Industries category: 12638 books
Strategic Supply Management
Creating the Next Source of Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2007
The popular press is loaded with stories about supply problems affecting many industries. Extensive outsourcing of major portions of a firms value chain, relentless pressure from customers to improve product and service functionality and to reduce costs across almost every industry, and steep global...
by Antonio Caro Sánchez-Lafuente
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Adquirir los conocimientos necesarios para trabajar y desarrollar correctamente el trabajo de Restauración, ofreciendo un correcto servicio y atención al cliente. Conocer el concepto, tipos, características, función y circuito de la comanda, tanto estándar como informatizada. Conocer los diferentes...
The Brass Check
A Study of American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A muckraking exposé of corruption in American journalism from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Jungle
Upton Sinclair dedicated his life to documenting the destructive force of unbridled capitalism. In this influential study, he takes on the effect of money and power on mass media,...
Autonomy
The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone
We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon, few of us will own our own...
Data-ism
The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
By one estimate, 90 percent of all of the data in history was created in the last two years. In 2014, International Data Corporation calculated the data universe at 4.4 zettabytes, or 4.4 trillion gigabytes. That much information, in volume, could fill enough slender iPad Air tablets to create a stack...
Hemp Bound
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet’s strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it’s been illegal to grow industrial cannabis in the United...
Unnatural Selection
Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“Compelling . . . Technology is changing the landscape of society, and Roeder describes how humanity is changing along with it.” —Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse
Does the geek personify a distinct new phase in human evolution, as the environment shifts to favor their traits?...
The End of Country
Dispatches from the Frack Zone
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
“A rare, honest, beautiful, and, yes, sometimes heartbreaking examination of the echoes of water-powered natural gas drilling—or fracking—in the human community . . . vivid, personal and emotional.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Susquehanna County, in the remote northeastern corner of...
Game Over
How Nintendo Conquered The World
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
More American children recognize Super Mario, the hero of one of Nintendo’s video games, than Mickey Mouse. The Japanese company has come to earn more money than the big three computer giants or all Hollywood movie studios combined. Now Sheff tells of the Nintendo invasion–a tale of innovation and cutthroat tactics.
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
William Randolph Hearst was a man of mythical proportions and staggering contradictions. And he was a fascinating character so much so that he appears in various fictional works from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon" to Orson Welles' "Citizen...
Humans Need Not Apply
A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
After billions of dollars and fifty years of effort, researchers are finally cracking the code on artificial intelligence. As society stands on the cusp of unprecedented change, Jerry Kaplan unpacks the latest advances in robotics, machine learning, and perception powering systems that rival or exceed...
by Stefan Szymanski, Simon Kuper
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2010
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2010
¡El fútbol es así...! (mitos y verdades). Una visión económica para entender los aspectos inexplicables del deporte. Una visión económica del mundo del fútbol. ¿Por qué se pagan fortunas por algunos futbolistas? ¿Por qué algunos equipos siempre fichan mal? ¿Cuál es el país más fanático...
White Coat, Black Hat
Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Over the last twenty-five years, medicine and consumerism have been on an unchecked collision course, but, until now, the fallout from their impact has yet to be fully uncovered. A writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, Carl Elliott ventures into the uncharted dark side of medicine,...
B4b
How Technology and Big Data Are Reinventing the Customer-Supplier Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Industry after industry is becoming technology-driven as software rapidly eats the world. As it spreads, so do complexity and opportunity. There are clear signs that the traditional B2B business model designed 125 years ago as a simple “make, sell, ship” approach for early manufacturing companies...