businesspeople

Depicts middle class life in America through the character of George Babbitt, a middle-aged businessman in an average Midwestern city.

Profiles eight founders of the computer industry, including Thomas Watson, Jr. of IBM, An Wang of Wang Laboratories, Seymour Cray of Cray Research, Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore of Intel, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Jobs of Apple Computers, and Steve Case of America Online.

Tells the history of the creation and evolution of the World Wide Web through profiles of eight of its architects, including Marc Andreessen, co-author of Mosaic and co-founder of Netscape; Kim Polese, co-founder of Marimba; Jerry Yang, co-creator of Yahoo; and Andrew Anker, head of the online magazine "HotWired.".

Presents the life stories of the creators of YouTube.

Profiles ten American entrepreneurs considered by the authors to be remarkable, including P.T. Barnum, Sam Walton, Oprah Winfrey, and Thomas Edison.

Describes the life and career of Levi Strauss, a Bavarian Jew who immigrated to the United States in 1847 and became a very successful businessman and philanthropist after inventing blue jeans.

Examines the life of Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, and discusses his achievements and how his social networking site influences the world.

Explores Pierre M. Omidyar's life and his creation of the online auction site eBay, describing his interests in gadgets and computers during his childhood and youth, the original idea for the site and the growth of the company, the charity work of the Omidyar Network, and the system of microfinance.

An illustrated biography of John Paul Getty, looking at how he accumulated his multi-billion-dollar fortune in the oil business, and discussing his philanthropic activities in his later life.

A biography of the industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and later became a famous philanthropist, establishing the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913.