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  • A History of the Book in America
    In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers. Volume 4 of A History of the Book in America traces the complex, even contradi...
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    69,10 €

  • The History of Biesemeyer Boats
    Bill Biesemeyer
    Bill Biesemeyer started designing and building boats in 1949. His brother, Rusty, joined him in 1956 and they started building Biesemeyer Boats. They are best remembered for the racing-style speedboats that set speed records, but Bill and Rusty also created open deck and day cruiser boats, along with ski boats. This book follows the inception, successes, and failures of their...
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    22,65 €

  • Transnationale Unternehmen als Friedensstifter
    Alen Bosankic
    Können Privatunternehmen einen Beitrag zu Frieden und Sicherheit in Konfliktregionen leisten? Falls ja, gibt es bestimmte Voraussetzungen dafür? Besteht ein Zusammenhang zwischen diesen und dem privatwirtschaftlichen Beitrag? Ziel von Alen Bosankic ist es, Wege für unternehmerische Beiträge zu Frieden und Sicherheit in Konfliktgebieten aufzuzeigen, die auf Selbstgovernance grü...
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    31,53 €

  • A Life Worth Living
    Michael Smurfit
    A Life Worth Living tells the story of Michael Smurfit and the company he built. From humble beginnings, through years of hard work, it documents the Smurfit Group’s seemingly inexorable growth, the challenges faced and overcome, and the many deals that continually doubled the size of the business every three or four years. It shows Michael’s ’logical opportunism’ in action, an...
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    33,88 €

  • Level Headed
    J. Doug Pruitt / JDoug Pruitt / Richard Condit
    Level Headed takes you behind the scenes of one of the greatest business turnaround stories of the twenty-first century. Your narrators are Doug Pruitt, chairman and chief executive officer of Sundt, and Richard Condit, senior vice president and chief administrative officer. Both men led Sundt from the front lines during its darkest times, triumphing over extraordinary challeng...
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    19,51 €

  • Sushi and Fries
    Des Collins
    Cultural differences lead to conflict and misunderstanding between Asians and Europeans. Nowhere is this more evident than in the overseas subsidiary of a Japanese Corporation. In Sushi and Fries the author illustrates the difficulties faced by European employees when working in a Japanese company. He also deals with the obstacles that Japanese managers face when they are assi...
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    23,81 €

  • When Computing Got Personal
    Matt Nicholson
    This is the story of how a handful of geeks and mavericks dragged the computer out of corporate back rooms and laboratories and into our living rooms and offices. It is a tale not only of extraordinary innovation and vision but also of cunning business deals, boardroom tantrums and acrimonious lawsuits. Matt Nicholson has been a computer journalist since 1983 and has edited a n...
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    18,90 €

  • Caffeinated PDX
    Will Hutchens
    In Portland, Oregon, coffee is more than just a beverage, it is an essential part of the city's character. Under oft-gray skies, independent roasters and cafés flourish, providing a wide array of styles and tastes for discerning Portlanders to choose from. The celebrated Portland coffee culture attracts visitors from around the world, who come to explore the diverse options and...
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    15,63 €

  • General Economic History
    Max Weber / Frank H. Knight / Frank HKnight
    2013 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Max Weber’s 'General Economic History' is based on his lecture notes and compiled shortly after his death. In this work Weber proposes an institutional theory of the rise of capitalism in the west. Unlike in his classic work on the Protestant ethic, religi...
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    21,95 €

  • Off-Topic
    G. R. Reader
    In September 2013, the Goodreads book reviewing site, which had previously operated a strict policy of free speech, began censoring reviews. The reviewers fought back, and the conflict was soon being reported in the mainstream media. This is the story of what happened, told in the protesters' own words. ...
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    6,42 €

  • Strategy and Structure
    Alfred D. Chandler / Alfred DChandler
    2013 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This classic text, chosen for the 1964 Thomas Newcomen Award in Business History by the editors of 'Business History Review,' is based on intensive studies of General Motors, Dupont, Standard Oil of New Jersey and Sears, Roebuck. Chandler shows how the seve...
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    28,88 €

  • Owning Main Street
    This book empowers even the most intimidated investors to bypass Wall Street and put savings to work in the stock market. Investing in the common stocks of the world's great corporations is not an option, it is mandatory for anybody who hopes to educate their children and to retire some day. 3 ...
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    52,69 €

  • Investing in Life
    Sharon Ann Murphy
    Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class.Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy also analyzes changing roles for women; the attempts to adapt s...
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    50,64 €

  • United States Entrepreneurs and the Companies They Built
    Wahib Nasrallah
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    94,90 €

  • The Moneypower Continuum
    Francis X. Healy Jr
    Take a critical view of the institutions that affect our everyday lives with this extended essay. The most important of these is the modern-day corporation, which continues to resist social control despite an ability to adapt to the environment like no other entity in human history.Corporations continue to explode with power, and religious, educational, and governmental organiz...
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    29,95 €

  • The Moneypower Continuum
    Francis X. Healy Jr
    Take a critical view of the institutions that affect our everyday lives with this extended essay. The most important of these is the modern-day corporation, which continues to resist social control despite an ability to adapt to the environment like no other entity in human history.Corporations continue to explode with power, and religious, educational, and governmental organiz...
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    18,71 €

  • Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions
    Christopher S. Chapman / Christopher SChapman / David J. Cooper / David JCooper / Peter B. Miller / Peter BMiller
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    63,14 €

  • Petticoats and Pinstripes
    Sheri Caplan
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    82,30 €

  • The Money Noose
    Scott Skyrm
    "Skyrm makes complex financial scenarios accessible to all interested readers in an informative and entertaining manner. We can all learn something from this book." -Thomas Peterffy, Chairman, CEO, and President of Interactive Brokers"Skyrm put together the story of MF Global like no one else could in providing the ultimate autopsy covering destructive financial engineering tha...
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    18,10 €

  • The Money Noose
    Scott Skyrm
    "Skyrm makes complex financial scenarios accessible to all interested readers in an informative and entertaining manner. We can all learn something from this book."" -Thomas Peterffy, Chairman, CEO, and President of Interactive Brokers"Skyrm put together the story of MF Global like no one else could in providing the ultimate autopsy covering destructive financial engineering th...
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    29,73 €

  • Inside Apple
    Adam Lashinsky
    INSIDE APPLE reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products.If Apple is Silicon Valley's answer to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadersh...
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    21,13 €

  • Project
    Michael Dobson
    Nothing is impossible if you have unlimited time, resources, and flexible objectives. Project managers never find themselves in such a situation. Our projects are impossible if they can't be done within the constraints... but sometimes there's a way around even the most challenging barrier. What can you do when the situation looks hopeless? In this exciting journey through his...
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    24,24 €

  • The First Adman
    Gary Hicks
    The First Adman reveals the untold story of how modern advertising was pioneered 200 years ago by the entrepreneur, self-publicist and dodgy Member of Parliament, Thomas Bish. Royalty and politicians courted this early media star and society figure, who was one of the best-known men in the land and allegedly more famous than the prime minister himself. Drawing on previously in...
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    16,02 €

  • So clean
    Brian Lewis
    A fully contextualized, critical biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers’ Sunlight Soap empire. Intended for a broad academic, student and popular readership. ...
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    29,50 €

  • Twenty-First-Century Irvings
    Harvey Sawler
    Three generations after the Irving family arrived in Canada from Scotland, the name K. C. Irving hit the Forbes top billionaires list, making K. C. one of the richest men in the world and the most powerful businessperson in Canada.But there is much more to the Irving story than the fascinating and brilliant K. C. and his immediate legacy. Twenty-first Century Irvings takes a ca...
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    17,00 €

  • Datapoint
    Lamont Wood
    Forget Apple and IBM. For that matter forget Silicon Valley. The first personal computer, a self-contained unit with its own programmable processor, display, keyboard, internal memory, telephone interface, and mass storage of data was born in San Antonio TX. US Patent number 224,415 was filed November 27, 1970 for a machine that is the direct lineal ancestor to the PC as we kno...
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    23,97 €

  • Empty Pleasures
    Carolyn de la Peña
    Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World’s Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women’s history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as sacc...
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    47,85 €

  • Staying Power
    Michael A. Cusumano / Michael ACusumano
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    36,05 €

  • Kirby’s Way
    Angie Klink
    The late J. Kirby Risk II called himself 'a small-town businessman from the banks of the Wabash.' He was much more. The fastidious, dapper man from Lafayette, Indiana, exuded philanthropy and free enterprise. Like a sheepdog, he tended the flock, rounded up strays, darted to key places to close up stragglers, and nudged everyone toward a common goal. Sometimes his stubborn pers...
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    14,22 €

  • The Search for Survival
    Henry Lucas
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    82,41 €