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Cover of Jack Knudsen Northrop: Aviation Pioneer And His Flying Wing
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011

Famed aviation pioneer Donald Douglas once said "Every airplane flying today has some Jack Northrop in it." Northrop was an aviation genius who was more interested in developing new technology than selling airplanes or making a fortune. The Northrop story is the story of American aviation history; he...
Cover of The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future
by Mason Inman
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016

The first comprehensive biography of Marion King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil." In 1956, geologist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert delivered a speech that has shaped world energy debates ever since. Addressing the American Petroleum Institute, Hubbert dropped...
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The Google Guys

Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin

by Richard L. Brandt
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011

How much do you really know about Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin? The Google Guys skips past the general Google story and focuses on what really drives the company's founders. Richard L. Brandt shows the company as the brainchild of two brilliant individuals and looks at Google's...
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The Players Ball

A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise

by David Kushner
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019

“An engrossing microcosm of the internet's Wild West years” (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war for control for what still...
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Uncanny Valley

A Memoir

by Anna Wiener
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020

The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial—left a job in book publishing for...
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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

by Jason Schreier
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat,...
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The Fifth Domain

Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

by Richard A. Clarke, Robert K. Knake
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019

**An urgent new warning from two bestselling security experts--and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone. "In the battle raging between offense...
Cover of How the World Changed Social Media
by Professor Daniel Miller, Professor of Anthropology, Dr Elisabetta Costa
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and explores the impact...
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Whiplash

How to Survive Our Faster Future

by Joi Ito, Jeff Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

This "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time...
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Greed and Glory on Wall Street

The Fall of the House of Lehman

by Ken Auletta
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

The inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street In 1983, Lew Glucksman, then co-CEO of the heralded investment bank Lehman Brothers, demanded the resignation of chairman Pete Peterson, with whom he had long argued over how to manage the company. Shockingly, Peterson, who...
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The Truth About the Drug Companies

How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

by Marcia Angell
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004

During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing...
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Conspiracy of Fools

A True Story

by Kurt Eichenwald
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2005

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever. It was the corporate collapse that appeared...
Cover of The Reckoning
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012

New York Times Bestseller: “A historical overview of the auto industry in the United States and Japan [and] the gradual decline of U.S. manufacturing” (Library Journal).   After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the...
Cover of Assurance - Banque - Gestion de patrimoine - Tome 2a

Assurance - Banque - Gestion de patrimoine - Tome 2a

6 cas de management stratégique - énoncés

by Eric Dumont
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2019

Un livre utile pour apprendre la prise de décisions dans un contexte particulier et aléatoire, celui de l’assurance, de la banque et de la gestion de patrimoine, à l'heure où les enjeux financiers de cet univers sont colossaux. En management stratégique, matière complexe en raison de...
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