Industries Professions category: 12443 books
Gangsters to Governors
The New Bosses of Gambling in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Generations ago, gambling in America was an illicit activity, dominated by gangsters like Benny Binion and Bugsy Siegel. Today, forty-eight out of fifty states permit some form of legal gambling, and America’s governors sit at the head of the gaming table. But have states become addicted to the...
Moonshots
Creating a World of Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Secrets of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Revealed
Learn how curiosity, imagination, and exponential innovation are creating life without limits
Naveen Jain is leading disruptions today that will reshape the world—and beyond. From redefining civilian space exploration to creating a path...
Urban Outlaw
Dirt Don’t Slow You Down
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**
Magnus Walker is one of life’s originals. Serial entrepreneur, fashion designer, TV presenter, motivational speaker and one of the world’s most prolific Porsche collectors, the dreadlocked, tattooed hoarder of individual creativity is a very modern incarnation...
The Women of Berkshire Hathaway
Lessons from Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and Directors
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
A fascinating look at the top women at Berkshire Hathaway and how they got there
Although proportionally women continue to lag far behind men as CEOs and board members at major institutions, there has been a marked uptick in the number of female business leaders in recent years. Looking at...
The People's Car
a global history of the Volkswagen Beetle
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Bernhard Rieger reveals how a car commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche became a global commodity on a par with Coca-Cola. The Beetle's success hinged on its uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of executives, engineers, advertisers, car collectors, suburbanites, hippies, and everyday drivers aross nations and cultures.
Page One
Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
The news media is in the middle of a revolution. Old certainties have been shoved aside by new entities such as WikiLeaks and Gawker, Politico and the Huffington Post. But where, in all this digital innovation, is the future of great journalism? Is there a difference between an opinion column and...
Heirloom
Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life.
Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in Brooklyn, working days as a...
Seoul Man
A Memoir of Cars, Culture, Crisis, and Unexpected Hilarity Inside a Korean Corporate Titan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Recounting his three years in Korea, the highest-ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai sheds light on a business culture very few Western journalists ever experience, in this revealing, moving, and hilarious memoir.
When Frank Ahrens, a middle-aged bachelor and eighteen-year veteran at the...
The Mystery of Flight 427
Inside a Crash Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The immediate human toll of the 1994 Flight 427 disaster was staggering: all 132 people aboard died on a Pennsylvania hillside. The subsequent investigation was a maze of politics, bizarre theories, and shrouded answers. Bill Adair, an award-winning journalist, was granted special access to the five-year...
Fixing Fashion
Rethinking the Way We Make, Market and Buy Our Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
With sales of more than five hundred billion US dollars a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, employing millions of men, women, and often children in the developing world. And yet its record is far from pretty. The collapse of Bangladesh's Rana Plaza...
Not Extinct Yet
A Memoir of My Forty-Four Years in the Newspaper Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Former newspaper executive publishes new book Not Extinct Yet. In his memoir of 44 years in publishing, Rick Rae talks about the ups and downs of the newspaper business from his unique vantage point. In a career spanning almost twenty locations in the United States and Canada, Rick has worked for,...
by Locksley Gareth
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
This title demonstrates the significant actual and potential contribution of the media to development which takes several forms. It explains the forces in play that continue to influence the ever evolving forms and structures of the media and introduces a policy agenda for developing countries and donors...
Crude Volatility
The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Richard Miniter in his book “Disinformation: 22 Media Myths that Undermine the War on Terror”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not...