**New York Times BestsellerIconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a poor boy from Long Island became one of America's most successful businessmen.**Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate America for decades, he's a co-founder of Home Depot, a former director of the New York Stock Exchange, and a world-class philanthropist (including $200 million for ...

**New York Times BestsellerIconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a poor boy from Long Island became one of America's most successful businessmen.**Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate America for decades, he's a co-founder of Home Depot, a former director of the New York Stock Exchange, and a world-class philanthropist (including $200 million for ...

New York Times bestselling author Martha MacCallum leads a cast of multiple narrators, including Brit Hume, Dana Perino, Harold Ford Jr., Kat Timpf, and Brian Kilmeade.With The Book of Valor, New York Times bestselling author Martha MacCallum tells a story of America through the first-person “voices” of twelve men and women of valor.From the brave pilgrims, determined to survive in the New World, to the youngest member of the Lewi...

Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up--has enthralled readers, investors and Wall Street aficionados for decades. In his engaging memoir Street Smarts, Rogers offers ...

An Avid Reader Press book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. Dalio himself has been named to Time m...

In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.Bill Gates named Shoe Dog one of his five favorite books of the year and ...

Brough to you by Penguin.The astonishing number 1 global bestseller, featuring symbologist Robert Langdon.*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS AND FELICITY JONES*Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.A threat to his life will prope...

**A New York Times bestseller!“Beautifully crafted and fun to read.” —Louis Galambos, The Wall Street Journal“Nasaw’s research is extraordinary.” —San Francisco Chronicle“Make no mistake: David Nasaw has produced the most thorough, accurate and authoritative biography of Carnegie to date.” —Salon.comThe definitive account of the life of Andrew Carnegie**Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times ...

An inspirational and insightful guide for women who want to get it all by doing lessFor women, a glass ceiling at work is not the only barrier to success - it's also the increasingly heavy obligations at home that weigh them down. Women have become accustomed to delegating, advocating and negotiating for themselves at the office, but when it comes to managing households, they still bear the brunt on their own shoulders. A simple solution is staring them in the face...

The former CEO recounts working for business giant Lee Iaccoca and saving American industry in this "riveting . . . highly-engrossing" memoir ( Condé Nast Portfolio )."Steve Miller is one of the more astute business leaders that American industry has produced. The Turnaround Kid is a fascinating and heartfelt insight into just how the job gets done." —Bob Lutz, Vice Chai...

A true story of midlife transformation by the Napa Valley entrepreneur who put California's wine industry on the map.In 1965, after a notorious family feud, Robert Mondavi—then fifty-two years old—was thrown out of his family's winery. Far from defeated, Mondavi was dedicated to a vision of creating a superior wine. What has happened since that fateful day is one of the greatest success stories of American business. Today, the Robert Mondavi Winery is one of the mo...

****A Forbes Best Business Book of the Year, 2015****Winner of the 2015 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in Entrepreneurship****When columnist Paul Downs was approached by The New York Times to write for their “You’re the Boss” blog, he had been running his custom furniture business for twenty-four years strong. or mostly strong. Now, in his first book, Downs paints an honest portrait of a real business, with a real boss, a real set of employees, and the r...