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Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

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Author: Geoffrey Cain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An explosive expose of Samsung that "reads like a dynastic thriller, rolling through three generations of family intrigue, embezzlement, bribery, corruption,...
The House of Gucci

The House of Gucci

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Allan Fels: A Portrait of Power

Allan Fels: A Portrait of Power

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Fred Brenchley Format: Paperback...
Janet Holmes a Court

Janet Holmes a Court

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Pat Edgar Format: Hardback...
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir

Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir

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Author: Ursula Burns Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing...
Single-Minded: My Life in Business

Single-Minded: My Life in Business

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Author: Claude Littner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Claude Littner is known as the mercilessly tough interviewer on TV's The Apprentice. Few candidates have risen to his standards of...
A Brief History of the Age of Steam

A Brief History of the Age of Steam

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Thomas Crump Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In 1710 an obscure Devon...
Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50

Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50

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Author: Grace Bonney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES In this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over...
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

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Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

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Author: Sheera Frenkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'The ultimate takedown' New York Times 'The problem of Facebook is Zuckerberg. And the question posed by this splendid book is:...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine...
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

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Author: Frank Trentmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years. We...
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

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Author: Donald Sassoon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The acclaimed magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since...
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism

The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism

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Author: Hassan Damluji Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world'...
The Bookseller's Tale

The Bookseller's Tale

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Author: Martin Latham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller 'The right book has a neverendingness, and...
Atlantic Kingdom: America's Contest with Cunard in the Age of Sail and Steam

Atlantic Kingdom: America's Contest with Cunard in the Age of Sail and Steam

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Author: John A. Butler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 Atlantic Kingdom pays tribute to the Americans who challenged Cunard, the shipping company that held a monopoly on...
The Antisocial Network

The Antisocial Network

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Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 This is definitive take on the wildest story of the year- the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a tale of...
Mastering Fear

Mastering Fear

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Author: Brandon Webb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From New York Times bestselling author and former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb. a four-step guide to making your fear work for...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

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Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
The Great Crash 1929

The Great Crash 1929

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Author: John Kenneth Galbraith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to...
The Meritocracy Trap

The Meritocracy Trap

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Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A revolutionary argument from an eminent Yale Law professor, attacking the myth of meritocracy to show how it has...
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

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Author: Adam Tooze Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where...
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene

Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene

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Author: Anna Wiener Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years...
Boom and Bust: The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians

Boom and Bust: The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians

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Author: Royce Kurmelovs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Australia's mining boom is...
The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875

The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875

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Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism...
Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics

Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics

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Author: Vince Cable (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Through economics our politicians have the power to transform people's lives for better or worse. Think Deng Xiaoping...
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody...
Facebook: The Inside Story

Facebook: The Inside Story

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Author: Steven Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today,...
Figuring Out The Past: The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History

Figuring Out The Past: The 3,495 Vital Statistics that Explain World History

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Author: Peter Turchin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

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Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

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Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...
Arianna Huffington: Media Visionary and Wellness Evangelist

Arianna Huffington: Media Visionary and Wellness Evangelist

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Author: Leah McGrath Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Arianna Huffington is one of the world's most prominent business leaders in media. As co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington...
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle To Create The Federal Reserve

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle To Create The Federal Reserve

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Author: Roger Lowenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A tour de force of historical reportage, America's Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth...