Industries Professions category: 12443 books
by Shriram Venkatraman
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
One of the first ethnographic studies to explore use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, Social Media in South India provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what was once...
by Gunnar Erickson, Harris Tulchin, Mark Halloran
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
Content Marketing 2016: Influencer, Topics and The Most Important Trends
2. Advanced Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Content Marketing has become a large industry. Almost all Fortune 500 corporations and myriads of SMBs invest billions of US-$ in their Content Marketing strategies. The market reflects this complex ecosystem: a plethora of freelancers, agencies, specialists, consultants and gurus of all kinds have begun...
Console Wars
Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Goodreads
Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary...
Googled
The End of the World As We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media Landscape.
There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling...
Accelerate
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Accelerate your organization to win in the marketplace.
How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking...
Deep Medicine
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care
Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients,...
The History of the Future
Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
The dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality, by the bestselling author of Console Wars.
From iconic books like Neuromancer to blockbuster films like The Matrix, virtual reality has long been hailed as the ultimate technology. But...
Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream,...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2002
The New York Times bestseller. "His book is a wake-up call at a time when many believe the net was a flash in the pan."—BusinessWeek
With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged changes in the way we live, work, and think. In the...
Dot Complicated
Untangling Our Wired Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.
Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement since...
Sous Chef
24 Hours on the Line
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME
The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here...
by Tom Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
The sacred history and profane present of a substance long seen as the essence of health and civilization.
For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are...