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Wild Ride

Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination

by Adam Lashinsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017

In your pocket is something amazing: a quick and easy way to summon a total stranger who will take you anywhere you’d like. In your hands is something equally amazing: the untold story of Uber’s meteoric rise, and the massive ambitions of its larger-than-life founder and CEO. Before Travis...
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Reinventing Fire

Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era

by Amory Lovins
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011

Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing...
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by Geoffrey Cann, Rachael Goydan
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019

The oil and gas industry is at a crossroads.Recent low prices, rapidly growing alternative fuels like renewables, the permanent swing from peak oil to super abundance, shifting consumer preferences, and global pressures to decarbonize suggest a challenged industry for the foreseeable future. Digital...
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Friends, Followers and the Future

How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media

by Rory O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012

There’s a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business, and engage in politics. Share and share alike-the numbers say it all as billions of people worldwide flock to online media and...
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Mexican Multinationals

Building Multinationals in Emerging Markets

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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018

Over the past two decades, emerging market multinationals have become an important force in international business. This book provides a better understanding of the actions and strategies used by firms from mid-sized emerging markets to upgrade their capabilities and become successful multinationals....
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Lean Production for Competitive Advantage

A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition

by John Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

Lean Production for Competitive Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices, Second Edition introduces Lean philosophy and illustrates the effective application of Lean tools with real-world case studies. From fundamental concepts to integrated planning and control...
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by D.N. Jarrett
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Cockpit Engineering provides an understandable introduction to cockpit systems and a reference to current concepts and research. The emphasis throughout is on the cockpit as a totality, and the book is accordingly comprehensive. The first chapter is an overview of how the modern cockpit has evolved...
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The Next Big Thing Is Really Small

How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business

by Jack Uldrich, Deb Newberry
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2003

nanotechnology \na-no--tek-'nä-l -je-\ n (1987): the science of manipulating material at the atomic level Although nanotechnology deals with the very small—a nanometer is 1/80,000th the diameter of a human hair—it is going to be huge. From the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the...
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The Attention Merchants

The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

One of the Best Books of the Year **The San Francisco Chronicle * The Philadelphia Inquirer * Vox * The Globe and Mail (Toronto) From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory,...
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Safety Critical Systems Handbook

A Straight forward Guide to Functional Safety, IEC 61508 (2010 EDITION) and Related Standards, Including Process IEC 61511 and Machinery IEC 62061 and ISO 13849

by David J. Smith, Kenneth G. L. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010

Safety Critical Systems Handbook: A Straightfoward Guide to Functional Safety, IEC 61508 (2010 Edition) and Related Standards, Including Process IEC 61511 and Machinery IEC 62061 AND ISO 13849, Third Edition, offers a practical guide to the functional safety standard IEC 61508. The book is organized...
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by Richard Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

This Business of Publishing has been hailed by literary agent Michael Larsen as “must reading for writers, agents and anyone else who cares about the future of publishing.” It reveals the unique perspective of Richard Curtis, former president of the Association of Authors’ Representatives....
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by James Merlino
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014

THE PROVEN MODEL FOR DRIVING POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Cleveland Clinic has long been recognized for driving some of the best clinical outcomes in the nation, but it was not always a leader in patient experience. There was atime when this revered organization ranked among the lowest in the country...
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The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

The Production Control System for High-Mix, Low-Volume and Custom Products

by Rajan Suri
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018

POLCA (Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) is a card-based visual control system that manages the flow of jobs through the shop floor: at each operation, it controls which job should be worked on next to meet delivery targets. POLCA ensures that upstream operations use their...
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World War 3.0

Microsoft, the US Government, and the Battle for the New Economy

by Ken Auletta
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001

The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity are...
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