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Since the World Began: Walt Disney World--The First 25 Years
Jeff Kurtti, Walt Disney Company · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorFrom Scratch: Inside the Food Network
Allen Salkin · 434 pages
"The autobiography the Food Network would write if it could write one--a candid, behind-the-scenes look at how one network launched one of the biggest cultural waves of the last 20 years"-- "Big personalities, high drama--the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of the Food Network, now about to celebrate its twentieth anniversary: the business, media, and cultural juggernaut that changed the wa
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
Jeff Ryan · 300 pages
This is a history, review, and business analysis book, covering the Mario games by Nintendo, on various sytemes. It gives a overview of the companies history, as well as a game by game analysis of the gameplay elemts that changed from one game to the next, from games like Donkey Kong, to the Super Mario, and spinn off series. There are also reviews of the Super Mario Bros., film and the cartoons.
Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland
David Koenig · 246 pages
DisneyWar
James B. Stewart · 608 pages
The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war. “When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Whistle While You Work,” “The Happiest Place on Earth”—these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy Disney, chairman of Wal
Jacked: The Unauthorised Behind-The-Scenes Story of Grand Theft Auto
David Kushner · 304 pages
"The book explains how British prep school brothers Sam and Dan Houser took their dream of fame, fortune, and the glamor of American pop culture and transformed it into a worldwide videogame blockbuster. Written by David Kushner, author of Masters of Doom and a top journalist on gaming, and drawn from over ten years of interviews and research, including firsthand knowledge of Grand Theft Auto's cr
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
Zac Bissonnette · 266 pages
"A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s . In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire-without advertising or big-box distribution. Beanie Babi
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
Sean Howe · 490 pages
Interweaves history, anecdotes, and analysis with more than one hundred interviews with Marvel insiders to reveal how Marvel, which introduced brightly costumed caped crusaders in the 1960s, became one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America.
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales · 763 pages
A history of cable sports channel ESPN, based on interviews with nearly five hundred current and former employees, announcers and analysts, as well as sports stars including LeBron James, Peyton Manning, and Jeff Gordon.
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Neal Gabler · 865 pages
The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films--most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us h
We told you so
Tom Spurgeon, Dean, Michael (Editor at Fantagraphics Books) · 696 pages
Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look At Making the Magic Real
The Imagineers, C.E. Jones, Walt Disney Company · 200 pages
How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise
Chris Taylor · 500 pages
Traces the history of the film series from the difficult creation of the original film to the preparations for a new trilogy, providing portraits of the people who labored behind the scenes to turn George Lucas' idea into a legend.
The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon - The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
Steven L. Kent · 616 pages
This book is a history of the Video Game Industry, from types of electronic entertainment that were available before video games, to the improvements up until the year 2001. It begins with a look at the origins of Pinball, and other novelty games, then on to games that were played on giant computers, and then finally to the invention of the Video game, and the growth of the industry. Each section
Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World
Carl Hiaasen · 83 pages
"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. ... Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning God's work."--Team rodent.
The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport―A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in America, Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels
Joshua Robinson · 304 pages
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Ron Chernow · 812 pages
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
Douglas Edwards · 416 pages
Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a rocket to an Edsel. Edwards, Employee Number 59, offers the first inside view of Google, giving readers a chance to fully experience the bizarre mix of camaraderie and competition at this phenomenal company. Edwards, Google's first director of marketing and brand management, describes it as it happened. We see the first, pioneering steps
The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary (Business Books)
Joseph A. Michelli · 208 pages
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SUCCESS!You already know the Starbucks story. Since 1992, its stock has risen a staggering 5,000 percent! The genius of Starbucks success lies in its ability to create personalized customer experiences, stimulate business growth, generate profits, energize employees, and secure customer loyalty-all at the same time.The Starbucks Experience contains a robust blend of home-brew
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
Ken Segall · 256 pages
Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
Fred Vogelstein · 260 pages
"Behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google--and how it's reshaping the way we think about technology The rise of smartphones and tablets has altered the business of making computers. At the center of this change are Apple and Google, two companies whose philosophies, leaders, and commercial acumen have steamrolled the competition. In the age of the Android and the iPad, these corporations
The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
Joel Glenn Brenner · 375 pages
Corporate candy giants Milton Hershey and Forrest Mars built business empires out of one of the world's most magical, sought-after substances: chocolate. In The Emperors of Chocolate, Joël Glenn Brenner--the first person to ever gain access to the highly secretive companies of Hershey and Mars--spins a unique story that takes us inside a world as mysterious as Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Pack
Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
William D. Cohan · 662 pages