Authors:Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: history, business, second, greatest, steve, jobs, icon
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-04-14
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0471787841
ISBN-13: 9780471787846

iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely. This unflinching and completely unauthorized portrait reveals both sides of Jobs’s role in the remarkable rise of the Pixar animation studio, also re-creates the acrimony between Jobs and DisneyR

Author: Donald B. Lemke
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: steve, inventions, discovery, series, library, computer, jobs, wozniak, personal, graphic
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0736896503
ISBN-13: 9780736896504

Author: Ken Langdon
Publisher: Capstone
Keywords: greatest, smiths, time, ideas, business
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-10-03
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 184112513X
ISBN-13: 9781841125138

The 100 Greatest Business Ideas of All Time provides some of the most famous, occasionally infamous, great business ideas. Whether unplanned or planned ideas, they all have the common factor of success, sometimes hugely significant, like the Biro Idea pen, and sometimes hugely complicated ideas, such as the Eurotunnel Idea. We can learn a lesson from each and every one of these great idea by drawing hints for the future from the great ideas of the past. With many of the entries, the challenge to the modern day business person to expand the original idea into their own environment. After

Author: Stephen Lambert
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: jobs, series, business, majors
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-09-18
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0071544836
ISBN-13: 9780071544832

It isn’t always obvious what a college major can offer to the workplace. Great Jobs books help students and recent college graduates explore the possibilities in their majors and provide: Guidance on how to present a major as a workplace asset during an interview A primer for new college grads on how to conduct a job search Ways to use a college major in the real world

Authors:Steve Israel, Steve Israel,
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Keywords: speeches, military, greatest, history, charge
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-09-04
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1591143993
ISBN-13: 9781591143994

One of the leading voices on national security issues in the U.S. Congress demonstrates how words have been sharp and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great military speeches that helped turn the tide of history. Among the dozens of inspirational speeches featured are: Moses instructing his followers to cross the Jordan River without him. . . Queen Elizabeth pledging to die with her soldiers as they faced the Spanish Armada. . . Patrick Henry choosing between liberty and death. . . Napoleon exhorting his troops as they marched on Egypt. . . Winston Churchill rallying his na

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: doing, business, jobs, creating
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2005-09-13
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821357492
ISBN-13: 9780821357491

Doing Business in 2006 is the third in a series of annual reports investigating regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. This edition provides analysis on those regulations that help create jobs and those that deter it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across 150 countries - from Albania to Zimbabwe - and over time. Doing Business in 2006 updates the indicators presented in previous reports: on starting a business, hiring and firing workers, getting licenses, getting credit, protecting investors, enforcing

Author: Ann Brashares
Publisher: 21st Century
Keywords: techies, jobs, steve
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $23.90
ISBN-10: 076131959X
ISBN-13: 9780761319597