Industries Professions category: 12443 books
Humans Need Not Apply
A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
After billions of dollars and fifty years of effort, researchers are finally cracking the code on artificial intelligence. As society stands on the cusp of unprecedented change, Jerry Kaplan unpacks the latest advances in robotics, machine learning, and perception powering systems that rival or exceed...
by Stefan Szymanski, Simon Kuper
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2010
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2010
¡El fútbol es así...! (mitos y verdades). Una visión económica para entender los aspectos inexplicables del deporte. Una visión económica del mundo del fútbol. ¿Por qué se pagan fortunas por algunos futbolistas? ¿Por qué algunos equipos siempre fichan mal? ¿Cuál es el país más fanático...
White Coat, Black Hat
Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Over the last twenty-five years, medicine and consumerism have been on an unchecked collision course, but, until now, the fallout from their impact has yet to be fully uncovered. A writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, Carl Elliott ventures into the uncharted dark side of medicine,...
B4b
How Technology and Big Data Are Reinventing the Customer-Supplier Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Industry after industry is becoming technology-driven as software rapidly eats the world. As it spreads, so do complexity and opportunity. There are clear signs that the traditional B2B business model designed 125 years ago as a simple “make, sell, ship” approach for early manufacturing companies...
Dreaming in Code
Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior,
especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening,...
The Fruit Hunters
A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's most desired foods.
In lustrous prose, Adam...
Summary of Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future - Robert Bryce
Summary of Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future - Robert Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Robert Bryce in his book “Power Hungry, The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this...
by Mª del Mar Redondo Diéguez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Adquirir y/o actualizar conocimientos profesionales sobre la impresión en serigrafía, así como del mantenimiento de la maquinaria propia de esta actividad. Imprimir productos serigráficos, así como conocer la maquinaria, los tipos de soporte y el mantenimiento de primer nivel necesarios para...
Volver a empezar. Lean Management
Una novela que transforma el pensamiento de los directivos en ideas y actitudes positivas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 29, 2016
El Lean Management nació de la aplicación del sistema desarrollado por Toyota, que tanto éxito ha tenido, pero aplicado a todo tipo de sectores de actividad – sean industriales o de servicios- el Lean Management, comparado con los modelos tradicionales de gestión, supone una forma mucho más...
ESPN The Company
The Story and Lessons Behind the Most Fanatical Brand in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
A fascinating look at ESPN and its success as a brand
ESPN The Company reveals the inside scoop on the biggest business story in sports, detailing the creative and innovative spirit and practices that drove the programming, products, and services of the most powerful and prominent name in sports...
Live Work Work Work Die
A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit
At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little...
All You Need to Know About the Music Business
10th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
“The industry bible” (Los Angeles Times), now updated, essential for anyone in the music business—musicians, songwriters, lawyers, agents, promoters, publishers, executives, and managers—trying to navigate the rapid transformation of the industry.
For more than twenty years, All You...
The Art of Always Being Right
The 38 Subtle Ways of Persuation
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
'Beware who you give this book to.' Financial Times 'I recommend that you keep this delightful essay at your side.' Observer 'Dryly witty essay' Alain de Botton, Sunday Telegraph We all sit through meetings with that one person who seems to be able to persuade everyone. What is their secret? Are they...
The Big Picture
The Fight for the Future of Movies
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Winner of the Best Non-Fiction Book Prize at the 2018 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
“Ben Fritz crafts an electrifying and essential book that carefully chronicles how Hollywood tradition is collapsing and new models are fueling the future....