Industries Professions category: 12443 books
by Jack Sender
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
What working in Hollywood is all about. First inspired by radio, the images on TV and the magical lure of films, the boy from rural, small town Ohio in the 1950's got the idea he could make a living in the entertainment field. With no examples to follow, only a certainty it was possible, Jack Sender...
Chucks!
The Phenomenon of Converse: Chuck Taylor All Stars
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A sneaker’s evolution from style dud to global icon.
In this book, shoe enthusiast Hal Peterson takes an in-depth look at the history, significance, and magic of “Chucks.” Originally a rubber shoe company, Converse rolled out the canvas All Star in 1917, nicknamed “Chucks” for the...
by Richard Basch
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Are you interested in learning more about the wild and wooly world of franchising and wondering where the heck to get started? Or perhaps you’ve already taken the leap and you’re questioning your sanity. Well, if you’re reading this, you’ve come to the right place! In Behind the Franchise...
Deadly Monopolies
The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.
Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes...
The Men Who Would Be King
An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
“The definitive history of the studio” created by the larger-than-life team of Spielberg, Geffen, and Katzenberg (Los Angeles Times).
For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood’s Circus Maximus—created by director Steven...
by J.T. Owens X
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
Elon Musk is already one of the most extraordinary, innovative and controversial entrepreneurs of the 21st century.
Humankind has reached a point that it faces some unique challenges as a direct consequence of its technological evolution, some arguably existential.
Billionaire Elon Musk is...
Merchants of Culture
The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
"All you need to know about the industry at a time of momentous change."
-Drake McFeely, chairman and president, W.W. Norton & Company
For nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the industry faces...
The Fall of an American Rome
De-Industrialization of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This is the story of the de-industrialization of America, written by a Business professor with a background in steel company management who grew up in the city of Pittsburgh and loved its manufacturing environment. The book is based on the facts and aims to avoid any partisan political viewpoint —...
Bourbon
A History of the American Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF BOURBON.”—Sacramento Bee
A Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Bestseller
A ROLLICKING BIOGRAPHY OF BOURBON WHISKEY THAT DOUBLES AS “A COMPLEX AND ENTERTAINING” (WALL STREET JOURNAL) HISTORY OF AMERICA ITSELF
Few products are so completely...
Always Cedar Point
A Memoir of the Midway
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
**Hold on tight! **
“Always Cedar Point, a Memoir of the Midway” gives the reader an insider’s view of the operations of the world’s greatest amusement park, Cedar Point. From a summer as a 20-year old ride operator on the Frontier Lift to becoming the park’s general manager 35...
by Carol Amundson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
As pets or livestock, goats are increasingly popular animals on farms large and small. Easier and cheaper to keep than many larger animals, they will keep a pony company, pull a cart, and produce the perfect milk for many artisan cheeses or meat for some of the most up-and-coming ethnic cuisines....
Doing What Matters
How to Get Results That Make a Difference - The Revolutionary Old-School Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
When Warren Buffett was asked why the Gillette board of directors chose Jim Kilts to be CEO, he said, “Jim made as much sense in terms of talking about business as anybody I’ve ever talked to. If you listen to Jim analyze a business situation you get absolutely no baloney. And, frankly, finding...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Bar
Raising the Bar for a Successful Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Where everybody knows their name...
Whether their dream bar is a comfortable neighborhood joint or a nightclub teeming with entertainment, readers can achieve their goal with this step-by-step guide. They'll learn how to focus their vision for their bar, how to build a business plan, what they...
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is the groundbreaking moral examination of vegetarianism, farming, and the food we eat every day that inspired the documentary of the same name.
Bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic...