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Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
Brad Smith · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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"A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today." - Bill Gates, from the foreword
From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential... |
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The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution
Daniel Raimi · Columbia University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically -- thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as "fracking." This rapid increase has generated widespread debate, with... |
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The Conscience Economy: How a Mass Movement for Good Is Great for Business
Steven Overman · Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover
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A generation of people around the world, from Boston to Bangkok, from New York to New Delhi, are making everyday choices in ways that defy traditional logic. They are judging where and how their clothes were made, not just how they fit. They are thinking global but buying local. They are spending... |
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The Trump Tax Plan: Your Personal Guide to the Biggest Tax Cut in American History
Eva Rosenberg · Humanix Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Noted tax expert and award-winning finance author Eva Rosenberg presents one of the first - if not the first - guides to Trump's newly enacted tax plan, providing individual tax payers with a roadmap to making the most out of this historic tax reform. Part One will provide plain English... |
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High Performance Habits
Brendon Burchard · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions: 1. Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over the long term? 2. Of those... |
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LinkedIn For Dummies
JOEL ELAD · For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Make LinkedIn your number one professional branding tool LinkedIn is the premiere social network for professionals looking to discover new opportunities, enhance personal branding, connect with other professionals, and make career advancements. With LinkedIn For Dummies, you'll have... |
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Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff
Lydia Pyne · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Why do audiences feel outraged when they find out that scenes from their beloved blockbuster documentaries are staged? Can people move past assuming that a diamond grown in a lab is a fake? What happens when a forged... |
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Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation
Adam Bryant · St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book : English : First St. Martin's Griffin editionView all editions and formats
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More than two hundred CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives results In Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than two hundred CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move... |
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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
James Martin Stone · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality.
America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them... |
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It
Larry Olmsted · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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"Impressive . . . Readers will be inspired by Olmsted's intensity and clarity, and floored by how far some counterfeiters go to fool consumers and some historic food institutions go to protect their products and their names. Olmsted's sharp language will hopefully put fires under counterfeiters... |
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Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice & Build Your Dream Life
Lisa Sugar · Dutton
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home.... |
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The Heart of the Deal: How to Invest and Negotiate like a Real Estate Mogul
Anthony Lolli · Diversion Publishing
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback
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The founder and CEO of Rapid Realty, New York City's largest rental-based real estate brokerage, shares his story, his advice, and his tips for building a successful career in the ever-growing and lucrative world of real estate. Anthony Lolli got his real estate license at age nineteen.... |
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Travel with Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism
Jeff Blumenfeld · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Imagine yourself in a schoolroom in one of the most remote regions of one of the most hard-to-reach countries on earth. Nepal. The Lower Mustang region to be exact. To reach it takes a 14-hour flight from New York to Doha, Qatar. Then four hours by air to Kathmandu. Transfer at one of the world's... |
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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman · Portfolio
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?
Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Jim... |
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