Business & Economics
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.
-
Make It a Green Peace!: The Rise of Countercultural EnvironmentalismThe emergence of Greenpeace in the late 1960s from a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists fundamentally changed the nature of environmentalism--its purpose, philosophy, and tactics--around the world. And yet there has been no comprehensive objective history of Greenpeace's origins-until now. Make It...
- €84,04 EUR
- €84,04 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Mastering Catastrophic Risk: How Companies Are Coping with DisruptionA profound and insightful look at how company leaders prepare for and respond to shocks and crises that threaten their business. Successful firms strategically manage and are more accurate in their assessment of large-scale risks. Doing so is increasingly challenging given the pace of...
- €41,89 EUR
- €41,89 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Gift and Gain: How Money Transformed Ancient RomeThe economy of ancient Rome, with its long-range trade, widespread moneylending, and companies of government contractors, was surprisingly modern. Yet Romans also exchanged goods and services within a traditional system of gifts and favors, which sustained the supportive relationships necessary for survival in the...
- €243,61 EUR
- €243,61 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Cost-Effectiveness in Health and MedicineA COMPLETE UPDATE AND REVISION OF THE CLASSIC TEXT "At last, a manual of operations for comparing the cost-effectiveness of a preventive service with a treatment intervention." --American Journal of Preventive Medicine Twenty years after the first edition of COST-EFFECTIVENESS IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE...
- €137,30 EUR
- €137,30 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Business Turn in American Religious HistoryBusiness has received little attention in American religious history, although it has profound implications for understanding the sustained popularity and ongoing transformation of religion in the United States. This volume offers a wide ranging exploration of the business aspects of American religious organizations. The...
- €101,75 EUR
- €101,75 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Exchange-Traded Funds and the New Dynamics of InvestingIn Exchange-Traded Funds and the New Dynamics of Investing, Ananth Madhavan examines the quiet transformation of asset management through the rise of passive or index investing. A closely-related phenomenon is the rise of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). An ETF is an investment vehicle that trades...
- €159,44 EUR
- €159,44 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The China Triangle: Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington ConsensusSince 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world. As it grew into a major industrial power, it demanded enormous amounts of steel for new factories and cities, copper for electronic wires,...
- €39,09 EUR
- €39,09 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Financial Capability and Asset Building in Vulnerable Households: Theory and PracticeFinancial struggles of American families are headline news. In communities across the nation, families feel the pinch of stagnant and sometimes declining incomes. Many have not recovered from the Great Recession, when millions lost their homes and retirement savings. They are bombarded daily with...
- €188,82 EUR
- €188,82 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do about ItThe United States faces a serious retirement challenge. Many of today's workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and responsibility...
- €53,77 EUR
- €53,77 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Economy of the Word: Language, History, and EconomicsIt was only in the sixteenth century that texts began to refer to the significance of "economic activity" -- of sustaining life. This was not because the ordinary business of life was thought unimportant, but because the principles governing economic conduct were thought to...
- €243,61 EUR
- €243,61 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Forked: A New Standard for American DiningFrom Saru Jayaraman, the book that brought #MeToo to the restaurant industry "Restaurants are political environments. You're shoulder-to-shoulder with immigrants. You're at one of the nexuses of income inequality. Your hourly wage is even less than the minimum wage. You're working for tips. You're...
- €26,51 EUR
- €26,51 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They GrewWho would have thought that a natural food supermarket could have been a financial refuge from the dot-com bust? But it had. Sales of organic food had shot up about 20 percent per year since 1990, reaching $11 billion by 2003 . . ....
- €32,81 EUR
- €32,81 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Behind the Wheel at ChryslerA Detroit Free Press reporter demythologizes Lee Iacocca's leadership of Chrysler, demonstrating how salesmanship and self-promotion invariably trumped innovation and investment. "Everyone who cares about american industry should read [this book]" (New York Times Book Review). Index.Author: Doron P. LevinPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished: 10/17/1996Pages: 368Binding...
- €44,74 EUR
- €44,74 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Girlboss Workbook: An Interactive Journal for Winning at LifeSophia Amoruso, the bestselling author of #GIRLBOSS, shares her favorite tips, checklists, and fill-in-the-blanks that will help you become your best Girlboss yet. Filled with whimsical illustrations, exercises, and plenty of scribble room, The Girlboss Workbook is designed for both the dreamer and the...
- €24,48 EUR
- €24,48 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Authentic Gravitas: Who Stands Out and WhyHave a powerful impact--by being more like yourself rather than less, through this groundbreaking approach taught at the London School of Economics and companies worldwide. Organizational psychologist and executive coach Rebecca Newton has found that even her most successful clients still want more of...
- €42,42 EUR
- €42,42 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Conquer Your Year: The Ultimate Planner to Get More Done, Grow Your Business, and Achieve Your DreamsThis is the ultimate planning system to help you stay on track with your entrepreneurial goals. In The Conquer Kit, Natalie MacNeil handed you the tools to put your creative genius to work designing an airtight business plan. This new and inspiring guide takes...
- €27,74 EUR
- €27,74 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil EmpireThe incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr. and Henri Deterding joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889, John D. Rockefeller is at...
- €32,64 EUR
- €32,64 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on FireThe inside story of the world's most powerful central bankers--and the most intense exercise in economic crisis management the world has ever seen Suddenly, without warning, in August 2007, three men who had never been elected to public office found themselves the most powerful...
- €32,64 EUR
- €32,64 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone ElseA Financial Times Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent--Plutocrats proves that it...
- €29,38 EUR
- €29,38 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider's Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and CollectingWhether it's Antiques Roadshow or American Pickers, or any of the number of TV shows on flea markets, the world of collecting inspires a cult following of millions of Americans. Celebrated author Maureen Stanton takes readers behind the scenes and deep into the "flea-o-sphere,"...
- €29,38 EUR
- €29,38 EUR
- Unit price
- per
