Enron
10 best books like Enron (Lucy Prebble): From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War, M. Butterfly, Dr. Faustus, Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround, The Whitsun Weddings, Antony and Cleopatra, Jerusalem, Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-at-Any-Price, Rise of the New World Order: The Culling of Man
| Author | Robert M. Gates |
| ISBN | 1416543368 |
Bob Gates’ From The Shadows is an interesting book by the former director of the CIA. Gates held numerous posts in the National Security Council and CIA’s analytic directorate. The book has very little “inside baseball” and is much more a history of the times, from the perspective of national...
| Author | David Henry Hwang |
| ISBN | 0822207125 |
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen
"A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds."--Frank...
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN | 0486282082 |
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different...
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
| Author | Sharon Waxman |
| ISBN | 0805086536 |
A journey across four continents to the heart of the conflict over who should own the great works of ancient art
Why are the Elgin Marbles in London and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies in France as there are in Egypt? Why are so many Etruscan masterworks in America? For...
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
| Author | Louis V. Gerstner Jr. |
| ISBN | 0060523794 |
In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the computer industry had changed so rapidly the company was on its way to losing $16 billion and IBM was on a watch list for extinction -- victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.
Then...
| Author | Philip Larkin |
| ISBN | 0571097103 |
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that 'this tenderly observant poet writes...
| Author | Adrian Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0297845675 |
The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world, and has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in control of the Roman Empire, Antony was perhaps the most powerful man of his day; while Cleopatra, who had already...
| Author | Jez Butterworth |
| ISBN | 1848420501 |
Notgettingenough and I went to this critically acclaimed play a couple of nights ago at the West End. I watched the whole thing with rapt attention; Not, as she sometimes does, took a short nap halfway through. I imagined this would give me an advantage during the post-mortem, but I should have known better.
"So...
Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-at-Any-Price
| Author | John A. Byrne |
| ISBN | 0066619815 |
Before there was Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling at Enron, before Bernie Ebbers at WorldCom, or Dennis Kozlowski at Tyco, there was Al Dunlap -- the notorious business executive whose actions foreshadowed a ruinous period in business when illusion seemed to matter more than reality.
Al Dunlap --...
Rise of the New World Order: The Culling of Man
| Author | J. Micha-el Thomas Hays |
***The paperback version of this book is 626 pages, not 445***
The same occult group of people who have been ruling over humanity for thousands of years continue to do so to this day. The Luciferian one world government of Biblical prophecy is unfolding behind the scenes as you read this, and...
| Author | Ian Hughes |
| ISBN | 1848842791 |
In AD 453 Attila, with a huge force composed of Huns, allies and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire, was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. Laying siege to Orleans, he was only a few days march from extending his...
Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time (with "I LOVE LUCY's Lost Scenes" and rare Lucille Ball audio)
Jess Oppenheimer, the man Lucille Ball called the "brains" of "I Love Lucy", gives us a rare first-hand look at television history as it was being made. A rich entertainment resource, "Laughs, Luck…and Lucy" features a hilarious memoir, and scores of rare photos, three never-before-published...
