Business
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My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
$22.00 Add to cartIn My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this f… [more below]
- Author: Derman, Emanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0470192739
- Language: English
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Bringing Home the Birkin: My Life in Hot Pursuit of the World’s Most Coveted Handbag
$18.99 Add to cartFor more than twenty years, the Herm s Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, and wealth. With a fabled waiting list of more than two years to purchase one, the average fashionista
- Author: Tonello, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0061473340
- Language: English
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When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle
$36.00 Add to cartThe inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street’s biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players — Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman — and Herbalife, the company caught in the middle
With their b- Author: Wapner, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1610398270
- Language: English
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Pardon My Hearse: A Colorful Portrait of Where the Funeral and Entertainment Industries Met in Hollywood
$16.95 Add to cartEven celebrities die–and author Allan Abbott was the man who picked up the bodies He ran the leading hearse, mortuary, and funeral services company in Hollywood and got an unprecedented glimpse of h
- Author: Abbott, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1610352483
- Language: English
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Jo Malone
$26.99 Add to cartKnown around the world for her eponymous brand of fragrances and her latest venture, Jo Loves, Jo Malone tells the “inspiring, courageous, and brutally honest” (Nylon) story of her rise from humble be… [more below]
- Author: Malone, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1501110608
- Language: English
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Never Look at the Empty Seats: A Memoir
$19.99 Read moreThe Incredible Story of a Country Music Legend.
Few artists have left a more indelible mark on America’s musical landscape than Charlie Daniels.
Readers will experience a soft, personal side of Charlie
- Author: Daniels, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1400334292
- Language: English
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When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
$19.99 Add to cartHere is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has p… [more below]
- Author: Weintraub, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 23 2011
- ISBN10: 0446548162
- Language: English
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Iwoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
$49.99 Add to cartBefore slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange vending machines, with cryptic switches and pages of encoded output. But in 1977 Steve Wozniak revolutionized the computer i… [more below]
- Author: Wozniak, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: January 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0393061434
- Language: English
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader
$18.00 Read moreThe #1 New York Times bestselling biography of how Steve Jobs became the most visionary CEO in history.
Becoming Steve Jobs breaks down the conventional, one-dimensional view of Steve Jobs that he wa… [more below]- Author: Schlender, Brent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0385347421
- Language: English
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The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America’s Energy Future
$20.00 Add to cartIt’s Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best.
Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars,- Author: Pickens, T. Boone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307396010
- Language: English
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My Life and Work: An Autobiography of Henry Ford
$14.99 Add to cartThis book is the original autobiographical work by Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. In this book, Ford details how he got into business, the strategies that he used to become a wealthy a… [more below]
- Author: Ford, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0979311985
- Language: English
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Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia
$18.00 Read moreFrom award-winning author Thomas Hager, Electric City is the extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history–Henry Ford and Thomas Edison–and their attempt to create an electric-power… [more below]
- Author: Hager, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1419752987
- Language: English
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The Little Shop That Could: A retailer’s love affair with community and food
$19.99 Add to cartDebra’s Natural Gourmet is a beloved, nationally-known and award-winning natural products shop in Concord, MA. For those people who think running a shop is simple, this is the story about turning on l
- Author: Stark, Debra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0974262730
- Language: English
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip
$18.99 Add to cartA “fascinating slice of rarely considered American history” (Booklist)–the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison–whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the aut… [more below]
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1501159313
- Language: English
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
$19.99 Add to cartThe inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world.
Muhammad Yu- Author: Yunus, Muhammad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 16 2003
- ISBN10: 1586481983
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
$19.00 Add to cartWith a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier
A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool—a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. W- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250002486
- Language: English
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
$18.00 Add to cart“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef ‘s bookstore–the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failur
- Author: Wassef, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858860
- Language: English
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Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
$17.99 Add to cartThe first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued,
- Author: Burns, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0062879308
- Language: English
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Inside Studio 54
$26.95 Read moreIn Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip cham… [more below]
- Author: Fleischman, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1945572574
- Language: English
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William F. Buckley Sr.: Witness to the Mexican Revolution, 1908-1922
$29.95 Add to cartIn 1909, young William F. Buckley Sr. (1881-1958), who grew up in the dusty South Texas town of San Diego, graduated from the University of Texas law school and headed for Mexico City. Fluent in Spani
- Author: Adams, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0806191821
- Language: English
