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Urban Outlaw: Dirt Don't Slow You Down

by Magnus Walker

Magnus Walker is one of life's originals. Serial entrepreneur, fashion designer, TV presenter, motivational speaker and one of the world's most prolific Porsche collectors, the dreadlocked, tattooed hoarder...

Second Shift: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement

by David Hollister, Ray Tadgerson & David Closs

The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.S. manufacturing city

When car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person-the city's newly elected...

Seoul Man

by Frank Ahrens

Recounting his three years in Korea, the highest-ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai sheds light on a business culture very few Western journalists ever experience, in this revealing, moving, and hilarious...

Car Crazy: The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age

by G. Wayne Miller

In Car Wars, G. Wayne Miller, author of Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them and Men and Speed: A Wild Ride through NASCAR's Breakout Season, takes readers back...

Car Wars

by John J. Fialka

The resurgence of the electric car in modern life is a tale of adventurers, men and women who bucked the complete dominance of the fossil fueled car to seek something cleaner, simpler and cheaper. Award-winning...

The Real Deal Inside the Car Business: Car Buying Made Simple

by Brian Giblin

HOW TO NAVIGATE YOUR WAY THROUGH THE CAR BUYING EXPERIENCE . This book will provide you with valuable insight into the methods and practices used by car dealers today. It will teach you the art of car buying...

The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future

by Levi Tillemann

The Great Race recounts the exciting story of a century-long battle among automakers for market share, profit, and technological dominance—and the thrilling race to build the car of the future.

The world’s...

Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture

by James B. Twitchell

There are close to 8.5 million RVs on the U.S. highways and roads today, and if you are a man in your fifties, there is a good chance you have owned or are about to own a recreational vehicle. Winnebago Nation...

Auto Brand: Building Successful Car Brands for the Future

by Anders Parment

An insightful analysis of how in today's environmentally aware, financially challenging and globalised world leading car brands have survived and thrived, and a strategic guide to future success.

The Impacts of Automotive Plant Closure: A Tale of Two Cities

by Andrew Beer & Holli Evans

Economic restructuring has been a notable feature of so-called mature industrial economies such as the UK and Australia in the last two decades, with deregulation, privatisation, technological change and globalisation...

From Farmer to World Leader - Delfingen

by Claudine Le Tourneur d'Ison

The story of Delfingen is not only the story of Bernard Streit who remarkably developed the company but it also closely relates to the astonishing path of the Streit family, men and women of sturdy character,...

Driven to Succeed: How Frank Hasenfratz Grew Linamar from Guelph to Global

by Rod McQueen & Susan M. Papp

Hungarian-born Frank Hasenfratz fled his native land in 1956 after the revolution to free his nation from Soviet domination failed. He eventually settled in Guelph, Ontario, where he founded Linamar, now the...

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

by Beth Tompkins Bates

In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making...

American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company

by Bryce G. Hoffman

The inside story of the eipc turnaround of Ford Motor Company under the leadership of CEO Alan Mulally.

At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry...

Car Wars: Fifty Years of Backstabbing, Infighting, And Industrial Espionage in the Global Market

by Mantle Jonathan

An "astonishing...eye-opening chronicle" (Publisher's Weekly) of backstabbing, infighting, and industrial theft and espionage in the world's biggest business. It makes empires; it destroys economies; it shapes...

Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business

by Bob Lutz

A legend in the car industry reveals the philosophy that's starting to turn General Motors around.

In 2001, General Motors hired Bob Lutz out of retirement with a mandate to save the company by making great...

Cheating The Dealer: Classified: Author Reveals The Top Secrets To Saving Thousands On Your Car Repair

by Steven E Shaw

Cheating the Dealer is Steven Shaw's way of informing consumers of the real dealership world.  Customers will finally be armed with the knowledge and tools to ensure a winning experience at the dealership. ...

Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry

by Steven Rattner

The inside story of how the Obama administration masterminded the rescue of the U.S. auto industry   

The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream

by Micheline Maynard

Today, many Americans regard globalization as a significant threat to our work force, and to our very way of life. As unemployment soars, the American automotive and manufacturing industries crumble, countless...

Managing Careers at Michelin

by Daniel BOULANGER & Alan DUKE

At a time of increasing debate over the advantages of careers in big companies, here is a view from the inside of what takes place at Michelin. This legendary company, renowned throughout the world but still...