901 it was the world's largest...
Customers.Com: How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet and BeyondCustomers.Com: How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet and Beyond
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Seybold examines "the best practices for electronic commerce and electronic business today...
Boss Talk: Top Ceos Share the Ideas That Drive the World's Most Successful CompaniesBoss Talk: Top Ceos Share the Ideas That Drive the World's Most Successful Companies
Best Price: $8.03
Book is ok, but I prefer more in depth accounts of the lives & experiences of those...

The Wrath of Grapes: The Coming Wine Industry Shakeout And How To Take Advantage Of ItThe Wrath of Grapes: The Coming Wine Industry Shakeout And How To Take Advantage Of It
Best Price: $6.93
Lewis Perdue publishes the Wine Investment News and is the founder of Wine Business Monthly and...
The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-first Century OrganizationThe Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-first Century Organization
Best Price: $4.92
Too many people will miss the core message of this book, which is about paying attention to...
Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom (AFI Film Readers)Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom (AFI Film Readers)
Best Price: $33.95
Disney Discourse is a substantial contribution to the field of Disney Studies. Smoodin's...
Modern Managerial EconomicsModern Managerial EconomicsFollow This Path: How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human PotentialFollow This Path: How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human Potential
Best Price: $3.00
Coffman and Gonzalez-Molina not only challenge but indeed obliterate much conventional wisdom...

Irreconcilable DifferencesIrreconcilable Differences
Best Price: $2.56
I worked for EDS for 20 years and this book helped explain many things that we heard rumblings...
Winning Across Global Markets: How Nokia Creates Strategic Advantage in a Fast-Changing WorldWinning Across Global Markets: How Nokia Creates Strategic Advantage in a Fast-Changing World
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I enjoyed reading 'Winning Across Global Markets.' The book presents a good overview of...
Infrastructure as an Asset Class: Investment Strategy, Project Finance and PPP (Wiley Finance)Infrastructure as an Asset Class: Investment Strategy, Project Finance and PPP (Wiley Finance)
Best Price: $44.64
Clear definitions and explanations of problems and solutions for infrastructure investment. ...
History of North American RailHistory of North American Rail
Best Price: $5.88
Beginning with the introduction of the steam locomotive, followed by the development of iron...
Longaberger: An American Success StoryLongaberger: An American Success Story
Best Price: $6.94
Dave Longaberger was one of the most remarkable entrepreneurs of his generation. Overcoming...

DiamondDiamondGolden Arches East: McDonald's in East AsiaGolden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia
Best Price: $16.99
A little treat of a book. My friend Janice is always quoting a book she loves called 'The...
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft From The Inside: How The World's Richest Corporation Wields Its PowerBarbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft From The Inside: How The World's Richest Corporation Wields Its Power
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This book is fascinating first hand stories directly from a dev lead who worked on various...
Idaho's Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885-1991Idaho's Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885-1991
Best Price: $161.68
I was from that area and remember the bunker hill mine very well. I use to go by it on the why...
Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit TrapDebt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap
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"Your account is now delinquent in the amount of $40.00. Until your account is current and...

Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious StonesBlood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
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Mr Campbell's book is a compelling account of his investigation into the brutal decade-long...
The Oracle of Oracle: The Story of Volatile CEO Larry Ellison and the Strategies Behind His Company's Phenomenal SuccessThe Oracle of Oracle: The Story of Volatile CEO Larry Ellison and the Strategies Behind His Company's Phenomenal Success
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At the outset, it should be pointed out that the publisher of this wretched little book is the...
The First XI: Winning Organisations in AustraliaThe First XI: Winning Organisations in Australia
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I've just seen that "The First XI - Winning Organisations in Australia" has just...
Silicon Sky: How One Small Start-Up Went Over the Top to Beat the Big Boys Into Satellite HeavenSilicon Sky: How One Small Start-Up Went Over the Top to Beat the Big Boys Into Satellite Heaven
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I've not yet read this book of course, it isn't published yet. But I'll write a...
Silicon Sky:  How One Small Start-up Went Over the Top to Beat the Big Boys Into Satellite HeavenSilicon Sky: How One Small Start-up Went Over the Top to Beat the Big Boys Into Satellite Heaven
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For more than a decade some of the world?s most powerful defense companies have raced to launch...

Hall Brothers Shipbuilders (Images of America: Washington)Hall Brothers Shipbuilders (Images of America: Washington)
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I grew up in the Puget Sound region. My father shipped out as a young man right out of high...
Palace Hotel, The, CA (IMG) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))Palace Hotel, The, CA (IMG) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))
Best Price: $14.73
This volume give a detailed account of the two Palace Hotels built. This is defintely a...
The Imaging of an OrganizationThe Imaging of an Organization
Best Price: $30.99
The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an EmpireThe Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire
Best Price: $4.99
This is one of the best biographies I have ever read. It led me to appreciate and admire Donald...
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and PowerThe Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Best Price: $46.01
The modern corporation, according to law professor Joel Bakan, is "singularly...

Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox MachineCopies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg--Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine
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Owen presents the history of xerography (or "dry writing") as used in the photocopier....
Strategic Networks: Creating the borderless organizationStrategic Networks: Creating the borderless organization
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As it is true that the autor used transaction cost theory he never mentionned it in his book. I...
Lincoln 1945-1995 (American Classics)Lincoln 1945-1995 (American Classics)
Best Price: $15.00
This publication is an great resource about the 'classic' Lincolns (all models)...
Everything I Know About Business I Learned From Monopoly: Successful Executives Reveal Strategic Lessons From The World's Greatest Board GameEverything I Know About Business I Learned From Monopoly: Successful Executives Reveal Strategic Lessons From The World's Greatest Board Game
Best Price: $2.90
After buying the rights from creator Charles Darrow, Parker Brothers introduced the board game...
Sokaiya: Extortion, Protection, and the Japanese Corporation (East Gate Books)Sokaiya: Extortion, Protection, and the Japanese Corporation (East Gate Books)
Best Price: $28.96
Provides a look at Japan's seedy relationship with corporate extortion and the surprising...

Men and Rubber: The Story of BusinessMen and Rubber: The Story of Business
If you want to learn something about entrepreneurship or even if you're management in a...
The Emperors of Chocolate:  Inside the Secret World of Hershey and MarsThe Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
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Few consumer brands are more iconic than the Hershey Bar or M&Ms. Most Americans are...
Conspiracy of Fools: A True StoryConspiracy of Fools: A True Story
Best Price: $5.27
A fascinating, detailed, chronological exploration of the rise and fall of Enron. I came away...
German Aircraft Industry and Production: 1933-1945German Aircraft Industry and Production: 1933-1945
Best Price: $75.00
This book is essential for anybody with an interest in the history of WWII war industry, in...
Peterson's Hidden Job Market 1999: 2,000 High-Growth Companies That Are Hiring at Four Times the National Average (8th ed)Peterson's Hidden Job Market 1999: 2,000 High-Growth Companies That Are Hiring at Four Times the National Average (8th ed)
Key contact, sales, and employment information for 2,000 of the country's fastest-growing...

Behavioral Advantage, The: What the Smartest, Most Successful Companies Do Differently to Win in the B2B ArenaBehavioral Advantage, The: What the Smartest, Most Successful Companies Do Differently to Win in the B2B Arena
Best Price: $0.01
Every page of this book is competitive gold. The book beautifully elaborates on the thinking...
Going for Gold: The History of Newmont Mining CorporationGoing for Gold: The History of Newmont Mining Corporation
Best Price: $16.83
From its early entrepreneurial beginnings on Wall Street to its status today as a global gold...
Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic (History Amer Science & Technol)Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic (History Amer Science & Technol)
Best Price: $52.63
This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city...
The Production of Culture in the Music Industry: The Ascap-BMI ControversyThe Production of Culture in the Music Industry: The Ascap-BMI ControversyCommunities and Capital: Local Struggles against Corporate Power and Privatization (Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings)Communities and Capital: Local Struggles against Corporate Power and Privatization (Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings)
Best Price: $11.94
Capitalism has long been idealized as a symbol of success, power, and free enterprise. In...

Dealing with Public Risk in Private Infrastructure (Latin America and Caribbean Studies)Dealing with Public Risk in Private Infrastructure (Latin America and Caribbean Studies)
Best Price: $45.00
Many infrastructure privatizations still leave governments?and thus taxpayers?exposed to...
Building Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda(Africa Human Development Series)Building Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda(Africa Human Development Series)
Best Price: $19.99
Even a subsistence agricultural economy such as Rwanda needs to develop science, technology and...
Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880?1980Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880?1980
Best Price: $2.99
Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology...
Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of KnowledgeHitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge
Best Price: $61.45
In Hitting the Brakes , Ann Johnson illuminates the complex social, historical, and cultural...
Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001
When the United States Steel Corporation was formed in 1901 it was the world's largest...
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