Industries Professions category: 12443 books
by Saru Jayaraman
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
"Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows, the people grow with it."-from Behind...
The One Device
The Secret History of the iPhone
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
**The secret history of the invention that changed everything-**and became the most profitable product in the world.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
One of the Best Business Books of 2016 - CNBC, Bloomberg, 1-800-CEO-Read
"The...
The Toyota Way : 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2003
How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry
In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor...
Life After Google
The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH
FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "****Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade."
“Google’s...
Alibaba
The House That Jack Ma Built
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into the second largest Internet company in the world. The company’s $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the world’s largest, valuing the company more than Facebook...
by Alex Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong?
For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate...
Attention All Passengers
The Truth About the Airline Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
A Fast Food Nation for the airline industry, Attention All Passengers is a shocking and important exposé revealing the real state of the “friendly skies” in which we fly. Award-winning Consumer Reports travel journalist William McGee, a former editor of the Consumer Reports Travel Letter, spent...
by Bill Carter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life...
Pandora's Lunchbox
How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore’s Dilemma comes an “indispensable,” (New York Newsday) fascinating, and cutting-edge look from the author of The Magic Feather Effect at the scary truth about what really goes into our food.
If a piece of individually wrapped cheese...
The United States of Beer
A Freewheeling History of the All-American Drink
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
From the author of Bourbon, “the definitive history” (Sacramento Bee), comes the rollicking and revealing story of beer in America, in the spirit of Salt or Cod.
In The United States of Beer, Dane Huckelbridge, the author of Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit—a Southern Independent...
The Box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of...
Merchants of Truth
The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade. With the expert guidance of former Executive Editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson, we follow two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they plow through...
The Asylum
The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
The Asylum is a stunning exposé by a seasoned Wall Street journalist that once and for all reveals the truth behind America’s oil addiction in all its unscripted and dysfunctional glory.
In the tradition of Too Big to Fail and Liar’s Poker, author Leah McGrath Goodman tells the amazing-but-true...
Kickstarter for Filmmakers
Plan and Execute Your Next Crowd Funding Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Don't launch your Kickstarter campaign until you read this book! This guide breaks down the process of launching a crowd funding campaign into easily understandable pieces and teaches you how to put your best foot forward and maximize your chances for success. Through a combination of firsthand experience...