Industries category: 12638 books
Alibaba
The House That Jack Ma Built
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into the second largest Internet company in the world. The company’s $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the world’s largest, valuing the company more than Facebook...
by Alex Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong?
For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate...
Attention All Passengers
The Truth About the Airline Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
A Fast Food Nation for the airline industry, Attention All Passengers is a shocking and important exposé revealing the real state of the “friendly skies” in which we fly. Award-winning Consumer Reports travel journalist William McGee, a former editor of the Consumer Reports Travel Letter, spent...
by Bill Carter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life...
Pandora's Lunchbox
How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma comes an “indispensable,” (New York Newsday) fascinating, and cutting-edge look from the author of The Magic Feather Effect at the scary truth about what really goes into our food.
If a piece of individually wrapped cheese...
The United States of Beer
A Freewheeling History of the All-American Drink
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
From the author of Bourbon, “the definitive history” (Sacramento Bee), comes the rollicking and revealing story of beer in America, in the spirit of Salt or Cod.
In The United States of Beer, Dane Huckelbridge, the author of Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit—a Southern Independent...
The Box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of...
Merchants of Truth
The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade. With the expert guidance of former Executive Editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson, we follow two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they plow through...
The Asylum
The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
The Asylum is a stunning exposé by a seasoned Wall Street journalist that once and for all reveals the truth behind America’s oil addiction in all its unscripted and dysfunctional glory.
In the tradition of Too Big to Fail and Liar’s Poker, author Leah McGrath Goodman tells the amazing-but-true...
Kickstarter for Filmmakers
Plan and Execute Your Next Crowd Funding Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Don't launch your Kickstarter campaign until you read this book! This guide breaks down the process of launching a crowd funding campaign into easily understandable pieces and teaches you how to put your best foot forward and maximize your chances for success. Through a combination of firsthand experience...
by David Kadavy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Is self publishing worth it?
After I had a successful traditionally-published book, I decided to try self publishing. When you self publish, you make more money, right?
Here's what I earned:
Copies Sold: 11,000
Royalties: $19,000
Profit: $3,000
How did I sell that many books?...
The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans-convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety-are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions to find...
Book: A Futurist's Manifesto
A Collection of Essays from the Bleeding Edge of Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
The ground beneath the book publishing industry dramatically shifted in 2007, the year the Kindle and the iPhone debuted. Widespread consumer demand for these and other devices has brought the pace of digital change in book publishing from "it might happen sometime" to "it’s happening right now"—and...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
Beginning with Whip Wilson's "Abilene Trail" and Tim McCoy's "Aces and Eights" and ambling through Gene Autry's "The Old Barn Dance" and "The Old Corral", this guide winds up with one of Autry's best films, "Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge", in which...