Corporate & Business History

The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556525629Author Tony MageeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 308g

In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands-the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles,...

The reissue of the classic history about the sawmill industry in the Pacific Northwest is rich in memories. Here is the vital and true story of the triumphant growth and its undying promise, shown with superb photography and told with exciting text. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060510305Author Tom BarbashFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996990103Author Seth KaplanFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint Airline Weekly Corp.Publisher Airline Weekly Corp.Weight(grams) 857g

While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park - fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Three Years in Wonderland presents the never-before-told,...

A family business prospers through a series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then senseless internal conflicts lead to a long line of demented CEOs, monumental expansion, and foolish diversification-at a high cost in shattered lives. In the...

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming that made it possible for HP to transform itself six times over the 77 years since its founding in the face of sweeping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671897819Author Alecia SwasyFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Faced with the task of redesigning the Taurus, America's best-selling car and the flagship of its fleet, Ford Motor Company assembled 700 designers, engineers, planners, and bean-counters under a tough manager who set out to retake engineering and...

What has made Silicon Valley so productive of new technologies and new firms? How did its pioneering achievements begin-in computer networking, semiconductors, personal computing, and the Internet-and what forces have propelled its unprecedented growth?...

Revolutions from Grub Street charts the evolution of Britain's popular magazine industry from its seventeenth century origins through to the modern digital age. Following the reforms engendered by the Glorious Revolution of 1688 the Grub Street area of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707579Author Ben MezrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525537601Author Leander KahneyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743269995Author Fred GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578417530Author Sarah HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Sarah HartleyPublisher Sarah HartleyWeight(grams) 526g

The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996990110Author Seth KaplanFormat PaperbackImprint Airline Weekly Corp.Publisher Airline Weekly Corp.Weight(grams) 694g

The first book to tell the story of one of the world's most influential media businesses, The Family Business draws on more than 70 interviews with company insiders as well as book-industry luminaries to present the Ingram story and how a little-known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883283353Author Scott SkyrmFormat PaperbackImprint Brick Tower PressPublisher Brick Tower PressWeight(grams) 340g

The alarming, untold story of Citigroup-one of the largest financial institutions in the world-from its founding in 1812 to its role in the 2008 financial crisis, and the many near-death experiences in between. During the 2008 financial crisis, we were...

As enlightening as The Facebook Effect, Elon Musk, and Chaos Monkeys-the compelling, behind-the-scenes story of the creation of one of the most essential applications ever devised, and the rag-tag team that built it and changed how we navigate the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063019522Author David BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm *...

Rentokil is the heart and soul of pest control. A brand synonymous with its field and familiar to all. Innovative, ground-breaking, highly professional; renowned for scientific rigour and go-the-extra-mile customer service. At last, here's a book that...

A corporate history of the innovative Benetton Holding Company, Edizione follows the early days of the family-owned brand, through governance and structure changes, mass distribution, infrastructure and network growth, to wider views for the future. ...

How America's biggest company began taking better care of its workers--and why such efforts will never be enough.Fifteen years ago, Walmart was the most controversial company in America. By offering incredibly low prices, it had come to dominate the...

"You couldn't find two more different men. Billy Durant was the consummate salesman, a brilliant wheeler-dealer with grand plans, unflappable energy, and a fondness for the high life. Alfred Sloan was the intellectual, an expert in business strategy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116127Author Charles D. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 760gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832234Author Diana B. HenriquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 648gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"Important and ingenious . . . ought to be read by every educated person." --The Spectator. Renowned British economist Paul Ormerod explodes current economic theory to offer a radical new framework for understanding how human societies and...

The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street radiated outward to threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida and Arizona, the homes and...

The author, responsible for marketing of the Famous Grouse for fifteen years, has been in a unique position to record the decline of the malt distillery and also to look at the remaining distilleries and explain why they survive today. The story is one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328745545Author Leigh GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767923842Author Kurt EichenwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112471Author David S. LandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Valued at $25 billion following its IPO in 2014, JD.com (Jingdong) is China's second largest e-commerce company (behind its rival Alibaba) and leads the way in sales of consumer electronics and books. Through unprecedented access to the inner-workings of...

After the Berlin Wall tells the inside story of an international financial institution, the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction (EBRD), created in the aftermath of communism to help the countries of central and eastern Europe transition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618197279Author Mark SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

Heenan Blaikie was one of Canada's leading law firms that boasted 1,100 employees and once had two former prime ministers on its staff -- Pierre Trudeau and Jean ChrEtien. When it collapsed in February 2014, lawyers across Canada and the business...