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Explore the best business and economics books, including top entrepreneur reads, finance essentials, and foundational texts. Browse our online bookstore for bestsellers and highly recommended books in business and economics.
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Leading by ExampleWondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out--with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in business, the public sector, and...
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Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep It from Happeining to YouWhy do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the...
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Becoming a New Manager: Expert Solutions to Everyday ChallengesYou've just been promoted to a managerial position for the first time -- congratulations! But beware: the managerial role differs markedly from the individual contributor role. Go into the job with mistaken assumptions about what to expect, and you just may be blindsided by...
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Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and SmallWhy Not? is a primer for fresh thinking, for problem-solving with a purpose, for bringing the world a few steps closer to the way it should be. Idealistic? Yes. Unrealistic? According to Why Not? authors Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres, no. Illustrated with examples...
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Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global CompetitionThe new competitive challenge from Chinese businesses is like nothing seen by Western companies since the Japanese arrived twenty years ago with their cars and consumer electronics. To fend off these fierce competitors, managers must forget yesterday's image of Chinese companies as producers of...
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Cork Wars: Intrigue and Industry in World War IIThe surprising story of cork and its critical role in US security and the war effort.Winner of the IPPY Book Award History (World), Silver of the Independent PublisherIn 1940, with German U-boats blockading all commerce across the Atlantic Ocean, a fireball at the Crown...
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The New Deal's Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps WorkedHow the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed, rejuvenated, and protected American forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression.Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed to provide direct...
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Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global CommoditiesHow global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees.In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans...
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Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the SubprimePredatory lending of subprime mortgages targeting the most economically vulnerable minority communities helped trigger the current global financial crisis. This special issue of the journal American Quarterly explores the ways in which "subprime" becomes a racial signifier in the current debate about the causes...
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The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil WarIn this fresh study Brian Schoen views the Deep South and its cotton industry from a global perspective, revisiting old assumptions and providing new insights into the region, the political history of the United States, and the causes of the Civil War. Schoen takes...
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Eisenhower and the Cold War EconomyThroughout his two-term presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower faced the challenge of managing a period of peacetime prosperity after more than two decades of depression, war, and postwar inflation. The essential issue he addressed was how the country would pay for the deepening Cold War...
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Capital (Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy)Perhaps one of the most consequential works of all time, "Capital" is the German treatise on political economy by Karl Marx that critically analyzes capitalism. First published in 1867 as the beginning of an ambitious but unfinished six-volume series, Marx would only see the...
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Creating a Culture of Excellence: Changing the World of Work One Person at a TimeWhat would it require for our businesses to build and sustain a unique competitive advantage based on the value-add of our team members? From both personal and corporate experience gained over the last twenty-five years, Wil Davis has come to the conclusion that businesses...
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Creating a Culture of Excellence: Changing the World of Work One Person at a TimeWhat would it require for our businesses to build and sustain a unique competitive advantage based on the value-add of our team members? From both personal and corporate experience gained over the last twenty-five years, Wil Davis has come to the conclusion that businesses...
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Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies 1960-2001Much has been written about Somalia in the last fourteen years; about its history, politics, civil war, famine, clans, warlords, the failure of the U.S. intervention, but little has been written about the monetary aspect of the Somali crisis. The author, a former director...
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Casino Security and Gaming SurveillanceAlmost all incidences of cheating, theft, fraud, or loss can be detected through the surveillance of critical transactions, audit observations, and reviews of key metrics. Providing proven-techniques for detecting and mitigating the ever-evolving threats to casino security, this book covers the core skills, knowledge,...
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Optimization Modelling: A Practical ApproachAlthough a useful and important tool, the potential of mathematical modelling for decision making is often neglected. Considered an art by many and weird science by some, modelling is not as widely appreciated in problem solving and decision making as perhaps it should be....
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The Infinite Power of Teams: How Organizations and Individuals Achieve Greatness TogetherSomething's missing Many people are unhappy because they don't feel appreciated or fully utilized in their jobs. Many managers are unhappy with their organizations and improvement programs. Many employees and managers alike would quit their jobs today, if they could. A collection of great...
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Leadership & Strategy: Lessons From Alexander The GreatLeadership & Strategy Lessons from Alexander the Great by business strategist Leandro P. Martino is not only the quintessential guide to a quintessential leader, but also a necessary exploration of the characteristics that made him so. Unmatched after more than two thousand years, Alexander...
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Investing in Oil and Gas WellsInvesting in Oil and Gas Wells explains oil and gas investment in simple terms for the prospective investor. Following an overview of the process by which oil and gas is explored for and produced, it discusses the tax advantages of investments in oil and...
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