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From the Ground Up
A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, a bold, dramatic work about the new responsibilities that leaders, businesses, and citizens share in American society today—as viewed through the intimate lens of one man’s life and work. **
What do we owe...
Buffett
The Making of an American Capitalist
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Since its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsday and Business Week bestseller lists.
Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment,...
Thinking in New Boxes
A New Paradigm for Business Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters.
LIGHTERS?
With an idea that seemed crazy at first, that bright executive, instead of seeing BIC as a pen company—a business...
The Captain Class
A New Theory of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
**A bold new theory of leadership drawn from elite captains throughout sports—named one of the best business books of the year by CNBC, The New York Times, Forbes, strategy+business, The Globe and Mail, and Sports Illustrated
“The book taught me that there’s no cookie-cutter way to lead....
Buying In
The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Consumers are in control. Or so we're told. In Buying In, Rob Walker argues that this accepted wisdom misses a much more important cultural shift, including a practice he calls murketing, in which people create brands of their own and participate, in...
Thieves of Bay Street
How Banks, Brokerages and the Wealthy Steal Billions from Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A newsmaking exposé about why Canada's financial industry is a haven for fraud.
Beneath the veneer of stability that saw Canada's banking sector through the financial crash of 2008, investigative reporter Bruce Livesey has uncovered a rampant failure of epidemic proportions. Though no large financial...
World War 3.0
Microsoft, the US Government, and the Battle for the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity are...
by Don Hertzfeldt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
From the imagination of legendary animator and two-time Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt comes a hilarious fever-dream vision of the apocalypse, now available in wide release for the first time since the rare original edition sold out.
Created during sleepless nights while he worked on his animated...
by David Aceituno, David Buisán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2019
La biografía del líder de Nirvana, ilustrada por David M. Buisán.
Kurt Cobain tuvo una vida corta, pero muy intensa. Guardaba un lado oscuro que no le impidió servir de guía a toda una generación.
Descubre lo que hay detrás de la leyenda.
Thunder & Lightning
Weather Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Note: This eBook file contains many richly detailed full-color images and makes use of unconventional page layouts. Because of this, readers will be required to zoom in on each page to read the text and see the finer detail of the artwork. [It has not been optimized for devices that display only in...
Michael Jackson
Música de luces, vida de sombras
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 6, 2019
En el décimo aniversario de su muerte hacemos un recorrido por las luces y las sombras que marcaron una leyenda del Pop. Considerado el Rey por unos y un monstruo por otros, lo que sin duda fue Michael Jackson es uno de los personajes más icónicos a la vez que misteriosos de nuestros tiempos.
Con...
by Madeleine L'Engle
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 13, 2018
La novela gráfica de Una arruga en el tiempo, un clásico de la literatura fantástica, una obra de culto que ha inspirado películas como Interestellar y series como Lost. Una de las obras clave para entender el juego entre realidad, física cuántica y filosofía.
Una joya de la ciencia...
Superman
The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America’s most adored and enduring heroes. Now Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Satchel, has written the first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators,...
by Michael Chabon
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon.
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