Industries Professions category: 12443 books
Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care)
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
A bestselling investigative journalist takes a tour of the Alberta oil and gas industry, revealing how Canada’s richest province is squandering our chance for a sustainable future.
In its desperate search for oil and gas riches, Alberta is destroying itself. As the world teeters on the edge...
The Coke Machine
The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The Coke Machine takes readers deep inside the Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number one brand in the world, and just how far they'll go to stay there.
Ever since its "I'd like to teach the world to sing" commercials from the 1970s,...
Roots of Style
Weaving Together Life, Love, and Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Roots of Style is a rare look into the mind, life, and journey of one of our generation’s most coveted fashion designers, Isabel Toledo. From the nostalgic and permanent influence of her upbringing in Cuba and the serendipitous love that materialized her vision and fueled her conviction, to the...
Power Failure
The Inside Story of The Collapse of Enron
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
*“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is...
More Awesome Than Money
Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Can Facebook be trusted with your data? Years ahead of their time, Diaspora tried to do better. This is their David-versus-Goliath effort to build a revolutionary social network that would give us back control of our privacy.
In June of 2010, four nerdy NYU undergrads moved to Silicon Valley to...
Miracle Medicines
Seven Lifesaving Drugs and the People Who Created Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
It’s the business of saving lives.
Miracle Medicines goes behind the scenes of the pharmaceutical industry and into the high-security laboratories to tell the stories of the men and women---chemists, physiologists, medical and clinical researchers, engineers---who have chosen to toil for years...
Sport Management
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Now available in a fully revised and updated fifth edition, Sport Management: Principles and Applications tells you everything you need to know about the contemporary sport industry. Covering both the professional and nonprofit sectors, and with more international material than any other introductory...
by David Ignacio Machuca Sánchez, Miriam Hervás Torres
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Contrastar los procedimientos teóricos y los prácticos de operación, orden y limpieza del área de trabajo en plantas químicas. Caracterizar las operaciones en plantas químicas. Determinar los procedimientos de puesta en marcha y parada de procesos químicos. Analizar las técnicas de realización...
Diagnosing Greatness
Ten Traits of the Best Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Diagnosing Greatness is the first supply chain book targeted at all levels and functions of business management. It explains how business performance can be enhanced through a concerted effort to implement improvements across a full supply chain network. Using a significant amount of academic studies,...
Every Doctor
Healthier Doctors = Healthier Patients
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
"Every Doctor spoke to me deeply and personally … as we face the challenges of 21st Century medical practice, I felt cared for, much like I do when visiting my personal family doctor. Every Doctor will speak to you as well."
Associate Professor Sandy Buchman, Family Physician Practising...
The Media Handbook
A Complete Guide to Advertising Media Selection, Planning, Research, and Buying
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The Media Handbook provides a practical introduction to the advertising media planning and buying processes. Emphasizing basic calculations and the practical realities of offering alternatives and evaluating the plan, this sixth edition reflects the critical changes in how advertising in various media...
Visual Workplace Visual Thinking
Creating Enterprise Excellence Through the Technologies of the Visual Workplace, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking (VWVT) was written by the acknowledged leading expert in workplace visuality. While other books touch upon visual workplace tools and practices, no other author has addressed the topic with the clarity and depth presented here. This is a seminal book, considered by...
by Andrew Keen
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The renowned Internet commentator and author of How to Fix the Future“expos[es] the greed, egotism and narcissism that fuels the tech world” (Chicago Tribune).
The digital revolution has contributed to the world in many positive ways, but we are less aware of the Internet’s deeply negative...
Hope for Film
From the Frontline of the Independent Cinema Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
“A relentlessly useful insider’s guide to independent film” by the producer of The Ice Storm, Happiness, and The Laramie Project (Kirkus Reviews).
In this “must-read” (Cultural Weekly) tell-all, one of the industry’s most passionate producers captures the rebellious punk spirit...