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My Life and Work
ISBN: 9781421806341 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,27 |
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That's IBM!
ISBN: 9781425977221 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So you believe that corporation life is dull, cut-and-dried, and strictly stuffed shirt? Well, methinks you're in for quite a surprise once you've delved into this fascinating, humorous account of my twenty-year association with IBM, the global trailblazing pioneer of the computer world, nicknamed by the Wall Street Journal and referred to in this book as "Big Blue." This book, although occasionally seeming incredible regarding one's assumption of corporate decorum, and of a global corporation's high regard for human dignity, is by no means a distortion of the author's memory or imagination....
So you believe that corporation life is dull, cut-and-dried, and strictly stuffed shirt? Well, methinks you're in for quite a surprise once you've del...
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84,79 |
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Gypsies Greed & Politics
ISBN: 9781434323507 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a recollection of one man's journey through thirty years at the largest corporation in America. It reflects on four decades of transition seen from the ground floor. The views of this book are simply the authors and no others. It is a testimony of life on the plant floor. The book takes in the effect of politics in our every day lives. The effects that each individual has on the lives of others and the choices we make everyday that contribute to the success or failure in our own life.
This book is a recollection of one man's journey through thirty years at the largest corporation in America. It reflects on four decades of transition...
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68,74 |
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Gypsies Greed & Politics
ISBN: 9781434323538 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a recollection of one man's journey through thirty years at the largest corporation in America. It reflects on four decades of transition seen from the ground floor. The views of this book are simply the authors and no others. It is a testimony of life on the plant floor. The book takes in the effect of politics in our every day lives. The effects that each individual has on the lives of others and the choices we make everyday that contribute to the success or failure in our own life.
This book is a recollection of one man's journey through thirty years at the largest corporation in America. It reflects on four decades of transition...
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114,41 |
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The Boy from Altheimer: From the Depression to the Boardroom
ISBN: 9781557288189 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bill Bowen s memoir deals with many of the most important events and years in Arkansas history in the twentieth century. Bowen was born and raised in Altheimer, in the Arkansas Delta, a section of the country that was among the most impoverished in the nation during the Depression. His adolescence was shaped by the Depression, and as a young adult he enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and served in the U.S. Naval Reserve until 1963. After the war, Bowen became a tax attorney. He used his unique skills to refine the legal aspects of investment banking in Arkansas and became so...
Bill Bowen s memoir deals with many of the most important events and years in Arkansas history in the twentieth century. Bowen was born and raised in ...
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97,90 |
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The Midas of the Wabash: A Biography of John Purdue
ISBN: 9781557532879 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A biography of noted businessman John Purdue (1802-1876), whose donations of time and money led to the founding of Indiana's land grant university, Purdue University, in 1869. Purdue also contributed to economically important bridge, railroad, and cemetery construction, the existence of Lafayette Savings Bank and the Battle Ground Collegiate Institute, cattle farming, Lafayette's public school system, and countless other worthy enterprises. To date there has been no published full length study of Mr. Purdue's life and work beyond casual street talk that portrayed Purdue as a difficult...
A biography of noted businessman John Purdue (1802-1876), whose donations of time and money led to the founding of Indiana's land grant university, Pu...
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57,61 |
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My Business Life Cycle: How Innovation, Evolution, and Determination Made Paul Harris Great
ISBN: 9781557534262 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Harris Stores did exactly what it was supposed to. It brought fashion, comfort, style, and functionality to millions of women in the Midwest. Paul Harris' run of 50 years is remarkable because so few retail stores make it that long and so few make it so big. His life and experiences tell readers much about U.S. culture, retail history, and a brand of entrepreneurship that appears to be making a comeback.
Paul Harris Stores did exactly what it was supposed to. It brought fashion, comfort, style, and functionality to millions of women in the Midwest. Pau...
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115,42 |
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Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue
ISBN: 9781557534576 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. Using fresh, unpublished source materials-including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories-the author examines Purdue's beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. Uncle challenges a commonly held belief that Purdue was a cold-hearted business mogul. Instead the...
In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diver...
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385,16 |
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Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue
ISBN: 9781557534583 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. Using fresh, unpublished source materials-including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories-the author examines Purdue's beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. Uncle challenges a commonly held belief that Purdue was a cold-hearted business mogul. Instead the...
In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diver...
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76,88 |
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Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought
ISBN: 9781563241161 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work discusses the impact and contemporary relevance of the work of Thorstein Veblen, as well as the source of his ideas. It suggests that he was one of the first modern sociologists of consumption whose analysis of contemporary display and fashion anticipated later theories and research.
This work discusses the impact and contemporary relevance of the work of Thorstein Veblen, as well as the source of his ideas. It suggests that he was...
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857,10 |
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Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought
ISBN: 9781563241178 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique work combines an authoritative account of Veblen's life with a thoughtful appraisal of his interdisciplinary analysis of the origins, nature, and persistence of industrial capitalism. The book goes beyond the myth of Veblen's alleged marginality, and advances an original interpretation of his life's work, with special reference to his ethnicity and to evolutionism. In the process, the author considers the intellectual sources and impact of Veblen's critical social thought, and its continued relevance to understanding the economic and cultural dimensions of global capitalism.
This unique work combines an authoritative account of Veblen's life with a thoughtful appraisal of his interdisciplinary analysis of the origins, natu...
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215,45 |
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Clarence Dillon: A Wall Street Enigma
ISBN: 9781568330488 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A biography of a Polish immigrant who rose to the top of Wall Street in the Roaring Twenties and abandoned it after the Crash.
A biography of a Polish immigrant who rose to the top of Wall Street in the Roaring Twenties and abandoned it after the Crash.
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168,87 |
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Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve Wynn
ISBN: 9781568581903 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steve Wynn is the former owner of the Bellagio Las Vegas's latest monument to conspicuous consumption whose hotel and casino contain over 300 million in fine art and 1.5 billion in Wall Street money. He's a mogul whose empire at one point included the Mirage, the Golden Nugget, and Treasure Island. But how did he gain and wield his tremendous power in Nevada? And why did a confidential Scotland Yard report prevent him from opening a casino in London? When this biography, written by a local reporter, was first released in 1995, Steve Wynn brought suit against its original publisher and forced...
Steve Wynn is the former owner of the Bellagio Las Vegas's latest monument to conspicuous consumption whose hotel and casino contain over 300 million ...
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77,03 |
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Halff of Texas: A Merchant Rancher of the Old West
ISBN: 9781571684363 / Angielski / Miękka / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cowman Mayer Halff rode a long, busy trail that few men could have followed. It carried him from 1850s France to Texas and across 1,500 miles of wild western country waiting to be tamed. Throughout his life, he was at ease whether dining with a U.S. President at a plush metropolitan banquet or squatting across a campfire from a dirt-streaked cowboy in some forsaken cow camp. Immigrating as a fourteen-year-old, Halff began as a foot peddler. He quickly built the largest dry goods business in the Southwest and by 1861 was pursuing his passion-cattle ranching. He founded several of Texas' famous...
Cowman Mayer Halff rode a long, busy trail that few men could have followed. It carried him from 1850s France to Texas and across 1,500 miles of wild ...
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76,88 |
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The First One Hundred Years: Ben E. Keith 1906-2006
ISBN: 9781571688941 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the largest distributors of food service products and Anheuser-Busch beers in the country, the privately held Ben E. Keith Company has focused on the Southwest from it's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. "The First One Hundred Years" tells how the company began with a limited inventory of fresh produce in 1906 to it's current position among the top ten, full line (produce, frozen foods, meats, dry groceries, paper goods, equipment and supplies) food service distributors in the country. At the end of Prohibition in 1933, the company became a beer distributor. Now among the largest beer...
One of the largest distributors of food service products and Anheuser-Busch beers in the country, the privately held Ben E. Keith Company has focused ...
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151,01 |
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King Cottons Advocate: Oscar G. Johnston New Deal
ISBN: 9781572330252 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the largest cotton planters in the United States, Oscar G. Johnston of Mississippi (1880 1955) became King Cotton's most effective advocate during the New Deal era. In this biography, Lawrence J. Nelson explores Johnston's long career and the critical role he played in shaping public policy toward a vital but depressed industry.
In 1927, the year of the Great Mississippi River Flood, Johnston became president of the largely British-owned Delta and Pine Land Company of Mississippi, a mammoth plantation that encompassed some 38,000 acres and employed thousands of black sharecroppers.... One of the largest cotton planters in the United States, Oscar G. Johnston of Mississippi (1880 1955) became King Cotton's most effective advocate dur...
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156,72 |
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Stanley Marcus from A to Z: Viewpoints Volume II
ISBN: 9781574410730 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More gems of wisdom and wit from Stanley Marcus, acknowledged harbinger of taste whose very name is a symbol of quality. Marcus lets his mind roam through subjects as diverse as dieting, gardening, nonconformists, phobias, sports, toys, and weather.
More gems of wisdom and wit from Stanley Marcus, acknowledged harbinger of taste whose very name is a symbol of quality. Marcus lets his mind roam thr...
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102,81 |
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Minding the Store
ISBN: 9781574411393 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is never a good sale for Neiman Marcus unless it s a good buy for the customer. That was one of the first declarations of business philosophy I heard my father, Herbert Marcus, make soon after I came to work at Neiman Marcus in 1926. Thus began the 1974 edition of "Minding the Store." Reprinted in hardcover in 1997 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Neiman Marcus, it is now available for the first time in paperback.
Mr. Marcus spent most of his life not only in helping to create a retailing enterprise renowned throughout the world as the epitome of quality, but also in setting... There is never a good sale for Neiman Marcus unless it s a good buy for the customer. That was one of the first declarations of business philosophy I ...
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117,50 |
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Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire
ISBN: 9781574780369 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?" is the inspiring story of Reginald Lewis: lawyer, Wall Street wizard, philanthropist and the wealthiest black man in American history.
When six-year-old Reginald Lewis overheard his grandparents discussing employment discrimination against African Americans, he asked, Why should white guys have all the fun?" This self-assured child would grow up to become the CEO of Beatrice International and one of the most successful entrepreneurs ever. At the time of his death in 1993, his personal fortune was estimated in excess of $400 million and his vast... "Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?" is the inspiring story of Reginald Lewis: lawyer, Wall Street wizard, philanthropist and the wealthiest blac...
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115,42 |
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E. Bronson Ingram: Complete These Unfinished Tasks of Mine
ISBN: 9781577362166 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A vivid depiction of one of the 20th century's most successful businessmen, Mrs. Ingram's biography of her late husband is more than a testimony to all the things that made him a great man--it is a gift to associates, friends, and family members who will remember Bronson Ingram and reap the rewards of his efforts for many years to come.
A vivid depiction of one of the 20th century's most successful businessmen, Mrs. Ingram's biography of her late husband is more than a testimony to al...
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96,15 |
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