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The personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha”—for fans of the HBO docume...

In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the world’s largest financial institutions made a startl...

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers, from Plato to Dewey.

Few write for the non...

The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. Th...

**“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of hum...

A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools a...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true...

The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world...

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers

To hear the speech of the real America, to s...

“One of the 12 best business books of all time…. Timeless principles of empowering leadership.” – USA Today

"The best how-to...

Presents the story of financier Alfred Lee Loomis and his role in the American victory during World War II, discussing Tuxedo P...

After more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of James Thomas Flexner's definitive four-vol...

The inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street's biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players -- Carl Icahn and Bil...

If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one.

As co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Michael O...

Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of e...

New York Times bestseller | Member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100 | one of World Economic Forum's "Most Recommended Books of 2016"
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"I've bought copies of this book for my colleagues as well. I want them to understand socialism with Chinese characteristics." ...

Sm Quarto, This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor i...