By Robert G. Kaiser

Documents the journey of a financial reform bill in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse by focusing on two of the major players behind the legislation - Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Christopher Dodd.

By James P. Othmer

This book showcases how the advertising industry influences culture and the future of the advertising business.

By Mark Tungate

A close look at the history of advertising from the first major British agencies to the influences of Eastern advertisers to today’s Internet pioneers.

By Steve Fraser

From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? The Age of Acquiescence seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser’s account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today’s delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear.

By Andrea Bernstein

Examines the multigenerational saga of two families who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of U.S. power that tracks the unraveling of American democracy.

By Stephen Fried
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

How visionary businessman Fred Harvey built a railroad hospitality empire that civilized the Wild West. Traces the story of the nineteenth–century entrepreneur who established a national chain of restaurants, hotels, and bookstores patronizing railroad passengers, in an account that reveals his role in shaping culture and labor.

By William Poundstone

Presents answers and solutions to some of the weirdest and most challenging interview questions and discusses the importance of creative thinking and how to beat your competition in today’s job market.

By Michael M. Lewis
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming

Shares insights into the recent economic crisis, citing such factors as expanded home ownership and risky derivative elections in the face of increasing shareholder demands, and profiles responsible parties in government, financial, and private sectors.

By Malcolm Gladwell

The author reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.

By Martin Lindstrom

Draws on a three-year brain-scan study of people from around the world to shed new light on what stimulates interest in a product and compels us to buy it, refuting common assumptions and myths about the marketing of a product.

By Ted Turner

“The much-written-about media mogul finally tells his own story, including his ability to draw strength from adversity and challenge, his risky decision-making, and his frayed personal life (From Library Journal).”

By Peter Schweizer

Investigates how Bill and Hillary Clinton habitually blur the lines between politics, philanthropy, and business to explain how the power couple went from "dead broke" on leaving the White House to being millionaires.

By Julia Cooke
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Documents the high standards once required of Pan Am stewardesses, from second–language fluency and a college education to youth and a trim figure, sharing the stories of remarkable, high–achieving women who served during the jet age.

By David Ogilvy

A new edition of the timeless business classic featured on Mad Men.

By Neal R. Bevans

This book fills the need for a well-written text on consumer law and consumer protection.

By Nikil Saval

Drawing from popular books, movies, comic strips and an abundance of management literature and business history, this surprising "secret history" shows how the white-collar world came to be, from the mid-19th century to today, and reveals what it might become.

By Brené Brown

Explores how to cultivate daring leaders by recognizing and developing the potential in people, sharing power, aligning authority with accountability, and not avoiding difficult conversations or situations.

By Malcolm Gladwell

Uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed.

By Scott Adams

The creator of Dilbert, the fastest-growing comic strip in the nation (syndicated in nearly 1000 newspapers), takes a look at corporate America in all its glorious lunacy.

By James B. Stewart

Documents the fierce executive battle for control of the Walt Disney Company.

By Dan Lyons
Recommended By Alisa Fogel, Librarian-Programming

A memoir of life inside the tech bubble by a writer and co-producer for Silicon Valley describes how, after losing his magazine writing job, he took a position with a tech company rife with cultish millennials, absent bosses, and venture-capital amenities.

By Brad Stone

Presents the story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.

By Stephen C. Lundin

The book draws lessons aimed at combating dysfunctional workplaces from the happy fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market.

By Steven D. Levitt
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Takes an unconventional look at how the economy works.

By Bob Burg

A business parable in the tradition of The One Minute Manager explains how to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment by prioritizing the needs of others, in an inspirational tale that introduces a young protagonist to five business principles as imparted by a series of mysterious teachers.

By Sarah Smarsh
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

Tuesday, September 10, 2019. 7:30 PM.

Traces the author's turbulent childhood on a Kansas farm in the 1980s and 1990s to reveal her firsthand experiences with cyclical poverty and the corrosive impact of intergenerational poverty on individuals, families and communities.

By Teri Agins

Describes the effect that celebrities have had on the world of designer clothes and other luxury items by putting out their own labels and brands, including interviews with Anna Wintour, Michael Kors, and Diane von Furstenberg.

By Susan Berfield
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Describes how J.P. Morgan's dominion of Wall Street screeched to a halt after the assassination of business-friendly President McKinley put Theodore Roosevelt in charge and his subsequent implementation of policies of government checks on big business in the early 1900s.

By Dale Carnegie

The classic, inspirational personal development guide provides an authoritative program for developing the basic and essential people skills that readers need to achieve maximum lifetime success.

By Dale Carnegie

Explains how to apply Carnegie's advice to a world driven by electronic communication devices, sharing advice on topics ranging from e-mail etiquette to cyber bullying.

By Kelly Cutrone

Advises readers to discover who they are and what they want and how to go out there and get it.

By Ross Perlin

Presents insights into the use of interns in a variety of firms and organizations, discussing the economic impact of internships and their effect on business practices.

By Sheryl Sandberg

The Facebook chief operating officer and Fortune top-ranked businesswoman shares provocative, anecdotal advice for women that urges them to take risks and seek new challenges.

By Michael M. Lewis

The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions quickly and easily, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.

By Paul Hoffman

This book describes the great Wall Street law firms of the 1970s, prominent cases, traditions, and a community of high-profile lawyers.

By Wendy Welch

Chronicles the efforts of the author and her husband to open and run a small bookstore in a struggling Virginia coal mining community, a pursuit challenged by the difficult economic environment.

By Jane Maas

Author Jane Maas, a female copywriter who succeeded in a male-dominated environment similar to that of the Madison Avenue firm featured in the show Mad Men.

By Thomas J. Stanley

The authors summarize findings from their research into the key characteristics that explain how the elite club of millionaires have become "wealthy."

By Dave Eggers
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday, May 14, 2019. 7:30 PM.

Traces the story of Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a Yemeni-American in San Francisco, and his dream of resurrecting the ancient art of cultivating, roasting, and importing Yemeni coffee, an endeavor that is challenged by the brutal realities of Yemen's 2015 civilwar.

By Sebastian Mallaby

The book give explanations of hedge funds and their balancing of long and short positions with complex derivatives.

By John P. Kotter

Kotter presents his framework for an effective corporate change initiative through the tale of a colony of Antarctic penguins facing danger–inspired, perhaps, by today's real–life global warming crisis.

By Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" – the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high–achievers different?

By Elizabeth L. Cline

Evaluates the actual costs of low-priced, poor-quality clothing while tracing the author's own transformation from a cheap fashion consumer to a conscientious shopper, a journey during which she visited a living-wage garment factory, learned to resole inexpensive shoes and shopped for local, sustainable clothing. 

By Alain De Botton
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“… De Botton explores the world of offices and factories, convention halls, outdoor installations and transportation routes… (he) discloses both the sheer strangeness and beauty of the places where people spend their working lives. Along the way, De Botton uncovers some of the most compelling questions that we rarely make time to consider: Why do we do it? (From the Publisher).”

By Charles Duhigg
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Explains how self-control and success are largely driven by habits, and shares scientifically-based guidelines for achieving personal goals and overall well-being by adjusting specific habits.

By Peter D. Schiff

Predicts a worse crash if key economic changes cannot be made, arguing that American consumer habits are at the heart of today's problems and recommends that the nation declare bankruptcy and rebuild broken systems from scratch.

By Doug Dayton

Describes the sales tactics and strategies that helped put Microsoft on top of the personal computer software market.

By Lincoln Caplan

A look at one of the most profitable law firms in the world describes its partners, its rise to power, and its clients, and discusses the profound shift in values illuminated by the firm’s success.

By Steven D. Levitt

Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.

By Adam Steltzner