Spending over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time.

It gives a definitive behind-the-scenes account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history at the time: the $25 billion leveraged buyout of the RJR Nabisco Corporation.

Few people have managed to be hugely successful in the fields of business and politics like Bernard Mannes Baruch. By the age of 30, as a broker and partner at Arthur Housman & Co., he built up a fortune speculating in commodities. He later advised American Presidents such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

In his fascinating autobiography, Baruch shares his investment philosophies and also tells the famous story of how he used the term "gamble" in describing a mining deal he was pitching to J.P. Morgan. Morgan ended the meeting instantly and never ever did business with him. Baruch did go on to do the deal with other partners and made a staggering fortune but always regretted his choice of words...

"By sticking with stocks all the time, the odds are six to one in our favor that we'll do better than the people who stick with bonds."

In this book, Peter Lynch, the Wall Street legend, shows us how to come up with a stock picking strategy, and tells how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts of the so-called old boy's finance elite.

This is one of the most thorough books on both the history and the specific details of the mergers & acquisitions game.

Big Deal is about this high stakes game of corporate mergers and acquisitions. Author Bruce Wasserstein, himself a participant in many of these deals through his firm Wasserstein, Perella & Co., writes a highly readable and fascinating account that covers the history, personalities, and mechanics of mergers and acquisitions.

Every entrepreneur, every aspiring entrepreneur, must read this book.

The Bloomberg terminal is ubiquitous on Wall Street. The man whose name is on each terminal, and who is today the multi-billionaire Mayor of New York City, tells the story about how he's built his business and his life.

"Investors discount conglomerates 30 percent because they believe there is some kind of poison in the system.  And the medicine to cure it is to break the things up."

This book offers a spirited approach to the business phenomenon of the break-up of conglomerates.  It successfully argues that the need for large entities is not fiscally prudent, and that the break-up is the most valuable business tool to make them profitable again.

The best book ever written on the investing legend!

Tons of books have been written about Warren Buffett. Some educational institutions have even created courses based on his business philosophies. But this book, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein, is widely agreed to be the best one ever written.

When you finish reading it, you will agree too.

For over three decades, Thomas W. Weisel has been one of the leading figures of the financial scene that blossomed along with Silicon Valley, becoming an integral part of its phenomenal success.

In Capital Instincts, you'll follow Thom Weisel from his youth as an extraordinarily talented athlete from Milwaukee, to his present position as one of the most influential investment bankers of our time.