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  • From Penguins to Paradise
    Paddy Hayes
    Is this the funniest book about the ad industry to hit the bookshops this year - whilst being the most informative about what goes on inside agencies in London and around the world? It charts the career of a young agency executive. His insightful and often hilarious experiences range from the pitfalls of trying to make penguins perform for a TV commercial in London, to the tria...
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    18,81 €

  • Bullet Beans to Big Dreams
    Gemma Worth
    An inspirational story of a girl from a council estate who once dared to dream to overcome life’s many struggles, twist and turns and the highs and the lows. Bullet beans to big dreams depicts how you can come from nothing to have everything if you work hard enough and follow your dream.A raw account of the authors life from birth to present day life, from the devastating loss ...
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    12,53 €

  • Andrews Ganj Scam
    Alborz Azar
    In the Andrews Ganj Scam, the heterogeneous magnitude of the scandals has always raised questions about the plausible, transparent, and responsive Indian Government policies in different eras. So many of these scams have ripped off the entire economy of India over the years. The Bofors scandal of 1980 & the 90s for about Rs. 150 crores (US Dollar 85.71 million) are known as the...
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    31,24 €

  • FORTUNES - The Rise and Rise of Afrikaner Tycoons
    Ebbe Dommisse
    A handful of Afrikaners have risen to the very top of the business world in South Africa in the past three decades, some of them now dollar billionaires with vast global business interests.With Koos Bekker at its helm, media group Naspers grew to dominate the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and was transformed into a global consumer internet group. Johann Rupert boldly extended Ric...
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    23,87 €

  • FORTUINE - Die Wel en wee van Afrikaner-Magnate
    Ebbe Dommisse
    Die ongekende sukses van Afrikaner-sakelui het die afgelope drie dekades verras en verstom. ’n Aantal is vandag dollar-miljardêrs met uitgebreide internasionale belange. Die opkoms van die Afrikaner-magnaat is veral merkwaardig in die lig van die regering se omvattende program van swart ekonomiese bemagtiging.Onder leiding van Koos Bekker het Naspers die Johannesburgse aandeleb...
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    23,91 €

  • He Said, She Said
    Jaci Russo / Michael Russo
    Your Guide to Building a Badass Brand. What do you get when marriage and branding collide in a book? A hilariously entertaining read full of debate and insight that will leave you breathless from laughter and inspired by passion. In He Said, She Said: Branding, the husband and wife team of Jaci and Michael Russo share what they’ve learned over their combined decades of experi...
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    18,97 €

  • From Wall Street to Rikers and Back Again
    Bradley T. Sullivan / Bradley TSullivan
    No one gets through life without hitting roadblocks. But sometimes people create their own roadblocks and have to navigate through them with no one else to blame. From Wall Street. to Rikers and Back Again tells the story of Bradley Sullivan, a successful Wall Street lawyer who acquired a belief that he was able to get himself out of any wrongdoing, because he had helped so man...
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    18,60 €

  • Purposeful People
    Chris Paton
    With contributions from senior military, business and government leaders, to Entrepreneurs, international sports elite, and CEOs of multi-million dollar businesses, you’ll discover a collection of heartfelt and engaging stories of self-reflection and inspiration.In this book, you’ll learn from first-hand experience on leadership and team organisation, but you’ll also look deep ...
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    23,67 €

  • Redneck Resilience
    James Harold Webb
    RESILIENCE FINDS A WAY James Webb’s life is the American dream in a nutshell. Born to teenage parents in Laurel, Mississippi, and faced with a future working in the town’s only two factories, James chose to change his fate and forge his own path-to become a titan of business, a mentor, and a philanthropist. In Redneck Resilience, James shares stories of amazing wins and devas...
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    18,78 €

  • The Making Of The Greatest Microsoft
    AJAY SETHI
    Starting with a turnover of just $16,005 in 1976, Microsoft, ’the house that Windows built’, had clocked up over $143 billion in revenues in 2020. It also became one of the very few companies to cross the $1 trillion mark in market capitalization!It’s not just the story of its main architects-Bill Gates and Paul Allen-but also of people like Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella, who...
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    15,24 €

  • The Making Of The Greatest Warren Buffett
    Abha Sharma
    Think of growing your money in the modern world, and the first person you think of is Warren Buffett-legendary investor, the oracle of Omaha, stock-market wizard, philanthropist, business magnate, the most frugal mega-billionaire, and a man who could beat the market repeatedly. More important than these superlatives, Buffett has earned unparalleled respect and admiration the wo...
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    14,22 €

  • The Making Of The Greatest Sony
    AJAY SETHI
    Innovation has been the cornerstone of Japanese legend Masaru Ibuka’s business philosophy. Starting from a small radio-repair unit in a bombed-out store in post-war Tokyo, he and his lifelong business partner Akio Morita built a staggering business empire straddling all seven continents.Right from its early days, Sony, as the company came to be called, continued to shock and su...
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    14,12 €

  • Shake It Off Leadership
    Betsy Cerulo
    'Shake it off!', shouts my coach and teammates from the sidelines after I missed a point.  Whether on the court, field or professionally, this phrase has motivated Betsy Cerulo to shake off the losses and get back up to give it her best.  Being a successful business owner for 30 years has brought a myriad of victories and setbacks especially navigating the business playing fiel...
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    25,77 €

  • Burning Down UNESCO
    Howard Burton
    By a curious set of circumstances, Howard Burton found himself hired as a fundraising consultant at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters. Overwhelmed by the bureaucratic double-speak and smug complacency that he encountered everywhere he went, he decided to use his clear-eyed analytical skills to ask a very different sort of question: What, exactly, was UNESCO doing that was actually wo...
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    16,34 €

  • Upward
    The Third-Place Winner of a Fall 2023 BookFest Award in the Women in Business category!Upward is a book every businesswoman who dreams of holding a leadership position should read because it will answer questions such as ...Do you wonder how to overcome challenges in the workplace that hold you back from your leadership goals? Do you wish you could ask current women in leadersh...
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    24,37 €

  • Behemoth, Amazon Rising
    Robin Gaster
    Amazon is the most extraordinary business story of our time. In 25 years, it’s become a $280 billion multi-sector giant, and within 5 years, Amazon may be the biggest company in America. Behemoth, Amazon Rising explains how Amazon built five interlocking rings logistics, Amazon Prime, the Amazon Marketplace, everyday low pricing, and constant innovation. The rings work together...
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    15,14 €

  • Truth & Li(e)bor
    Stelios Contogoulas
    Truth & Li(e)bor is the story of the author’s personal journey and legal battles which consumed over six years of his life.As the story unfolded, the author slowly began to understand that even though he was charged with 'conspiracy to defraud', the real conspiracy might have been elsewhere. Was he one of the conveniently selected scapegoats thrown under the bus, allowing other...
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    9,29 €

  • Tribute
    Michael Frizell
    A black conservative businessman made an unlikely presidential candidate and supporter of Donald J. Trump, but pundits, critics, and admirers have never aptly described Herman Cain. His campaign manager was fond of saying, 'Let Cain be Cain!' A man of deep principles who once called for forming a third party before embracing President Trump became another tragic figure to die o...
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    8,65 €

  • YO SÍ PUDE. DEL VALLE DE LÁGRIMAS A LA CIMA DE LOS LISTILLOS
    López-Davalillo y López de Torre, Jesús María
    En este libro conoceremos parte de la historia de un hombre normal, con una vida monótona, como es la de la mayoría, pero al que la recesión condujo al desempleo a una edad en la que no resulta fácil integrarse de nuevo en el mercado laboral. Si bien, la suerte, el azar o la providencia le presentan la oportunidad de conseguir lo que siempre había soñado y que estaba seguro de ...
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    12,49 €

  • Orbit
    CW Cooke
    For the 1st time in print, the graphic novel about the late night war. Howard Stern. David Letterman. Chelsea Handler. Conan O’Brien. Jon Stewart: The mouthpieces of a generation and the source for info-tainment, these performers continue to parody hot-button social issues, skewer politicians and movie stars, and entertain us. The comic book series has been featured on ABC, NBC...
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    33,70 €

  • Steinbrenner
    Bill Madden
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    13,69 €

  • Orbit
    CW Cooke
    1st time in print! Read the comic book biographies of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg & Jack Dorsey. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs arguably revolutionized how people work and communicate. Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey pioneered new ways to connect socially. Sergey Brin and Larry Page created a way to navigate the massive World Wide Web. Together, ...
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    33,75 €

  • TESTIGO DE RADIO
    Juan de Dios Rodríguez
    En Testigo de Radio el autor hace un recorrido por los últimos cincuenta años de la SER en particular y de la radio en España en general, dando testimonio de lo vivido. Desde los primeros años de la radio musical, Los 40 Principales y El Gran Musical, el ambiente y la relación de la industria discográfica con el medio; el mundo de la radio nocturna en el que la compañía del med...
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    22,99 €

  • Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
    Tamara Plakins Thornton
    In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a 'meteor in the hemisphere.' Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming Ame...
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    44,01 €

  • VEGALYA VATEVARCHA DOCTOR
    DAMIEN BROWN
    DAMIEN BROWN, A YOUNG DOCTOR, THINKS HE`S READY WHEN HE ARRIVES FOR HIS FIRST POSTING WITH MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES IN AFRICA. BUT THE TOWN HE`S SENT TO IS AN ISOLATED OUTPOST OF MUD HUTS, SURROUNDED BY LANDMINES; THE HOSPITAL, FOR WHICH HE`S TO BE THE ONLY DOCTOR, IS FILLED WITH MALNOURISHED CHILDREN AND CONDITIONS HE`S NEVER SEEN; AND THE HEALTH WORKERS-ANGOLAN WAR VETERANS T...
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    58,01 €

  • The Making of a Business Leader
    Ron Nash
    Most books about the information technology industry highlight the legendary stories of the colorful and ego-driven entrepreneurs who founded companies and became billionaires. This book takes a different look at the industry and instructs the reader on how to develop the leadership skills which will allow them to succeed in this fast-paced, competitive, innovative, high-talent...
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    12,13 €

  • My Life And Work
    Henry Ford
    My Life and Work is Henry Ford’s autobiographical account of the creation and early days of the Ford Motor Company. Ford was an American industrialist who pioneered a mass production system that drove down the price of manufacturing automobiles making them affordable for the American middle class. The book details many of the business principles that Ford applied to his industr...
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    21,53 €

  • Love Incorporated
    Martyn J Clark
    Have you ever thought that there is just something completely wrong with how we run our companies? Like perhaps there is something right at the heart of how we build organisations, that just doesn’t quite work? Human systems are strange things. Fluid, flexible, easily influenced. But while we imagine them as machines, creating nothing but money, we will continue to create soull...
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    15,62 €

  • Girls Do IT Too
    Sonja Bernhardt
    Embark on a journey as you delve into the life of Sonja Bernhardt-a tenacious and visionary entrepreneur who defied the odds to achieve heart-warming success. This compelling narrative unveils Sonja’s determination, resilience, and unwavering spirit as she deftly navigates the intricate landscape of the technology industry, leaving an indelible mark on both her personal and pro...
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    28,97 €

  • An alien in Abu Dhabi
    Geremiah Misatya
    Have you ever felt that you were an alien? Not because of pointy ears, but because you have suddenly realised you are very different- fundamentally at odds with the way certain others think and behave.This book takes us through the author’s last six months of employment in a significant UAE company, where he established and led a large and very capable IT business applications ...
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    19,87 €