As one of the original 13 muckrackers and the only women, and the first woman on McClure's staff, Ida Tarbell continues to be viewed as one of America's most important women and journalists.In this frank and informative autobiography, the veteran investigative journalist Ida M. Tarbell looks back on her nearly fifty-year career. At the age of ......
Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists of the twentieth century.
Readers will come away with the message that anyone who wants to have a positive impact on the world can do it right now from where they are-or can be inspired by Novelli's story to make the leap to somewhere they can.
This is a unique and intimate insider's account of the founding and growth of a small New York science and medical publishing company over the first 57 years. Bernhard Springer, the Berlin-born great-grandson of the founder of Springer-Verlag, started his own publishing company in 1950. For the next 20 years, he slowly but surely grew his company ......
Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California
In 1971, Bruce Neuburger--young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley--took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous and largely immigrant workforce that feeds the nation. ......
Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California
In 1971, Bruce Neuburger--young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley--took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous and largely immigrant workforce that feeds the nation. ......
Sir Bob, former chair of Shell UK among much else, lost his right hand aged 9, learnt to write with his left and won a golfing blue at University before turning to business. This inspirational portrait of successful leadership tells how he steered global organisations through the best and worst of times by gaining trust and valuing the individual.
Peter Owen, one of the last of the great emigre publishers, recalls his remarkable life and career from his lonely Jewish boyhood in Nazi Germany to maturity as acclaimed London publisher of many distinguished international writers, including Anais Nin, Salvador Dali, Paul Bowles, Yukio Mishima and Anna Kavan, many of whom were personal friends.
Pride without Prejudice is the inspirational autobiography of Beverley Pinder OAM, former Miss Universe Australia, glass ceilingbreaking PR businesswoman and former long-serving City of Melbourne councilor. Beverley has always been grateful for the opportunities that Australia gave her and her family, and has believed in repaying that favour ......
