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The Midas Touch
Harriman House 2010; US$ 6.57Second edition featuring a brand new foreword. If you had put $10,000 in Buffett's original investing partnership at its inception in 1956, you would have collected about $293,738 by the time he dissolved it at the end of 1969. He had never suffered a down year, even in the severe bear markets of 1957, 1962, 1966, and 1969. When the partnership was... more...
Restaurant Man
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 14.99How does a nice Italian boy from Queens turn his passion for food and wine into an empire? In his winning memoir, Restaurant Man , Joe Bastianich charts his culinary journey from working in his parents? red-sauce joint to becoming one of the country?s most successful restaurateurs. Joe first learned the ropes from his father, Felice Bastianich,... more...
Last Man Standing
Simon & Schuster 2009; Not AvailableA USA TODAY Best Business Book of the Year, Last Man Standing is an unparalleled look at the most dominant figure in finance, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase?the man known as the ?Savior of Wall Street.? ? Timely new introduction: In the wake of the storm that tore apart his competitors on Wall Street, Jamie Dimon now faces a new challenge: thriving... more...
Me, the Mob, and the Music
Scribner 2010; Not AvailableNow in paperback, after five hardcover printings, Tommy James?s wild and entertaining true story of his career?part rock & roll fairytale, part valentine to a bygone era, and part mob epic?that ?reads like a music-industry version of Goodfellas ? ( The Denver Post ). Everyone recognizes the hits??Hanky Panky,? ?Mony Mony,? ?I Think We?re Alone... more...
Bright Lights, No City
Hyperion 2012; US$ 24.99The hilarious story of two brothers, a truckload of batteries, and a brilliant plan to bring light--and new business opportunities--to Ghana At age 47, Whit Alexander, the American co-founder of the Cranium board game, decided to start a new business selling affordable goods and services to low-income villagers in Ghana, West Africa. His brother... more...
Sir Thomas Lipton
Mainstream Publishing 2012; US$ 26.69Thomas Lipton burst onto the national scene in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The Princess of Wales had launched a £30,000 fund to provide a Jublilee dinner for the poor, but, with only weeks to go, no more than £5,000 had been subscribed. Lipton saved the day by writing a cheque for £25,000. The annonymous gift created massive... more...
Victor Gollancz
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 21.86Victor Gollancz was a teacher, publisher, author and campaigner who spent his life passionately trying to make people see the truth as he saw it. If it's as a publisher that he is remembered above all, nonetheless in many ways he epitomised the social conscience of the mid-twentieth century: he founded the Left Book Club, Save Europe Now and the Campaign... more...
Dark Genius of Wall Street
Basic Books 2008; US$ 18.00Acclaimed biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr., combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to paint the portrait of the most talented financial buccaneer of his generation. more...
A Global Life
Pan Macmillan Australia 2010; US$ 24.67As president of the Global Bank for a decade, James D Wolfensohn tackled global poverty with a passion and energy that made him a uniquely important figure in a fundamental arena of change. In A Global Life , Wolfensohn tells his remarkable life story beginning with his boyhood in Australia. He became an Olympic fencer and a prominent banker... more...
Chasing Daylight
McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc. 2007; US$ 14.95THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Chasing Daylight is the honest, touching, and ultimately inspirational memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelley, completed in the three-and-a-half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. Its haunting yet extraordinarily hopeful voice reminds us to embrace the fragile, fleeting... more...









