3,807円 John Ilhan: A Crazy Life tells the fascinating story of John Ilhan -- a working-class immigrant who overcame incredible odds to become one of the richest men in Australia. Founder of phenomenally successful mobile telephone company Crazy John's, Ilhan tragically passed away in 2007 at the age of ...

600円 Steve Jobs created the iPhone and launched the smartphone wars. He was also CEO of one of the richest, biggest, best-run companies in the world. This had nothing to do with marketing.

222円 Success is not the absence of failure and the Milton Snavely Hershey story is concrete proof of this aphorism: he had a string of successive failures and only one success, the formation of Hershey Chocolate. His failures were so striking and so devastating his friends and family lost all confiden...

1,867円 In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or h...

2,334円 “He is to American broadcasting as Carnegie was to steel, Ford to automobiles, Luce to publishing, and Ruth to baseball,” wrote The New York Times of William S. Paleyーthe man who built CBS, the “Tiffany Network.” Sally Bedell Smith’s In All His Glory takes a hard look at Paley and the perfect wo...

1,533円 A collection of inspirational stories of ordinary people who took a great idea and turned it into a hugely successful business. Learn how the founders of enormously profitable enterprises like Just Cuts, Aussie Home Loans, ModelCo, Elite Introductions,Fat Prophets, EcoStore and fastflowers.com, t...

777円 The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid sche...

2,022円 With the extraordinary investigative acumen and sensitive narrative skills that informed her best-selling Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, Barbara Goldsmith now gives us the most sensational case of a contested will in American historyーweaving a hypnotic tale of vast wealth and moral corruptio...

1,202円 Forget Torres, Rooney, Beckham and the like. This is what football is really about. One man’s story of a career in the lower leagues. Chris Hargreaves has been a professional footballer for twenty years. Having started out as a youth team player at Everton he made his debut for Grimsby Town in 19...

1,867円 No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. Now the acclaimed author of Desert Queen delivers the definitive biography of America’s first female tycoon, “an investment pioneer who matched her male counterparts in ambition and guile, and never backed down from a fight…. Filled wi...

421円 BP - Where did it all go wrong? is a quick-read business biography; it is a history and current breakdown of British Petroleum. The book introduces the reader to BP, how the company was formed, the chequered past it has, and discusses the recent disaster of one of the biggest oil spills in histor...

2,022円   “419” is a confidence trick known as ‘Advanced Fee Fraud’. The victim is asked to join a business venture to provide capital for a scheme that will make money fast. They are thenn asked for more and more money and once they finally realize they have been scammed, the criminals have absc...