Authors:Mary Buffett, David Clark,
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: company, durable, competitive, advantage, search, statements, buffett, interpretation, financial, warren
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-10-14
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1416573186
ISBN-13: 9781416573180

With an insider’s view of the mind of the master, Mary Buffett and David Clark have written a simple guide for reading financial statements from Warren Buffett’s succccessful perspective.Buffett and Clark clearly outline Warren Buffett’s strategies in a way that will appeal to newcomers and seasoned Buffettologists alike. Inspired by the seminal work of Buffett’s mentor, Benjamin Graham (The Interpretation of Financial Statements, 1937), this book presents Buffett’s interpretation of financial statements with anecdotes and quotes from the master investor himself.P

Author: Don DeLillo
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: novel, underworld
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 1998-07-09
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0684848155
ISBN-13: 9780684848150

Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillo’s greatest and most powerful work of fiction.

Authors:Mary Buffett, David Clark,
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: buffett, warren, wealth, enlightened, management, billionaire, business, interpretations, words, wisdom, quotations, tao, guide
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-11-21
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1416541322
ISBN-13: 9781416541325

A collection of pithy and inspiring sayings from America’s favorite businessman that reveal his secrets of successLike the sayings of the ancient Chinese philospher Lao-tzu, Warren Buffett’s worldly wisdom is deceptively simple and enormously powerful in application. In The Tao of Warren Buffett, Mary Buffett -- author of three books on Warren Buffett’s investment methods -- joins noted Buffettologist and international lecturer David Clark to bring you Warren Buffett’s smartest, funniest, and most memorable sayings with an eye toward revealing the life philosophy and th

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: novel, key, duma
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2008-01-22
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 1416552510
ISBN-13: 9781416552512

NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE. BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH...A terrible accident takes Edgar Freemantle’s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. When his marriage suddenly ends, Edgar begins to wish he hadn’t survived his injuries. He wants out. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with something else: "Edgar, does anything make you happy?""I used to sketch.""Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges ag

Author: John le Carre
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: spy, perfect
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743457927
ISBN-13: 9780743457927

John le Carre’s classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. Immersing readers in two parallel dramas -- one about the making of a spy, the other chronicling his seemingly imminent demise -- le Carre offers one of his richest and most morally resonant novels. Magnus Pym -- son of Rick, father of Tom, and a successful career officer of British Intelligence -- has vanished, to the dismay of his friends, enemies, and wife. Who is he? Who was

Author: Ted C. Fishman
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: america, world, challenges, superpower, inc, rise, china
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0641783531
ISBN-13: 9780641783531

China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering america, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of china’s growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred -- and why it already affects us all.How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster tha

Author: James P. Womack
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: year, dollar, study, future, automobile, million, technology, world, changed, based, massachusetts, institute, machine
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1990-10-10
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0892563508
ISBN-13: 9780892563500

Today, the industrial world is experiencing the most revolutionary change since Henry Ford’s assembly line -- which forever changed the way things are made. Japanese companies are sweeping the world, as Western companies and governments struggle to find ways to emulate them. The Machine That Changed the World points for the first time to a positive way out of this dilemma. It shows that being defeatist about the Japanese threat, and tougher protectionism, are not the answers. This book outlines the enormous tasks facing Western companies in the 1990s and has cogent messages for J