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Science for Sale
How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: “You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?” “I know,” Dr. Lewis replied, “I just hope to stay out of prison.” Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis’s...
by Richard I. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
From the stately Queen Anne mansions of the West Side to the hastily constructed shanties of Cabbage Patch, Lost Butte, Montana traces the city�s history through its architectural heritage.This book includes such highlights as the Grand Opera House, once graced by entertainers and cultural icons...
LIFE Inside the Disney Parks
The Happiest Places on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Walt Disney spent his life dreaming impossible dreams, and achieved the most impossible dream of all - the amusement park to end all amusement parks: Disneyland!
Pushing the Limits
New Adventures in Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. **Pushing the Limits **celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s...
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Exposed and Explained by the World's Two
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Two world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors present the definitive rules of marketing.
Sixteen Acres
Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
A no-holds-barred look at the collision of interests behind the ambitious attempt to raise a new national icon at Ground Zero
When we stand in downtown Manhattan in the future and look up and ask, "Why?"--Why is it so strange, so rude, so striving, so right, so wrong?--we will have...
Fast Boat to China
Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end — about...
by Timothy N. Ogden, Jeffrey K. Liker
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
The definitive inside account of Toyota's greatest crisis—and lessons you can apply to your own company
"Those who write off Toyota in the current climate of second guessing and speculation are making a profound mistake and need to read this book to get the facts. Toyota is a company that will...
The Technology Machine
How Manufacturing Will Work in the Year 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
How will autonomous agents, emergent systems, and chaos theory change the way we live and work in the twenty-first century? As today's manufacturing and production systems grow increasingly complex, tomorrow's science of complexity will produce paradoxically simple solutions, argue technology experts...
Quality Wars
The Triumphs and Defeats of American Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The quality revolution in American industry, now more than a decade old, has produced an avalanche of books, but this is the first in-depth study reporting the struggles from inside the companies that have attempted large-scale improvement efforts. Jeremy Main has interviewed more than a dozen chief...
by Raja Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
There are numerous examples of simple men becoming one of the richest in the world, but the ultimate force behind their success happens to be self-belief and dedication to the work they are doing.Sometimes, in exceptional cases, one gets rich owing to the prevailing circumstances and the opportunities...
The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age
All 203 Photographs from "Artistic Houses," with New Text
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Originally published in 1883 to 1884, Artistic Houses comprised more than 200 photographs of the interiors of the homes of the well-to-do, with commentary on the woodwork, wall coverings, color schemes, and other aspects of interior décor. Today, historians consider Artistic Houses the best source...
by Roger D. Blair, Francine Lafontaine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
This 2005 book describes in much detail both how and why franchising works. It also analyses the economic tensions that contribute to conflict in the franchisor-franchisee relationship. The treatment includes a great deal of empirical evidence on franchising, its importance in various segments of...
China on Strike
Narratives of Workers' Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
China has been the fastest growing major economy in the world for three decades. It is also home to some of the largest, most incendiary, and most underreported labor struggles of our time. China on Strike, the first English-language book of its kind, provides an intimate and revealing window into...