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Straight Talk for Startups
100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds--From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
"Straight Talk for Startups memorializes age-old best practices and empowers both experienced and new investment professionals to beat the odds."—David Krane, CEO, Google Ventures
"Straight Talk for Startups is filled with real, raw, and fact-based ‘rules of the road’ that...
Fast Food Nation
The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
New York Times Bestseller
“Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours.”—Los Angeles Times
In 2001, Fast Food Nation was published to critical...
Idiot's Guide: Starting a Food Truck Business
Everything You Need to Succeed with Your Kitchen on Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
- Everything readers need to know to start up and operate a wildly popular mobile food business
- Includes crucial marketing expertise from a successful food truck entrepreneur
by Chittaranjan Dhurat
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Making money online is now mostly used and, in fact, one of the surest ways of making money.
Here I am going to introduce you to seven online forums where you can definitely see something you can do to make cool money from the comfort of your home, office, anywhere as far as you can access the internet.
What...
Banana
The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world’s most humble fruit
To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what...
The Sushi Economy
Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
The highly acclaimed exploration of sushi’s surprising history, global business, and international allure
One generation ago, sushi’s narrow reach ensured that sports fishermen who caught tuna in most of parts of the world sold the meat for pennies as cat food. Today, the fatty cuts of...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword
"Guaranteed to make blood boil." —Janet Maslin, New York Times
In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of...
Overdressed
The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She’d grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like T.J. Maxx, and cheap but trendy retailers like Forever 21, Target, and H&M. She was buying a new item of clothing almost every week (the national average...
Factory Man
How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.
The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was...
Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism
"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates...
The Good Food Revolution
Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed—and heal—broken communities.
The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball...
The Frackers
The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
“A lively, exciting, and definitely thought-provoking book.” —Booklist
Things looked grim for American energy in 2006, but a handful of wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that giants like Exxon and Chevron had ignored. They risked everything on a new process...
Energy
A Human History
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy—from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard...
Blue Ocean Shift
Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
BLUE OCEAN SHIFT is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and 3.6 million copy global bestseller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade...