Libros de la editorial: Crown Business Publishing

2012 Crown Business Publishing

On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it was also a masterpiece of ...

2012 Crown Business Publishing

Americans today are at a turning point. Are we a coun­try founded on the values of freedom and limited gov­ernment, as envisioned by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the ...

2012 Crown Business Publishing

Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and ...

2012 Crown Business Publishing

Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Why did Facebook succeed when other social networking sites failed? Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence? How much can ...

2012 Crown Business Publishing

Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop ...

2012 Crown Business Publishing

A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots"- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver ...

2012 Crown Business Publishing

Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of ...

2012 Crown Business Publishing

Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colorful cast of rogues and schemers, for a “secret market” beneath the financial ...

2012 Crown Business Publishing

Those who center their business on improving people’s lives have a growth rate triple that of competitors and outperform the market by a huge margin. They dominate their categories, create new categories and maximize ...

2012 Crown Business Publishing

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and ...

2011 Crown Business Publishing

Suzanne McGee provides a penetrating look at the forces that transformed Wall Street from its traditional role as a capital-generating and economy-boosting engine into a behemoth operating with only its own short-term interests in mind ...

2011 Crown Business Publishing

The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent (1%) broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force ...

2011 Crown Business Publishing

In a fast-moving narrative, Wall Street Journal reporter Patterson explores the coterie of mathematicians behind the Wall Street crash of 2008. The story's stars are "an unusual breed of investors" called quants, who "used ...

2011 Crown Business Publishing

Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader, whether the CEO at a Fortune 100 company, an entrepreneur, a church pastor, the head of a school, or a government official. Richard ...

2011 Crown Business Publishing

When it comes to investing in the stock market,  investors have plenty of options: 1.  They can do it themselves.  Trillions of dollars are invested this way.(Of course, the only problem here is that ...

2010 Crown Business Publishing

Professors of Psychology Chabris and Simons write about six everyday illusions of perception and thought, including the beliefs that: we pay attention more than we do, our memories are more detailed than they are, confident ...

2010 Crown Business Publishing

Crash of the Titans is a financial thriller that puts you in the theater as the historic events of the financial crisis unfold and people responsible for billion of dollars of other people#s money ...

2010 Crown Business Publishing

Matthew Bishop and Michael Green first take a step back and analyze what can be learned from financial crises of the past-from the Tulip Craze of the seventeenth century through the Great Depression of the ...

2010 Crown Business Publishing

#Scott Patterson has the ability to see things you and I don#t notice. In The Quants he does an admirable job of debunking the myths of black box traders and provides a very entertaining ...

2009 Crown Business Publishing

In an engaging Q-and-A with the reader, Forbes and Ames answer questions about today's issues while explaining the fundamentals of a free-market economy. They show how democratic capitalism is more effective than any other ...