SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR IN THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS 2015Tim Bell was the original 'spin doctor'; the Chairman of Bell Pottinger public relations, and one of the best known figures in UK media communications. Right or Wrong is his highly personal account of political, commercial and social life from the '70s to the present day.With a refreshingly uncompromising manner, Bell applies his acerbic wit and re...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA mission to Mars. A freak accident. One man’s struggle to survive. From the author of Project Hail Mary comes “a hugely entertaining novel that reads like a rocket ship afire” (Chicago Tribune).“Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling.”—The Wall Stre...

A legend in the car industry reveals the philosophy that's starting to turn General Motors around.In 2001, General Motors hired Bob Lutz out of retirement with a mandate to save the company by making great cars again. He launched a war against penny pinching, office politics, turf wars, and risk avoidance. After declaring bankruptcy during the recession of 2008, GM is back on track thanks to its embrace of Lutz's philosophy.When Lutz got into the auto busin...

In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men- Alexander Smolensky, Yuri Luzhkov, Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berezovsky, and Vladimir Gusinsky-Hoffman shows how a rapacious, unruly capitalism was born out of the ashes of Soviet communism.

From the legendary Ted Turner, who reinvented TV—and the world—by breaking all the rules, a tell-all memoir."Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!"These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner's remarkable life, but they only begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and unique style that made Ted into one of the most amazing personalities of our time. Along the way—among his numerous accomplishments—Ted became one of the riche...

Explore the broad, fascinating history of the Eaton's department store empire. Exhaustively researched and thoughtfully written by a prominent department store historian. Canada's largest and most well-known department store, Eaton's was an icon of Canadian culture. From its founding in 1869 to its famed catalogue and network of large stores spreading coast to coast, Eaton's offered something for everyone, in grand style. Relive the days when this remarkable store was a fixture in every Ca...

Sheryl Sandberg is currently Chief Operating Officer at Facebook. With Facebook's initial public offering Sheryl is positioned to be one of the most powerful and wealthiest women in America if not the world.Sheryl, has done what any successful business person has done, she's leveraged education, brains, a burning desire, tenacity, connections in and outside corporate America to position her for long-term success.Previously, she was Vice President of Global Online Sales and ...

Thanks to a combination of business savvy, breathtaking chutzpah, and lucky timing, Helena Rubinstein managed to transform herself from a poor Polish emigrant to the world's first self-made female tycoon. She went from selling homemade "Crème Valaze" out of her house in Australia to becoming an international cosmetics magnate. Tiny and plump, wearing extravagant jewels and spiked heels, she was a fixture of upper-crust New York for many years. She was larger than life, and never took no fo...

Sheryl Sandberg helped Google and Facebook become two of the planet's largest, most valuable companies. At Facebook, she helps run the largest network of humans in history. This is the story of how a "bossy" little girl from North Miami rose to become one of the most successful and influential women in the world and a lightning rod for the emotional debate over gender issues in the workplace. "I'm deeply passionate about Facebook's mission," Sandberg says, "and I feel fortunate to be part ...

Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor a leading entrepreneur and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now in The Man Behind the Microchip Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful individual but also the vibrant interplay of technology business money politics and culture that defines Silicon Valley. Here is the life of a giant of the high-tech industry the co-founder ...

Bigger, Fancier, and more cutthorat than ever!When Freeman Hall left The Big Fancy to pursue his screenwriting dreams, he thought the horrors of working in a handbag department were finally over. But instead of fame and fortune, he found himself stuck behind a wall of script-killing rewrites, unable to make a living.In Return to the Big Fancy, Freeman shares his wildly entertaining journey back through the fiery gates of Retail Hel...

Marco Stefanini embodies the human spirit of determination, the capacity that allows us to learn from every challenge, grow through adversity, and prosper in the midst of crisis. With that determination, he gained knowledge, built a business, and rode the winds of change to success.The Son of the Crisis follows Stefanini from 1984, when the young geology student stepped into a business world of uncertainty and chaos, through many crises to 2012, when his IT company estimated revenue...