Your shopping cart is empty!
Welcome visitor you can login or create an account.
Biography: business & industry
The success of every great company or popular brand is often the vision of a great leader. Here in this book, we profile 100 Great Business Leaders, giving an account of their business career, demonstrating the innovations, opportunities and business..
13.63£
"Why didn't I think of that genius idea?" This is the remarkable, at times funny, story of a young entrepreneur who, aged 18 and with $4,000 and no other funding, started up invisibobble - the revolutionary hair ties that have taken the haircare ind..
14.96£
This is the hilarious and often unbelievable inside story of how a bunch of broadcasting bigmouths ripped up the rulebook to create the world's biggest sports radio station.
ISBN:
9780956328410
Publisher:
talk..
19.10£
Brand: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
ISBN: 9781999620301Publisher: LIGHTNING SOURCE INCImprint: You Make the MeaningPublished date: 30 Sep 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 535gHeight: 234mmWidth: 156mmSpine width: 20mm..
25.79£
ISBN: 9781647841508Publisher: EHGBooksImprint: EhgbooksPublished date: 01 Apr 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 540gHeight: 229mmWidth: 152mmSpine width: 21mm..
36.85£
The story of Jimmy Kelly's Steak House, Nashville's oldest fine restaurant and the family who started it--of stills, saloons, and speakeasies, and of a family who was tough and resourceful, who lost everything, and picked themselves up and started a..
25.26£ 26.10£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
From the founder of the worldwide 30% Club campaign comes a career book for women in a transforming world who don't just want to lean in, but instead, shatter the paradigm as we know it.'I absolutely love her, I think she's such a force for good' Pa..
13.74£
Brand: Walker Books
A biography of Sebastian Walker (1942-91), who founded the internationally acclaimed publishing house Walker Books. ISBN: 9780744544237Publisher: Walker BooksImprint: Walker BooksPublished date: 08 Jan 1996DEWEY: 070.5092DEWEY edition: 20Number of p..
21.44£
Brand: Oneworld Publications
A New York Times bestseller In a remarkable career, Edward O. Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT, invented card counting and the world's first wearable computer, beat the casinos of Las Vegas at blackjack and roulette, then beca..
15.22£
When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later..
33.44£
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
Theorist, practitioner, educator and arguably the father of professional economics, Alfred Marshall's life and career have long required a full scale biography to put his work into context and reveal the extent of his influence.Peter Groenewegen's o..
82.57£
Brand: The Lyons Press
Leigh Perkins built Orvis into one of the most successful US sporting goods companies. In 'A Sportsman's Life' he describes how, over a 30 year period, he revolutionised the catalogue retail industry whilst enjoying the outdoor life. ISBN: 978149306..
21.33£
ISBN: 9780645425215Publisher: Phillip NyakpoImprint: Phillip NyakpoPublished date: 06 Sep 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 549gHeight: 229mmWidth: 152mmSpine width: 21mm..
29.96£
Founded in 1987 by a former engineer in China's People's Liberation Army (Ren Zhengfei), Huawei Technologies is the world's largest telecoms equipment manufacturer and second only to Apple in smartphones. Its emergence into a multinational with over..
20.27£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants-Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO-and how the fading of the form..
20.94£ 22.74£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Frank Newman Turner, the son of Yorkshire tenant farmers, seldom ploughed a conventional furrow. Faced with a run-down West Country farm and escalating veterinary bills for an ailing herd of cattle, he abandoned the conventions of his orthodox agric..
13.39£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Prepare to be inspired by the story of Delane Parnell, the unlikeliest of CEOs now leading a gaming empire at the center of the booming, multibillion-dollar esports industry.Delane Parnell is not your typical tech entrepreneur. He was raised in a ga..
30.84£
Brand: Hodder & Stoughton
__________*Picked by the Financial Times as a Best Read of 2021*'Impressive and inspiring' Financial Times 'I have no intention of making small bets' - Masayoshi SonIn order to understand what's happening in Silicon Valley, you just need to look at ..
23.70£
Aisles for Miles: My Years as a Nuptial Concierge/Wedding Doula by Natalie M. Stahl is presented by a longtime historical venue owner and veteran of the so-called "wedding industry." The text is anecdotal, often humorous, sometimes touching, but al..
25.89£
The Southern Railway between 1923 and 1939 was the only British company to carry out a sustained programme of electrification which became known as the Southern Electric. Unlike many recent projects, each incremental step was completed on time and w..
84.79£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019'The addictive stories of four incredible women who did things their own way and rewrote the code of a whole industry' Emerald StreetDescribed as 'the book that the world needs right now' (Adam Fisher, author of ..
18.51£
A Washington Post Notable Book This New York Times bestseller is a "masterful" (The Washington Post), "juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built" (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bes..
24.36£
The gripping biography of Jay Gould, the greatest 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuckled tactics made him richer than Rockefeller and led Wall Street to institute its first financial reforms.Had Jay Gould put his name..
21.79£ 22.74£
Brand: Orion
Arianna Huffington is one of the world's most prominent business leaders in media. As co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, she built the first internet newspaper, which eclipsed the traffic of The New York Times and won the Pulitze..
17.98£