Flight from Dhahran: The true experiences of an American businessman held hostage in Saudi Arabia

McDonald, John

PRENTICE/HALL

A remarkable work, the Domesday Book contains detailed and comprehensive information on ownership, income, resources, and fiscal responsibilities for almost evey manor of Norman England in 1086. The bewildering and voluminous data of the Domesday Book has baffled economists in the past, but Snooks and McDonald have compiled an unequaled new interpretation of this ancient work now in its 900th anniversary. Using modern economic theory and statistical techniques, the authors reappraise the relationship between manorial revenue and resources to attain a new perspective on the English economy between 1066 and 1086.

Domesday Economy: A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History

Business & Money

Snooks, G. D.

Economics

Oxford University Press

The story of the ghostwriting of Alfred P. Sloan's best-selling memoir, General Motor's attempts to block the book's publication, and the author's eventual triumph over the corporation.
Published in 1964, My Years with General Motors was an immediate best-seller and today is considered one of the few classic books on management. The book is the ghostwritten memoir of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1875-1966), whose business and management strategies enabled General Motors to overtake Ford as the dominant American automobile manufacturer in the 1920s and 1930s.
What has been largely unknown until now is that My Years with General Motors was almost not published. Although it was written with the permission of General Motors―and slated for publication in October 1959―at the last minute General Motors tried to suppress the book out of fears that some of the material in it could become evidence in an antitrust action against the company. 
This book, by John McDonald, Sloan's ghostwriter, tells the behind-the-scenes story of the book's writing, its attempted suppression, and the lawsuit that eventually led to its publication. McDonald's narrative is partly the David-and-Goliath story of a lone journalist taking on the world's then-largest corporation and partly a study of strategy in its own right. McDonald's struggle to publish the book led him to navigate a complicated course among the competing interests of General Motors, Fortune magazine (his employer), and Time, Inc. (Fortune's owner). In many ways this "book about the book" parallels the Sloan book as a tale of successful, brilliantly planned strategy.

A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Mit Pr

Daily Life in Hitler's Germany tells the story of what it was like to actually live under the Nazi regime in the 1930s and during the war years of the early 1940s. The wide range of topics examined in the book include the Nazi indoctrination of children through such organizations as the Hitler Youth, the subversion of the arts to serve National Socialist ideology, the Nazi obsession with sport as a means of creating a super-fit Aryan race, the role of women in Germany in the 1930s, and the fate of those individuals and races who had no place in the Thousand Year Reich. In addition, Daily Life in Hitler's Germany looks closely at the Nazi "economic miracle" of the 1930s to explain how unemployment in Germany had virtually disappeared by 1939. Written by experts on twentieth-century and German history, the book gets under the skin of the Third Reich to bring the most chilling era in Germany's part to life. Above all, the Third Reich was the manifestation of the character, ambitions, and will of its leader, Adolf Hitler. Dogmatic and intolerant in his simplistic views, eventually the Nazi state reflected his crude belief in Darwinism: that struggle was the father of all things. Daily Life in Hitler's Germany examines fully how Hitler influenced the everyday lives of millions of ordinary Germans. The hundreds of photographs in the book are particularly interesting, and show many facets of the Nazi regime. Propaganda and ritual were central to Nazi social control, and so Daily Life in Hitler's Germany contains images of the mass Nuremberg rallies, the persecution of the Jews and other minorities, the 1936 Olympic Games, and the large-scale military maneuvers conducted by the armed forces. Ultimately, the Third Reich failed in its aim of building a large empire in Eastern Europe, and the price was paid by the German people themselves. As Daily Life in Hitler's Germany shows, Germany's cities were reduced to rubble by strategic bombing, and the country itself was torn apart and then divided in the most destructive war in modern history. Includes: - Highly illustrated account of everyday life as it affected ordinary Germands during the Third Reich, 1933-1945 - Contains first-hand accounts from German civilians and military personnel who lived through the years of Nazi rule - Written by experts on the social, political, economic, and military history of the Third Reich - Includes chapters on resistance to Nazi rule, the role of women in the Third Reich, and minorities and genocide - Illustrated with 270 black-and-white photographs showing all aspects of life in the Third Reich

Daily Life in Hitler's Germany

History

Davison, John

Seligmann, Matthew S.

World

Thomas Dunne Books

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Biographical Sketches of General Nathaniel Massie, General Duncan Mcarthur, Captain William Wells, and General Simon Kenton: Who Were Early Settlers in the Western Country

Franklin Classics

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The Game of Business

Management & Leadership

DOUBLEDAY

The game of business [Jan 01, 1977] McDonald, John ...

The game of business

Anchor Press/Doubleday

John McDonald looks at the elusive thread of opposition and conflict that runs through human interrelationships, from the striking of a bargain to the clash of war. He discusses poker; game theory, as it applies to games but mainly to business; the strategies of buyers and sellers; and finally military and other applications.

Strategy in Poker, Business and War

W.W.Norton

Whether your primary interest is to improve your card game or put together a political coalition, here you will be enjoyably instructed in an approach to strategy that has caught the imagination of a generation of readers. John McDonald looks at the elusive thread of opposition and conflict that runs through human interrelationships, from the striking of a bargain to the clash of war. He discusses poker; game theory, as it applies to games but mainly to business; the strategies of buyers and sellers; and finally military and other applications.

Strategy in Poker, Business & War

Biography & History

W.W.Norton&Company

Production Efficiency in Domesday England, 1086 (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

This fascinating study uses Domesday book data and Management Science methods to examine manorial production efficiency in Medieval Essex in 1086. This book reveals unexpected facts about economic history, and is a remarkable contribution to economic history and medieval studies. It will be of great interest to economists, management scientists, medievalists and anyone involved with Domesday studies.

Routledge

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