Industries Professions category: 12443 books
Anatomy of an Epidemic
Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Now with bonus material, including a new foreword and afterword with updated research
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over...
Fat Chance
Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
New York Times Bestseller
Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than three million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years.
In...
Trust Me, I'm Lying
Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
The cult classic that predicted the rise of fake news—revised and updated for the post-Trump, post-Gawker age.
Hailed as "astonishing and disturbing" by the Financial Times and "essential reading" by TechCrunch at its original publication, former American Apparel marketing...
Spam Nation
The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Now a New York Times bestseller!
There is a Threat Lurking Online with the Power to Destroy Your Finances, Steal Your Personal Data, and Endanger Your Life.
In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of...
Creative Selection
Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
* WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *
An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs.
Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing...
by Mike Rother
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
"Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress—and what it takes to make it a real part...
The Content Trap
A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
“My favorite book of the year.”—Doug McMillon, CEO, Wal-Mart Stores
Harvard Business School Professor of Strategy Bharat Anand presents an incisive new approach to digital transformation that favors fostering connectivity over focusing exclusively on content.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...
by Paul Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
As a musician, magician and actor, fortune telling with tarot cards has been the most popular form of entertainment I've seen by far. It is also one of the cheapest to provide! No instruments, fancy costumes or sound systems - a pack of cards, a few props, some serious study and you are ready...
Driving with the Devil
Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
“Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail.” —Junior Johnson, NASCAR legend and one-time whiskey runner
Today’s NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million...
Overhaul
An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
A uniquely informed investigative account of one of the biggest financial crises of President Obama’s early administration
During his first year in office, President Obama faced the possibility of more than a million lost jobs as GM and Chrysler headed for financial ruin. He joined forces...
Into the Raging Sea
Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR NON FICTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
ONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS...
Powerhouse
The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A New York Times bestseller
An astonishing—and astonishingly entertaining—history of Hollywood’s transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.
The...
Comic Wars
Marvel's Battle For Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2004
How did a bankrupt comic book publisher become one of the top movie studios in Hollywood? As ferocious and fateful as any battle in the pages of Marvel Comics, this is the true story of the life-or-death struggle for Marvel -- choked by bankruptcy in 1996 because of high-powered money men who did...
The First Billion Is the Hardest
Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
It’s Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best.
Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars, The First Billion Is the Hardest tells the story of the remarkable late-life comeback that...