Best books by genre: Business & Investing

The Promise of American Life is the book of Herbert Croly, the man who started The new Republic, a famous American journal. It’s said that after reading this book Theodore Roosevelt adopted the New Nationalism.
Croly thought that American values of liberalism and individualism were substituted by that of industrialism and urbanism. He suggested the new political doctrine, mixing nationalism, social responsibility and care about others. He also insisted on centralization of power in the Federal Government to make democracy stronger.
If you want to have several hours of wise thoughts and great ideas, this book is for you.

The plot of the book is a carrying-away science-fiction work. It narrates about Corn Maxwell who spent his early age on the planet of Poictesme where one of the armies was based during the System Star War. When the war ended, the army left the planet having destroyed their bases and equipment which they had over there. However, one piece of equipment got lost and should be found. It is a military super computer called Merlin. With the help of it any problem could be solved. And everyone understood that life would change a lot depending on who would find this computer first. The main character Corn has a mission to go and research computers and find Merlin. Conn after learning a lot comes back but nobody has ever seen the computer; everyone just talk about it a lot. The life on the planet becomes fussy and nervous as all inhabitants want to change their life for the better. And Conn understand that he needs to find Merlin. This book might be called a real masterpiece by H.Beam Piper as in it he mixes adventure and thriller. The end of the book is very unexpected so it will keep readers attentive till the very end.

Andrew Dickson White, academic, ambassador and author, offers a detailed examination of the inflation, which took place in France of the 1790s: the reasons and consequences. The book describes irrational human behavior in times of financial crises, when currency had sunk to about one three-hundredth part of its nominal value and, after that, to nothing. Inquiring into the subject and the chain of events that occurred, White tried to dissuade the US Government of printing its own paper money.

A novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist and short story writer of the 19th century. Hawthorne spent a year and a half in Italy, gathering materials for this work. Thus, detailed descriptions of Italian sculpture, painting, architecture of Ancient Rome and other point of interest take here a considerable place.
The plot of the “The Marble Faun” is based on a motive of the influence of the committed crime on the following life of the criminal-character.
A young man, very handsome but primitive, being in love, murders a stranger, who chased his beloved. The emotional experience, evoked by the crime - guilty conscience, fear and remorse – stimulate his further spiritual growth.

The book is intended for those who work with network flows, optimization and network programming as well as everyone who is interested in these topics and want to broaden their knowledge. This is a study book representing an introduction to network flow from the classical and modern points of view. Network Flows contains a number of theories, algorithms and applications addressing the problems of the shortest path, maximum flow and minimum cost flow.

Nat Nason was a simple village boy who lives in poverty. He has nothing but an extremely strong wish to make his life better. Living in the farm is quite difficult for him, and after having a quarrel with his greedy uncle, with whom he lived, he decided to go away. Nat had money and it was a struggle to get to the big city, where he thought fame and luck already waited for him. Accidently the boy obtained a considerable sum of money, which he decided to invest into his so called business. But a swindler quickly scammed the boy, and opened Nat's eyes to the fact that he was not as astute as he considered himself to be. The lesson he was taught appeared to be quite valuable, and from that moment the country boy did his best to not alone win success but to deserve it. He worked a lot, often surrounded by serious difficulties, and what the result of his struggle was, will be found in the pages which go next. Writing this novel author wanted to show the difference between quiet careless life in the country place and in a great fussy city, and especially as that difference shows itself to the eyes of a country boy. Many country guys imagine themselves conquering the big city, winning success and becoming wealthy; obviously they will not think that way after they have read Nat's story. More than once, in spite of his stamina and courage, Nat came close to making a complete failure of what he had started out to do, and his success in the end was not that great as he expected.

Franz Oppenheimer was a German sociologist and political economist. Oppenheimer's views are libertarian and he considered himself to be a liberal socialist. He was greatly influenced by such anarchistic thinkers as Proudhon and Kropotkin but also by libertarians such as Henry George and in line with the thinking of Albert Jay Nock. Oppenheimer sees the state as being born in violence and resulting from the oppression of one class by another. However, he does not completely condemn the state, remaining neutral in this book and maintaining the stance of a classical liberal. Oppenheimer's views are also tinted with a belief in progress, democracy, and evolutionism, and as such he believed that the state could eventually be overcome and result in a democratic society of freemen. This book is an important read for the serious student of history. It adds that extra level of knowledge that one would otherwise not even think about.

A vegetarian cookery book by Daniel Florence. Contains numerous recipes both for those who do not use milk and eggs and who do. Here you can find recipes for yeast bread, cheese dishes and nutmeat dishes. Everyday food products turned into wonderful recipes for your pleasure and enjoyment.

A work that offers readers the basic ideas of becoming a successful salesperson was written by Orison Swett Marden, an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement, the founder of Success Magazine. His large body of written material has helped, and still does, countless thousands of people the world over to come into a better understanding of the principles of prosperity and success.

The Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company a Romance of Millions is devoted to the description of the American steel industry and the role it played at the end of the 19th century. Moreover, the book gives you a profound insight into the life of the most famous owners of the steel industry corporations. The Carnegie Steel Co. is taken as an example of such companies. This enterprise was founded by a group of men and the book contains a number of scenes devoted to the private life of them. Besides, at the end of the book it is possible to find an appendix which contains the list of pleadings of Henry Frick against Andrew Carnegie. The author of the story James Howard Bridge knew Andrew Carnegie closely as he helped Mr. Carnegie in his literary work.