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Silicon Eye
Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future of High-Tech Innovation
Häftad, 2006
317 kr
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Thanks to the digital technology revolution, cameras are everywhere—PDAs, phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip and a lens. Battling to usurp this two-billion-dollar market is a Silicon Valley company, Foveon, whose technology not only produces a superior image but also may become the eye in …
Media Man
Ted Turner's Improbable Empire
Av Ken Auletta
Häftad, 2005
266 kr
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Ted Turner revolutionized television. Foreseeing cable's potential in its infancy, he parlayed a tiny UHF station in Atlanta into a national superstation, invented CNN, and transformed sports teams and the MGM film library into lucrative programming. Ken Auletta, the most respected media journalist …
Record Men
The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll
Av Rich Cohen
Häftad, 2005
273 kr
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On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi; met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of …
Rome, Inc.
The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation
Av Stanley Bing
Häftad, 2007
265 kr
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A family business prospers through a series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then senseless internal conflicts lead to a long line of demented CEOs, monumental expansion, and foolish diversification—at a high cost in shattered lives. In the end, a series of reverse takeovers leaves the …
Authentic Adam Smith
His Life and Ideas
Av James Buchan
Häftad, 2007
273 kr
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and small government. His "invisible hand" has become a commanding shorthand for politicians promoting laissez-faire economics, but Smith never used it in reference to free-market …
Money Men
Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar
Av H. W. Brands
Häftad, 2007
287 kr
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Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury …
Associates
Four Capitalists Who Created California
Häftad, 2009
325 kr
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One hundred forty years ago, four shopkeepers in Sacramento, California, rose to become the force behind the American transcontinental railroad, achieving along the way wealth beyond measure. To build influence and maintain power, they lied, bribed, and, when necessary, arranged for obstacles, both …
Associates
Four Capitalists Who Created California
Inbunden, 2008
222 kr
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One hundred forty years ago, four men rose from their position as middle-class merchants in Sacramento, California, to become the force behind the transcontinental railroad. In the course of doing so, they became wealthy beyond any measure––and to sustain their power, they lied, bribed, wheedled, …
Medici Money
Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Av Tim Parks
Häftad, 2006
187 kr
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Before they achieved renown as patrons of the arts and de facto rulers of Florence, the Medici family earned their fortune in banking. But even at the height of the Renaissance, charging interest of any kind meant running afoul of the Catholic Church’s ban on usury. Tim Parks reveals how the …
