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Three Blind Mice
How the TV Networks Lost Their Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
What happened to network television in the 1980s? How did CBS, NBC, and ABC lose a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits?
Ken Auletta, author of Greed and Glory on Wall Street, tells the gripping story of the decline of the networks in this epically scaled work...
Where the Suckers Moon
The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
"For all the right reasons." "Cars that can." "What to Drive." "The perfect Car for an Imperfect World." Only one of these slogans would be chosen by Subaru of America to sell its cars in the recession year of 1991.
As six advertising agencies scrambled...
by John Gregory Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like "Dr....
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...
Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care)
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
A bestselling investigative journalist takes a tour of the Alberta oil and gas industry, revealing how Canada’s richest province is squandering our chance for a sustainable future.
In its desperate search for oil and gas riches, Alberta is destroying itself. As the world teeters on the edge...
The Tom Peters Seminar
Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
This volume brings together the best of the Tom Peters seminars, complete with visual materials. The Tom Peters Seminar demonstrates Peters' unconventional analysis that challenges outdated corporate structures and demonstrates that in the 1990s, "imagination is the source of value in the economy."...
The Attention Merchants
The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
One of the Best Books of the Year
**The San Francisco Chronicle * The Philadelphia Inquirer * Vox * The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory,...
Life 3.0
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
**New York Times Best Seller
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore...
How I Won the Yellow Jumper
Dispatches from the Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
'Paris, 4 July 2003: My first Tour de France. I had never seen a bike race. I had only vaguely heard of Lance Armstrong. I had no idea what I was doing there. Yet, that day I was broadcasting live on television. I fumbled my way through a few platitudes, before summing up with the words, "...Dave...
by Andrew S. Grove
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO (and employee number three) of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company.
The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses—the art of the entrepreneur—can be summed...
Elastic
Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
**The best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard’s Walk teaches you how to tap into the hidden power of your brain.
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**“*Elastic *is a book that will help you survive the whirlwind.”
—Daniel H. Pink, author of When and A Whole New Mind
Named to the 800-CEO-READ...
Getting to Maybe
How the World Is Changed
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation
Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually...
Ashes to Ashes
America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail.
Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature,...
by Dan Heath, Chip Heath
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2011
¿Por qué es tan difícil lograr cambios duraderos en nuestros trabajos, nuestrascomunidades y nuestras propias vidas?
El obstáculo principal es un conflicto intrínsico en el cerebro, nos dicen Chip y Dan Heath, dos reconocidos especialistas en comportamiento organizacional. Los psicólogos...