Author: Patricia Beard
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: morgan, stanley, soul, fight, blood, mutiny, blue
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0060881917
ISBN-13: 9780060881917

The inside story of the power struggle that rocked Wall Street’s most prestigious financial institution What began with a shot over the bow ended in a shocking coup d’etat. In less than four months a group of eight retired executives orchestrated a stunning revolt within Morgan Stanley, the venerable and—until recently—most successful financial services firm on Wall Street. Now acclaimed journalist and historian Patricia Beard brings together the entire behind-the-scenes story in Blue Blood and Mutiny, a real-life business thriller exposing the tale that shook high

Authors:Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner,
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: hidden, everything, explores, economist, rogue, freakonomics
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 006073132X
ISBN-13: 9780060731328

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life-;from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing-;and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with

Author: Bill Sammon
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: kerry, bush, haters, john, terrorism, president, battles, misunderestimated
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0060723831
ISBN-13: 9780060723835

A riveting portrait of President Bush as he broadens the war on terror overseas -- and plunges into high-stakes political battles at home "They misunderestimated me," George W. Bush famously remarked on the eve of his historic presidency. Fractured syntax aside, Bush was right: his detractors misunderstood his appeal to the American public, and underestimated his considerable political skills. In this compelling new book, Bill Sammon reveals how the president is turning these misperceptions to his advantage in the looming showdown with John Kerry and the Bush haters. As senior White Ho

Author: Carol Felsenthal
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: house, president, exile, clinton
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0061231592
ISBN-13: 9780061231599

Just before noon on January 20, 2001, the most powerful and arguably most ambitious man in the world relinquished the public stage, reluctantly, at the young age of fifty-four. Having endured infamous scandals and impeachment, President Bill Clinton left office with record approval ratings—and embarked on an uncertain journey. Since then Clinton has moved in and out of the shadows of this "exile," leaving the millions who knew him to wonder: How has this man of such outsized talent and passions adjusted to leaving power? Based on more than 150 interviews with the former president̵

Authors:William C. Taylor, Polly G. Labarre,
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: business, win, minds, original, work, mavericks
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0060779616
ISBN-13: 9780060779610

Meet the innovators and upstarts who are inventing the future of business. Their unconventional ideas and groundbreaking strategies can become your business plan for the twenty-first century—a better way to lead, compete, and succeed. Business as usual is a bust. In industry after indus-try, the old guard is cutting back and losing ground. Meanwhile, organizations that were once dismissed as upstarts, as wildcards—or mavericks—are making waves and growing fast. There is a reason: In an age of hypercompetition and nonstop innovation, the only way to stand out from the crowd is

Author: Stephanie Laurens
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: novel, christmas, cynster, kiss, promise
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 006018888X
ISBN-13: 9780060188887

What would you do if you were kissed by the most handsome stranger you’d ever seen? And what if that man was a Cynster?Every girl -- even convent-educated ones -- dreams of forbidden kisses. So when a man literally falls at Helena’s feet as she’s walking through the courtyard one moonlit Christmas Eve, the pretty, young comtesse d’Lisle knows he’s up to no good. He’s clearly a bit dangerous... and obviously caught in the middle of a clandestine rendezvous. Why else would he have risked his neck and jumped out of a window into the snow?It’s wrong, it&#

Author: Jennifer Sey
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: disorders, eating, elusive, olympic, dreams, parents, overzealous, elite, inside, gymnastics, merciless, coaching, chalked
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0061351466
ISBN-13: 9780061351464

The true story of the 1986 U.S. National Gymnastics champion whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, until anorexia, injuries, and coaching abuses nearly destroyed her Fanciful dreams of gold medals and Nadia Comaneci led Jennifer Sey to become a gymnast at the age of six. She was a natural at the sport, and her early success propelled her family to sacrifice everything to help her become, by age eleven, one of America’s elite, competing at prestigious events worldwide alongside such future gymnastics’ luminaries as Mary Lou Retton. But as she set her sights hig