Industries Professions category: 12443 books
by Robert D. Austin, Shannon O'Donnell, Richard L. Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
What does it take to lead and manage your company’s tech?
Becoming an effective IT leader and manager presents a host of challenges-from anticipating emerging technologies, to managing relationships with senior executives, vendors, and employees, to communicating with the board. A good IT...
Bean-to-Bar Chocolate
America's Craft Chocolate Revolution: The Origins, the Makers, and the Mind-Blowing Flavors
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Author Megan Giller invites fellow chocoholics on a fascinating journey through America’s craft chocolate revolution. Learn what to look for in a craft chocolate bar and how to successfully pair chocolate with coffee, beer, spirits, cheese, or bread. This comprehensive celebration of chocolate...
The Big Nine
How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.
We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday...
Inside Coca-Cola
A CEO's Life Story of Building the World's Most Popular Brand
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells the remarkable story of the company's revival
Neville Isdell was a key player at Coca-Cola for more than 30 years, retiring in 2009 as CEO after regilding the tarnished brand image of the world's leading soft-drink company. This first book by a Coca-Cola...
by Brenda Magee
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Milwaukee is most famous for its booming brewing industry, which is directly tied to a surge in German immigration in the 1840s. These new citizens brought along their work ethic, culture, and a love for their native beverage. Not all immigrants arrived from Europe; many, like Richard Owens, came from...
by Andrew T. Pittman, John O. Spengler, Sarah J. Young
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Case Studies in Sport Law, Second Edition, provides students with specific examples and perspectives of some of the most significant cases in sport law in an accessible tone that is free of legal jargon. The text is an ideal companion for non-law students who are seeking clarity and context for legal...
Custodians of the Internet
Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online—and the large societal impact of these decisions
Most users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn. Whether faced with “fake news”...
by Rod Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Volume 11 is a continuation of Volume 10 in the series. It republishes "Sunflower Diaries," Volume 8. It covers the news from 6/27 to 6/28 of 2014. There's a section regarding "Life of Pi" and Susan Boyle's performance with "Britain's Got Talent" linked to the Psychic Field. Something...
by Javier Florencio Aragonés Mendoza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Ejecutar y formalizar las operaciones propias del almacén de carnes y productos cárnicos hasta su despacho final, alcanzando los fines de producción y calidad establecidos en ambientes progresivamente más tecnológicos. Respetar en todo momento la normativa vigente técnico-sanitaria, en relación...
Panic at the Pump
The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
An authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought
In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty gas tanks, and the new fifty-five-mile-per-hour...
Lean Hospitals
Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology and mindsets to improve safety, quality,...
by Álvaro Torres Rojas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Realizar las operaciones para la puesta a punto de las principales maquinas y equipos de impresión offset. Operar con las principales maquinas de impresión offset para realizar la tirada y conseguir la calidad requerida. Verificar los parámetros de producción sobre las primeras muestras impresas,...
by David Ignacio Machuca Sánchez, Miriam Hervás Torres
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Montar y ajustar (y desmontar) moldes, matrices y cabezales de equipos en las máquinas de transformación y moldeo de polímeros, identificando las cotas principales de la pieza que deben ser obtenidas y razonando qué efectos ejercen la constitución del molde o matriz y el trabajo realizado sobre...
Making Monte Carlo
A History of Speculation and Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
“A brisk historical tour of the marketing and selling of the small principality of Monaco and its famous city…A well-researched, dramatic rags-to-riches urban tale” (Kirkus Reviews) of Monte Carlo’s rise from small principality to prosperous resort town of the 1920s.
Monte Carlo has...