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Andrew Carnegie
By David Nasaw. 2006
Biography of industrial baron and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Describes his rise from poor American immigrant to rich Pittsburgh steelmaker.…
Examines his business dealings and explains how he single-mindedly accumulated wealth, only to spend his retirement giving away money and crusading for world peace. Pulitzer finalist. 2006Mellon: an American life
By David Cannadine. 2006
Life of financier and philanthropist Andrew Mellon (1855-1937), who was Treasury secretary under presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Describes how…
Mellon helped rebuild the post-World War I U.S. economy with laissez-faire capitalism. Discusses his establishment of the National Gallery of Art and his death before its completion. 2006James patterson by james patterson: The stories of my life
By James Patterson. 2022
"I felt I was interviewing James Patterson under the highest permissible does of sodium pentothal, the truth serum, for hours—and…
he spilled the whole story of his truly astonishing life."—Bob Woodward How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? On the morning he was born, he nearly died. Growing up, he didn't love to read. That changed. He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell. While he toiled in advertising hell, James wrote the ad jingle line "I'm a Toys 'R' Us Kid." He once watched James Baldwin and Norman Mailer square off to trade punches at a party. He's only been in love twice. Both times are amazing. Dolly Parton once sang "Happy Birthday" to James over the phone. She calls him J.J., for Jimmy James. Three American presidents have invited him to golf with them. How did a boy from small-town New York become the world's most successful writer? How does he do it? He has always wanted to write the kind of novel that would be read and reread so many times that the binding breaks and the book literally falls apart. As he says, "I'm still working on that one." James Patterson by James Patterson is the most anticipated memoir of 2022Journalist explores the history, allure, and status of the American dollar in the global market. Traces its rise from the…
Civil War to the twenty-first century. Examines threats to the dollar's supremacy, including U.S. debts, trade deficits, and growing foreign economies. 2008Call me Ted: My Life, My Way
By Bill Burke, Ted Turner. 2008
Autobiography of entrepreneur who founded the Cable News Network (CNN). Turner describes inheriting the family billboard company after his father's…
suicide and building an international media empire that includes Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Discusses his multiple marriages, sports interests, and philanthropic endeavors. Includes testimonials from friends and rivals. Bestseller. 2008The snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life
By Alice Schroeder. 2008
Top Wall Street analyst offers a portrait of American businessman, investor, and philanthropist Warren Buffett (b. 1930). Using Buffett's personal…
files and interviews with friends and associates, author highlights financial and life lessons to be learned from the billionaire. Bestseller. 2008Biography of an Italian American from Brooklyn who graduated from Harvard Business School and worked at the Mercantile Exchange trading…
in oil in 2002. Describes his responsibilities establishing a similar oil-exchange market in Dubai. Strong language. 2007Lords of finance: the bankers who broke the world
By Liaquat Ahamed. 2009
Details the financial history of the United States and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Chronicles events that led to…
the Great Depression and examines the central-bank decisions that influenced the world's economic meltdown, including the stock-market crash, banking panics, and post-World War I war debts. 2009Towers of gold: how one Jewish immigrant named Isaias Hellman created California
By Frances Dinkelspiel. 2008
Great-great-granddaughter of Isaias Hellman, California's premier financier of the nineteenth century, uses primary sources to trace Hellman's 1859 immigration to…
Los Angeles and role in spurring the city's and state's development. Discusses Hellman's leadership, from opening his first bank to investing in transportation, education, land development, utilities, and wine. 2008The man time forgot: a tale of genius, betrayal, and the creation of Time magazine
By Isaiah Wilner. 2006
Biography of Briton Hadden (1898-1929), cofounder of Time magazine. Author alleges Hadden's early death allowed his partner and former schoolmate…
Henry R. Luce to take credit for Hadden's innovative ideas. Uses archives to highlight the journal's controversial nature during the 1920s and its influence on the American middle class. 2006Promises I made my mother
By Sam Haskell, David Rensin. 2009
Hollywood agent originally from rural Mississippi recalls staying true to the values instilled in him by his mother: character, faith,…
and honor. Reminisces about his career at the William Morris Agency, his start in the mail room, and the famous clients he cultivated. Foreword by Ray Romano. Bestseller. 2009The author of Bringing Down the House (RC 55333) chronicles the invention of the Facebook social-networking computer web site by…
Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. Describes Zuckerberg's use of the university's database and legal problems with a rival site. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009Barbie and Ruth: the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her
By Robin Gerber. 2009
Biography of Ruth Handler (1916-2002) traces her rise as a top American businesswoman, creator of the Barbie doll, and philanthropist,…
and her fall as a criminal charged with fraud. Covers the growth of Mattel, the toy company Handler cofounded with her husband Elliot, and her battles with breast cancer. 2009Unprecedented: Canada's top ceos on leadership during covid-19
By Steve Mayer. 2022
A remarkable collection of exclusive, first-person stories on leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic from 29 chief executives at iconic Canadian…
companies. Unprecedented is an extraordinary business book for extraordinary times: a collection of exclusive, first-person stories on leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic from twenty-nine chief executives at Canada&’s most iconic and largest companies. These are unforgettable accounts from senior leaders at companies on the front lines during the pandemic—nursing homes, grocery stores, airlines, hotels, pharmacies, shopping malls—along with valuable lessons on crisis management. The insights in Unprecedented are remarkable. Readers get a seat at the table when the CEO of Tim Hortons visits the White House to discuss financial relief initiatives for business. Canada Goose&’s CEO tells of retooling the parka maker to turn out surgical gowns. The head of one of Canada&’s largest paper producers reveals what happened when the country almost ran out of toilet paper. COVID-19 is a shared challenge, a crisis that touches everyone. Unprecedented captures that shared experience with personal essays that mix struggle and achievement, fear, humour, and compassion. At their heart, these are stories about overcoming adversity, a theme that resonates with managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and students of business. Unprecedented gives us rare insight into how leaders navigated the pandemic and the social unrest and technological changes that marked this era—what was gained, what was lost, and what was learned that can help serve companies, employees, and customers better in an uncertain future. The authors&’ net proceeds from the sales of Unprecedented are being donated to United Way Centraide Canada for COVID recovery across CanadaStrong ties: Barclay simpson: business, philanthropy, leadership, and the bay area
By Katharine Ogden Michaels. 2022
An in-depth look at the life of Oakland, California native, Barclay Simpson, Strong Ties focuses on the set of convictions…
and leadership qualities that allowed Simpson to build a successful business from nothing and to become one of the major philanthropists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Simpson founded Simpson Manufacturing Co, Inc., in 1956, which he grew from a small, artisan business that fabricated metal connectors into a world-wide, publicly-traded company, known throughout the construction industry as a manufacturer of over 4000 distinct, highly engineered products for tying one structural element to another in residential and commercial projects. In building the company, he developed a set of company principles that placed employees at the center of his business. Central to these principles was a compensation system that included broad-based, quarterly profit-sharing along with employee development and education programs that promoted hiring from within the ranks of the company, thereby allowing employees to build life-long careers in which many were able to go from hourly production line labor to management. A story of Barclay Simpson's leadership style as both a business man and a philanthropist, Strong Ties chronicles the astounding continuity between his views on making money, and giving it awayIt's not just cookies: Stories and recipes from the tiff's treats kitchen
By Edwards, Tiffany Chen. 2022
This audiobook is read by the authors and includes an exclusive, fan-sourced Q&A with the authors! Boy meets girl. Boy…
falls in love with girl. And, on one fateful December day, girl stands up boy and then bakes him a batch of apology cookies. The rest is history. Building Tiff's Treats has been a love story unlike any other for these husband-and-wife entrepreneurs who began a two-person operation from their college apartment and grew it into a business that employs thousands and is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Their highly anticipated debut book, It's Not Just Cookies: Stories & Recipes From The Tiff's Treats Kitchen, invites readers to experience just how Tiffany standing Leon up on a date led to the pair creating an on-demand, baked-to-order, WARM cookie delivery brand—the first of its kind. What started as a simple apology with a warm batch of chocolate chip cookies ultimately became a way of connecting people through warm moments. "We've realized that we get a front-row seat to human nature at its best, with cookies as the conduit," Tiffany and Leon say. "And we're excited to share some of these stories." In the book, you'll also read about the: Highs and lows of 20 years of entrepreneurship—while being married to your business partner Guiding principles Tiffany and Leon have used to overcome adversity Lessons they've learned along the way—mostly the hard way Inspiration that will help you find your own sweet success. Early on, Tiff's Treats co-founders Tiffany and Leon Chen remember being asked the critical question: "What are you going to do, bake cookies for the rest of your life?" Yes, the answer is absolutely "yes." And so much more. So, grab a cookie or three, follow Tiffany and Leon's amazing journey, and create some warm moments of your own! Fan-favorite cookie recipes for fans to bake at home and photos are available in the audiobook companion PDF downloadClaytie: the roller-coaster life of a Texas Wildcatter
By Mike Cochran. 2007
The native son of a distinguished West Texas family and a 1954 graduate of Texas A&M whose career and personal…
pursuits have ranged from farmer to insurance salesman to wildcatter, pipeline entrepreneur, rancher, banker, real estate mogul, big game hunter, conservationist, philanthropist, front-running gubernatorial candidate, and oil tycoon, Clayton W. Williams Jr. is by all measures one of a kind. His many notable successes and his most admirable traits, as well as his most outrageous flaws, are all portrayed in this book. Strong languageI invented the modern age: the rise of Henry Ford
By Richard Snow. 2013
This in depth account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T vividly shows Ford using his innate mechanical…
abilities, hard work, and radical imagination to transform American industry. A 2014 Michigan Notable book. 2013. Award winnerAcross the aisles: Sid Snyder's remarkable life in groceries & government
By Jeff Burlingame, John C. Hughes, Washington Secretary of State's Office, Washington State Legislature. 2013
Raised by a widow in Kelso, Washington during the Great Depression, Sid Snyder became an enterprising grocery store owner, a…
pioneering bank founder, successful real estate investor and one of the most respected lawmakers in Washington State history. His constituents included famers, loggers, fishermen, oyster growers and small business. In his many roles in state government, Sid was known as the man who could get things done, who could bring opposing views together and come out with a solution that all could agree with. Across the Aisles tells the biography of Sid Snyder and includes an oral history in his own words, with many stories of Washington politics from 1950 to the present. It is an entertaining and enlightening look at how state legislatures have worked over the years and how one man's goal to get the best deal for all made a difference in Washington StateWhen Diplodocus carnegii was unearthed from the Wyoming badlands in 1899, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie set out to display his prized…
dinosaur. This soon set off a public storm of interest for these incredible creatures around the world. Here is the intrigue, manipulation, rivalry, and skullduggery by which Andrew Carnegie obtained his dinosaur, and by which his opponents did their best to thwart him. For high school and adult readers