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The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *god Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
ISBN: 9780060008765 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Larry Ellison started the high-flying tech company Oracle with $1,200 in 1977 and turned it into a billion-dollar Silicon Valley giant. If Bill Gates is the tech world's nerd king, Ellison is its Warren Beatty: racing yachts, buying jets, and romancing beautiful women. His rise to fame and fortune is a tale of entrepreneurial brilliance, ruthless tactics, and a constant stream of half-truths and outright fabrications for which the man and his company are notorious. Investigative reporter Mike Wilson, with access to Ellison himself and more than 125 of his friends, enemies, and former... Larry Ellison started the high-flying tech company Oracle with $1,200 in 1977 and turned it into a billion-dollar Silicon Valley giant. If Bill Gat... |
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68,48 zł |
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Mr. China: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780060761400 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mr. China tells the rollicking story of a young man who goes to China with the misguided notion that he will help bring the Chinese into the modern world, only to be schooled by the most resourceful and creative operators he would ever meet. Part memoir, part parable, Mr. China is one man's coming-of-age story where he learns to respect and admire the nation he sought to conquer. Mr. China tells the rollicking story of a young man who goes to China with the misguided notion that he will help bring the Chinese into t... |
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60,54 zł |
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The Guggenheims : A Family History
ISBN: 9780060934002 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropy Meyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were reckoned among America's wealthiest, and the richest Jewish family in the world after the Rothschilds. They belonged to Our Crowd, that tight social circle of New York Jewish plutocrats, but unlike the others -- primarily merchants and financiers -- they made their money by extracting and refining copper, silver, lead, tin, and... A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropy Meyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant... |
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76,42 zł |
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Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace
ISBN: 9780060935818 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Like other kids in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Ejovi Nuwere grew up among thugs and drug dealers. When he was eleven, he helped form a gang; at twelve, he attempted suicide. In his large, extended family, one uncle was a career criminal, one a graduate student with his own computer. By the time Ejovi was fourteen, he was spending as much time on the computer as his uncle was. Within a year he was well on his way to a hacking career that would lead him to one of the most audacious and potentially dangerous computer break-ins of all time, secret until now. Before... Like other kids in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Ejovi Nuwere grew up among thugs and drug dealers. When he was eleven, he helpe... |
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60,54 zł |
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Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life
ISBN: 9780071499934 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chasing Daylight is the honest, touching, and ultimately inspirational memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelley, completed in the three-and-a-half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. Its haunting yet extraordinarily hopeful voice reminds us to embrace the fragile, fleeting moments of our lives-the brief time we have with our family, our friends, and even ourselves. This paperback edition features a new foreword by his wife, Corinne O'Kelley and a readers' group guide and questions. ...THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chasing Daylight is the honest, touching, and ultimately inspirational memoir of former K... |
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76,46 zł |
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Andrew Carnegie
ISBN: 9780143112440 / Angielski / Miękka / 878 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The definitive account of the life of Andrew Carnegie
Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists--in what will prove to be the biography of the season. Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. Carnegie, the son... The definitive account of the life of Andrew Carnegie
Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has ... |
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49,85 zł |
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The Vital Few : The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress
ISBN: 9780195040388 / Angielski / Miękka / 610 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Vital Few, a study of the contribution of entrepreneurs to the American economy, provides portraits of the men and women whose individual enterprise has helped to establish the character of the American businessperson and to carry our economy forward from colonial times. Examining such legendary figures as William Penn, Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, and J. Pierpont Morgan in their social and economic environment, Jonathan Hughes illuminates each period of American economic history and provides insights into the workings of American business and the special qualities required of its...
The Vital Few, a study of the contribution of entrepreneurs to the American economy, provides portraits of the men and women whose individual enterpri...
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285,13 zł |
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The Advent of Modern Capitalism in France 1770-1840 : The Contribution of Pierre-Francois Tubeuf
ISBN: 9780198228950 / Angielski / Twarda / 1776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the story of one of the most dynamic entrepreneurs in modern French history. Drawing upon a wealth of archival and private documentation. Lewis uncovers the history of Pierre-Francois Tubeuf and assesses his contribution to the development of industry in France. Lewis explores the relationship between seigneurial, proto-industrial, and modern forms of capitalism in the Cevennes region of southeastern France in the eighteenth century, and demonstrates the international scope of proto-industrialization. This subtle and scholarly study seeks to unravel the complex problems associated...
This is the story of one of the most dynamic entrepreneurs in modern French history. Drawing upon a wealth of archival and private documentation. Lewi...
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1063,10 zł |
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Hayek's Challenge : An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
ISBN: 9780226091938 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell-editor of "The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek"-understands Hayek's thought like few others, and with this book he offers us the first full intellectual biography of this pivotal social theorist.
Caldwell begins by... Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for ...
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139,48 zł |
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Sloan Rules : Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors
ISBN: 9780226238050 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Motor Company and on to international business triumph by virtue of his brilliant managerial practices and his insights into the new consumer economy he and GM helped to produce. Bill Gates has said that Sloan's 1964 management tome, My Years with General Motors, "is probably the best book to read if you want to read only one book about business." And if you want to read only one book about Sloan, that book should be historian David Farber's...
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Moto...
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57,24 zł |
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Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
ISBN: 9780252030994 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Standing alongside J. P. Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller, Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905) was one of the most influential and controversial public figures in America. Robber Baron is the first biography of the traction magnate who was behind the Chicago Loop Elevated, an investor in the London Underground, namesake of the University of Chicago's observatory, and vilified as Frank Cowperwood in Theodore Dreiser's trilogy, The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic. After losing his fortune and being jailed for financial improprieties in Philadelphia, Yerkes used political blackmail to secure a...
Standing alongside J. P. Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller, Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905) was one of the most influential and controversial public ...
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429,90 zł |
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The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself
ISBN: 9780252069024 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An autobiography of Phineas T Barnum that immortalizes the showman who hoodwinked customers into paying to hear the reminiscences of a woman presented as George Washington's 161-year-old nurse, the impresario who brought Jenny Lind to America and toured Europe with General Tom Thumb, and the grand entrepreneur of the American Museum of New York.
An autobiography of Phineas T Barnum that immortalizes the showman who hoodwinked customers into paying to hear the reminiscences of a woman presented...
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80,23 zł |
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Robber Baron : The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
ISBN: 9780252075179 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Standing alongside J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905) was one of the most colorful and controversial public figures in nineteenth-century America. "Robber Baron" is the first biography of the streetcar magnate who was the mastermind behind Chicago's Loop Elevated and the London Underground and namesake of the University of Chicago's observatory. Yerkes also served as the inspiration for Frank Cowperwood, the ruthless protagonist of Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire: "The Financier," "The Ti"t"an," and "The Stoic." Despite various...
Standing alongside J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller, Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905) was one of the most colorful and controver...
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120,42 zł |
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Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers
ISBN: 9780253341631 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country's largest railroad system--a network of track reaching from the Atlantic to Salt Lake City and from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. On the eve of the Great Depression they were close to controlling the country's first coast-to-coast rail system--a goal that still eludes us. They created the model upper-class suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, with its unique... Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose fr... |
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264,73 zł |
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The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
ISBN: 9780262612067 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man -- the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably enough, as Taylorism. "In the past the man has been first. In the future the System will be first," he predicted boldly, and accurately. Taylor bequeathed to us, writes Robert Kanigel in this definitive biography, a clockwork world of tasks timed to the hundredth of a minute. Taylor helped instill in us the obsession with time, order, productivity, and efficiency that marks our age. His... Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man -- the father of scientific management, the ... |
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276,10 zł |
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The Thinkers 50 : The World's Most Influential Business Writers and Leaders
ISBN: 9780275991456 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the distinguished Charles Handy to the classic Philip Kotler to the outspoken Paul Krugman, and including such visionary leaders as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, "The Thinkers 50," based on an international survey of business academics, practitioners, consultants, and journalists, reinforces the powerful influences business and popular culture have on each other. Following surveys that were conducted in 2001 and 2003 (asking the single question: Who is the most important living management thinker?), the 2005 survey is the first to be released with a companion book, applying such criteria... From the distinguished Charles Handy to the classic Philip Kotler to the outspoken Paul Krugman, and including such visionary leaders as Bill Gates... |
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362,97 zł |
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Mellon: An American Life
ISBN: 9780307386793 / Angielski / Miękka / 778 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each.
Andrew Mellon, one of America s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America s course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and finally Hoover, Mellon made the federal government run like a business prefiguring the public... A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestro...
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100,28 zł |
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Sweet and Low: A Family Story
ISBN: 9780312426019 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sweet and Low is the bittersweet, hilarious story of Ben Eisenstadt, who invented sugar packets and Sweet'N Low, and amassed the great fortune that would later destroy his family. It is a story of immigrants, Jewish gangsters, and Brooklyn; of sugar, saccharine, obesity, and diet crazes; of jealousy, betrayal, and ambition. Disinherited along with his mother and siblings, Rich Cohen has written a rancorous, colorful history of his extraordinary family and their pursuit of the American dream. Sweet and Low is the bittersweet, hilarious story of Ben Eisenstadt, who invented sugar packets and Sweet'N Low, and amassed the great fortu... |
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92,34 zł |
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Grinding It Out
ISBN: 9780312929879 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food service automation, franchising, shared national training and advertising have earned him a place beside the men who founded not merely businesses but entire new industries. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business legend is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical self-made tycoon, Kroc was 52 when he met the McDonald brothers and opened his first franchise. Now meet Ray Kroc, the man behind the business legend, in his own words. Irrepressible... Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food service automation, fran... |
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36,73 zł |
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Icons of Business [2 volumes] : An Encyclopedia of Mavericks, Movers, and Shakers
ISBN: 9780313338625 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. The huge popularity of "The Apprentice" reflects the degree to which business has emerged as a primary force in popular culture. Not surpisingly, what it takes to succeed in the cutthroat corporate environment is not unlike show business--strong ego, ability to withstand rejection, creativity, and risktaking, to name a few of the requisite qualities. "Icons of Business" presents 24 entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and mavericks whose influence extends beyond business into society at large. From Martha Stewart to Ben and Jerry, Bill Gates to Anita Roddick, "Icons of Business" offers... The huge popularity of "The Apprentice" reflects the degree to which business has emerged as a primary force in popular culture. Not surpisingly, w... |
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799,04 zł |