Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
‘Just read it.’ Elon Musk
The dramatic inside story of SpaceX ― the world’s leading edge rocket company, whose charismatic and controversial founder now advises the White House
History of specific companies / corporate history
Family Business: An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership
From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography.
‘It’s Succession in tailcoats and spats … This is a vivid and eye-opening group biography, backgrounded by the rise of supermarket moguls from humble beginnings’ Sunday Times
Maxwell: The Final Verdict
‘Why did the Maxwells get off? The answers are in Tom Bower’s book. His relentless research has produced something more than an exposé of a single rogue’ Spectator
The gripping exposé of a tycoon’s greed and his shattering self-destruction.
Leaving Reality Behind: Inside the Battle for the Soul of the Internet
A’ NO LOGO’ for the net Generation – a no-holes barred story of the battle for the control of the internet, that reads like a thriller.
Twenty-one Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com
A Michael Moore for the Dot.com generation, ‘21 Dog Years’ is Mike Daisey’s wickedly funny story of life in the New Economy trenches.
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management
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Picking up where Liar’s Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer’s desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners.
Battle of the Titans: How the Fight to the Death Between Apple and Google is Transforming our Lives (Previously Published as ‘Dogfight’)
The story behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google – and how an an epic battle is reshaping the way we think about technology. This book, previously published as ‘Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution’, explores the real reasons beneath the world’s biggest deathmatch.