Agate B2 imprint: 33 books

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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018

More than 300 quotes from Facebook founder and tech icon Mark Zuckerberg Now more relevant than ever, Zuckerberg has grown his social networking site into a first-of-its-kind global hegemon A graphically-driven gift book for anyone interested in the highly celebrated—and highly controversial—tech...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019

UPDATED AND EXPANDED: New edition features hundreds of quotes from Alibaba founder Jack Ma in a revised and repackaged gift format HIGH-PROFILE SUBJECT: Alibaba is the largest retailer in the world and e-commerce giant Jack Ma is the third-richest man in China, with an estimated net worth of $39 billion PROVEN...

Risk Rules

How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy

by Marvin Zonis, Dan Lefkovitz, Sam Wilkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Risk Rules is a comprehensive updating of the authors' critically praised The Kimchi Matters (Agate B2, 2005). The authors, a group of present and former University of Chicago political risk experts, return discussion of globalization and international relations to first principles. Globalization hype...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016

The public's appetite for all things Oprah Winfrey has waned little since her Chicago TV debut in 1983. Known as a self-help guru and the "Queen of All Media," Oprah (it's almost impossible not to refer to her by her globally recognized first name) has been shining light on social issues and encouraging...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg, the youngest Person of the Year named by Time magazine since Charles Lindbergh in 1927, has grown in prominence as rapidly as the company he founded in a Harvard dorm room in 2004. The public's appetite for insight into Facebook and its founder seems nearly insatiable. Curiosity abounds...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016

Ever since the Alibaba Group went public on September 19, 2014-with an initial public offering of a record-breaking $25 billion-Jack Ma, the founder and charismatic "spiritual leader" of the e-commerce behemoth, has been making headlines around the world. In 2014, the company's online transactions...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013

Richard Branson, who has been called "England's most outrageous billionaire," is also one of the world's most successful business leaders. Since the age of 16, when he founded Student magazine, Branson has been creating companies and finding innovative ways to grow them into the prodigious conglomerate...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018

Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore based out of his garage. Since then, the ever-expanding enterprise has revolutionized shopping and, in many important ways, invented e-commerce as we know it. Today, Amazon is the third-most valuable company in the world, and Bezos's vast customer-oriented...

Improvise

Unconventional Career Advice from an Unlikely CEO

by Fred Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

This year alone, 3.2 million U.S. students will graduate from college. Unprecedented percentages of them will move back home, and many will be unable to obtain a job in their fields of study. Improvise is an inspiring story of how Fred Cook followed an unusual yet fascinating path from young adulthood...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017

Elon Musk, the South African–born entrepreneur who made his first fortune with Internet companies such as PayPal, has risen to global prominence as the visionary CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, two companies with self-proclaimed missions to improve life as we know it and better secure the future...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014

When Carlos Slim claimed the top spot on Forbes’s annual list of the world’s richest people in 2010, it was the first time since 1994 that the spot wasn’t occupied by an American and, even more impressively, the first time that a person from a developing country topped the list. Although Slim...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012

Bill Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, has been a revered, and occasionally controversial, worldwide business icon for more than three decades. Recognized by most as an ingenious visionary, and painted by some as a tyrannical, less-than-scrupulous empire builder, Gates has had...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014

If you want to find something on the World Wide Web, you “Google” it. With its 1 million servers located around the world, the company handles over a billion search requests daily. But when the Internet first came online, people struggled to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011

Drawn from more than three decades of media coverage-print, electronic, and online-this book serves up the best, most thought-provoking insights ever spoken by Steve Jobs: more than 200 quotations that are essential reading for everyone who seeks innovative solutions and inspirations applicable to their...
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