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Are you on a quest for a fulfilling career that aligns with your passions? Do you aspire to make meaningful connection and ascend the corporate ladder? "Skyscraper" is your blueprint for achieving these ambitions. Targeted for both newcomers to corporate America and seasoned professionals in search of direction, "Skyscraper" introduces a revolutionary approach to career development. At its core lies the Skyscraper Method, a philosophy that merges effective networking with a profound passion for your profession.

The boy on the gurney is dying. Held at gunpoint by a subterranean terrorist, Dr. Rayne Garcia fights to save his life. One false move will put everyone in danger. She's seriously regretting volunteering at the third-floor free clinic when she usually works in one of the Eastern Coastal City...

In Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century, Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and the way wealth and power have operated to reshape the urban landscape. Flowers narrates this modern tale by closely examining the creation and reception of three significant sites: the Empire State Building, the Seagram Building, and the World Trade Center.

As they recount the events surrounding the disappearance of their toddler—one with a tendency to bite—two parents cope with grief in vastly different ways. While the father wrestles with feelings of guilt, the mother is convinced she’s spotted the boy in frightening TV news reports...though let’s just say he looks nothing like the precocious little boy they remember from a decade ago.

We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al—himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world—reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this worldwide boom.

A “thrilling” (Financial Times) fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires’ Row—from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal “Deeply informative...

The Skyscraper Curse is Dr. Mark Thornton's definitive work on booms and busts, and it explains why only Austrian economists really understand them. It makes business cycle theory accessible to a whole new 21st-century audience. And they need it, especially those under 40. Many of the brilliant quants working on Wall Street and at the Fed barely remember the Crash of 2008, much less understand it. But Mark Thornton does, and his book is a warning about overheated equity markets, overinflated housing prices, and clueless central bankers.

At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow's Titan, and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, Great Fortune is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that captures the heart and spirit of New York at its apotheosis. 

Skyscrapers are an American original. More than 100 years ago, towering marvels like New York's Flatiron Building thrilled the public and transformed cities across the country. Now take a tour of the best of these elegant landmarks still standing today in 31 U.S. and 5 international cities. Packed with colorful tales of the powerful executives and self-made millionaires who commissioned the country's first skyscrapers, MultiStories also traces the emergence of modern corporations in banking, media, transportation, insurance, manufacturing, entertainment, and other industries that fed the ...

Grace Harper has spent her life grounded in the place, and the people, she loves. Holden Cross has never had a reason to put down roots anywhere. But on a rain-slicked trail above Evergreen Hills, that all begins to change. Grace has always felt most at home beneath the open sky, teaching her students about the natural world she’s loved since childhood. When a flashy development firm threatens to pave over Oak Hollow Acres, she’s determined to protect the land that shaped her… even if it means standing toe-to-toe with the company’s infuriating, unexpectedly compelling CEO. Holden ...

It should have been simple. Go to the ball, meet the prince, and secure his patronage for my favorite charity. But beneath the mask, the brooding beast of a man was not at all who I expected. He was dark and intense and eerily quiet. When I left, I could still feel the ghost of his touch branded into my skin. He haunted my dreams, but I never expected to see him again. Then he came for me.

The silence of the woods was just the beginning. Caleb Mercer thought he left the nightmare behind in the Bitterroot wilderness. But the ancient, towering terror that hunts by sound hasn't forgotten him—and it has followed him into the sprawling concrete labyrinth of the city. Haunted by an unending, deafening ringing in his ears, Caleb is thrust into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. The entity has evolved, turning the urban electrical grid and subway tunnels into a viral acoustic weapon. Worse, Caleb isn't the only one tracking the anomaly. A shadowy, well-funded black-ops foundation is ...

A novel about late nineteenth century Chicago and the rich and the poor who made the city grow from a prairie village to a thriving metropolis.

From one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers—a “fascinating” (Daily Mail, London) and “informative” (Publishers Weekly) account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe. The world’s skyscrapers have brought us awe and wonder, and...

The Alabaster Tower is a marvel of modern engineering, a sixty-two-story giant of glass and steel. But when the clock strikes midnight, a routine security drill plunges the skyscraper into a terrifying, unnatural silence. The lockdown is not a drill. It's a trap. Mara Palumbo, the building's sole engineer, discovers the tower has been sealed not for a test, but for a hunt. Alien creatures now crawl the corridors, their webs choking the skyscraper's intricate systems and turning it into a massive, multi-level web. Trapped between floors, a rookie security guard and a handful of civilians ...

Embark on an intellectual odyssey through the grand tapestry of design and innovation that has shaped our world with "Frameworks of Innovation"—your gateway to understanding how our built environment has been transformed through creativity, engineering, and vision. Are you intrigued by the sweeping curves of modern skyscrapers? Ever wonder what inspires the mind behind a building that breathes and lives? "Frameworks of Innovation" provides a deep dive into the structures that have defined our landscape, from the first brick laid to the futuristic constructs that touch the clouds. Journey ...

A freak seismic event. A wall of water. A skyscraper that is about to become a tomb. Evelyn came to the waterfront to find herself, but now she is fighting just to breathe. When a massive surge from Lake Michigan slams into the Glass Harbor towers, the city’s aggressive modernity becomes a vertical trap. The elevators are dead. The lower floors are gone. And the building is beginning to scream. Trapped twelve stories up, Evelyn must lead a group of strangers through a landscape of shattered glass and failing concrete. From a harrowing ledge crossing in a howling gale to a desperate ...

A woman supervises the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge because the men in charge can’t. A rocket scientist designs a machine powerful enough to carry humans to the Moon. An ironworker builds a tower in Paris that the whole city hates, until it becomes the most visited monument on Earth. Inside Extraordinary Engineers, the latest volume in the bestselling Famous in STEM series, you’ll meet the builders, inventors, and visionaries who turned impossible ideas into the structures, machines, and systems that define the modern world. Discover the engineers who built the future: • ...

In Battle of the Skyscrapers, we take you through the evolution of humanity's tallest architectural wonders. Crossing oceans and spanning the years since the first skyscraper, this book clues you in on how different eras and cities have aimed for the sky over the decades, observing the shifts in culture, economy, wealth, power, and technology that have driven humanity's race to go even higher.

Pen's life is about secrets: the secret of the city's spirits, deities and monsters, living just beyond the notice of modern Londoners; the secret of Pen's intricate scars that disfigure her so cruelly; and the most closely guarded secret of all: Parva, her mirror-sister, forged from her reflections in a school bathroom mirror.