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La saga des Rothschild: l'argent, le pouvoir et le luxe
By Tristan Gaston-Breton. 2017
Cet ouvrage raconte, pour le grand public et à la manière d'une saga, l'histoire de la dynastie en partant de…
ses lointaines origines au cœur du ghetto de Francfort jusqu'à nos jours. Il évoque non seulement l'histoire de la branche française mais aussi celle de toutes les autres (anglaise, allemande, autrichienne et italienne). Au fil des pages, on croise Mayer Amschel, l'étonnant fondateur de la dynastie, parcourant les routes d'Allemagne à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Nathan, le chef de la famille anglaise, menant une bataille acharnée contre Napoléon Ier, James, au train de vie princier et à la vaste influence, mais aussi Edmond, l'un des pionniers du sionisme, Louis Nathaniel, emprisonné par Himmler et expulsé d'Autriche, Victor, homme de gauche, espion au service de Sa Majesté et, peut-être également, des Soviétiques De nombreuses femmes comme Betty, la femme de James, Charlotte, peintre et collectionneuse, Miriam, ethnologue de réputation mondiale, ou bien encore Noémie, qui créa de toutes pièces la station de Megève. À travers la multitude des personnages et des événements, mais aussi de leur mode de vie, de leurs passions, des demeures qu'ils firent construire et des réceptions fastueuses qu'ils donnèrent, ce sont les mille et une facettes d'une dynastie ayant conquis très tôt le monde et dont l'influence ne s'est jamais démentie, que ce livre raconte. 2017.Staying in the Game: The Remarkable Story of Doc Seaman
By Sydney Sharpe. 2008
Peter C. Newman called him "the Totem of the Titans." From a small Prairie town, Daryl K. "Doc" Seaman became…
an icon of Canadian business and hockey. He is one of the last of a breed of postwar entrepreneurs and sportsmen who forged modern Canada, striking deals on a handshake and always keeping their word.After flying 82 combat missions during the Second World War, Doc Seaman worked in the oil industry with his brothers, turning a small Alberta drilling business into a global giant, Bow Valley Industries. Later, he led a group that brought the Atlanta Flames to Calgary. Still a Flames co-owner, he helped reshape Hockey Canada and restore Canada’s glory in international hockey.Doc Seaman’s life is a remarkable saga of courage, resolve, generosity, and success. It ultimately leaves us not only with a deep appreciation of one iconic Canadian but also with a wider understanding of our country.A Steel Man in India
By John L. Keenan. 2018
When Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata announced his plan to set up a steel plant in India, sceptical Englishmen immediately proclaimed that…
they were ready to eat all the steel that India would produce. This is the story of how Tata made them eat their words ? told by the man Tata hired to make it happen. Tata, Keenan declares, was a man with a vision, who saw that India must produce steel to be free and to survive in the modern world. With American engineers and Indian capital, he transformed a corner of the old feudal India into the new industrial India, and Keenan did a great deal to help him. Now a business classic, A Steel Man in India is a riveting account by a man of parts: who, in between his `chota pegs?, horse racing and elephant fights, soaked up Hindi and Urdu, and was a typical representative of the spirit that contributed to the making of a modern India.The gambler: how penniless dropout Kirk Kerkorian became the greatest deal maker in capitalist history
By William C Rempel. 2018
Tells the rags-to-riches story of self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian--the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk-taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las…
Vegas and Hollywood as one of the top financiers in America. 2018.Histoire de Casavant frères: Facteurs d'orgues, 1880-1980
By Jeanne Daigle. 1989
The only woman in the room: the making of a stockbroker
By Jean Hough Davey, Anne O'Hagan. 2017
In the 1960s, when women were neither accepted nor encouraged to enter the world of finance, Jean Hough Davey became…
one of the first women in North America to be licensed as a stockbroker. Jean was a pioneer who rose to the highest levels of her profession, eventually becoming Vice President and Director of ScotiaMcLeod. But while she was publicly lauded, she struggled to maintain equilibrium in her personal life, drowning in an emotionally abusive marriage to Hockey Night in Canada kingpin Ted Hough, and finally summoning up the courage to leave and find true love. Here she shares the many lessons she's learned about how women can--and must--set themselves up for success in every area of their lives, even when the odds are not in their favour. 2017.Entreprendre et savoir s'entourer: les histoires fascinantes de bâtisseurs québécois qui ont voulu changer le monde
By Louis-Jacques Filion. 2017
L'entrepreneuriat intéresse de plus en plus les Québécois. Afin de mieux faire comprendre ce qu'est un entrepreneur, ses façons de…
penser et de faire, afin aussi de susciter l'esprit entrepreneurial et le goût d'entreprendre, ce livre relate les parcours fascinants de quelques bâtisseurs dont certains sont parmi les plus célèbres au Québec. Jean Coutu ; Lise Watier ; Luc Maurice ; Nicolas Duvernois ; Bernard Bélanger ; Jean Bélanger ; Julie Sansregret ; Nancy Neamtan ; Marie Michèle Del Balso ; Martin Hogue ; Pierre Ducros ; Jean-Yves Sarazin. Le métier d'entrepreneur est en pleine mutation. On nous présente souvent les entrepreneurs, ces personnes innovantes, comme des héros qui travaillent en solitaire. Pourtant, comme ce livre le démontre, celui qui réussit à faire croître son entreprise est un passionné qui a su bien s'entourer. Il impulse un mouvement à une équipe à laquelle il confère une énergie créatrice qui vient multiplier de façon exponentielle sa capacité à créer et à innover. 2017.Bernard Madoff: l'escroc du siècle : biographie
By Peter Sander, Carole Gilet. 2009
[... ]Le 11 décembre 2008, alors que la crise financière fait rage aux États-Unis comme partout dans le monde, Bernard…
Bernie Madoff, éminent personnage de Wall Street et ancien patron du NASDAQ, est arrêté par le FBI et mis en examen pour fraude. La confiance qu'il inspirait lui a permis de construire ce qui semble être la plus grande escroquerie de tous les temps, avec plus de 50 milliards de dollars détournés. [...] Dans ce livre, Peter Sander retrace l'ascension extraordinaire de Bernard Madoff, celle d'un petit écolier juif ordinaire qui devint teneur de marché, puis gestionnaire d'un portefeuille de 17 milliards de dollars. Son récit passionnant analyse la façon dont Bernard Madoff a créé sa stratégie frauduleuse chaîne de Ponzi et infiltré les cercles d'influence. Sander pose de vraies questions sur ce scandale financier : comment Madoff a-t-il réussi à convaincre autant d'investisseurs chevronnés de se séparer de leur fortune sans poser de questions ? Comment a-t-il pu échapper aux organismes de réglementation pendant toutes ces années ? Quel impact ce scandale aura-t-il sur Wall Street ? Et comment pouvons-nous, en tant que citoyens prudents, éviter à l'avenir une telle débâcle ? -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Madoff.Le temps des turbulences
By Alan Greenspan, Thierry Piélat, Georges Nicolas. 2007
De 1987 à 2006, sous Reagan, Bush, Clinton et George W.Bush, Alan Greenspan, en tant que patron de la Federal…
Reserve Board - la FED - a été sans contexte l'homme le plus puissant du monde économique. Un mot de sa part, et les bourses plongeaient ou se redressaient. Il a été l'analyste le plus écouté, jusqu'à devenir une sorte d'oracle. Aujourd'hui encore son influence demeure incontestable.Voici les mémoires d'un homme qui a suivi comme nul autre les soubresauts, les crises majeures, les retournements de la vie économique de ces vingt dernières années. De la panique boursière de 1987 au choc du 11 septembre, de la défaillance sud-américaine à celle du Japon, de l'optimisme de Reagan aux turbulences de Bush, Alan Greenspan nous restitue les coulisses et nous livre ses analyses. Avec comme credo que le monde économique actuel est infiniment plus changeant mais aussi plus résilient que celui d'hier. Il nous livre région par région ses prévisions, ses convictions sur les grands changements à venir ainsi que sur les effets de la globalisation. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The age of turbulence.The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
By William C Rempel. 2018
“A remarkably detailed and fascinating look at the career of an idiosyncratic tycoon.” – Booklist The rags-to-riches story of one…
of America’s wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian—the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk-taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of the leading financiers in American business.Kerkorian combined the courage of a World War II pilot, the fortitude of a scrappy boxer, the cunning of an inscrutable poker player and an unmatched genius for making deals. He never put his name on a building, but when he died he owned almost every major hotel and casino in Las Vegas. He envisioned and fostered a new industry —the leisure business. Three times he built the biggest resort hotel in the world. Three times he bought and sold the fabled MGM Studios, forever changing the way Hollywood does business.His early life began as far as possible from a place on the Forbes List of Billionaires when he and his Armenian immigrant family lost their farm to foreclosure. He was four. They arrived in Los Angeles penniless and moved often, staying one step ahead of more evictions. Young Kirk learned English on the streets of L.A., made pennies hawking newspapers and dropped out after eighth grade. How he went on to become one of the richest and most generous men in America—his net worth as much as $20 billion—is a story largely unknown to the world. That’s because what Kerkorian valued most was his privacy. His very private life turned to tabloid fodder late in life when a former professional tennis player falsely claimed that the eighty-five-year-old billionaire fathered her child.In this engrossing biography, investigative reporter William C. Rempel digs deep into Kerkorian’s long-guarded history to introduce a man of contradictions—a poorly educated genius for deal-making, an extraordinarily shy man who made the boldest of business ventures, a careful and calculating investor who was willing to bet everything on a single roll of the dice.Unlike others of his status and importance, Kerkorian made few public appearances and strenuously avoided personal publicity. His friends and associates, however, were some of the biggest names in business, entertainment, and sports—among them Howard Hughes, Ted Turner, Steve Wynn, Michael Milken, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Mike Tyson, and Andre Agassi.When he died in 2015 two years shy of the century mark, Kerkorian had outlived many of his closest friends and associates. Now, Rempel meticulously pieces together revealing fragments of Kerkorian’s life, collected from diverse sources—war records, business archives, court documents, news clippings and the recollections and recorded memories of longtime pals and relatives. In The Gambler, Rempel illuminates this unknown, self-made man and his inspiring legacy as never before.Born from a hobby of sewing clothes for her daughters, Brandi Temple’s Lolly Wolly Doodle has grown into one of…
the largest online retailers of children’s and family clothing. Brandi’s transition from a full-time mom to selling in flea markets to establishing a wildly successful e-Bay store and Facebook presence to becoming founder and CEO of a successful company was by no means easy, but each hardship only strengthened her resolve. Along the way, Brandi has kept both her faith and family at the forefront, while maintaining the positive attitude she is best known for. A business story layered onto a winning personal narrative, Scrappy is packed with her homespun (and seriously killer smart) philosophy: - Use all the scraps - Press the reset button as many times as you want - Know your customer by meeting her - Always act on an “ah ha” momentRepresentative Men: Seven Lectures
By Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2017
In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied…
the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness, reconnecting readers with the everyday virtues of his “Representative Men”: Plato, in whose writings are contained “the culture of nations”; Emanuel Swedenborg, a “rich discoverer” who strove to unite the scientific and spiritual planes; Michel de Montaigne, “the frankest and honestest of all writers”; William Shakespeare, who “wrote the text of modern life”; Napoleon Bonaparte, who had the “virtues and vices” of common men writ large; and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who “in conversation, in calamity…finds new materials.”Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City
By Craig Havighurst. 2007
Started by the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in 1925, WSM became one of the most influential and exceptional…
radio stations in the history of broadcasting and country music. WSM gave Nashville the moniker "Music City USA" as well as a rich tradition of music, news, and broad-based entertainment. With the rise of country music broadcasting and recording between the 1920s and '50s, WSM, Nashville, and country music became inseparable, stemming from WSM's launch of the Grand Ole Opry, popular daily shows like Noontime Neighbors, and early morning artist-driven shows such as Hank Williams on Mother's Best Flour. Sparked by public outcry following a proposal to pull country music and the Opry from WSM-AM in 2002, Craig Havighurst scoured new and existing sources to document the station's profound effect on the character and self-image of Nashville. Introducing the reader to colorful artists and businessmen from the station's history, including Owen Bradley, Minnie Pearl, Jim Denny, Edwin Craig, and Dinah Shore, the volume invites the reader to reflect on the status of Nashville, radio, and country music in American culture.TIME Donald Trump: The Rise of a Rule Breaker
By The Editors of TIME. 1930
Whether you love him or hate him, dismiss him or maintain a grudging respect, there's no denying that Donald Trump…
has up- ended this year's election season.Now, in this new Special Edition from the editors at TIME, you'll be able to go inside Donald Trump's world, from his early days in real estate development to his potentially historic race for the presidency.Donald Trump: The Rise of a Rule Breaker takes a balanced approach to the subject of all things Trump: from his outsider status in this year's presidential race to his complicated family life. You'll visit the Trumps at home, learn about the scandal surrounding Trump University and delve more deeply into "Things Called Trump," including apartment buildings, clothing, and casinos. Additionally, you'll look at Donald Trump's faith and his lighter side--which he does have. Additionally, readers will learn about the disaffected voters who are fueling his bid for the presidency.Donald Trump: The Rise of a Rule Breaker gives context to a compelling, complex and fascinating man.Pichai: The Future Of Google
By Jagmohan Bhanver. 2016
An incisive look into the world?s most innovative tech company and the man chosen to lead it On 10 August…
2015, an unassuming product expert who learnt his ropes at IIT Kharagpur was declared the next CEO of tech giant Google. Sundar Pichai?s appointment was hardly an unexpected one. Pichai is a man known as much for his veritable Midas touch with every product he has developed or led for Google ? Chrome, Chrome OS and Android, to name just a few ? as for his superlative people skills and open-minded approach to innovation. Yet, the company?s decision to restructure its product lines and appoint Pichai as the head of a leaner, more focused Google, has raised inevitable questions: ? What does Pichai?s role augur for the future of the tech giant? ? Will Google consolidate its position for existing products or will they focus on creating new ones? ? And will Pichai transform the organization that Schmidt, Page and Brin created and led, or confirm the belief of a minority of naysayers that he is not yet ready for this daunting role? Pichai: The Future of Google provides answers to these questions while throwing light on Sundar Pichai?s childhood and education; his entry into the tech world and quick rise up the ranks in Google; and his key contributions as a leader and tech-guru to Google?s most successful properties. Timely and insightful, this book offers a rare glimpse into the fascinating ecosystem of a path-breaking company and shows us what it takes to be a dynamic leader in the 21st century.The Billionaire Who Wasn't
By Conor O'Clery. 2007
Chuck Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the…
Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. By 1988, he was hailed by Forbes Magazine as the twenty-fourth richest American alive. But secretly Feeney had already transferred all his wealth to his foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies. Only in 1997 when he sold his duty free interests, was he "outed" as one of the greatest and most mysterious American philanthropists in modern times. After going "underground" again, he emerged in 2005 to cooperate on a biography promoting giving while living. Now in his mid-seventies, Feeney is determined his foundation should spend down the remaining $4 billion in his lifetime.Banker To The Poor
By Muhammad Yunus. 2007
Muhammad Yunus set up the Grameen Bank in his home country of Bangladesh with a loan of just u17, to…
lend tiny amounts of money to the poorest of the poor - those to whom no ordinary bank would lend. Most of his customers - as they still are - were illiterate women, wanting to set up the smallest imaginable village enterprises. It was his conviction that this new system of 'micro-credit', lending even such small sums, would give such people the spark of initiative needed to pull themselves out of poverty. Today, Yunus's system of micro-credit is practised around the world in some 60 countries, including the US, Canada and France. His Grameen Bank is now a billion-pound business. It is acknowledged by world leaders and by the World Bank to be a fundamental weapon in the fight against poverty. Banker to the Poor is Yunus's enthralling story of how he did it: how the terrible famine in Bangladesh in 1974 focused his ideas on the need to enable its victims to grow more food; how he overcame the sceptics in many governments and among traditional economic thinking; and how he saw his micro-credit extended even outside the Third World into credit unions in the West. Such is the importance of his book that HRH the Prince of Wales has contributed a Foreword in which he hails 'a remarkable man who] spoke the greatest good sense'. "A Man and His Mountain
By Humes. 2013
Golden Apples: Six Simple Steps to Success
By Bill Cullen. 2005
Bill Cullen, legendary head of Renault Ireland, went from selling apples on the streets of Dublin to owning a company…
with an annual turnover of over $400 million. He credits much of his success to the women in his life: his mother, Mary, and his grandmother, Molly Darcy, whose fierce intelligence and homespun wisdom were a constant motivation and whose stories he told so vividly in his bestselling memoir, It's a Long Way from Penny Apples. Now Bill shares those memories, and interprets them for the twenty-first century. Under his inspirational guidance, you can transform your career and your life.Enter the Dragon
By Theo Paphitis. 2008
Classic rags-to-riches story by entrepreneur and Dragons' Den star Theo Paphitis Theo Paphitis is the outspoken and charismatic star of…
Dragons' Den who has turned round a string of household names, from Ryman to La Senza, in a high-profile business career that has brought him millions. Now, in his revealing and controversial memoir, he not only takes the reader behind the scenes on Dragons' Den, he explains how he made his fortune. He also provides a masterclass in business methods that will enable anyone who reads this book to learn so much about how they too can improve their business. In the book, Theo recalls how his family moved to England from Cyprus and how as a poor immigrant, he took whatever jobs he could, starting as a tea boy for Lloyd's. There he began to take the first steps on a career that would net him a fortune. He reveals the methods that took him to the top, and also provides some fascinating insight into the national game from his spell as chairman of Millwall FC. But, above all, this is a book that will provide all readers with the opportunity to learn from one of the nation's most successful businessmen and put his ideas into practice.