From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, tra…
Shelve What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
The Romantic's Guide contains hundreds of tips for the romantically impaired. There are unique ideas on gift-giving, creative dating, having fun with food, and all the little things you can do each da…
Shelve The Romantic's Guide: Hundreds of Creative Tips for a Lifetime of Love
In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of …
When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she…
Shelve Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus—riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now fro…
Shelve Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
#1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell's latest book will enhance the lives of leaders, professionals, and anyone who wants to achieve success and personal growth.We often treat the word…
He set his star by a simple motto: duty, honor, country. Only rarely does history grant a single individual the ability, personal charisma, moral force, and intelligence to command the respect, ad…
Shelve It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
It is such an all-American story. A lanky kid from Plano, Texas, is raised by a feisty, single parent who sacrifices for her son, who becomes one of our country's greatest athletes. Given that backgro…
Shelve It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the min…
Shelve Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back
Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, …
Shelve Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
Наричат Едит Ева Егер „Ане Франк, която оцеля“, защото шестайсетгодишната унгарска еврейка има късмета да остане жива в лагерите на смъртта. Пише книгата си на деветдесетгодишна възраст като разказ за…
In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company and became …
Shelve Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
As the climate crisis threatens more extreme bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many Australians are demanding their leaders answer the question: 'Why didn't you do something?'
In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored the ways we understand and change our world. Now he looks at the complex and surprising ways the weak …
Shelve David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper's memoir of "war, disasters and survival,…
Shelve Dispatches From The Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Ernest Furgurson, author of Ashes of Glory and Chancellorsville 1863, brings his talents to a pivotal and often neglected Civil War battle–the fierce, unremitting slaughter at Cold Harbor, Virginia, w…
"IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR". --The Wall Street Journal "Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will hav…
Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique result…
The Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, written in Sanskrit. It identifies its author by the names 'Kauṭilya' and 'Vishnugupta', both names…
Start-ups are the fountainheads of innovation that power this world. However, they lose the plot when they do not have access to timely, contextual and good quality advice based on a deep understandin…
Shelve Cut the Crap and Jargon: Lessons from the Start-up Trenches
A colorful, fearless portrait of the larger-than-life first family of NASCAR, the Earnhardts, and the rise of the world’s fastest stock car racing organization.
More than sixty years ago, Ralph Earnhar…
Shelve Earnhardt Nation: The Full-Throttle Saga of NASCAR's First Family
“A classic of war reporting...The author’s stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not.” —The New York Times
Pulitzer Pri…
Shelve The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
In a difficult, uncertain time, it takes a person of great courage, such as the Dalai Lama, to give us hope. Regardless of the violence and cynicism we see on television and read about in the news, th…
The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the "fraternity of geeks" who shaped it. With the help of visionary businessman Steve Jobs and animating ge…
