Books, Business & Investing, Biography & History, Company Profiles

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James C. Collins
Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap...and Others Don't
by Harperbusiness (Paperback)

Michael Lewis
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback)

In fiction there was Bonfire of the Vanities; in reality, there is Liar's Poker--the fascinating insider's account of what really happens on Wall Street. This irreverent and hilarious birds-eye view of Wall Street's heyday will appeal to anyone intrigued by the allure of million dollar deals. Now in trade paper. First serial to Manhattan Inc.

Michael Wolff
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
by Broadway (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-12-02)

Eric Schlosser
Fast Food Nation
by Harper Perennial (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-07-05)

Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
by Collins Business (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2004-11-02)

Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Tantor Media (CD)

Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.A brilliant guide to one of the most profound changes of our time, Wikinomics challenges our most deeply rooted assumptions about business and will prove indispensable to anyone who wants to understand competitiveness in the twenty-first century.

Charles D. Ellis
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs
by Penguin Press HC, The (Hardcover)

The jury is still out on what the future of Goldman Sachs will look like, but no one can argue that the 139 year old firm has been (and, if Warren Buffett has his way, will be) the dominant investment banker and dealer on Wall Street. What does Buffett see that we on the outside do not? It’s all about the people. Charles D. Ellis has written a landmark book that couldn’t come at a better time. The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs is the colorful and fascinating story of Goldman’s rise to power through many life-threatening changes in markets, competition, and regulation. It tells the personal history of the men and women who built the world’s leading financial powerhouse from a firm that was disgraced and nearly destroyed in 1929, limped along as a break-even operation through the Depression and WWII, and, with only one special service and one improbable banker, began the rise that, in half a century, took Goldman Sachs to global leadership. A conversation with ...

Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated]
by Nation Books (Paperback)

On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide.This is the explosive story of a company that rose a decade ago from Moyock, North Carolina, to become one of the most powerful players in the "War on Terror." In his gripping bestseller, awardwinning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine.* Winner of the George Polk Book Award* Alternet Best Book of the Year* Barnes & Noble one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2007* Amazon one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2007  

John Perkins
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
by Plume (Paperback)

In his stunning memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins detailed his former role as an "economic hit man" in the international corporate skulduggery of a de facto American Empire. Now Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world, drawing on interviews to examine the current geopolitical crisis, and providing a compassionate plan to reimagine our world.

Tom Gjelten
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause
by Viking Adult (Hardcover)

A unique history of Cuba, captured in the life and times of the famous rum dynastyThe Bacardis of Cuba, builders of a rum distillery and a worldwide brand, came of age with their nation and helped define what it meant to be Cuban. Across five generations, the Bacardi family has held fast to its Cuban identity, even in exile from the country for whose freedom they once fought. Now National Public Radio correspondent Tom Gjelten tells the dramatic story of one family, its business, and its nation, a 150-year tale with the sweep and power of an epic. The Bacardi clan--patriots and bon vivants, entrepreneurs and intellectuals--provided an example of business and civic leadership in its homeland for nearly a century. From the fight for Cuban independence from Spain in the 1860s to the rise of Fidel Castro and beyond, there is no chapter in Cuban history in which the Bacardis have not played a role. In chronicling the saga of this remarkable family and the company that bears its name, ...

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