Industries Professions category: 12443 books
Wine and Economics
Transacting the Elixir of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Wine and the wine trade are steeped in culture and history; few products have consistently enjoyed both cultural importance and such wide distribution over time—even seen by some as “an elixir of life”. While wine has been produced and consumed for centuries, what is distinctive about the economics...
by David Matis
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
If you think your child is just as cute, funny, or smart as the ones you see on TV, The Rising Stars Guide For Show Biz Kids will teach you everything you need to know about getting started in this fun and lucrative business. Interviews, auditions, work permits, unions, call-backs, wardrobe, dialogue...
The Kingdom and the Power
Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
“Beautifully documented . . . no less than a landmark in the field of writing and journalism.”—The Nation
“Fascinating . . . Seldom has anyone been so successful in making a newspaper come alive as a human institution.”—The New York Times
In this century and the last, most...
Mediabistro.com Presents Small Screen, Big Picture
A Writer's Guide to the TV Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Take On Hollywood and Make It as a Television Writer.
From mediabistro.com, the media industry’s most well-respected source for jobs, professional development, and community, this inside-the-business guide gives you the knowledge and tools you need to infiltrate Hollywood and land a job as...
Too High to Fail
Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The first in-depth look at the burgeoning legal cannabis industry and how the “new green economy” is shaping our country
The nation’s economy is in trouble, but there’s one cash crop that has the potential to turn it around: cannabis (also known as marijuana and hemp). According to...
PEZ
From Austrian Invention to American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
The world’s one-and-only PEZ historian dispenses fun facts on the candy’s evolution from smoking substitute to childhood treat to pop culture collectible.
PEZ is an American classic and a staple of many childhood memories. Yet it originated in Austria, where PEZ began in 1927 as compressed...
Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition
Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guineas, Game Birds
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Whether you’re running a farm or interested in keeping a few backyard birds, Storey’s Guide to Raising Poultry covers everything you need to know to successfully raise your own chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, and more. Stressing humane practices throughout, Glenn Drowns provides expert advice on...
It's Not News, It's Fark
How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
A hilarious exposé on the media gone awry, from the creator of the wildly popular Fark.com
Have you ever noticed certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps it’s the blatant fear-mongering in the absence of facts on your local six o’clock news (“Tsunami could hit...
by John Newhouse
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe’s Airbus overtook America’s Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing...
The Eskimo and The Oil Man
The Battle at the Top of the World for America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Arctic century is upon us. A great jockeying for power and influence has erupted among nations in the high north. At stake are trillions of dollars in profit or loss, US security, geopolitical influence and the fate of a fragile environment as well as the region's traditional people. As the ice...
The Fair Trade Scandal
Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across...
The Social Organism
A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
"A must-read for business leaders and anyone who wants to understand all the implications of a social world."****---Bob Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company
From tech visionaries Oliver Luckett and Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory...
The Green and the Black
The Complete Story of the Shale Revolution, the Fight over Fracking, and the Future of Energy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Gary Sernovitz leads a double life. A typical New York liberal, he is also an oilman - a fact his left-leaning friends let slide until the word "fracking" entered popular parlance. "How can you frack?" they suddenly demanded, aghast. But for Sernovitz, the real question is, "What...
by Lelia Zapata Palacios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Industria de la comunicación y economía digital te ayudará a entender la nueva economía, así como la transformación digital de empresas y organizaciones que demandan gestionar los intangibles y liderar sus comunicaciones desde la profesionalidad que aporta el Dircom. Este libro te permitirá...