Biography: business & industry books

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African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary

African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary...

Author: Lynne Feldman ,  John N. Ingham
ISBN: 9780313272530
Format: Hardback
$114.00

The only biographical dictionary on African-American business leaders, this volume provides biographies on 123 individuals....  Read More >>

David Ricardo: Critical Assessments II

David Ricardo: Critical Assessments II

Author: John Cunningham Wood
ISBN: 9780415087179
Format: Hardback
$3795.00

David Ricardo's work has remained central to economic theory for nearly 200 years. Containing a comprehensive selection...  Read More >>

Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments

Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments

Author: John Cunningham Wood
ISBN: 9780415074872
Format: Hardback
$4026.00

138 articles are arranged thematically to give easy access to the intellectual processes of this influential economist....  Read More >>

On Her Own: Journalistic Adventures from San Francisco to the Chinese Revolution, 1917-27: Journalistic Adventures from San Francisco to the Chinese Revolution, 1917-27

On Her Own: Journalistic Adventures from San Francisco...

Author: Milly Bennett ,  A.Tom Grunfeld
ISBN: 9780873325233
Format: Hardback
$175.00

This autobiography of Bennett, which includes her experiences in the Chinese revolution and the Spanish Civil War,...  Read More >>

Edison and the Business of Innovation

Edison and the Business of Innovation

Author: André Millard (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780801847301
Format: Paperback
$86.99

From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information...  Read More >>

A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Frugé on University Publishing

A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Frugé on University...

Author: August Frugé
ISBN: 9780520084261
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A memoir of the author's professional career with the University of California Press, which he joined in 1944 and...  Read More >>

The Equilibrium Economics of Leon Walras

The Equilibrium Economics of Leon Walras

Author: Albert Jolink (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, the Netherlands) ,  Jan Van Daal
ISBN: 9780415001571
Format: Hardback
$322.00

The authors examine Walras' general equilibrium models, tracing their development through his major work Elements...  Read More >>

Keynes

Keynes

Author: D. E. Moggridge
ISBN: 9780333586624
Format: Paperback
$84.99

In this third edition, Professor Moggridge has taken account of new materials and new scholarship on Keynes that...  Read More >>

The Sun Shines for All: Journalism and Ideology in the Life of Charles A. Dana

The Sun Shines for All: Journalism and Ideology in the...

Author: Janet E. Steele
ISBN: 9780815625797
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"This critical biography of Charles A. Dana, the 19th-century editor of the """"New York Sun"""", blends the democratic...  Read More >>

Carriages Without Horses

Carriages Without Horses

Author: Richard P. Scharchburg
ISBN: 9781560913801
Format: Paperback
$121.48

In September 1893, little could 23-year-old mechanic J. Frank Duryea dream of the changes that would be brought...  Read More >>

Austin Robinson: The Life of an Economic Adviser

Austin Robinson: The Life of an Economic Adviser

Author: S. Cairncross
ISBN: 9780333594773
Format: Hardback
$252.00

A close associate of Keynes, he began as a seaplane pilot in the First World War and spent two years in the 1920s...  Read More >>

Pres: The Story of Lester Young

Pres: The Story of Lester Young

Author: Luc Delannoy
ISBN: 9781557282644
Format: Paperback
$34.10

The critic Norman Granz called tenor saxophonist Lester Young “the greatest musician I have heard on the instrument.”...  Read More >>

The Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon: Adjusting to Troubled Times

The Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon: Adjusting...

Author: G. Seaborg ,  B. Loeb
ISBN: 9780312078997
Format: Hardback
$104.00

In this book Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg tells what it was like to be chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...  Read More >>

Farm to Factory: Women’S Letters, 1830–1860

Farm to Factory: Women’S Letters, 1830–1860

Author: Thomas Dublin
ISBN: 9780231081573
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Between 1820 and 1860, tens of thousands of single women left rural New England to work in the factory towns of...  Read More >>

In the Web of Ideas: The Education of a Publisher

In the Web of Ideas: The Education of a Publisher

Author: Charles Scribner
ISBN: 9780684195919
Format: Hardback
$60.59

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft...

Author: James Wallace ,  Jim Erickson
ISBN: 9780887306297
Format: Paperback
$47.49

The story of how a young American student devised a computer program, known as the Microsoft Disk Operating System,...  Read More >>

Joseph A. Schumpeter: His Life and Work

Joseph A. Schumpeter: His Life and Work

Author: Richard Swedberg (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Stockholm, Sweden)
ISBN: 9780745611747
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950) is one of the most celebrated authors on the economics and sociology of the twentieth...  Read More >>

J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry

J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry

Author: Geoffrey Macnab
ISBN: 9780415072724
Format: Hardback
$196.00

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Deep Enough: A Working Stiff in the Western Mine Camps

Deep Enough: A Working Stiff in the Western Mine Camps...

Author: Frank A. Crampton ,  W. H. Hutchinson
ISBN: 9780806125299
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Frank Crampton's autobiography of mining runs the gamut of experience, from bindle-stiff, to hard-rock miner, to...  Read More >>

Lincoln On Leadership

Lincoln On Leadership

Author: Donald T. Phillips
ISBN: 9780446394598
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most chaotic periods in history. Yet through it all, Abraham Lincoln...  Read More >>

John R. Hicks

John R. Hicks

Author: O. F. Hamouda
ISBN: 9781557860651
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Sir John Hicks is one of the true giants of twntieth--century economics and he has had a significant impact on almost...  Read More >>

Leon Walras: Critical Assessments

Leon Walras: Critical Assessments

Author: John Cunningham Wood
ISBN: 9780415074827
Format: Hardback
$1665.00

In this fourteenth critical assessment, Leon Walras, the founder of mathematical economics, demonstrates through...  Read More >>

When You Care Enough: The Story of Hallmark Cards and Its Founder

When You Care Enough: The Story of Hallmark Cards and...

Author: Joyce C. Hall ,  Curtiss Anderson
ISBN: 9780875296555
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Presents the life story of the man who founded Hallmark Cards.  Read More >>

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