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Jacobin eBook Series

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  • The New Prophets of Capital

    by Nicole Aschoff ...
    Series series Jacobin
    A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to OprahAs severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation push capitalism against its own contradictions, mythmaking has become as central to sustaining our economy as profitmaking.Enter the new prophets of capital: Sheryl Sandberg touting the capitalist work ethic as the antidote to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Everything Store

    Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

    by Brad Stone ...
    The authoritative account of the rise of Amazon and its intensely driven founder, Jeff Bezos, praised by the Seattle Times as "the definitive account of how a tech icon came to life."Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

    A Silicon Valley Story

    by Michael Lewis ...
    In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape-which launched the Information Age-and now Healtheon, a ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Henry Ford, A Life

    by The Editors of New Word City ...
    Henry Ford was perfectly tuned to his time. While other automakers were turning out expensive toys for rich men, he made sturdy, practical cars that everyone could afford and everyone could drive. His moving assembly line slashed the cost of production. His network of franchised dealers nurtured car ownership and promoted gas stations and better roads. But when his time passed him by, he couldn't ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Behind the Microchip : Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

    Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

    by Leslie Berlin ...
    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 ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Mike Bloomberg

    Money, Power, Politics

    by Joyce Purnick ...
    A biography of the business mogul, former New York City mayor, and 2020 democratic presidential candidateMike Bloomberg has repeatedly defied the standard models for success. He has never won a crowd over with his speaking prowess. Rooms do not hush with anticipation when he enters. Celebrity stalkers do not haunt him. But his unparalleled achievements drip with the dynamism that his public ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Brownie Wise, Tupperware Queen: A Biography

    by Fergus Mason ...
    In 1950 a saleswoman living in Florida decided to find a fun new way to market an unexciting product – reusable food containers. She already had plenty of experience selling household goods but now she wanted to try something different, and she was after a quirky, lively way to sell things.The solution she chose was being used to sell brushes in the USA by the late 1930s, but now it’s spread ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back

    by Junheng Li ...
    Junheng Li was the perfect Chinese tiger daughter, but from childhood on, she dreamed about America and working on Wall Street. Born in Shanghai, the commercial and financial center of mainland China, Li was brought up in an environment that would raise most Westerners' eyebrows. Her demanding father drilled her on her multiplication tables when she was three, and in school she was forced to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Man Behind The Brand - In the Tool Shed

    by Doug Gelbert ...
    Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kellogg, Gerber. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let's take a look at the men behind the names we see keeping up the house. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fred Trump Builder of Trump Village

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Fred Trump was a visionary builder of homes in an era when homes were built with quality. He turned at as many as 300 homes at a time in Brooklyn neighborhoods during from the late 1930s through the 1950s. He built Trump Village somewhat afterward in the early 1960s. My e-book looks at his life from his start in Woodhaven as a newspaper delivery boy who felt prosperous earning 11 cents per day in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Behind The Brand - At The Office

    by Doug Gelbert ...
    Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kellogg, Gerber. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let's take a look at the men behind the names we see on around the office. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Matt Mullenweg: The Young Man Who Made It Easy to Publish on the Web

    by David Schardt ...
    WordPress is the backbone of one-quarter of the World Wide Web's sites and home to more than 70 million blogs. This is the story of how Matt Mullenweg, a Houston teenager who had never taken a computer course and who didn't have any connections in Silicon Valley, launched this software program that's now an essential part of the Internet. "Every good thing that has happened in my life," says ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus