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More Awesome Than Money
Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Can Facebook be trusted with your data? Years ahead of their time, Diaspora tried to do better. This is their David-versus-Goliath effort to build a revolutionary social network that would give us back control of our privacy.
In June of 2010, four nerdy NYU undergrads moved to Silicon Valley to...
Miracle Medicines
Seven Lifesaving Drugs and the People Who Created Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
It’s the business of saving lives.
Miracle Medicines goes behind the scenes of the pharmaceutical industry and into the high-security laboratories to tell the stories of the men and women---chemists, physiologists, medical and clinical researchers, engineers---who have chosen to toil for years...
Sport Management
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Now available in a fully revised and updated fifth edition, Sport Management: Principles and Applications tells you everything you need to know about the contemporary sport industry. Covering both the professional and nonprofit sectors, and with more international material than any other introductory...
by David Ignacio Machuca Sánchez, Miriam Hervás Torres
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Contrastar los procedimientos teóricos y los prácticos de operación, orden y limpieza del área de trabajo en plantas químicas. Caracterizar las operaciones en plantas químicas. Determinar los procedimientos de puesta en marcha y parada de procesos químicos. Analizar las técnicas de realización...
Diagnosing Greatness
Ten Traits of the Best Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Diagnosing Greatness is the first supply chain book targeted at all levels and functions of business management. It explains how business performance can be enhanced through a concerted effort to implement improvements across a full supply chain network. Using a significant amount of academic studies,...
Every Doctor
Healthier Doctors = Healthier Patients
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
"Every Doctor spoke to me deeply and personally … as we face the challenges of 21st Century medical practice, I felt cared for, much like I do when visiting my personal family doctor. Every Doctor will speak to you as well."
Associate Professor Sandy Buchman, Family Physician Practising...
The Media Handbook
A Complete Guide to Advertising Media Selection, Planning, Research, and Buying
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The Media Handbook provides a practical introduction to the advertising media planning and buying processes. Emphasizing basic calculations and the practical realities of offering alternatives and evaluating the plan, this sixth edition reflects the critical changes in how advertising in various media...
Visual Workplace Visual Thinking
Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking (VWVT) was written by the acknowledged leading expert in workplace visuality. While other books touch upon visual workplace tools and practices, no other author has addressed the topic with the clarity and depth presented here. This is a seminal book, considered by...
by Andrew Keen
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The renowned Internet commentator and author of How to Fix the Future“expos[es] the greed, egotism and narcissism that fuels the tech world” (Chicago Tribune).
The digital revolution has contributed to the world in many positive ways, but we are less aware of the Internet’s deeply negative...
Hope for Film
From the Frontline of the Independent Cinema Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
“A relentlessly useful insider’s guide to independent film” by the producer of The Ice Storm, Happiness, and The Laramie Project (Kirkus Reviews).
In this “must-read” (Cultural Weekly) tell-all, one of the industry’s most passionate producers captures the rebellious punk spirit...
Street Fighters
The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
The acclaimed New York Times bestseller-updated for the second anniversary of the collapse of Bear Stearns
The fall of Bear Stearns in March 2008 set off a wave of global financial turmoil that continues to ripple. How could one of the oldest, most resilient firms on Wall Street go so far astray...
Breaking Rockefeller
The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr., and Henri Deterding joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire
Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889, John D. Rockefeller is at the peak of...
Code
And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) control. Code, first published in 2000, argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no nature.”...
The Tastemakers
Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Tastemaker, n. Anyone with the power to make you eat quinoa.
Kale. Spicy sriracha sauce. Honeycrisp apples. Cupcakes. These days, it seems we are constantly discovering a new food that will make us healthier, happier, or even somehow cooler. Chia seeds, after a brief life as a novelty houseplant...