Industries Professions category: 12443 books
by David Kadavy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Is self publishing worth it?
After I had a successful traditionally-published book, I decided to try self publishing. When you self publish, you make more money, right?
Here's what I earned:
Copies Sold: 11,000
Royalties: $19,000
Profit: $3,000
How did I sell that many books?...
The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans-convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety-are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions to find...
Book: A Futurist's Manifesto
A Collection of Essays from the Bleeding Edge of Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
The ground beneath the book publishing industry dramatically shifted in 2007, the year the Kindle and the iPhone debuted. Widespread consumer demand for these and other devices has brought the pace of digital change in book publishing from "it might happen sometime" to "it’s happening right now"—and...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
Beginning with Whip Wilson's "Abilene Trail" and Tim McCoy's "Aces and Eights" and ambling through Gene Autry's "The Old Barn Dance" and "The Old Corral", this guide winds up with one of Autry's best films, "Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge", in which...
Strategic Supply Management
Creating the Next Source of Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2007
The popular press is loaded with stories about supply problems affecting many industries. Extensive outsourcing of major portions of a firms value chain, relentless pressure from customers to improve product and service functionality and to reduce costs across almost every industry, and steep global...
by Antonio Caro Sánchez-Lafuente
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Adquirir los conocimientos necesarios para trabajar y desarrollar correctamente el trabajo de Restauración, ofreciendo un correcto servicio y atención al cliente. Conocer el concepto, tipos, características, función y circuito de la comanda, tanto estándar como informatizada. Conocer los diferentes...
The Brass Check
A Study of American Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A muckraking exposé of corruption in American journalism from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Jungle
Upton Sinclair dedicated his life to documenting the destructive force of unbridled capitalism. In this influential study, he takes on the effect of money and power on mass media,...
Autonomy
The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone
We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon, few of us will own our own...
Data-ism
The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
By one estimate, 90 percent of all of the data in history was created in the last two years. In 2014, International Data Corporation calculated the data universe at 4.4 zettabytes, or 4.4 trillion gigabytes. That much information, in volume, could fill enough slender iPad Air tablets to create a stack...
Hemp Bound
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet’s strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it’s been illegal to grow industrial cannabis in the United...
Unnatural Selection
Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“Compelling . . . Technology is changing the landscape of society, and Roeder describes how humanity is changing along with it.” —Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse
Does the geek personify a distinct new phase in human evolution, as the environment shifts to favor their traits?...
The End of Country
Dispatches from the Frack Zone
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
“A rare, honest, beautiful, and, yes, sometimes heartbreaking examination of the echoes of water-powered natural gas drilling—or fracking—in the human community . . . vivid, personal and emotional.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Susquehanna County, in the remote northeastern corner of...
Game Over
How Nintendo Conquered The World
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
More American children recognize Super Mario, the hero of one of Nintendo’s video games, than Mickey Mouse. The Japanese company has come to earn more money than the big three computer giants or all Hollywood movie studios combined. Now Sheff tells of the Nintendo invasion–a tale of innovation and cutthroat tactics.
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
William Randolph Hearst was a man of mythical proportions and staggering contradictions. And he was a fascinating character so much so that he appears in various fictional works from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon" to Orson Welles' "Citizen...