WThe Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine is a book by Charles Petzold, published in 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
WBad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" is a non-fiction book by the American astronomer Phil Plait, also known as "the Bad Astronomer". The book was published in 2002 and deals with various misunderstandings about space and astronomy, such as sounds being audible in space.
WBrooklyn Brewery is a brewery in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It was started in 1988 by Steve Hindy and Tom Potter.
WThe Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created is a nonfiction book on world history and economics by American author William Bernstein.
WCliffsNotes are a series of student study guides. The guides present and create literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. Detractors of the study guides claim they let students bypass reading the assigned literature. The company claims to promote the reading of the original work and does not view the study guides as a substitute for that reading.
WA Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation (2007) is a book by veteran Wall Street risk manager Richard Bookstaber. The book is noted for its foreshadowing of the financial crisis of 2007–08. Bookstaber had a "a front-row seat" for such crises as the stock market crash of 1987 and the demise of Long-Term Capital Management, and his book is built around themes drawn from those experiences.
WEconomics of Strategy is a textbook by David Besanko, David Dranove, Scott Schaefer, and Mark Shanley. The book offers a solid economic foundation for strategic analysis. The text was initially published in 1996 by John Wiley & Sons and, as of 2017, available in its seventh edition. Economics of Strategy is one of the leading books of its kind and has earned loyalty both as a classroom tool and as a professional reference book. The signature book covers feature famous impressionist paintings. The Economics of strategy, 5th édition has been translated into French by Thierry Burger-Helmchen, Julien Pénin and Caroline Hussler, under the title "Principes économiques de stratégie", edited by DeBoeck.
WEconomyths is a book by the mathematician David Orrell about the problems with mainstream economics, written for the general reader. The book was initially published in 2010 by Icon Books in the UK with the subtitle Ten Ways That Economics Gets it Wrong, and by John Wiley & Sons in North America. Icon published a revised version in 2012, with the subtitle How the Science of Complex Systems Is Transforming Economic Thought. Translated versions were also published in Brazil, China, Japan and Korea. In 2017, Icon published a revised and expanded version with the subtitle 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong.
WEngage!: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web is a bestselling book by speaker, digital analyst, and author Brian Solis. In Engage!, Solis diagnoses the new world of social media, mobile and how businesses and individuals can best market their products or services. Actor Ashton Kutcher wrote the foreword.
WHow an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes (2010) is an illustrated polemic on various economic topics by Peter Schiff and Andrew Schiff. The book allegorically explores such topics as inflation, deficit spending, central banking, international trade, and the housing bubble and credit collapse of 2008. The Washington Times stated that the book "[conveys] the often intuitive ideas of economics through an engaging, fictitious story richly illustrated with amusing cartoons."
WInvestment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset is a textbook on valuation, corporate finance, and investment management by Aswath Damodaran. The text was initially published by John Wiley & Sons on October 11, 1995, and is now available in its third edition as a part of Wiley Finance series.
WThe Leadership Challenge is a suite of books, training products and assessments based on the book written by James Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, published by Wiley. First published in 1987, the book's sixth edition was released in 2017.
WThe Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns is a 2007 and 2017 book on index investing, by John C. Bogle, the founder and former CEO of the Vanguard Group. He focuses on index funds, which will give the investor the average market return, and on keeping investing costs low, so that the index fund investor will consistently do better than other investors, after costs. Trying to beat the market "is a loser's game," according to Bogle and "the more the managers and brokers take, the less investors make."
WMcKinsey’s Marvin Bower: Vision, Leadership and the Creation of Management Consulting is a book by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim, one of the first female partners of McKinsey. The book is about Marvin Bower, McKinsey visionary leader who transformed the company from an accounting and engineering practice into one of the world’s premier management consulting firms and who is considered to be the founder of management consulting.
WNaked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers (ISBN 978-0-471-74719-2), is a book written by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, published in 2006 by John Wiley & Sons. The book is about how blogs, bloggers and the blogosphere is changing how businesses communicate with their consumers and other stakeholders. The authors discuss more than 50 case studies of companies and business leaders, some that have been helped and hurt by their interactions with bloggers and encourages businesses about the best and most successful ways of blogging.
WNo One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller is a book by whistleblower Harry Markopolos about his investigation into the Madoff investment scandal and how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission failed to react to his warnings. The book was released on March 2, 2010 by John Wiley & Sons.
WThe Only Three Questions that Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't is a book on investment advice. It was released in December 2006 and spent three months on The New York Times list of "Hardcover business bestsellers" . It was also a Wall Street Journal and a BusinessWeek best seller.
WPaving Wall Street: Experimental Economics and the Quest for the Perfect Market is a book about finance, experimental economics and market design, written by Ross Miller, published in 2002. One reviewer described the book as explaining "developments in finance, game theory, and experimental economics to give a clear and up-to-date picture of rocket science as it is applied at the highest levels on Wall Street."
WPawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned is a non-fiction book written by author and journalist Cathy Scott that documents the author's experience with an animal welfare group and the rescue and reunions of lost animals with their owners in the Gulf region. The book, with a foreword by actor Ali MacGraw, was released in August 2008 on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
WPoorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game is a book by Paul Midler, which chronicles his years spent working with American businessmen whose companies' products are manufactured in China. Poorly Made in China describes the practice of quality fade—the deliberate and secret effort of Chinese manufacturers to widen profit margins through the reduction of quality inputs.
WReminiscences of a Stock Operator is a 1923 roman à clef by American author Edwin Lefèvre. It is told in the first person by a character inspired by the life of stock trader Jesse Livermore up to that point.
WThe Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company is a book written by Charles Koch in which he delineates his philosophy of Market Based Management (MBM). Koch, the CEO of Koch Industries, Inc., wrote it in 2007. While many similarly-titled books by other authors exist, T. Boone Pickens argues that Koch's immense personal business success lends credibility to the book's concept.
WStar Wars and History is a book published on November 1, 2012, edited by Janice Liedl and Nancy R. Reagin.
WTwitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time is a book about Twitter by Joel Comm published in 2009. It introduces readers to Twitter, explaining how to create a Twitter account, market their brands, and gain Twitter followers.
WThe Warren Buffett Way, a book by author Robert Hagstrom, which outlines the business and investment principles of value investing practiced by American businessman and investor Warren Buffett.
WYou Only Live Once: The Roadmap to Financial Wellness and a Purposeful Life is a 2016 book written by Jason Vitug. The book sets to redefine the YOLO mantra that has been used to define Generation Y or millennials, to set a mindset shift to cultivate a healthy and wealthy lifestyle for a lifetime. The book focuses on a three step process called ACT, an acronym for awareness, creating a plan, and taking control steps, outlined by the author. The books aim is to make readers define the life they want to live before setting financial goals. You Only Live Once: The Roadmap to Financial Wellness and a Purposeful Life is written in a simple conversation tone based on Vitug's financial experiences and conversations with others