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The Deal of the Century
The Breakup of AT&T
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
**A New York Times–bestselling author’s “superbly reported” account of the dismantling of the world’s largest corporation (The Washington Post).
Written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ghost Wars and Private Empire, The Deal of the Century chronicles the decade-long...
by José Alberto García Avilés
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Internet está modificando el modo en que trabajamos y aprendemos, cómo nos comunicamos y nos relacionamos, adquiriendo una centralidad cada vez mayor en nuestras vidas. La Sociedad Red, como apunta Manuel Castells, no solo se basa en el desarrollo de la tecnología, sino en cómo surgen nuevas formas...
Behind the Berkshire Hathaway Curtain
Lessons from Warren Buffett's Top Business Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Warren Buffett is a legend primarily for his investment philosophy. He isn’t concerned about the intricacies of the market, but instead focuses on the quality of the companies Berkshire Hathaway stands behind. Yet we know little about the leaders of the companies that Buffett handpicks.
In...
by Joaquín González Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Identificar las partes que configuran las máquinas eléctricas rotativas describiendo sus principales características y funcionalidad. Realizar operaciones de montaje y acoplamiento de máquinas eléctricas rotativas a partir de especificaciones dadas. Diagnosticar averías en las máquinas eléctricas...
by Nicholas Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
A page-turning narrative about Marissa Mayer's efforts to remake Yahoo as well as her own rise from Stanford University undergrad to CEO of a $30 billion corporation by the age of 38.
When Yahoo hired star Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on...
The Craft Beer Revolution
How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World's Favorite Drink
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Over the past 40 years craft-brewed beer has exploded in growth. In 1980, a handful of "microbrewery" pioneers launched a revolution that would challenge the dominance of the national brands, Budweiser, Coors, and Miller, and change the way Americans think about, and drink, beer. Today,...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This is a Summary of Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford’s The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business WinBill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO.The company's...
Deluxe
How Luxury Lost Its Luster
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on...
Dare, Dream, Do
Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Whitney Johnson, popular Harvard Business Review blogger, has a goal: to help us identify and achieve our dreams. Her belief is that we can each achieve greater happiness when focusing both on our dreams and on other people in our lives. In this inspiring book, Johnson directs her attention to teaching...
We Are Data
Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it
Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news...
Memoir of an Independent Woman
An Unconventional Life Well Lived
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
“The female incarnation of Forrest Gump…her life reads like a trip back through the defining personalities and events of the 20th century.”—Shoreline Times
After coming of age at the legendary Grossinger’s resort hotel in the Catskills, Tania Grossinger defied the conventions of an...
Gastrophysics
The New Science of Eating
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
The science behind a good meal: all the sounds, sights, and tastes that make us like what we're eating—and want to eat more.
Why do we consume 35 percent more food when eating with one other person, and 75 percent more when dining with three? How do we explain the fact that people who like...
by Chris Ruffle
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
When Yorkshireman Chris Ruffle decided to build a vineyard complete with a Scottish castle in the midst of the countryside in eastern China, he was expecting difficulties, but nothing on the scale he encountered. But build it he did, and the wine is now flowing. A Decent Bottle of Wine in China tells...
Coders
The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Hello, world.
Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological...