The Best Commerce Business & Investing Books 2024

1. Photographer's Market: Photographer's Market (Paperback)

This professionals' guide to the world of photography covers thousands of up-to-date market listings providing insider information for magazines, book publishers, stock agencies, advertising firms, businesses, newspapers and galleries.

When photographers look for places to sell their work, they come to

2. The Spirit of the Performance Horse : Photographs and Written Reflections, Used [Hardcover]

A visual tribute to some of America's finest performance horses and most distinguished equestrians.

The Spirit of the Performance Horse : Photographs and Written Reflections, Used [Hardcover]

3. The Manufacturer's Reengineering Guide: How to use time as your competitive weapon, Used [Paperback]

A time and business management book written expressly for manufacturing companies. Great for start-ups as well.

The Manufacturer's Reengineering Guide: How to use time as your competitive weapon, Used [Paperback]

4. Navigating the Missouri : Steamboating on Nature's Highway, 1819-1935, Used [Hardcover]

The complete history of steamboating on the Missouri River Forming the most important river corridor in the trans-Mississippi West, the Missouri and its navigable tributaries were instrumental in opening the continent--but it took the steamboat to make that possible. The flat-bottomed vessel was the technological marvel of its day and provided access to the West before the railroads' arrival, encouraging settlement and fueling economic growth for decades. The complete and colorful saga of steamboating on the Missouri River is recounted, from its 1819 inception to the removal of the last commercial steamer in 1935. William E. Lass has crafted an engagingly written account that provides a panorama of transportation into and through the West--a story of the fur trade, of Indian relations, and of Euro-American settlement and development. Navigating the Missouri tells of migration and commerce on the Santa Fe Trail, the Platte River Road, and routes to the Montana gold mines. It explores the economic and political milieu of steamboating while savoring the rich social history of life on the Missouri, including the boat captains, who were the heroes of the river. Here too are insights into the operation of the steamboats, and Lass explains how the steamboat companies evolved, exploiting new opportunities and adjusting to change. Because steamboating touched so many dimensions of western expansion, Navigating the Missouri is an essential resource--a cornerstone study that complements nearly every other history of the American West.

Navigating the Missouri : Steamboating on Nature's Highway, 1819-1935, Used [Hardcover]

5. The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken?s ?booboisie? and David Brooks?s ?bobos??all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey?s The Bourgeois Virtues , a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey?s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities?from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich?overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism?s critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of ?virtue ethics? to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. High Noon , Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life?s work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism?and a surprising page-turner.

The Bourgeois Virtues : Ethics for an Age of Commerce, Used [Hardcover]

6. The Survival Game : How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and Competition, Used [Hardcover]

From a zoologist and psychologist, an astonishing look at the biological and strategic roots of human decisions Humans, like bacteria, woodchucks, chimpanzees, and other animals, compete or cooperate in order to get food, shelter, territory, and other resources to survive. But how do they decide whether to muscle out or team up with the competition?In The Survival Game , David P. Barash synthesizes the newest ideas from psychology, economics, and biology to explore and explain the roots of human strategy. Drawing on game theory-the study of how individuals make decisions-he explores the give-and-take of spouses in determining an evening's plans, the behavior of investors in a market bubble, and the maneuvers of generals on a battlefield alongside the mating and fighting strategies of "less rational" animals. Ultimately, Barash's lively and clear examples shed light on what makes our decisions human, and what we can glean from game theory and the natural world as we negotiate and compete every day.

The Survival Game : How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and Competition, Used [Hardcover]

7. Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2015 [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The annual edition of the best-selling guide to all aspects of the media and how to write and get published, the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook is now in its 108th edition. Acknowledged by the publishing industry, authors and would-be writers as the indispensable companion to navigating the world of publishing. The 80 articles are reviewed and updated each year to provide inspirational and how-to guidance on writing for newspapers, magazines, scripts for film, radio and TV; advice on writing and submitting plays, poetry, non-fiction and fiction of all genres - from fantasy to thrillers to romance; how to contact publishers and agents; managing finances as a writer; negotiating legal issues, such as copyright; understanding the editing process; self-publishing and conventional routes; digital and print. Every single one of over 4,500 listings of who to contact, where and for which disciplines across the whole media, are reviewed and most updated, with new listings added every year. The combination of up-to-date listings information and expert advice, make the Yearbook a topical and reliable resource; the perfect gift for every writer every year.

Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2015, Used [Paperback]

8. Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada, Used [Paperback]

The experience of walking down a store aisle - replete with displays, salespeople, and infinite choice - is so common we often forget retail has a short history. Retail Nation traces Canada's transformation into a modern consumer society back to an era - 1890 to 1940 - when department stores such as Eaton's ruled the shopping scene and promised to strengthen the nation. Department stores emerge as agents of modern nationalism, but the nation they helped to define - white, consumerist, middle-class - was more limited, and contested, than nostalgic portraits of the early department store suggest.

Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada, Used [Paperback]

9. Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future To Japan & How To Reclaim It, Used [Paperback]

Provides the reader with a look at how, in industry after industry, the Japanese have succeeded in surpassing the United States - and how, wittingly and unwittingly, the US has helped them.

Trading Places : How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It, Used [Paperback]

10. Better Business (4th Edition) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyBizLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyBizLab search for ISBN-10: 0134088506 /ISBN-13: 9780133920581 . That package includes ISBN-10: 0133920585 /ISBN-13: 9780133920581 and ISBN-10: 0133935485 /ISBN-13: 9780133935486 . For introduction to business courses. A better way to learn business. Better Business offers the business content students need, but in a better way. By presenting the material in a stimulating Q&A format, Better Business encourages students to come to class prepared to have better conversations and a truly engaging classroom experience. One of the most significant shifts in the business environment since the first edition of Better Business is the explosive growth of social media in all parts of business. The Fourth Edition of Better Business continues to feature social media strategies and technologies in over 85% of its chapters, as well as significant updates to the technology chapter. Better Business is is integrated with MyBizLab which gets students to interact with business, not just read about it. MyBizLab also assists instructors with their course prep, making it convenient to access and assign modern, interactive resources. Also available with MyBizLab. MyBizLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

Better Business, Used [Paperback]