Business & Economics
You're Hired! Interview Skills to Get the Job
You're Hired! - Interview Skills to Get the Job demystifies the interviewing process with wisdom and wit from an authoritative source.
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Thrift
"This book is intended as a sequel to Self-Help and Character. It might, indeed, have appeared as an introduction to these volumes; for…
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
As a precursor to Capital, Marx outlines his analysis of capitalism and critiques classical economic theories. - Summary by Tray
Fundamentals of Prosperity
Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Babson offers a thought-provoking exploration of the principles that underpin true success in business a…
The History of Standard Oil
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Com…
The Dynamic Manager's Guide To Marketing
To grow your business, add “People” to Product, Price, Place, and Promotion, the classic elements of marketing. Dave Donelson will show you …
Capital and Interest
Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of so…
U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency
In 1908, the National Monetary Commission was established by Congress to study financial boom-and-bust cycles. Senator Nelson Aldrich (Repub…
The Great Lakes and the Vessels That Plough Them
The author sets forth the facts of the Great Lakes' largest fleet of freighters in the world, explaining what an enormous role Great Lakes c…
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given y…
The Gospel of Wealth
What is the proper mode of administering great wealth? It is to address this question that steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's famous essay "…
The Dynamic Manager's Guide To Advertising
Effective small business advertising isn’t impossible, it’s just hard. It’s hard to make good ads, to buy efficient media, to judge results.…
Psychology of the Stock Market
Written in 1912 (before the 1929 crash and way before electronic trading), economist G. C. Selden explores the psychology behind stock marke…
Social Life in England
In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ra…
A Square Deal
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States when president William McKinley was assassinated in 1901. As the …
Making Home Profitable
A new life in the country was another chance for Kate Saint Maur and her husband after a business failure left them in dire straits in the c…
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines
This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the r…
Food Guide for War Service at Home
"The long war has brought hunger to Europe; some of her peoples stand constantly face to face with starvation. To meet all this great f…
When Railroads Were New
This history of American railroads originated as a series of articles in Railroad Man's Magazine before being compiled into a book in 1909. …
Sophisms of the Protectionists
"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…