Biography: business & industry books

8822 books were found.

Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream

Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream...

Author: Joseph Dorinson ,  Joram Warmund
ISBN: 9780765603173
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Recapturing the Brooklyn Dodger's baseball glory this anthology brings together sports writers, Robinson's baseball...  Read More >>

Thorstein Veblen: Victorian Firebrand

Thorstein Veblen: Victorian Firebrand

Author: Elizabeth Jorgensen ,  Henry Jorgensen
ISBN: 9780765602589
Format: Hardback
$273.00

In this biography, the Jorgensen's present Veblen as a sensitive, reserved, brilliant, passionate, gentlemanly,...  Read More >>

The Barry Diller Story: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Entertainment Mogul

The Barry Diller Story: The Life and Times of America's...

Author: George Mair
ISBN: 9780471299486
Format: Paperback
$44.95

"The meteoric rise of ""Killer Diller"" Barry Diller has been a major player in the entertainment industry for...  Read More >>

Building a Company: Roy O.Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire

Building a Company: Roy O.Disney and the Creation of...

Author: Bob Thomas
ISBN: 9780786862009
Format: Hardback
$65.87

In this book, Bob Thomas introduces us to the man behind the Disney magic, Walt's brother Roy, whose business acumen...  Read More >>

The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits

The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will...

Author: Adrian J. Slywotsky ,  David J. Morrison
ISBN: 9780471983910
Format: Hardback
$104.50

This text examines the profit-strategy approaches of ten of the world's most influential business personalities,...  Read More >>

Black September to Desert Storm: A Journalist in the Middle East

Black September to Desert Storm: A Journalist in the...

Author: Claude Salhani
ISBN: 9780826211606
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This text offers an insider's view on covering the news. The author has travelled throughout the Middle East as...  Read More >>

All the News is Fit to Print: Profile of a Country Editor

All the News is Fit to Print: Profile of a Country Editor...

Author: Chad Stebbins
ISBN: 9780826211637
Format: Hardback
$92.27

This is a profile of Arthur Aull, editor of the Lamar Democrat from 1900 to 1948. He disregarded most of the...  Read More >>

Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing

Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art...

Author: Ved Mehta
ISBN: 9780879518769
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"A marvelous portrait of ""The New Yorker"" during the tenure of legendary editor-in-chief William Shawn by one...  Read More >>

Economics and its Discontents: Twentieth Century Dissenting Economists

Economics and its Discontents: Twentieth Century Dissenting...

Author: Richard P.F. Holt ,  Steven Pressman
ISBN: 9781858982724
Format: Hardback
$372.50

This work focuses on the work and lives of 18 of the most influential dissenting economists who have shaped 20th-century...  Read More >>

Living With Eagles: Marcus Morris, Priest and Publisher

Living With Eagles: Marcus Morris, Priest and Publisher...

Author: Jan Hallwood ,  Sally Morris
ISBN: 9780718829827
Format: Hardback
$158.40

The story of Marcus Morris, founder of the much loved children's magazine, Eagle and later publisher of Cosmopolitan,...  Read More >>

George Alfred Henty and the Victorian Mind

George Alfred Henty and the Victorian Mind

Author: Leonard R.N. Ashley
ISBN: 9781573092708
Format: Leather / fine binding
$165.60

George Alfred Henty helped revolutionize author-publisher relations in the Anglo-American publishing world of the...  Read More >>

Dr. Johnson's 'Own Dear Master': The Life of Henry Thrale

Dr. Johnson's 'Own Dear Master': The Life of Henry Thrale...

Author: Lee Morgan
ISBN: 9780761810308
Format: Hardback
$131.95

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Trader Vic II: Principles of Professional Speculation

Trader Vic II: Principles of Professional Speculation...

Author: Victor Sperandeo
ISBN: 9780471248477
Format: Paperback
$85.95

Here, in his comprehensive second book?a must-read for serious investors and professional traders?the author details...  Read More >>

The Education of a Speculator

The Education of a Speculator

Author: Victor Niederhoffer
ISBN: 9780471249481
Format: Paperback
$54.95

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Great economists since keynes: An Introduction to the Lives and Works of One Hundred Modern Economists

Great economists since keynes: An Introduction to the...

Author: Mark Blaug
ISBN: 9781858986920
Format: Hardback
$292.39

Great Economists since Keynes is a unique book. It presents a stylish, short, authoritative statement of each economist’s...  Read More >>

Underground Woman: My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor

Underground Woman: My Four Years as a New York City...

Author: Marian Swerdlow
ISBN: 9781566396103
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Underground Woman: My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor

Underground Woman: My Four Years as a New York City...

Author: Marian Swerdlow
ISBN: 9781566396097
Format: Hardback
$175.56

Offers an account from four years on the job which is laden with anecdotes that range from the funny to the painful...  Read More >>

The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine

The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His...

Author: Max J. Putzel
ISBN: 9780826211781
Format: Paperback
$79.07

William Marion Reedy was editor of the Mirror from 1891 to 1920, and was instrumental in breaking down the genteel...  Read More >>

No Place for a Woman

No Place for a Woman

Author: Mayse Young ,  Gabrielle Dalton
ISBN: 9780725107567
Format: Paperback
$32.95

"Pine Creek publican Mayse Young was a legend by the age of twenty. In the Northern Territory of the thirties and...  Read More >>

Financier: The Biography of André Meyer: A Story of Money, Power, and the Reshaping of American Business

Financier: The Biography of André Meyer: A Story of...

Author: Cary Reich
ISBN: 9780471247418
Format: Paperback
$82.95

A new edition of Cary Reich's engaging biography of Andre Meyer. In this new edition of Financier, Cary Reich presents...  Read More >>

method, theory and policy in keynes: Essays in Honour of Paul Davidson Volume Three

method, theory and policy in keynes: Essays in Honour...

Author: Philip Arestis
ISBN: 9781858986265
Format: Hardback
$275.50

This book is the third and final volume of essays celebrating the work and lifetime contribution of Paul Davidson...  Read More >>

Italian Economists of the 20th Century

Italian Economists of the 20th Century

Author: Ferdinando Meacci
ISBN: 9781852788865
Format: Hardback
$294.50

An up-to-date assessment of 12 pioneering Italian economists to mark their contribution to 20th-century economics....  Read More >>

Adventures of a Bystander

Adventures of a Bystander

Author: Peter F. Drucker (The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management)
ISBN: 9780471247395
Format: Hardback
$120.95

The classic autobiography of one of the greatest thinkers in our time. This new edition of Drucker's autobiographical...  Read More >>

Lit Ed

Lit Ed

Author: Anthony Curtis
ISBN: 9781857541496
Format: Hardback
$118.80

An investigation into the art of ""Lit Ed-ing"". Describing the qualities needed to run the literary pages of the...  Read More >>

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