Edward: 7422 books
by André Thevet, Edward Benson (trans.),
Roger Schlesinger (ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Available for the first time in English, these thirteen selections from André Thevets Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres offer a glimpse of France during a time of great upheaval. Originally published in 1584, Thevets collection contains over two hundred biographical sketches, detailing...
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Chris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about base¬ball when he risked his life's savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important-and funniest-figures in the game's history.
Von der Ahe...
We Are Better Than This
How Government Should Spend Our Money
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the public's preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any understanding of government's ability to complement the private sector through investment and insurance programs...
Fraud
An American History from Barnum to Madoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers. Worship of entrepreneurial freedom has complicated the task of distinguishing aggressive salesmanship from unacceptable deceit, especially on the frontiers of innovation. At the same time, competitive...
by Edward Porcelli
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
On August 12th, 1994, the longest work stoppage in MLB history began. Edward Porcelli, author of "Scabs Heal All Wounds", tells the story of the strike from a replacement player’s perspective during perhaps the darkest time in MLB history. From cancelling the World Series in 1994 and announcing...
Serious Creativity
How to be creative under pressure and turn ideas into action
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
If you want to be the best, focus on your most valuable asset: the power of your creative mind
As competition and the pace of change intensify, companies and individuals need to harness their creativity to stay ahead of the field. Under pressure, people often think they can't be creative; many...
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so...
American Capitalism
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From Cornell University Professors Louis Hyman and Edward E. Baptist, a collection of the most relevant readings on the history of capitalism in America, created to accompany their EdX course American Capitalism: A Reader.
To understand the past and especially our own times, arguably no story...
The Upside of Inequality
How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The scourge of America’s economy isn't the success of the 1 percent—quite the opposite. The real problem is the government’s well-meaning but misguided attempt to reduce the payoffs for success.
Four years ago, Edward Conard wrote a controversial bestseller, Unintended Consequences, which...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2015
The preface notes George Bush's attack on Reagan's economic policy as voodoo economics. My claim is that classical economics is essentially voodoo economics. The assertion that absolute and relative wealth (money) is the key to working out economic policy sets the goal of the essay. Chapter 1 attacks...
A Man for All Markets
From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street.
A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card...
China's Disruptors
How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
In September 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world’s biggest-ever initial public offering. Since then, millions of investors and managers worldwide have pondered a fundamental question: What’s really going on with the new wave of China’s disruptors?
Alibaba...
Prosperity Bundle #3
Ten of the greatest books of all times on the subject of wealth and prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This is the third in our important Prosperity series. Now together for the first time are ten more of the most important books ever written on the subject of Wealth and Success. We’ve gathered another 1,000+ pages of the best advice and instruction that you’ll ever receive on how to become successful,...
Reinventing Talent Management
Principles and Practices for the New World of Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In this book, preeminent organizational scholar Edward Lawler identifies a comprehensive and integrated set of talent management practices that fit today's rapidly evolving workplace.
The world of work has changed dramatically, says Lawler. Organizations now operate in a global environment....