Title search results
Showing 701 - 720 of 1071 items
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
By Brad Stone. 2021
From the bestselling author of The Everything Store, an unvarnished picture of Amazon’s unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff…
Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to well over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos’s empire, once housed in a garage, now spans the globe. Between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post, it’s impossible to go a day without encountering its impact. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder. In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents a deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became one of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself—who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions; who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids. Definitive, timely, and revelatory, Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.From one of Canada's most successful business leaders, the founder of the BlackNorth Initiative and the newest and first Black…
Dragon in the Dragon's Den comes a rags-to-riches story that also carries a profound message of hope and change.Wes Hall spent his early childhood in a zinc-roofed shack, one of several children supported by his grandmother. That was paradise compared to the two years he lived with his verbally abusive and violent mother; at thirteen, his mother threw him out, and he had to live by his wits for the next three years. At sixteen, Wes came to Canada, sponsored by a father he'd only seen a few times as a child, and by the time he was eighteen, he was out of his father's house, once more on his own. Yet Wes Hall went on to become a major entrepreneur, business leader, philanthropist, and change-maker, working his way up from a humble position in a law firm mailroom by way of his intelligence, his curiosity, and his ability to see opportunities that other people don't.When people expected his thick Jamaican accent, lack of money and education, not to mention the colour of his skin, to shut down his future, Wes was not to be stopped. He is still overturning expectations to this day. Well aware of racism and injustice, his lack of privilege and the other roadblocks to his success, Wes has always believed that he can walk along any cliff edge without falling. His book teases out and shows how he fostered that resolve in himself, exploring his childhood and the milestone successes and failures of his career in order to share not only how he stopped himself from falling, but survived and thrived, and then dedicated himself to bringing his family and his community along with him. Now, with the founding of the BlackNorth Initiative, Wes takes aim at ending systemic anti-Black racism. It's a huge goal, but one he's tackling with heart, soul, smarts, and every connection he's made in an extraordinary career that's taken him to the centre of the Canadian establishment. Throughout his life he's resisted sinking into despair or getting lost in anger; now he wants to tell truth to power and pave a path forward.Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg
By Christopher Ogden. 1999
Philadelphia's King of Little Italy: C.C.A. Baldi & His Brothers (American Heritage)
By Charles G. Douglas, Douglas Baldi Swift. 2022
"C.C.A. Baldi ruled Little Italy, and everyone who wished to deal with the Italians knew it." Go back to turn…
of the century Philadelphia and discover the incredible immigrant success story of C.C.A. Baldi and his brothers as they build a business empire while pathing a path for the Italian community and becoming the King of Little Italy.The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
By Max Chafkin. 2021
A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at…
the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics &“Max Chafkin&’s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important investor in tech and a key supporter of the Donald Trump presidency. It&’s also a disturbing history of Silicon Valley that will make you reconsider the ideological foundations of America&’s relentless engine of creative destruction.&”—Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and Amazon UnboundSince the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of our contemporary way of life, from the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington. But despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects, no public figure is quite so mysterious.In the first major biography of Thiel, Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of the innovator's singular life and worldview, from his upbringing as the child of immigrant parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning conservative thought leader to his founding of PayPal and Palantir, early investment in Facebook and SpaceX, and relationships with fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Eric Schmidt. The Contrarian illuminates the extent to which Thiel has sought to export his values to the corridors of power beyond Silicon Valley, including funding the lawsuit that destroyed the blog Gawker and strenuously backing far-right political candidates, notably Donald Trump for president in 2016. Eye-opening and deeply reported, The Contrarian is a revelatory biography of a one-of-a-kind leader and an incisive portrait of a tech industry whose explosive growth and power is both thrilling and fraught with controversy.The Burger King: A Whopper of a Story on Life and Leadership
By Jim McLamore. 2020
The co-founder and first CEO of Burger King recounts the journey of the international fast-food chain and offers a message…
to today’s budding entrepreneur.A rags-to-$9-billion-riches story. A crash course in Burger King history and fast food in America, The Burger King is McLamore’s candid and conversational memoir. Written before his death in 1996, he talks of his life, the birth of the whopper, and the rise of Burger King. Inside, find out:How Burger King managed to create the worst advertising campaign of 1985What Burger King shares with Pitbull, Scarface, and Marco RubioWhy Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas called McLamore an “American original”McLamore’s account of Burger King offers an instructive and inspiring tale to young entrepreneurs. Here’s a story of entrepreneurship development from one of the top entrepreneurs of fast-food chains. Want to learn how to start a food business? Burger King’s journey from south Florida drive-ins to international corporation reveals the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, whether in the food service industry or elsewhere.But the autobiography of McLamore doesn’t end when he exits the company. So, what comes after success? To McLamore, it comes down to what’s truly needed to live a full and good life—personal values, impacting the people around you, and juicy hamburgers.Praise for The Burger King“Inspiring.” —Miami Herald“A must-read for aspiring entrepreneurs, for those who have worked in the business, and for those looking for inspiration from one of America’s great innovators . . . . A great read for business owners and those who want to be one.” —Jose Cil, CEO, Restaurants Brands International (parent company of Burger King, Popeyes & Tim Hortons)Canada Animals
By Paul Covello. 2018
The latest title in Paul Covello’s winning Canada board-book series features wondrously detailed illustrations for the very young, highlighting some…
of Canada’s most beloved and iconic creatures. From the author and illustrator of the national bestsellers Canada ABC and Canada 123.Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters
By Richard Hack. 2007
Howard Hughes (1905-1976) was a true American original: legendary lover, record-setting aviator, idiosyncratic film producer, talented inventor, ultimate eccentric—and, for…
much of his lifetime, the richest man in the United States. His desire for privacy was so fierce and his isolation so complete that even several decades after his death, inaccurate stories continue to circulate about him. Richard Hack explodes the illusion of Hughes' life and exposes the man behind the myth--a playboy whose sexual exploits with Hollywood stars were legendary, an entrepreneur without ethics, an explorer without maps, and ultimately, an eccentric trapped by his own insanity. Drawing on secreted letters, declassified FBI files, autopsy reports, more than 110,000 pages of court testimony, and exclusive interviews, Hack reveals a man so devious in his thinking and so perverse in his desires that his impact continues to be felt even today. From entertainment to politics, aviation to espionage, the influence and manipulation of Howard Hughes has left an indelible and unique mark on the American cultural landscape.Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
By Christopher Leonard. 2019
Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall…
Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading in all these commodities. But few people know much about Koch Industries and that’s because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way. For five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. He’s a genius businessman: patient with earnings, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop a reverence for free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter. These strategies have made him and his brother David together richer than Bill Gates. But there’s another side to this story. If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, stalled progress on climate change, and how our corporations bought the influence industry, all you have to do is read this book. Seven years in the making, Kochland reads like a true-life thriller, with larger-than-life characters driving the battles on every page. The book tells the ambitious tale of how one private company consolidated power over half a century—and how in doing so, it helped transform capitalism into something that feels deeply alienating to many Americans today. A New York Times BestsellerSteve Jobs
By Walter Isaacson. 2011
Conheça a história do homem que pôs o futuro nas palmas das suas mãos.A biografia autorizada de Steve Jobs, a…
única escrita em colaboração com o próprio.A única biografia autorizada de Steve Jobs baseia-se em dezenas de entrevistas ao líder da Apple, aos seus familiares, amigos, colegas e até adversários. O resultado é uma história de vida fascinante e intensa, marcada pela personalidade invulgar de um empreendedor criativo, determinado e perfeccionista.Steve Jobs colaborou activamente no processo de criação desta biografia, partilhando experiências até agora nunca reveladas, com uma transparência e sinceridade inesperadas. Porque não temia a verdade, Jobs não impôs quaisquer limites ao biógrafo e aceitou falar de tudo. Igualmente reveladoras são as impressões dos seus amigos, companheiros e colegas, que contribuem para formar a imagem de um homem apaixonado, complexo e genial, nos negócios e na vida. Apoiado no inconformismo e numa vontade férrea, Steve Jobs revolucionou a indústria dos computadores, dos filmes de animação, da música e dos telefones. Transformou o modo como nos relacionamos com a tecnologia e deixou ao mundo um importantíssimo legado de inovação e criatividade.As suas criações reflectem a sua personalidade, tão carismática quanto problemática. A sua história de vida, marcada por altos e baixos, conquistas e obstáculos, é extremamente inspiradora, recheada de lições de inovação, liderança, carácter e valores.How's the Culture in Your Kingdom?: Lessons from a Disney Leadership Journey
By Dan Cockerell. 2021
A former Disney executive shares stories and leadership lessons from his twenty-six-year career at the company: “Engaging [and] effective.” —Lloyd…
J. Austin III, from the ForewordDan Cockerell started his Disney journey as a parking attendant. Over the next twenty-six years—and nineteen different jobs—he became the Vice President of the biggest theme park in the world, The Magic Kingdom Park.During the course of his Disney career, Dan learned many life and leadership lessons and shares those learnings in How's the Culture in Your Kingdom. Within its pages, Dan explains how to lead oneself and one’s team and organization by using relevant stories and practical examples from his Disney leadership journey. How’s the Culture in Your Kingdom helps prepare leaders to lead their team by teaching them how to: Surround themselves with the right people Build trusting relationships Set clear expectations Provide regular feedback, positive and criticalSecrets & dreams: Secretos del sueño que Alejandro Zozaya convirtió en un imperio hotelero
By Carlos Velázquez Mayoral. 2022
Si usas zapatos grandes, te crecen los pies. Secrets & Dreams es la historia de Alejandro Zozaya, el mexicano que…
construyó un imperio hotelero y salvó el turismo nacional en más de una ocasión, escrita a partir de las entrevistas que tuvo con el reconocido periodista especializado en negocios y turismo, Carlos Velázquez Mayoral. 2.7 mil millones de dólares fue la oferta que Hyatt hizo a Zozaya para comprar Apple Leisure Group, el consorcio hotelero que más estadounidenses atrae a México, cuyo éxito recae en la operadora AMResorts y marcas como Secrets y Dreams, bajo el modelo todo incluido de lujo, particularmente efectivo en las crisis y que se ha implementado en destinos de playa en México, el Caribe, Centroamérica y España. Su trayectoria comenzó cuando su familia perdió su casa a causa del terremoto de 1985 y se convirtió en una oportunidad económica durante un viaje de mochilero, cuando descubrió su pasión por la hotelería y los restaurantes, carrera que empezaría de cero en Grupo Posadas, lavando platos y limpiando cuartos en los hoteles que años más tarde terminaría dirigiendo. Alejandro entendió el poder de crear y dirigir la demanda, de desarrollar una plataforma estratégica de negocios y de influir en la economía. De ahí que haya jugado roles protagónicos en las últimas crisis del sector, incluyendo las pandemias por influenza AH1N1 y por covid-19, no sólo como líder de opinión, sino proponiendo estrategias de recuperación y fomentando la colaboración entre los empresarios del sector. En este libro, Alejandro, a través de la pluma de Carlos Velázquez, compartirá estos y otros aprendizajes que sin duda resultarán útiles para los jóvenes emprendedoresKick Up Some Dust: Lessons on Thinking Big, Giving Back, and Doing It Yourself
By Bernie Marcus. 2022
A candid, rollicking business memoir from the cofounder of the Home Depot, filled with life stories, sage business advice, and…
timeless lessons for a life well lived.With a foreword by Pitbull“Do it yourself” has been the theme of Bernie Marcus’s entire life. By the time he was fifteen, he had held more than a dozen jobs, joined a gang, and worked as a hypnotist in the Catskills. The son of a cabinetmaker and garment worker who survived the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, Bernie overcame a hardscrabble upbringing to author one of the most entrepreneurial stories in American history. Success was far from assured. As Bernie wryly remarks, “The start of Home Depot sounds like the beginning of a bad joke: Two Jews and an Italian decide to build a new kind of hardware store…” Instead, they built the world’s largest home improvement retailer and transformed the industry.It was a wild ride. After being fired at the age of 49, Marcus teamed up with Arthur Blank and Ken Langone in 1978 to build a better hardware store. That first day was so disastrous that the next morning, Bernie’s wife wouldn’t let him shave because she didn’t want a razor in his hands. The company went public in 1981, and today it employs 500,000 associates at 2,300 stores.The same energy that made Home Depot successful helped Bernie give away more than $2 billion. There is no single, winning formula for success, but Bernie shares his secrets to show that the skills needed to build a Fortune 500 company are the same ones that can help cure cancer, treat veterans with PTSD, and transform autism treatment. Kick Up Some Dust will inspire you to dream, build, and give, and, maybe, change the world.Canada
By Elaine Landau. 2000
Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive…
"To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers.Crowley's: Detroit's Friendly Store (Landmarks)
By Bruce Allen Kopytek. 2015
Operating in the shadow of the enormous J.L. Hudson Co., Crowley's earned Detroit's trade with fine merchandise and good service,…
all in an atmosphere that made it the Motor City's "friendly" department store. Generations of customers still hold Crowley's close in their memories, fondly recalling the store's ancient wooden escalators, fashionable merchandise and special events like "Breakfast with Santa." Wander back in time with historian Bruce Allen Kopytek through the venerable old store and its suburban branches to discover all the things that made Crowley's such a special retail destination.Bullock's Department Store (Images of America)
By Devin T. Frick. 2015
From the store's beginnings in March 1907 until its closing on June 25, 1983, Bullock's was Los Angeles's store of…
choice. Throughout its 76 years of operation, Bullock's flagship department store became an icon, a commercial beacon in the vast city. The name Bullock's has engendered many memories in many people. For those loyal patrons who grew up, lived in, or visited the City of Angels, Bullock's was--and still is--a part of their lives. Bullock's was a rite of passage. From baby clothing to back-to-school gear, prom dresses to bridal gowns, Bullock's offered quality merchandise and exemplary customer service. The store's professional sales staff solidified its place in retail history. The staff knew you by name, and Bullock's was more than just a shopping destination. It was part of the community; it was your family and was always there for you.Daniels and Fisher: Denver’s Best Place to Shop
By Mark Barnhouse. 2015
For 129 years, Daniels and Fisher and May-D&F proudly served the Mile High City. Today, the restored Daniels and Fisher…
Tower adorns the Sixteenth Street Mall while the I.M. Pei-designed ice-skating rink and hyperbolic paraboloid at May-D&F survive only in memories. The story of these institutions is filled with fascinating characters, including dashing, tower-building William Cooke Daniels; his aristocratic English wife, Cicely; and flamboyant William Zeckendorf, whose city-building dreams outpaced his finances. Generations of Denverites shopped these stores and still remember white-gloved sales ladies, meals served in the D&F Tea Room and views from the observation deck. Join author Mark A. Barnhouse as he brings the spectacular Christmas displays, fantastic fortnights celebrating foreign cultures and Carl Sandell--the seven-foot, five-inch Daniels and Fisher doorman--back to life.Colonel Sanders and the American Dream (Discovering America)
By Josh Ozersky. 2012
The James Beard Award–winning food writer serves up &“a quirky and rewarding exploration of a &‘very real time, place, product,…
and person&’&” (TriQuarterly). Among the most recognizable corporate icons, only one was ever a real person: Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC. From a 1930s roadside café in Corbin, Kentucky, Harland Sanders launched a fried chicken business that now circles the globe, serving &“finger lickin&’ good&” chicken to more than twelve million people every day. But to get there, he had to give up control of his company and even his own image, becoming a mere symbol to people today who don&’t know that Colonel Sanders was a very real human being. This book tells his story of a dirt-poor striver with unlimited ambition who personified the American Dream. Acclaimed cultural historian Josh Ozersky defines the American Dream as being able to transcend your roots and create yourself as you see fit. Harland Sanders did exactly that. At the age of sixty-five—after failed jobs and misfortune—he packed his car with a pressure cooker and his secret blend of eleven herbs and spices and began peddling the recipe for &“Colonel Sanders&’ Kentucky Fried Chicken&” to small-town diners. Ozersky traces the rise of Kentucky Fried Chicken from this unlikely beginning, telling the dramatic story of Sanders&’ self-transformation into &“The Colonel,&” his truculent relationship with KFC management as their often-disregarded goodwill ambassador, and his equally turbulent afterlife as the world&’s most recognizable commercial icon. &“Nobody finishing this book will look at their local KFC in the same way again.&” —The NationalSteve Jobs: स्टीव्ह जॉब्झ
By Walter Issacson. 2012
‘ज्या लोकांना असा वेडा विश्वास असतो, की ते जगही बदलू शकतात... तेच जग बदलतात.’ ‘अॅपल'च्या या जाहिरातीप्रमाणेच स्टिव्ह जॉब्सनं जग…
बदलून दाखवलं.’ त्याचीच ही कहाणी. जॉब्सच्या सुमारे ४० मुलखाती घेऊन लेखक वॉल्टर आयझॅक्सन यांनी हे पुस्तक लिहिलं आहे. विलास साळुंखे यांनी या पुस्तकाचा रसाळ अनुवाद केला आहे. या सर्जनशील व्यक्तिमत्वामुळे सहा क्षेत्रांमध्ये क्रांती झाली. ती म्हणजे कम्प्युटर, अॅनिमेटेड चित्रपट, संगीत, फोन, टॅब्लेट कम्प्युटर आणि डिजीटल प्रकाशन व्यवसाय. जॉब्सच्या या कार्याचा आलेख पुस्तकात येतो. जॉब्स आणि त्याच्या कुटुंबियांच्या छायाचित्रांचा समावेशही पुस्तकात केला गेला आहे.A Generous Pour: Tall Tales from the Backroom of Jimmy Kelly's
By Mike Kelly. 2022
The story of Jimmy Kelly&’s Steak House, Nashville's oldest fine restaurant, and the family who started it—of stills, saloons, and speakeasies,…
and of a family who was tough and resourceful, who lost everything, and picked themselves up and started again. When young James Kelly fled the Irish Famine in 1848, he arrived in America with a roll of copper tubing under his shirt. To make whiskey, of course. And he did—in the green rolling hills of Middle Tennessee. Later his son John would open a saloon, initiating the family custom of serving up &“a great steak and a generous pour of whiskey&” that continues to this day. Readers will delight in tales of bootleggers and rumrunners, saloons and speakeasies, of hard workers with strong family values, the old genteel Nashville and the new Nashville recording industry, and the mysterious difference between whiskey and bourbon. There are stories about Jack Daniel, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (and even Trigger), Al Capone, Bob Dylan, Grantland Rice, John Jay Hooker Sr., and local characters only a Nashvillian could love. The story of the Kelly family in Tennessee takes readers from the Civil War to Nashville&’s postwar boom and the turn of a new century: the Roaring 20s that followed the first World War, the temperance movement that led to Prohibition, and the speakeasy solution that led honest Kelly men to defy a patently bad law as they built a family legacy of beloved restaurants in Nashville. Mike Kelly—James&’s great-grandson—has written a fine and rollicking tale of a most interesting time in American history. His affection for his family and his community shows on every page.