Category - Business & Economics
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Accidental Empires
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Computer manufacturing is—after cars, energy production and illegal drugs—the largest industry in the world, and it's one of the last great succe...
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Big Dams and Other Dreams: The Six Companies Story
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A freewheeling saga about western American industrial might Who conceived of the Hoover, Bonneville, and Grand Coulee dams? Who laid the financia...
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The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that ...
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The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."—David By...
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Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /For readers of Bad Blood and Empire of Pain, an authoritative look at monopoly medicine from the dawn of patents through the race for COVID-19 va...
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Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sports
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The fascinating story of the enemy brothers behind Adidas and Puma, whose rivalry shaped the modern sports business Adidas and Puma are two of th...
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The Race between Education and Technology
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States throug...
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Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food
HardcoverOriginal price $52.00Original price $52.00 - Original price $52.00Original price $52.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /IN 1945, FORTUNE MAGAZINE named Betty Crocker the second most popular American woman, right behind Eleanor Roosevelt, and dubbed Betty America's ...
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Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USA Nominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard Foundation The Ita...
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Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USA Nominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard Foundation The Ita...
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Serendipity: A History of Accidental Culinary Discoveries
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Eataly founder Oscar Farinetti reveals the accidental, serendipitous discoveries that gave birth to some of the world's most well-known gastronomic...
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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched Spacex
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A colorful page-turner." --Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review"As important a book on space as has ever been written." --Homer Hickam, #1 ...
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The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Club is the inside story of how English soccer's Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular sports product on the planet, "a narr...
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards "A smart and accessible cultural history."-Los Angeles Times "A fantastic examination of what b...
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How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the h...
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Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and financial one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new...
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Steve Jobs
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Walter Isaacson's "enthralling" (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews...
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The "gripping" (New Yorker) and "eye-opening" (New Scientist) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprisi...
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The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The enduring story of Thomas Watson Jr.—a figure more important to the creation of the modern world than Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Morgan Ne...
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards "A smart and accessible cultural history."-Los Angeles Times A portrait--by turns celebratory, ...
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history ...
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Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 - Financial Times Best Books of 2022 - The Economist Best Books of 2022 The dramatic ri...
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In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“This book grills up an enjoyable read for both avid foodies and novice diners alike! Perman’s sneak peek into the fascinating history of In-N-Ou...
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The sacred history and profane present of a substance long seen as the essence of health and civilization. For millennia, fresh olive oil has bee...
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