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Product Description: The Scramble for Africa in the 1880s showed European interest in Africa at its most intense and today evokes a picture of the great European powers engaged in a frantic struggle for supremacy and for control of Africa and its resources...read more

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9781848859371 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 15, 2012, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: The Scramble for Africa in the 1880s showed European interest in Africa at its most intense and today evokes a picture of the great European powers engaged in a frantic struggle for supremacy and for control of Africa and its resources.

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Product Description: What if you could sit down with some of the world's most influential entrepreneurs and gain their knowledge and insights on how to create a game changing business? Imagine having the chance to listen to a John Mackey (Whole Foods) or a Fred Smith (FedEx) on the most important things they've learned from their experiences...read more

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9781591844501 | Portfolio, December 8, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: What if you could sit down with some of the world's most influential entrepreneurs and gain their knowledge and insights on how to create a game changing business?

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Product Description: 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World is a guide to the people who have shaped the way we do business today.  Some are great intellectuals while others are "gut instinct" types.  Some want to change the world while others want money and power...read more

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9780749462390 | Kogan Page Ltd, June 28, 2011, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World is a guide to the people who have shaped the way we do business today.

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9780061473333 | William Morrow & Co, May 1, 2008, cover price $25.95

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9780061473340 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 2009), cover price $14.99

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Product Description: Kasey Edwards has everything she’s always wanted—a successful career and the lifestyle and assets to match. But she’s empty and uninspired and doesn’t want to go to work . . . ever again. Terrified that she’ll spend the rest of her life wearing pinstripes and pretending to care about "adding value," Kasey embarks on a quest to rediscover passion and purpose in her life and work...read more

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9781845964467 | Mainstream, April 1, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Kasey Edwards has everything she’s always wanted—a successful career and the lifestyle and assets to match.

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Product Description: From pioneering merchants to the great industrialists, financial geniuses to the most persuasive entrepreneurs, this is a complete introduction to the women and men who have elevated the worlds of business and industry to the awesome levels at which they operate today...read more

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9781556527494 | Chicago Review Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From pioneering merchants to the great industrialists, financial geniuses to the most persuasive entrepreneurs, this is a complete introduction to the women and men who have elevated the worlds of business and industry to the awesome levels at which they operate today.
9780713686142 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, January 8, 2008, cover price $18.20

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'The Daily Telegraph's' trademark obituary style, created by Hugh Massingberd, is distinguished by the quality of the writing, humour and focus on the individuality and character of subjects. This collection, devoted to the business world, concentrates on a particular group such as 'City Chaps', Entrepreneurs', 'Rogues and Mavericks', or 'Gurus'.

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9781845132040 | Aurum Pr Ltd, September 28, 2007, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: 'The Daily Telegraph's' trademark obituary style, created by Hugh Massingberd, is distinguished by the quality of the writing, humour and focus on the individuality and character of subjects.

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Product Description: Stay on top of the sales game with strategies from the world's biggest leaders The art and science of selling has never been more complex, demanding, or potentially lucrative. As a sales professional, you know that staying ahead of the game means continually educating yourself-both in the successful techniques that have stood the test of time and about the freshest new ideas on everything-from generating leads to creating trust, from branding your business to closing the deal...read more

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9780071473873 | McGraw-Hill, May 1, 2006, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Stay on top of the sales game with strategies from the world's biggest leaders The art and science of selling has never been more complex, demanding, or potentially lucrative.

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Product Description: "Daughter of the Yellow River is a testament to perseverance, determination, courage, and success." – Deepak Chopra, best-selling author of Peace Is the Way "Diana Lu’s memoir effectively weaves autobiography, advice, cultural insights, and career journey to reveal what many women already know: work is intensely personal...read more

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9781933726014 | Image Global Impact, April 30, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "Daughter of the Yellow River is a testament to perseverance, determination, courage, and success.

Product Description: This four-volume set is an excellent source of current biographical information on a wide range of industry leaders worldwide. The set contains narrative biographies that focus on the career paths, business achievements, leadership styles, business strategies, and industry impact of Fortune 500 and Global 500 corporate leaders, as well as other notable business people and entrepreneurs...read more

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9781558625549 | St James Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $826.00

Miscellaneous:

9781558626010 | 1 edition (St James Pr, March 25, 2005), cover price $0.04 | About this edition: This four-volume set is an excellent source of current biographical information on a wide range of industry leaders worldwide.

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9781558625556 | St James Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $55.01
9781558625563 | St James Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $55.01
9781558625570 | St James Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $55.01
9781558625587 | St James Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $55.01

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Profiles top executives from a range of industries to identify twenty-one strategies for leadership success, offering insight into how to motivate employees, put ideas into action, and incorporate best practices into an everyday work schedule. (view table of contents)

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9780471420248 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 7, 2003, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Profiles top executives from a range of industries to identify twenty-one strategies for leadership success, offering insight into how to motivate employees, put ideas into action, and incorporate best practices into an everyday work schedule.

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Product Description: Learn and be inspired by the fascinating true stories behind 10 leading lights in black enterprise today . . . * While she won't share the formulas for her world-renowned hot sauces, Vivian Gibson, CEO of The MillCreek Company, is glad to impart her recipe for transforming a passion for cooking into a multimillion-dollar enterprise...read more

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9780471374725 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, January 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Learn and be inspired by the fascinating true stories behind 10 leading lights in black enterprise today .

Miscellaneous:

9780471436898 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 14, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Learn and be inspired by the fascinating true stories behind 10 leading lights in black enterprise today .

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Offering profiles of twelve successful entrepreneurs, this down-in-the-trenches guide to achieving business success reveals how a few individuals have been able to transform ideas into cash. 10,000 first printing.

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9780471381464 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Offering profiles of twelve successful entrepreneurs, this down-in-the-trenches guide to achieving business success reveals how a few individuals have been able to transform ideas into cash.

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9780471436881 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 4, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offering profiles of twelve successful entrepreneurs, this down-in-the-trenches guide to achieving business success reveals how a few individuals have been able to transform ideas into cash.

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The chairman of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus discusses the store's history and shares his business philosophy (view table of contents)

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9780316545983 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1974, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The chairman of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus discusses the store's history and shares his business philosophy

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9781574411393 | Univ of North Texas Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $21.95

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The former head of Neiman-Marcus stores recounts his lifelong pursuit of quality merchandise, examines the greats and not-so-greats of the retail-business world, and applies his rigorous standards to a host of products (view table of contents)

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9780670584703 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1979, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The former head of Neiman-Marcus stores recounts his lifelong pursuit of quality merchandise, examines the greats and not-so-greats of the retail-business world, and applies his rigorous standards to a host of products

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9781574411379 | Univ of North Texas Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $19.95
9780070402942 | Reprint edition (McGraw-Hill, June 1, 1985), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The former head of Neiman-Marcus stores recounts his lifelong pursuit of quality merchandise, examines the greats and not-so-greats of the retail-business world, and applies his rigorous standards to a host of products

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Product Description: Mr. Marcus has spent most of his life not only helping to create a retailing enterprise renowned throughout the world as the epitome of quality, but also in setting high standards for the level of taste of all who desire "the better things in life" and in doing so has played a key role in making Dallas itself a success...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781574410396 | Reprint edition (Univ of North Texas Pr, December 1, 1997), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Mr.

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Profiles thirteen innovative men, including television mogul Ted Turner, Sony founder Akio Morita, and Tom Monaghan of Domino's Pizza, and examines their secrets of success

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9780879758325 | Prometheus Books, May 1, 1993, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Profiles thirteen innovative men, including television mogul Ted Turner, Sony founder Akio Morita, and Tom Monaghan of Domino's Pizza, and examines their secrets of success

Profiles successful businessmen and and successful business decisions, detailing the struggles and outcomes of East/West competition in the last ten years, the six types of decision makers, and individuals who embody these types

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9780517079898 | Random House Value Pub, February 10, 1992, cover price $3.99
9780525247982, titled "The Decision Makers: The Men and the Million-Dollar Moves Behind Today's Great Corporate Success Stories" | Truman Talley Books, October 1, 1989, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Profiles successful businessmen and and successful business decisions, detailing the struggles and outcomes of East/West competition in the last ten years, the six types of decision makers, and individuals who embody these types

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9780452265660, titled "The Decision Makers: The Men and the Million-Dollar Moves Behind Today's Great Corporate Success Stories" | Reprint edition (E P Dutton, January 1, 1991), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The decisions that enable companies and individuals to win in the competitive world of business are the focus of this book which attempts to provide guidelines on how to make the correct management decisions, with examples and arguments taken from many of the largest companies.

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Tells the stories of inventors, sales people, and businessmen and women who have started prominent companies involved in everything from beer to designer clothing

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9780816187089 | G K Hall, March 1, 1990, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of inventors, sales people, and businessmen and women who have started prominent companies involved in everything from beer to designer clothing

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9780816187362 | G K Hall & Co, May 1, 1985, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of inventors, sales people, and businessmen and women who have started prominent companies involved in everything from beer to designer clothing

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Traces the life and career of Meyer, a successful businessman and founder of the Success Motivation Institute

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9780811907200 | Frederick Fell Pub, January 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of Meyer, a successful businessman and founder of the Success Motivation Institute

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Tells the stories of successful entrepreneurs, shares their secrets for starting a viable company, and describes problems each had to overcome

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9780029109717 | Free Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of successful entrepreneurs, shares their secrets for starting a viable company, and describes problems each had to overcome

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