Review imprint: 1779 books
98% Funky Stuff
My Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Revealing the warm and astonishing story of an influential jazz legend, this personal narrative tells the story of a man’s journey from a Southern upbringing to a career touring the world to play for adoring fans. It tells how James Brown first discovered the Parker brothers—Melvin, the drummer,...
by Heidi Grant Halvorson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Are you at the top of your game—or still trying to get there? Take your cues from the short, powerful Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, where the strategies and goals of the world’s most successful people are on display—backed by research that shows exactly what has the biggest impact...
IT Savvy
What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed.
These challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all managers-IT or non-IT-to transform...
Unstoppable
Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
Over the next decade, two out of every three companies will face the challenge of their corporate lives: redefining their core business. Buffeted by global competition and facing an uncertain future, more and more executives will realize that they must make fundamental changes in their core even as...
Strategy Maps
Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
More than a decade ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization,...
Thomas Edison for Kids
His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Thomas Edison, one of the world's greatest inventors, is introduced in this fascinating activity book. Children will learn how Edison ushered in an astounding age of invention with his unique way of looking at things and refusal to be satisfied with only one solution to a problem. This book helps...
Fizz
How Soda Shook Up the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This social, cultural, and culinary history charts soda's remarkable, world-changing journey from awe-inspiring natural mystery to ubiquity. Off-the-wall and offbeat stories abound, including how quack medicine peddlers spawned some of the world's biggest brands, how fizzy pop cashed in on Prohibition,...
After the Tall Timber
Collected Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. In her essays and long-form journalism, she has captured the cultural zeitgeist, distrusted the accepted wisdom, and written stories that would otherwise go untold. As a staff...
by Steve Lehto, Steve Lehto, Jay Leno
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In the wake of World War II, the U.S. automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the growing demands of the public, for whom they had not made any cars for years. In stepped Preston Tucker, a salesman extraordinaire who announced the building of a revolutionary new car: the Tucker '48, the first...
Songs in the Key of Z
The Curious Universe of Outsider Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston,...
Get Backed
Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Anyone who comes to pitch on Shark Tank should read this book first!”
-Barbara Corcoran, ABC's Shark Tank
I have seen literally thousands of companies trying to raise capital and know that a great pitch deck is critical. This book gives you the playbook for creating yours.”
-Naval Ravikant,...
True Story
How to Combine Story and Action to Transform Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Is your company a storyteller-or a storydoer?
The old way to market a business was storytelling. But in today’s world, simply communicating your brand’s story in the hope that customers will listen is no longer enough. Instead, your authentic brand must be evident in every action the organization...
The Intention Economy
When Customers Take Charge
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Caveat venditor-let the seller beware
While marketers look for more ways to get personal with customers, including new tricks with big data,” customers are about to get personal in their own ways, with their own tools. Soon consumers will be able to:
Control the flow and use of...
by Reginald Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
With hands-on advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide to starting a theater company imparts essential backstage know-how for would-be playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and...