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Creative Selection
Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
* WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *
An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs.
Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing...
by Mike Rother
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
"Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress—and what it takes to make it a real part...
The Content Trap
A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
“My favorite book of the year.”—Doug McMillon, CEO, Wal-Mart Stores
Harvard Business School Professor of Strategy Bharat Anand presents an incisive new approach to digital transformation that favors fostering connectivity over focusing exclusively on content.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...
by Paul Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
As a musician, magician and actor, fortune telling with tarot cards has been the most popular form of entertainment I've seen by far. It is also one of the cheapest to provide! No instruments, fancy costumes or sound systems - a pack of cards, a few props, some serious study and you are ready...
Driving with the Devil
Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
“Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail.” —Junior Johnson, NASCAR legend and one-time whiskey runner
Today’s NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million...
Overhaul
An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
A uniquely informed investigative account of one of the biggest financial crises of President Obama’s early administration
During his first year in office, President Obama faced the possibility of more than a million lost jobs as GM and Chrysler headed for financial ruin. He joined forces...
Into the Raging Sea
Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR NON FICTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
ONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS...
Powerhouse
The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A New York Times bestseller
An astonishing—and astonishingly entertaining—history of Hollywood’s transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.
The...
Comic Wars
Marvel's Battle For Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2004
How did a bankrupt comic book publisher become one of the top movie studios in Hollywood? As ferocious and fateful as any battle in the pages of Marvel Comics, this is the true story of the life-or-death struggle for Marvel -- choked by bankruptcy in 1996 because of high-powered money men who did...
The First Billion Is the Hardest
Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
It’s Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best.
Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars, The First Billion Is the Hardest tells the story of the remarkable late-life comeback that...
Locally Laid
How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm - from Scratch
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
How a Midwestern family with no agriculture experience went from a few backyard chickens to a full-fledged farm—and discovered why local chicks are better.
When Lucie Amundsen had a rare night out with her husband, she never imagined what he’d tell her over dinner—that his dream was to...
The Sugar King of Havana
The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
"Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a firing squad, and...
In Fashion
From Runway to Retail, Everything You Need to Know to Break Into the Fashion Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
If you've ever dreamed of working at Vogue, photographing supermodels, or outfitting celebrities, In Fashion will equip you with everything you need to know to get an “in” into fashion. Former beauty and fashion news director of Harper's Bazaar and editor in chief of Seventeen, Annemarie Iverson—the...
How Music Got Free
A Story of Obsession and Invention
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
**Finalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year
One of Billboard’s 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time
A *New York Times *Editors’ Choice
ONE OF THE YEAR'S...