businesspeople

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Overdrive

Bill Gates and the race to control cyberspace
1997
Draws from interviews with friends, colleagues, and competitors, as well as employees of Microsoft to provide the inside story of the efforts undertaken by Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates to respond to the challenge posed by the advent of the Internet and the developers of Netscape Navigator.

Ben & Jerry's, the inside scoop

how two real guys built a business with social conscience and a sense of humor
1994

Overnight success

Federal Express and Frederick Smith, its renegade creator
1993
Biography of businessman Frederick W. Smith who transformed Federal Express into a multibillion dollar business.

Hard drive

Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft empire
1992
Chronicles the cofounder of Microsoft's rise in the computer industry and his achievements.

Babbitt

2007
Tale of a coniving, prosperous real estate man who becomes totally corrupt.

Can you keep a secret?

2006
Emma Corrigan must discover whether she has set herself on the road to ruin or romance when she arrives at work to find the handsome stranger she has confessed all her secrets to during a dangerously turbulent flight is the elusive CEO of Panther Cola, her place of employment.

Critical mass

1998
Lawyer Joselyn Cole, having moved to the San Juan Islands of Washington State in search of a quieter life, helps businessman Dean Belden set up a business in the islands only to discover that her client is involved in a very dangerous enterprise.

Steve Jobs

the man who thought different
2012
Presents the life and career of the computer industry visionary, from his early life and creation of Apple Computer at the age of twenty to his accomplishments in technology and design.

Trump

the art of the deal
1989

Being Martha

the inside story of Martha Stewart
2006
A comprehensive biography of Martha Stewart examining her childhood, early catering business, and success in television; and describes how her trial and imprisonment made her stronger and more grounded.

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