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Chasing Daylight
Gene O'Kelly
McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill
As CEO at accounting giant KPMG, Eugene O'Kelly was so immersed in his job that over the course of a decade, he managed to have lunch with his wife on weekdays just twice. His travel schedule was set 18 months out. Once, he was so obsessed with...
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Bananas!: How The United Fruit Company Shaped the World
Peter Chapman
Canongate U.S.
Canongate U.S.
“If you only read a handful of nonfiction books this year, [ Bananas! ] is among your recommended five portions.” — The Observer In this gripping exploration of corporate manuevering and subterfuge, Peter Chapman shows how the...
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Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader
Martin Schwartz
Collins Business
Collins Business
Welcome to the world of Martin "Buzzy" Schwartz, Champion Trader--the man whose nerves of steel and killer instinct in the canyons of Wall Street earned him the well-deserved name "Pit Bull." This is the true story of how Schwartz became the best...
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Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
Maureen Ogle
Harvest Books
Harvest Books
Ambitious Brew, the first-ever history of American beer, tells an epic story of American ingenuity and the beverage that became a national standard. Not always America’s drink of choice, beer finally took its top spot in the nation’s...
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Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
Steve Weinberg
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
How a female investigative journalist brought down the world's greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly. Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a...
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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
Tom DeMarco
Broadway
Broadway
Another entry in the small but growing management library that suggests purposely slowing down and smelling the roses could actually boost productivity in today's 24/7 world, Tom DeMarco's Slack stands out because it is aimed at "the infernal...
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Managing the Dragon: How I'm Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China
Jack Perkowski
Crown Business
Crown Business
The first book by a westerner who built a company in China from scratch The emergence of China as a world economic power is one of the biggest stories of our time. Every business that intends to be an important part of the fast-changing global...
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