Business & Money - Biography & History

"Only in America could a would-be monk convince a faded television star to pitch a rehabilitation device designed for Scandinavian skiers and creat...

Inside the success of 100 Business Geniuses Risk-loving entrepreneurs. Innovative geniuses. Self-starters and mavericks. The world's greatest busin...

180 South: Conquerors of the Useless

Global market strategist Courtney describes a way for businesses to compensate for the high level of uncertainty in the modern marketplace. In this...

In 1998, when Amazon.com began to recruit employees, they gave temp agencies a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey -- slacker, oneti...

Boy meets dot-com, boy falls for dot-com, boy flees dot-com in horror. So goes one of the most perversely hilarious love stories you will ever read...

This is the story of Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller, the two reporters who led the Wall Street Journal's reporting on Enron and uncovered the...

This is the story of two "Wall Street Journal beat reporters -- one covering the energy industry just after the chaotic California electricity cris...

2009 Reprint of the original 1949 edition. Paperback. 149pp. William Delbert Gann (6 June, 1878 - 14 June, 1955) also known as W. D. Gann, was a fi...

In 1859, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, known everywhere as A&P, began as a mail-order business located at 31 Vesey Street in do...

As the U.S. Army shrinks, a private army steps into the breach. "A Bloody Business" offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes and into the ran...

The timeless business book that still brings perspective and guidance to today's bottom-line executives When first published in 1963, IBM CEO Thoma...

"Named one of the Best Business Books of 2003 by Library Journal! Wouldn't it be nice if all executives had a magical rabbit-like the one in the mo...

In November of 1891, at the age of twenty-five, John MacDonald Blackstock Hawley arrived in Fort Worth, Texas. A civil engineer from Minnesota, Haw...

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. -- What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to...

McDonald, a former vice president at Lehman Brothers, offers an intimate look inside the mad house that Lehman became, and shows beyond a doubt tha...

How investor expectations move markets and the economy The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise....

Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price...

Praise for A DOUBLE SCOTCH "A Double Scotch tells the tale of how two men from farming stock, George Smith and James Chivas, found themselves as ce...

A Giant Cow-Tipping by Savages: The Boom, Bust, and Boom Culture of M&A