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Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Much has changed since Selfridges first opened its doors. Five years later, Europe is on the brink of war and London is enjoying one last defiant period of decadence. Mr. Selfridge now has his sights set on joining the establishment and rebuilding his family life. Tensions are also running high on the shop floor as Agnes is back from Paris, chic and successful. Not everyone is thrilled by her newfound confidence and by the reappearance of her old...
Publisher
Hbo
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 DVDs ( 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? lets readers glimpse the amazing life and achievements of business leader, author, attorney, and human rights activist Loida Nicolas Lewis, who has graced the cover of Working Woman magazine as 'The Most Powerful Female CEO in America.' Born in the Philippines, Loida came to New York City as a young woman and fell head over heels for Reginald F. Lewis, a brilliant, volatile African American lawyer who acquired and...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This documentary looks not only at how Steve Jobs' talent, style and imagination have shaped all of our lives, but also at the influences that shaped and molded the man himself. Through interviews with the people who worked closely with him or chronicled his life, we gain unique insight into what made him tick. In a never before broadcast, exclusive interview, Steve Jobs expounds his own philosophy of life, and offers advice to us all on changing...
46) Steve Jobs
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Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxiv, 868 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life the story of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, in this, the first and only biography based on unrestricted and exclusive access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers."--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 241 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Focus. Pray. Act. Serve. And we'll get through this together." Cynthia "Cynt" Marshall has spent her life beating the odds. Growing up in the public housing projects of Richmond, California, Cynt never wondered why her mother didn't sit down to dinner every night, realizing only later that she sometimes sacrificed her own meal so her six children could eat. Cynt's father, meanwhile, had a terrifying temper and physically abused his wife and children...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; cm
Description
"Guy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple's original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He's widely respected as a source of wisdom about entrepreneurship, venture capital, marketing, and business evangelism, which he's shared in bestselling books such as The Art of the Start and Enchantment. But before all that, he was just a middle-class kid in Hawaii, a grandson of Japanese immigrants, who loved football and got a...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 672 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Chronicling the making of a dynasty, one of the great untold sagas of a gilded Jewish Baghdadi family who started from nothing, this riveting story shows how they built a vast empire through finance and trade that reached across three continents, and ultimately changed the destinies of nations.
Author
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
"The founder of the world-renowned Tate's Bake Shop shares how her obsession with baking the perfect chocolate chip cookie as a child led to her starting a cookie company that grew into a multimillion-dollar empire"-- Provided by publisher.
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From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better....
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
310 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Description
Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout to his Buddhist faith and friendship with Steve Wozniak, in a portrait framed around his inspirational Stanford University commencement speech.
54) Steve Jobs
Formats
Description
Follow the life of the late Steve Jobs. His drive to change technology ultimatly had a negative effect on everyone around him.
"Thanks to Fassbender's revelatory performance, Jobs comes across as a captivating monster, a dictator in a black turtleneck who is impossible to ignore."--Globe and Mail.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Cravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.
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Appears on list
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Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven years after her father's death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young girl. She may be the owner of Brooke's, but she's also...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
107 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Presents the life of the business mogul who turned a small food packagaing company into a booming business known for its fair treatment of workers and pioneering safe food preparation standards.
Author
Series
Rebel girls (Chapter books) volume 1
Publisher
Rebel Girls
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
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Description
"Sarah is the first person in her family who wasn't born into slavery in Delta, Louisiana. But being free doesn't mean that Sarah doesn't have to work. She cooks, she cleans, she picks cotton, she does laundry, and she babysits. And when she works, she wraps up her hair. One day, Sarah's hair starts to fall out! It's itchy, crunchy, patchy, and won't grow. Instead of giving up, Sarah searches for the right products. And then she invents something...
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"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling...
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