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The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year
Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers–Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T–Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire.
It is easy...
The Facebook Effect
The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
The exclusive inside story of Facebook and how it has revolutionized the way the world uses the Internet. “A fantastic book, filled with great reporting and colorful narrative” (Walter Isaacson).
In little more than half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company...
Hemp Bound
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet’s strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it’s been illegal to grow industrial cannabis in the United...
Game Over
How Nintendo Conquered The World
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
More American children recognize Super Mario, the hero of one of Nintendo’s video games, than Mickey Mouse. The Japanese company has come to earn more money than the big three computer giants or all Hollywood movie studios combined. Now Sheff tells of the Nintendo invasion–a tale of innovation and cutthroat tactics.
Meatonomics
How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much—and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Few consumers are aware of the economic forces behind the production of meat, fish, eggs, and dairy. Yet omnivore and herbivore alike, the forces of meatonomics affect us in many ways.
Most importantly, we’ve lost the ability to decide for ourselves what – and how much – to eat. Those...
An Economist Gets Lunch
New Rules for Everyday Foodies
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
One of the most influential economists of the decade-and the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation-boldly argues that just about everything you've heard about food is wrong.
Food snobbery is killing entrepreneurship and innovation, says economist, preeminent social commentator,...
Deluxe
How Luxury Lost Its Luster
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by multibillion-dollar global corporations focused on...
The Real Thing
Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
A definitive history of Coca-Cola, the world’s best-known brand, by a New York Times reporter who has followed the company and who brings fresh insights to the world of Coke, telling a larger story about American business and culture
The Real Thing is a portrait of America’s most famous...
by Tony Piazza
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Peek Behind the Scenes of Bullitt and Help Kids at the Same Time! 100% of Net Profits Go to Boys Republic, Steve McQueen's Favorite Charity.
Hello, I’m Tony Piazza. My father, Anthony Piazza, Sr., worked as the San Francisco Police Department Liaison to Warner Brothers during the filming...
Right of the Dial
The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In Right of the Dial, Alec Foege explores how the mammoth media conglomerate evolved from a local radio broadcasting operation, founded in 1972, into one of the biggest, most profitable, and most polarizing corporations in the country. During its heyday, critics accused Clear Channel, the fourth-largest...
by Robert Cettl
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Michael Caine is acclaimed as a great actor. He is an international star and two-time Academy Award Winner (for Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules) whose filmmaking career spans over fifty years and many nations. His classic films spring to mind immediately at the mention of his name...
The Coke Machine
The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The Coke Machine takes readers deep inside the Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number one brand in the world, and just how far they'll go to stay there.
Ever since its "I'd like to teach the world to sing" commercials from the 1970s,...
Social Media in an English Village
(Or how to keep people at just the right distance)
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post...
Wardrobe Crisis
How We Went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Who makes your clothes? This used to be an easy question to answer it was the seamstress next door, or the tailor on the high street—or you made them yourself. Today, we rarely know the origins of the clothes hanging in our closets. The local shoemaker, dressmaker, and milliner are long gone, replaced...