Books, Business & Investing, Biography & History

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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  

Alan Greenspan
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback)

Muhammad Yunus
Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by PublicAffairs (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-10-14)

Roger Lowenstein
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
by Random House Trade Paperbacks (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-04-29)

Steve Coll
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
by Penguin Press HC, The (Hardcover)

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden family’s rise to power and privilege, revealing new information to show how American influences changed the family and how one member’s rebellion changed America The Bin Ladens rose from poverty to privilege; they loyally served the Saudi royal family for generations—and then one of their number changed history on September 11, 2001. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll tells the epic story of the rise of the Bin Laden family and of the wildly diverse lifestyles of the generation to which Osama bin Laden belongs, and against whom he rebelled. Starting with the family’s escape from famine at the beginning of the twentieth century through its jet-set era in America after the 1970s oil boom, and finally to the family’s attempts to recover from September 11, The Bin Ladens unearths extensive new material about the family and its relationship ...

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