Industries Professions category: 12443 books
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Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling,...
by Andrew J. Rausch
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
“Grindhouse” is a term that refers to theaters that primarily showed exploitation films. There were a handful of these theaters on 42nd Street in New York City. These theaters showed a variety of films that generally featured sex, violence, and bizarre subject matter. These included slasher films,...
by Anthony Slide
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Cultural Historian Anthony Slide, who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a one-man publishing phenomenon, strikes again with a book guaranteed to contain something "offensive" for everyone.Chapters on subjects as varied as camp and fascism in Hollywood, Hedda Hopper and the PORKY'S...
One Family's Journey
Canfor and the Transformation of British Columbia's Forest Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Peter Bentley recounts the exciting journey shared with his esteemed father, Leopold "Poldi" Bentley, and his uncle in the building of a major forest products company.
Bentley has a unique perspective on the rise and fall - and the subsequent reinvention - of western Canada's forest...
by Mark Pendergrast
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
For God, Country and Coca-Cola is the unauthorized history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it. From its origins as a patent medicine in Reconstruction Atlanta through its rise as the dominant consumer beverage of the American century, the story of Coke is as unique, tasty,...
Creamy and Crunchy
An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
More than Mom's apple pie, peanut butter is the all-American food. With its rich, roasted-peanut aroma and flavor; caramel hue; and gooey, consoling texture, peanut butter is an enduring favorite, found in the pantries of at least 75 percent of American kitchens. Americans eat more than a billion...
Television Is the New Television
The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
"The closer the new media future gets, the further victory appears." --Michael Wolff
This is a book about what happens when the smartest people in the room decide something is inevitable, and yet it doesn’t come to pass. What happens when omens have been misread, tea leaves misinterpreted,...
Rock Your Business
What You and Your Company Can Learn from the Business of Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Would you like your business......to burst into public awareness like Lady Gaga?...to have the long-lived success of Mick Jagger?...to demonstrate the creativity of The Beatles?We don’t normally think of the music business as a source of entrepreneurial insight, but we should. The best bands have longevity,...
by Norman Finn
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Life in a Shoe is three stories all in one. It’s a memoir of Norman Finn's adventures around the world as well as a history of the shoe industry. It delves into the world of the individual entrepreneurs and corporate structures.
These stories from the business and fashion worlds take place...
by Tracey Chantel
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
n this reference guide there are basic tips provided for aspiring singers who would like to pursue a singing career but don't know where to start. Speaking from first-hand experience, I will share with you some tips on how to initiate the process of taking the first steps in developing, exposing and...
by Richard White
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
A new, incisive history of the transcontinental railroads and how they transformed America in the decades after the Civil War.
The transcontinental railroads of the late nineteenth century were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked...
by Katrina Pescador, Mark Aldrich, San Diego Air and Space Museum
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Founded by Reuben H. Fleet in 1923, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (later Convair) became one of the most significant aircraft manufacturers in American history. For roughly 60 years, this prolific company was synonymous with San Diego. In fact, whole sections of the city were designed to provide...
by John Charles Anicic Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
In the first half of the 20th century, Fontana Farms Company operated a hog ranch on the site where Kaiser Company Incorporated later erected one of the nation�s largest steel mills. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States was forced into an unprecedented escalation in...
by Douglas W. Mengers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Starting with the first horse-drawn trolleys introduced by the San Diego Streetcar Company in 1886, San Diego’s history included the growth and decline of several trolley systems. After electricity arrived, San Diego was the site of early experimentation for electric trolleys on the West Coast and...