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by Frédéric Martel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Un análisis sorprendente del uso de internet y las redes sociales en el mundo, por el aclamado autor de Cultura Mainstream
¿Cómo ha podido China crear sus propios clones de Google, Facebook y YouTube? ¿De qué manera los países árabes supieron emplear las redes sociales para emprender...
Untapped
The Scramble for Africa's Oil
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the region has become the scene of a competition between...
An Economist Gets Lunch
New Rules for Everyday Foodies
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong.
Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation, says economist, preeminent social commentator,...
by David A. Price
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year
***The Pixar Touch***is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the...
Bourbon Empire
The Past and Future of America's Whiskey
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
How bourbon came to be, and why it’s experiencing such a revival today
Unraveling the many myths and misconceptions surrounding America’s most iconic spirit, Bourbon Empire traces a history that spans frontier rebellion, Gilded Age corruption, and the magic of Madison Avenue. Whiskey has...
The Antidote
Inside the World of New Pharma
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In this timely and much praised book, Barry Werth draws upon inside reporting that spans more than two decades. He provides a groundbreaking close-up of the upstart pharmaceutical company Vertex and the ferocious but indispensable world of Big Pharma that it inhabits.
In 1989, the charismatic...
Vogue
Secretos impactantes de la marca más emblemática del mundo de la moda
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2014
La terrible verdad detrás de la marca icónica de la moda.
Kirstie Clements ex editora de Vogue describe la realidad detrás de la revista más famosa en donde perseguir la belleza puede convertirse en algo muy peligroso.
En mayo de 2012 Kirstie Clements fue despedida sin contemplaciones...
DarkMarket
How Hackers Became the New Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
"This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." --Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah
The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The...
Netflixed
The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Netflix has come a long way since 1997, when two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, decided to start an online DVD store before most people owned a DVD player. They were surprised and elated when launch-day traffic in April 1998 crashed their server and resulted in 150...
Door to Door
The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Garbology explores the hidden and costly wonders of our buy-it-now, get-it-today world of transportation, revealing the surprising truths, mounting challenges, and logistical magic behind every trip we take and every click we make.
Transportation...
Beyond Oil
The View from Hubbert's Peak
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2006
"This book explains both why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and how challenging it will be to cope with what comes next."—Richard E. Smalley, University Professor, Rice University, and 1996 Nobel laureate
With world oil production about to peak and inexorably...
by Massimo Bottura
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Massimo Bottura is more than a Michelin star-winning chef. Together with Lara Gilmore, he also founded Food for Soul, a non-profit organisation seeking to reduce food waste through inclusion. On the occasion of Expo 2015 in Milan and working in concert with Caritas Ambrosiana, Massimo Bottura opened...
The Mathematics of Bookselling
A Monograph
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The Mathematics of Bookselling is a definitive resource for book retailers looking to maximize margins and profits through the proven pricing and inventory management practices developed by Leonard Shatzkin, one of 20th century book publishing’s most innovative executives. Because bookselling involves...
by Ari Herstand
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
"Ari is at the front of the front. He gets it. I've read a hundred how-to-make-it-in-the-music-biz books, and this one is today's definitive, comprehensive manual." —Jack Conte, 150+ million YouTube views, Pomplamoose, CEO of Patreon
Forget everything you think you know about the...