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W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION : THE FIRST ELEV

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: UNKNOWN PUBLISHER:

Seller ID: IM458531

ISBN: 11-99-43213-x

Binding: HARDCOVER

Condition: FAIR Condition

MONTAGU NORMAN

By: ANDREW BOYLE

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: IM459964

ISBN: 11-99-44677-7

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

FIRE AND ICE : STORY OF CHARLES REVSON

By: ANDREW P. TOBIAS

Price: $9.00

Publisher: HARPER COLLINS TRADE DIVISION:

Seller ID: IM216257

ISBN: 0688030238

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Torn Cover/DJ

FEP torn out
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SWIMMING ACROSS

By: ANDREW S GROVE

Price: $13.75

Publisher: WARNER BOOKS:

Seller ID: IM148973

ISBN: 0446528595

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

"Swimming Across" is a personal and cultural memoir tracing Andrew Grove's most formative years. Beginning on the eve of Nazi Germany's invasion of his native Hungary and ending with his flight from communism to America 16 years later, it combines a child's sense of wonder with an engineer's passion for order and detail. Grove's uplifting autobiography depicts his family's struggle to survive in the face of a host of staggering obstacles. Nearly killed by scarlet fever at the age of four, forced into hiding by the Nazis in 1944, and dogged by anti-semitism, Andrew Grove's survival was nothing ...
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FIRE AND ICE

By: ANDREW TOBIAS

Price: $4.00

Publisher: WARNER BOOKS:

Seller ID: IM152234

ISBN: 0446824097

Binding: MASS MARKET

Condition: GOOD Condition

HAND WELL PLAYED : LIFE OF JIM WHEAT JR.

By: ANNE HOBSON FREEMAN

Price: $7.00

Publisher: SELF PUBLISHED:

Seller ID: IM374023

ISBN: 1578140021

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

HAND WELL PLAYED : LIFE OF JIM WHEAT JR.

By: ANNE HOBSON FREEMAN

Price: $6.00

Publisher: SELF PUBLISHED:

Seller ID: IM374024

ISBN: 1578140021

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD No DJ

BECOMING STEVE JOBS

By: BRENT SCHLENDER

Price: $15.00

Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE:

Seller ID: IM112723

ISBN: 0385347405

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

The #1 New York Times bestselling biography of how Steve Jobs became the most visionary CEO in history.

Becoming Steve Jobs breaks down the conventional, one-dimensional view of Steve Jobs that he was half-genius, half-jerk from youth, an irascible and selfish leader who slighted friends and family alike. Becoming Steve Jobs answers the central question about the life and career of the Apple cofounder and CEO: How did a young man so reckless and arrogant that he was exiled from the company he founded become the most effective visionary business leader of ou...
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RUPERT MURDOCH'S CHINA ADVENTURES

By: BRUCE DOVER

Price: $9.50

Publisher: TUTTLE PUBLISHING:

Seller ID: IM268306

ISBN: 0804839948

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: VERY Good Condition

Rupert Murdoch, media mogul and global celebrity billionaire, is well-known for his impulsive actions and enormous deals. Prior to his recent takeover of the Dow Jones, Murdoch spent years working to gain a foothold in China. Rupert Murdoch's China Adventures tells this scintillating story, offering insight into Murdoch's infamous News Corp.

Beginning in the mid 80s, Murdoch quickly discovered that gaining media access to China was a whole different ballgame than anywhere else in the world. Unlike in the West, the Chinese Communist leadership didn't need the support of the media to ...
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FIRST WITH THE NEWS

By: CHARLES WILSON

Price: $12.00

Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE:

Seller ID: IM110759

ISBN: 0385235038

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

BITE IN THE APPLE : A MEMOIR OF MY LI

By: CHRISANN BRENNAN

Price: $8.00

Publisher: PICADOR (MPS):

Seller ID: IM330290

ISBN: 1250056527

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: VERY Good Condition

An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years

Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set people free with tools to explore their own unique creativity. Chrisann Brennan knows this better than anyone. She met him in high school, at a time when Jobs was passionately aware that there was something much bigger to be had out of life, and that new kinds of revelations were within reach.

The Bite in the Apple is the v...
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FABULOUS ONASSIS : HIS LIFE AND LOVERS

By: CHRISTIAN CAFARAKIS

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: IM459963

ISBN: 11-99-44676-9

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

FOUNDATION FOR LIVING

By: CLARENCE YOUNG

Price: $4.00

Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY:

Seller ID: IM448197

ISBN: 11-99-32677-1

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

BILLIONAIRE WHO WASN'T

By: CONOR O'CLERY

Price: $9.00

Publisher: PUBLIC AFFAIRS (HA):

Seller ID: IM381962

ISBN: 1586483919

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

In 1988 Forbes Magazine hailed Chuck Feeney as the twenty-third richest American alive. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression, a veteran of the Korean War, he had made a fortune as co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. 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. A frugal man who travels economy...
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BE MY GUEST

By: CONRAD N. HILTON

Price: $3.50

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER:

Seller ID: IM205667

ISBN: 0671761749

Binding: MASS MARKET

Condition: GOOD Condition

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES

By: CYNTHIA COOPER

Price: $12.00

Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC.(trade):

Seller ID: IM166488

ISBN: 0470124296

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

The longer WorldCom Chief Audit Executive Cynthia Cooper stares at the entries in front of her, the more sinister they seem. But the CFO is badgering her to delay her team's audit of the company's books and directing others to block Cooper's efforts. Still, something in the pit of her stomach tells her to keep digging. Cooper takes readers behind the scenes on a riveting, real-time journey as she and her team work at night and behind closed doors to expose the largest fraud in corporate history. Whom can they trust? Could she lose her job? Should she fear for her physical safety?

In Extr...
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AMERICAN SUCKER

By: DAVID DENBY

Price: $7.50

Publisher: LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY:

Seller ID: IM83517

ISBN: 031615928X

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

In this Bracingly Honest, Page-Turning Memoir, what begins as a manic money chase-desperate to hang on to his home after his marriage breaks up. David Denby realizes he can buy out his wife's share only if he can first make a killing in the stock market-ultimately becomes an unforgettable encounter with such eternal issues as envy, love, death, sanity, and happiness. American Sucker is a singularly compelling tale of the high-tech bubble related not by a market guru or an investment professional but by a witty, perceptive, and eloquent outsider.
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FAST COMPANY : A MEMOIR OF LIFE LOVE A

By: DAVID M. GROSS

Price: $7.00

Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX, INC.:

Seller ID: IM99134

ISBN: 0374281335

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: VERY Good Condition

It's the thick of the mid-1990s boom, and David M. Gross is racking up billable hours for a Manhattan corporate law firm and thinking that there must be more to life. Out of the blue, a friend calls with a tantalizing and risky proposal: How would he feel about moving to Bologna to help turn around a legendary, down-on-its-luck Italian motorcycle company, known for its dominance on the track and its inability to turn a profit? After a brief soul-search and popping his first (unintentional) wheelie during his maiden ride on the company's monstrous superbike, he signs on.
And so Gross h...
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CHIEF: The Life of William Randolph Hearst

By: DAVID NASAW

Price: $8.00

Publisher: MARINER BOOKS (HM):

Seller ID: IM514364

ISBN: 0618154469

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Business Week, and GQ, THE CHIEF: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM RANDLOPH HEARST is "an absorbing and ingeniously organized biography . . . of the most powerful publisher America has ever known" (New York Times Book Review). Drawing on papers and interviews that were previously unavailable, as well as on newly released documentation of interactions with such figures as Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, every president from Grover Cleveland to Franklin Roosevelt, and movie giants Louis B. Mayer, Jack War...
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LOOKING AHEAD : THE PAPERS OF DAVID SARN

By: DAVID SARNOFF

Price: $9.00

Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY:

Seller ID: IM427546

ISBN: 11-99-11282-8

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

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TYPO

By: DAVID SILVERMAN

Price: $8.50

Seller ID: IM418903

ISBN: 1933368659

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Two months before David Silverman's 32nd birthday, he visited the Charles Schwab branch in the basement of the World Trade Center to wire his father's life savings towards the purchase of the Clarinda Typesetting company in Clarinda, Iowa. Typo tells the true story of the Clarinda company's last rise and fall -- and with it one entrepreneur's story of what it means to take on, run, and ultimately lose an entire life's work. This book is an American dream run aground, told with humor despite moments of tragedy. The story reveals the impact of losing part of an entire industry and answers...
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BAGS TO RICHES : THE STORY OF I.J. WAGN

By: DON GALE

Price: $15.00

Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS:

Seller ID: IM300401

ISBN: 0874808855

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: VERY Good Condition

The life of I. J. 'Izzi' Wagner mirrors the development of Salt Lake City during the twentieth century from poverty and obscurity to affluence and prominence. Wagner was born in poverty, but through hard work, wise management, and good luck, he built a fortune. He also changed the city for the better leading the movement to eliminate overhead signs on Main Street, opening the southwest quadrant to controlled industrial development, ridding the city center of railroad tracks, funding the Rose Wagner Center for Performing Arts, and using his substantial influence to promote tolerance.
His sen...
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JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

By: DONALD ED MOGGRIDGE

Price: $4.00

Publisher: PENGUIN:

Seller ID: IM35135

ISBN: 0140043195

Binding: PAPERBACK

Condition: FAIR Condition

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HUGH ROY CULLEN

By: EDWARD W. KILMAN

Price: $8.00

Publisher: PRENTICE-HALL Publishing:

Seller ID: IM440264

ISBN: 11-99-24499-6

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

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REMINISCENCES OF A STOCK OPERATOR

By: EDWIN LEFEVRE

Price: $9.00

Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC.(trade):

Seller ID: IM167157

ISBN: 0471059706

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Critical Praise...
"In my interviews with over 30 of the best traders of our time, there were some questions that I raised in each conversation. One of these was: Are there any books that you found particularly valuable and would recommend to aspiring traders? By far, the most frequent response was Reminiscences of a Stock Operator-a book that was over 70 years old "
--from the Foreword by Jack Schwager, author of Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards

"Although Reminiscences.was first published some 70 years ago, its take on crowd psychology and ...
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