The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle, while writers and producers lift their best techniques from TV, comic books, and the toy biz. The future of Hollywood is being written by powerful corporate brands like Marvel, Amazon, Netflix, and Lego, as well as censors in China. Ben Fritz chronicles this dramatic shakeup with unmatched skill, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He dives deeply into the fruits of the Sony hack to show how the previous model, long a creative and commercial success, lost its way. And he looks ahead through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, Imax, and others to discover how they have reinvented the business. He shows us, for instance, how Marvel replaced stars with "universes," and how Disney remade itself in Apple's image and reaped enormous profits. But despite the destruction of the studios' traditional playbook, Fritz argues that these seismic shifts signal the dawn of a new heyday for film. The Big Picture shows the first glimmers of this new golden age through the eyes of the creative mavericks who are defining what our movies will look like in the new era.
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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9780544789760
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Hardcover
Investing in Your 20s & 30s For Dummies
By Tyson, Eric
Investing in your 20s & 30s For Dummies, 3rd Edition will provide emerging professionals with the targeted investment advice they need to establish their own unique investment style. Covering everything from the latest tax laws to new and popular investing funds, this latest edition helps Millennials evaluate assets and manage risk to invest money wisely, and monitor their progress. Start building a nest egg for retirement Understand investment lingo Determine a investment timeline and goals UPDATES: * New tax laws and impact on investors * The Robinhood investing phenomenon * Investing through Robo-advisors * From impact to socially responsible investing: Top fields Millennials are investing in Lessons from COVID-19 on the market and real estate investing Marketing.
For Dummies; 3rd edition
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9781119805403
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Paperback
Start Your Own Business
By Inc., Entrepreneur Media
Whether you're looking to earn extra money or are ready to grow your side hustle, Start Your Own Business is the first step toward entrepreneurship.With more than 40 years of experience and advice shared on Entrepreneur.com and in Entrepreneur magazine, the team at Entrepreneur Media is uniquely qualified to guide a new generation of bold individuals like you looking to .Coached by business experts, practicing business owners, and thriving entrepreneurs, Start Your Own Business uncovers what you need to know before taking the plunge, securing finances, launching your venture, and growing your business . Learn how to:Avoid analysis aralysis when launching a businessDefine and research your ideal audienceTest ideas in the real world before going to marketPitch and win funding from venture capitalists, apply for loans, and manage cash advancesEvaluate if a co-working space is the right move for youRun successful Facebook and Google ads as part of your marketing campaignUse micro-influencers to successfully promote your brand on social media.
Entrepreneur Press; 8th edition
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9781642011357
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Paperback
Financial Statements, Third Edition
By Ittelson, Thomas
Over 200,000 copies sold!Thomas R. Ittelson's master work for entrepreneurs, non-financial managers, business students, lawyers, lenders, and investors -- the bestselling book of its kind, with over 200,000 copies in print -- has gotten even better with this 20th anniversary edition.Ittelson is an expert at translating complicated financial topics in an accessible way for non-financial audiences. In this book, he empowers readers by clearly and simply demonstrating how the three major accounting statements interact to offer a snapshot of a company's financial health.This book teaches readers how to use specialized accounting vocabulary and makes accessible the structure and purpose of the three major numeric statements that describe a company's financial condition.
Career Press
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9781632651754
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Paperback
The Injustice of Place
By Edin, Kathryn J.
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light." (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted) Three of the nation's top scholars - known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America - turn their attention from the country's poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America's most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there.This revelation set in motion a five-year journey across Appalachia, the Cotton and Tobacco Belts of the Deep South, and South Texas.
Mariner Books
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9780063239494
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Hardcover
Staying in the Game
By Lawrence, Adrienne
A practical guide to shutting down workplace sexual harassment so it doesn't derail your career or your life, from the first on-air personality to sue ESPN for sexual harassment.Even in the #MeToo era, studies show that women in the workforce continue to harbor misconceptions about sexual harassment and are unprepared to respond when it happens. Lawyer and former ESPN anchor Adrienne Lawrence has learned to advocate for herself and other women. In this book, she offers much-needed insight on topics such as: * Identifying the five types of harassers and the five types of coworkers who enable them * Researching company culture and history to identify sexual harassment hotbeds * Properly documenting inappropriate behavior * Preparing for retaliation and mental health hurdles such as anxiety and depression * Managing public exposure and figuring out when to leverage the power of the media and/or lawyer upThis essential guide helps women navigate the complicated realities of sexual harassment and teaches them how to be their own best advocates in toxic work environments.
TarcherPerigee
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9780593084113
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Hardcover
Retire Before Mom and Dad
By Berger, Rob
Publisher: n/a
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9781733914505
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Paperback
Nickel and Dimed
By Ehrenreich, Barbara
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort.
Picador Paper
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9781250808318
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Paperback
The Challenge Culture
By Travis, Nigel
The charismatic, accessible, and down-to-earth CEO of Dunkin' Brands (Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins) shows how positive pushback--the discipline of "questioning everything without trashing anyone"--provides a unique results-oriented way to lead an organization to prosperity. We live in a world where the move from success to failure can happen in a flash. Customers, competition, changing societal mores, and technology can bring on existential crisis. But as Dunkin' Brands Chairman and CEO Nigel Travis shows in The Challenge Culture, businesses can cope with change and go on to thrive by instituting a culture that supports positive pushback: questioning everything without trashing anything or anyone.The ability to get colleagues to break out of conformity--especially when it means upending a culture of fear and authoritarianism--is a rare skill, one Nigel (everyone calls him Nigel) has been developing for decades. In a distinct, authentic, and authoritative voice, Nigel draws from a wide range of personal experiences--including the way Blockbuster dawdled in the face of the Netflix challenge, his early days at Dunkin' Donuts, and his recent foray into owning a UK soccer team--to show how a challenge culture is necessary to provide a human-oriented, results-driven blueprint for building a prosperous future.To keep up with the times and grow, people need to be allowed to speak up and question the status quo, talk in a civil way about difficult issues, debate across disciplines, disagree about strategies and tactics in order to successfully move forward together.
PublicAffairs
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9781541762145
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Hardcover
The Little Black Dress of Finance
By Laverty, Caren
As an Account Executive, Caren Laverty met with many couples, single women, and widows and it occurred to her how many women shy away from the investment world. They either found it boring or too complicated and filled with way too much terminology to be understood. Through The Little Black Dress of Finance, Caren helps empower women rather than watch them become vulnerable in one of the most important aspects of their lives.Readers get a fun--and funny--course in personal finance through this book. Budgeting and investments receive special attention, just as a designer dress would in a boutique!In a style that is very much girlfriend-to-girlfriend, Laverty delivers top-notch expertise in a conversational way.
The Big Picture
By Fritz, Ben
The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle, while writers and producers lift their best techniques from TV, comic books, and the toy biz. The future of Hollywood is being written by powerful corporate brands like Marvel, Amazon, Netflix, and Lego, as well as censors in China. Ben Fritz chronicles this dramatic shakeup with unmatched skill, bringing equal fluency to both the financial and entertainment aspects of Hollywood. He dives deeply into the fruits of the Sony hack to show how the previous model, long a creative and commercial success, lost its way. And he looks ahead through interviews with dozens of key players at Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Amazon, Imax, and others to discover how they have reinvented the business. He shows us, for instance, how Marvel replaced stars with "universes," and how Disney remade itself in Apple's image and reaped enormous profits. But despite the destruction of the studios' traditional playbook, Fritz argues that these seismic shifts signal the dawn of a new heyday for film. The Big Picture shows the first glimmers of this new golden age through the eyes of the creative mavericks who are defining what our movies will look like in the new era.
Investing in Your 20s & 30s For Dummies
By Tyson, Eric
Investing in your 20s & 30s For Dummies, 3rd Edition will provide emerging professionals with the targeted investment advice they need to establish their own unique investment style. Covering everything from the latest tax laws to new and popular investing funds, this latest edition helps Millennials evaluate assets and manage risk to invest money wisely, and monitor their progress. Start building a nest egg for retirement Understand investment lingo Determine a investment timeline and goals UPDATES: * New tax laws and impact on investors * The Robinhood investing phenomenon * Investing through Robo-advisors * From impact to socially responsible investing: Top fields Millennials are investing in Lessons from COVID-19 on the market and real estate investing Marketing.
Start Your Own Business
By Inc., Entrepreneur Media
Whether you're looking to earn extra money or are ready to grow your side hustle, Start Your Own Business is the first step toward entrepreneurship.With more than 40 years of experience and advice shared on Entrepreneur.com and in Entrepreneur magazine, the team at Entrepreneur Media is uniquely qualified to guide a new generation of bold individuals like you looking to .Coached by business experts, practicing business owners, and thriving entrepreneurs, Start Your Own Business uncovers what you need to know before taking the plunge, securing finances, launching your venture, and growing your business . Learn how to:Avoid analysis aralysis when launching a businessDefine and research your ideal audienceTest ideas in the real world before going to marketPitch and win funding from venture capitalists, apply for loans, and manage cash advancesEvaluate if a co-working space is the right move for youRun successful Facebook and Google ads as part of your marketing campaignUse micro-influencers to successfully promote your brand on social media.
Financial Statements, Third Edition
By Ittelson, Thomas
Over 200,000 copies sold!Thomas R. Ittelson's master work for entrepreneurs, non-financial managers, business students, lawyers, lenders, and investors -- the bestselling book of its kind, with over 200,000 copies in print -- has gotten even better with this 20th anniversary edition.Ittelson is an expert at translating complicated financial topics in an accessible way for non-financial audiences. In this book, he empowers readers by clearly and simply demonstrating how the three major accounting statements interact to offer a snapshot of a company's financial health.This book teaches readers how to use specialized accounting vocabulary and makes accessible the structure and purpose of the three major numeric statements that describe a company's financial condition.
The Injustice of Place
By Edin, Kathryn J.
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light." (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted) Three of the nation's top scholars - known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America - turn their attention from the country's poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America's most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there.This revelation set in motion a five-year journey across Appalachia, the Cotton and Tobacco Belts of the Deep South, and South Texas.
Staying in the Game
By Lawrence, Adrienne
A practical guide to shutting down workplace sexual harassment so it doesn't derail your career or your life, from the first on-air personality to sue ESPN for sexual harassment.Even in the #MeToo era, studies show that women in the workforce continue to harbor misconceptions about sexual harassment and are unprepared to respond when it happens. Lawyer and former ESPN anchor Adrienne Lawrence has learned to advocate for herself and other women. In this book, she offers much-needed insight on topics such as: * Identifying the five types of harassers and the five types of coworkers who enable them * Researching company culture and history to identify sexual harassment hotbeds * Properly documenting inappropriate behavior * Preparing for retaliation and mental health hurdles such as anxiety and depression * Managing public exposure and figuring out when to leverage the power of the media and/or lawyer upThis essential guide helps women navigate the complicated realities of sexual harassment and teaches them how to be their own best advocates in toxic work environments.
Retire Before Mom and Dad
By Berger, Rob
Nickel and Dimed
By Ehrenreich, Barbara
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort.
The Challenge Culture
By Travis, Nigel
The charismatic, accessible, and down-to-earth CEO of Dunkin' Brands (Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins) shows how positive pushback--the discipline of "questioning everything without trashing anyone"--provides a unique results-oriented way to lead an organization to prosperity. We live in a world where the move from success to failure can happen in a flash. Customers, competition, changing societal mores, and technology can bring on existential crisis. But as Dunkin' Brands Chairman and CEO Nigel Travis shows in The Challenge Culture, businesses can cope with change and go on to thrive by instituting a culture that supports positive pushback: questioning everything without trashing anything or anyone.The ability to get colleagues to break out of conformity--especially when it means upending a culture of fear and authoritarianism--is a rare skill, one Nigel (everyone calls him Nigel) has been developing for decades. In a distinct, authentic, and authoritative voice, Nigel draws from a wide range of personal experiences--including the way Blockbuster dawdled in the face of the Netflix challenge, his early days at Dunkin' Donuts, and his recent foray into owning a UK soccer team--to show how a challenge culture is necessary to provide a human-oriented, results-driven blueprint for building a prosperous future.To keep up with the times and grow, people need to be allowed to speak up and question the status quo, talk in a civil way about difficult issues, debate across disciplines, disagree about strategies and tactics in order to successfully move forward together.
The Little Black Dress of Finance
By Laverty, Caren
As an Account Executive, Caren Laverty met with many couples, single women, and widows and it occurred to her how many women shy away from the investment world. They either found it boring or too complicated and filled with way too much terminology to be understood. Through The Little Black Dress of Finance, Caren helps empower women rather than watch them become vulnerable in one of the most important aspects of their lives.Readers get a fun--and funny--course in personal finance through this book. Budgeting and investments receive special attention, just as a designer dress would in a boutique!In a style that is very much girlfriend-to-girlfriend, Laverty delivers top-notch expertise in a conversational way.