The Kingmakers reveals the world of high-powered venture capitalists, following them as they interview hopeful entrepreneurs, select boards for funded companies, shepherd companies toward an IPO, and decide which industries and what companies to invest in.

Despite unnerving swings in individual stock valuations-or perhaps because of them-many knowledgeable observers, author Cynthia Robbins-Roth included, still believe that the 21st century can and will become the "Age of Biotech."

Most people associate deflation with the 1930s: depression, unemployment, and a spectacular stock market crash. But A. Gary Shilling doesn't think that deflation is all that bad--in fact, he says, if you're prepared, deflation can be a good thing.

In this book, Robert Solomon--author of the definitive history of the monetary order between 1945 and 1981--presents the first comprehensive history of aspects of this revolution in international finance.

An essential resource for the new or seasoned investor. This accessible book is a practical guide to the financial markets. Designed to help readers gain sufficient understanding and knowledge to invest wisely and confidently, it covers all the elements necessary to become financially "street smart," from products, players, and procedures to rules, regulators, and risk/reward trade-off. This authoritative resource is an essential tool for anyone aspiring to become a savvy investor.

In this cautionary tale about the inextricable linkage between economic booms and busts, James Grant describes the cyclical nature of business and argues that every financial boom has historically ended in crisis.

All stock-market investors embrace the motto "Buy low, sell high." Few act accordingly, however, for to do so would require that we go against the crowd, buying stocks that are out of favor and selling Wall Street's darlings.

For decades economists have assumed that poor countries can't support capital markets. This book puts the lie to that. Its wide-ranging exploration of twentieth-century financial institutions reveals that poor countries can't develop without capital markets.

This book shows how to successfully research a company-who to see and what to ask-before investing any money. It shows investors how to use innovative techniques and fundamental business analysis to spot Wall Street bargains.

The editors of Forbes magazine present inspiring personal accounts of individuals who overcame daunting obstacles to achieve success. In the tradition of the best-selling Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time, here is a fascinating, encouraging collection of new profiles, each featuring an uplifting "comeback."

The Forbes Book of Business Quotations is a compilation of 14,173 useful, funny, and all around great insights on business from eighty years of Forbes magazine's "Thoughts on the Business of Life" features. The quotes are drawn from historical and contemporary world leaders in business, academia and politics. The Deluxe Edition features a leather case, gold foil and ribbon.

Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist at Apple Computer and an iconoclastic corporate tactician who now works with high-tech startups in Silicon Valley, is back in print with his seventh book: Rules for Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services.

Re-released with a new foreword, Bernard Baruch: The Adventures Of A Wall Street Legend tells the inspiring story of an extraordinary financier who made his first million at the turn of the century and was eventually asked to share his knowledge with every U.S. president from Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy.

This definitive biography reveals how college dropout Bill Gates positioned himself and his company to dominate the world's PC software market--and delivers valuable historical insight into the attitudes and practices that put the man and the organization under fire from competitors and regulators.

Historian and journalist Daniel Gross has produced a collection of profiles of corporate high-achievers that is exceptionally informative, extremely entertaining, and endlessly inspiring. Gross examines 20 pioneering risk-takers who refused to compromise and were ultimately rewarded for their efforts. From the richest man in America during Revolutionary times (Robert Morris) to its richest man today (Bill Gates), the book tracks industrialists, corporate kings, financers, and visionaries, including J.P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Ray Kroc, and Mary Kay Ash in a manner that shows why all are worth studying.

George Gilder, the tech-friendly author of the well-received chip treatise, The Meaning of the Microcosm, and publisher of the Gilder Technology Report, has brought forth Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World, another work of technical prose that's sure to appeal to both tech-heads and non-technical folks alike.

Hard Green, by conservative engineer-attorney Peter Huber, pulls off a neat trick: redefining the terms of discussion to win by default. Environmentalists will be surprised to learn that green rightfully refers only to conservation of wilderness lands--certainly a noble cause, and just about the only green issue likely to fire up traditional conservatives.

Paul Klebnikov tells the incredible story of Boris Berezovsky, a one-time Russian car dealer who assembled a huge--and illicit--fortune after the collapse of Communism. "This individual had risen out of nowhere to become the richest businessman in Russia and one of the most powerful individuals in the country," writes Klebnikov, a respected reporter for Forbes.

Virginia Postrel smashes conventional political boundaries in this libertarian manifesto. World-views should be defined not by how they view the present, she says, but the future.

Two-time presidential candidate Steve Forbes lays out his political vision in A New Birth of Freedom. Readers won't become very familiar with Forbes the man, but they will definitely get to know what Forbes thinks about the issues of the day.

Brimelow uses government data and economic literature to argue that the 1965 Immigration Act has accidentally triggered a wave of unprecedented immigration which, while bringing no aggregate economic benefit to Americans, must inevitably transform, and could conceivably destroy, their nation and its political institutions.

In Christopher Buckley's hilarious fourth novel, Washington, D.C. is, naturally enough, a place of sex, lies, and videotape. Unfortunately for Little Green Men's pundit protagonist, it is also the HQ of Majestic Twelve, a covert government project.

In this collection of 20 years of occasional pieces for such magazines as the New Yorker and the New Republic, he ranges from deadpan parody to devastating takes on all manner of American preoccupations, from celebrity to fly fishing to the Times bestseller list.

Christopher Buckley's satirical gift shines in this hilarious look at the ironies of "personal freedom" and the unbearable smugness of political correctness. Bracing in its cynicism, Thank You for Smoking is a delightful meander off the beaten path of mainstream American ethics.

The most complete volume ever published on The Forbes Magazine Collection of Fabergé - 288 pages with 120 color plates. Reflecting the impressive array of the Fabergé objets d'art, Fabergé: The Forbes Collection is sure to delight readers and artists alike.