Books We've Created

Out of the ashes of the world’s largest lumber mill rises one of the nation’s most highly acclaimed, conservation-minded tree farms. After more than 150 years of pioneering the Pacific Northwest, a company reinvents itself to partner with New Zealand’s Maori in being Responsible to the Earth…

Publication Date: July, 2007
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Walt Disney's EPCOT dream plants the vision for a new world of sustainable, village-like communities. For the real estate professional and homebuyer alike, America is Craving Community as never before...

Publication Date: July, 2007
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“Sticking to business” pulls a hometown bank through the Great Depression, the S&L crisis and the merger frenzy into its second century as one of the nation’s few remaining mutuals. The story of Washington State’s capital city comes to life as never before in Olympia Federal Savings: The First Hundred Years…

Published December, 2006
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Out of modest homes for low-income families grows a billion-dollar company setting mixed-use development standards up and down America’s East Coast. In the two-generation process, the New South city and its attendant suburban sprawl are unintended offspring of The Builder…

Published May, 2004
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“Too dumb” to run a Carolina cotton farm, a renegade wheeler-dealer changes the course of America’s banking system. Climaxing with the dramatic takeover of Bank of America, there’s never been a banking story like this and there may never be again. It’s a business book that reads like an adventure novel, McColl: The Man with America’s Money…

Published September, 1997
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From the battle that “turned the tide” in the American Revolution to the blood-letting labor war at the nation’s center of textile manufacturing, this is the story of a whistle-stop town that grew into a city. Farmhands, Abe Lincoln’s mother, lintheads and loom lords have made their home Between Two Rivers…

Published May, 1996
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A Piedmont creek millwheel spins into high technology, sewing up success for the world’s largest industrial thread manufacturer. Here are the doffers, spinners, twisters and drivers with the attitude to make a good company great, American & Efird People: A Century of Quality…

Published January, 1991
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