Category - Business & Economics
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The Day the Markets Roared: How a 1982 Forecast Sparked a Global Bull Market
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Legendary economist Dr. Henry Kaufman shares a classic Wall Street story that has never been fully told: a firsthand account of the day in August...
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Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax “constitutional conservatism” lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America’s founde...
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Port Newark and the Origins of Container Shipping
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Container shipping is a vital part of the global economy. Goods from all around the world, from vegetables to automobiles, are placed in large me...
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A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"An inspiring and informative page-turner." –Walter IsaacsonLonglisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award The authoritative acco...
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Making Bourbon: A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /While other industries chase after the new and improved, bourbon makers celebrate traditions that hearken back to an authentic frontier craft. Di...
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution ...
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and...
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Latinx Files 2022 Best Books, Los Angeles Times L.A. Taco’s 2022 Best Books 2022 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist2023 PROSE Award North A...
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best hist...
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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Full of schadenfreude and speculation—and solid, timely history too.” —Kirkus Reviews“This is a portrait of capitalism as white-knuckle risk tak...
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