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The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM

The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM

The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM
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The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM

por Maney, Kevin

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Muito Bom/Very Good minus DJ
ISBN 10
0471414638
ISBN 13
9780471414636
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New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Edition Not Specified. Very Good/Very Good minus DJ. 8vo = over 9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Hardcover. Clean interior and exterior. No highlights or markings in text. Deckled edges. Strong and tight binding. Corners are bumped. DJ is glossy, clean, crisp.

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The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest business figures. Over the course of forty-two years, Thomas J. Watson took a failing business called The Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company and transformed it into IBM, the world's first and most famous high-tech company. The Maverick and His Machine is the first modern biography of this business titan. Maney secured exclusive access to hundreds of boxes of Watson's long-forgotten papers, and he has produced the only complete picture of Watson the man and Watson the legendary business leader. These uncovered documents reveal new information about how Watson bet the company in the 1920s on tabulating machines-the forerunners to computers-and how he daringly beat the Great Depression of the 1930s. The documents also lead t...

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Livreiro
Heritage Books US (US)
Nº do estoque do livreiro
NF55589
Título
The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM
Autor
Maney, Kevin
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n/a
Estado do livro
Usado - Muito Bom
Condição de sobrecapa
Very Good minus DJ
Edição
Edition Not Specified
Encadernação
Capa dura
ISBN 10
0471414638
ISBN 13
9780471414636
Editorial
John Wiley & Sons
Local de publicação
New Jersey
Data de publicação
2003
Páginas
485pp
Dimensão
8vo = over 9"
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Our bookshop is located in the historic town library building of Southampton, Massachusetts. Southampton lies within the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a view of Pomeroy Mountain to the West and Mt. Tom to the North. It is situated between the artistic, vibrant communities of Easthampton and Northampton and the city of Westfield. We have a collection of over 40,000 books with many more waiting to be unboxed and squeezed onto our shelves. The large double-door front entrance will lead you to our main floor where we hold a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as a good selection of scarce and rare editions. The original fireplace is surrounded by hardbacks and you can peer out the original nine-foot windows. Take the staircase to the basement and you will find our large children's section and many shelves full of paperbacks. Our physical address is 225 College Highway/Route 10. Our mailing address is 241 College Highway & Clark St. P.O. Box 100 Southampton, MA 01073. The store hours indicated are by appointment only Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday you can stop in. Please call to schedule an appointment if you can't make it to the store on the weekends from 11 am to 3 pm.

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