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The Craft Beer Revolution
How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World's Favorite Drink
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Over the past 40 years craft-brewed beer has exploded in growth. In 1980, a handful of "microbrewery" pioneers launched a revolution that would challenge the dominance of the national brands, Budweiser, Coors, and Miller, and change the way Americans think about, and drink, beer. Today,...
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...
The Big Flatline
Oil and the No-Growth Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What it will be like to live in a world where growth is over?
Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world's...
by Mark Gerencser, Reginald Van Lee, Fernando Napolitano
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
A hurricane strikes a city; terrorists attack a nation; global warming threatens the environment--such problems are too large for any one authority to solve alone. Our increasingly globalized and interconnected world calls for a new type of tri-sector leadership in which business, government and nonprofits...
Moveable Feasts
From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Today the average meal has traveled thousands of miles before reaching the dinner table. How on earth did this happen? In fact, long-distance food is nothing new and, since the earliest times, the things we eat and drink have crossed countries and continents. Through delightful anecdotes and astonishing...
Tears of Mermaids
The Secret Story of Pearls
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
A round, luminescent pearl is the simplest and most perfect gem. Columbus sought—and found—this precious jewel coveted by his Spanish sovereigns, sparking popularity throughout Europe. Fashion icons Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Grace, and Michelle Obama cherished them, making them iconic. And...
Masters of Disaster
The Ten Commandments of Damage Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
The foolproof guide to damage control from the "masters of disaster"
Whether you're a politician caught with his pants down, a publicly traded company accused of accounting improprieties, a family-owned restaurant with a lousy Yelp review or just the guy in the corner cubicle who...
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...
Buying a Piece of Paris
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Buying a Piece of Paris is a charming and witty love song to the most beautiful city in the world.
Paris has seduced many admirers, but for Ellie Nielsen it's true love. So deep is her infatuation that she'll only be satisfied with a little place to call her own. The object of her desire seems...
The Evolved Eater
A Quest to Eat Better, Live Better, and Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
From the co-founder of Plated, the home delivery food service, an inspirational business title that is a call-to-arms and investigation into the industrial American food complex.
In early 2012, Nick Taranto was twenty-seven years old, recently married, and fresh out of the Marine Corps. He...
We Make Beer
Inside the Spirit and Artistry of America's Craft Brewers
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
An eye-opening journey into craft beer–making in America, and what you can find in the quest to brew the perfect pint
Sean Lewis was living in Boston when he first set foot inside the Blue Hills Brewery. He was writing for BeerAdvocate magazine about America's craft brewers, and the then-fledgling...
Cowboys and Indies
The Epic History of the Record Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Cowboys and Indies is nothing less than the first definitive history of the recording industry on both sides of the Atlantic.
From the invention of the earliest known sound-recording device in 1850s Paris to the CD crash and digital boom today, author and industry insider Gareth Murphy takes...
American Drive
How Manufacturing Will Save Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Politicians, voters, executives, and employees all want the answer to one question: How can America compete with cheap foreign labor, and restore skilled, well-paying jobs to our economy? American Drive answers that question.
An executive with nearly thirty years in the trenches of the hard-nosed...
by W. Brad Johnson, Charles R. Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
From the authors of Elements of Mentoring, this handy guide pulls the existing research on the delicate balance of professional ethics into one concise source.
Johnson and Ridley explore seventy-five of the most important and pithy truths for supervisors in all fields, including questions of...