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The People's Car
a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Bernhard Rieger reveals how a car commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche became a global commodity on a par with Coca-Cola. The Beetle's success hinged on its uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of executives, engineers, advertisers, car collectors, suburbanites, hippies, and everyday drivers aross nations and cultures.
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Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
The news media is in the middle of a revolution. Old certainties have been shoved aside by new entities such as WikiLeaks and Gawker, Politico and the Huffington Post. But where, in all this digital innovation, is the future of great journalism? Is there a difference between an opinion column and...
Heirloom
Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life.
Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in Brooklyn, working days as a...
Seoul Man
A Memoir of Cars, Culture, Crisis, and Unexpected Hilarity Inside a Korean Corporate Titan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Recounting his three years in Korea, the highest-ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai sheds light on a business culture very few Western journalists ever experience, in this revealing, moving, and hilarious memoir.
When Frank Ahrens, a middle-aged bachelor and eighteen-year veteran at the...
The Mystery of Flight 427
Inside a Crash Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The immediate human toll of the 1994 Flight 427 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrouded answers. Bill Adair, an award-winning journalist, was granted special access to the five-year...
Fixing Fashion
Rethinking the Way We Make, Market and Buy Our Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
With sales of more than five hundred billion US dollars a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, employing millions of men, women, and often children in the developing world. And yet its record is far from pretty. The collapse of Bangladesh's Rana Plaza...
Not Extinct Yet
A Memoir of My Forty-Four Years in the Newspaper Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Former newspaper executive publishes new book Not Extinct Yet. In his memoir of 44 years in publishing, Rick Rae talks about the ups and downs of the newspaper business from his unique vantage point. In a career spanning almost twenty locations in the United States and Canada, Rick has worked for,...
by Locksley Gareth
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
This title demonstrates the significant actual and potential contribution of the media to development which takes several forms. It explains the forces in play that continue to influence the ever evolving forms and structures of the media and introduces a policy agenda for developing countries and donors...
Crude Volatility
The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Richard Miniter in his book “Disinformation: 22 Media Myths that Undermine the War on Terror”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by David Leigh and Luke Harding in their book “Wikileaks, Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does...
Out of the Desert
My Journey From Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The extraordinary memoir of global oil's former central banker
Ali Al-Naimi is the former Saudi oil minister - and OPEC kingpin - a position he held for the two decades between August 1995 and May 2016. In this time, Al-Naimi's briefest utterances moved markets. But it wasn't always that way.
Al-Naimi...
Loulou & Yves
The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
No one interested in fashion, style, or the high-flying intrigues of café society will want to miss Christopher Petkanas’s exuberantly entertaining oral biography Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent.
Dauntless, “in the bone” style...
Wine Wars
The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck, and the Revenge of the Terroirists
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Writing with wit and verve, Mike Veseth (a.k.a. the Wine Economist) tells the compelling story of the war between the market trends that are redrawing the world wine map and the terroirists who resist them. Wine and the wine business are at a critical crossroad today, transformed by three powerful...