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  • The Road Taken

    The History and Future of America's Infrastructure

    A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Kentucky's Frontier Highway

    Historical Landscapes Along the Maysville Road

    “A remarkable historical and geographical study” of a road linking Lexington and Maysville, Kentucky, and its influence on America (West Virginia History).Eighteenth-century Kentucky beckoned to hunters, surveyors, and settlers from the mid-Atlantic coast colonies as a source of game, land, and new trade opportunities. Unfortunately, the Appalachian Mountains formed a daunting barrier that left ... Read more

    $28.99 USD $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Red de Todo: Internet de las Cosas y el Futuro de la Economia Conectada

    Internet de las Cosas es un cambio en la naturaleza de los productos cuya magnitud es difícil de comprender por completo y las empresas de tecnología están compitiendo entre sí con pronósticos que, a veces, parecen exagerados. Ericsson promete 50 mil millones de dispositivos conectados a la red en el año 2020, más de 7 por cada persona del mundo; General Electric predice que Internet Industrial ... Read more

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  • The Grid

    The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future

    One of Bill Gates's Favorite Books of 2016A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future.America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present. It's not just that the grid has grown old and is now in dire need of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

    **New York Times BestsellerThe epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history.**The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • After Steve

    How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

    by Tripp Mickle ...
    From the New York Times' Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants—Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO—and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul.Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner at Apple.” The London-born genius was the second ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Referral Engine

    Teaching Your Business to Market Itself

    by John Jantsch ...
    The small business guru behind Duct Tape Marketing shares his most valuable lesson: how to get your customers to do your best marketing for you.The power of glitzy advertising and elaborate marketing campaigns is on the wane; word- of-mouth referrals are what drive business today. People trust the recommendation of a friend, family member, colleague, or even stranger with similar tastes over ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • The Seventh Sense

    Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

    Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why?The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Rocket Fuel

    The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business

    Discover the vital relationship that will take your company from "What's next?" to "We have liftoff!"Visionaries have groundbreaking ideas. Integrators make those ideas a reality. This explosive combination is the key to getting everything you want out of your business. It worked for Disney. It worked for McDonald's. It worked for Ford. It can work for you.From the author of the bestselling ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Reversal

    How America Gave Up on Free Markets

    A Financial Times Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the Year“Superbly argued and important…Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defective capitalism described in The Great Reversal. What the U.S. needs, instead, is another Teddy Roosevelt and his energetic trust-busting. Is that still imaginable? All believers in the virtues of competitive capitalism must hope so.”—Martin Wolf, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lights Out

    Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

    A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER"If you’re in any kind of leadership role—whether at a company, a non-profit, or somewhere else—there’s a lot you can learn here."—Bill Gates, Gates NotesHow could General Electric—perhaps America’s most iconic corporation—suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?This is the definitive history of General Electric’s epic decline, as told by the two Wall Street ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Blockchain Technology for Avoiding $1.77 Billion Scams in Public Banks

    Blockchain in Banking

    SummaryBLOCKCHAIN Technology is being predicted to disrupt various sectors. Blockchain is the technology which helps in transfer of Bitcoin digitally. It uses cryptography to control its creation and management. Originally it was designed for digital currency Bitcoin also called digital gold. This technology is being adopted worldwide in different sectors. Also Blockchain is becoming very popular ... Read more

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  • Connectography

    Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

    by Parag Khanna ...
    From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers—and people—will win.Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Edge of Chaos

    Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracyAround the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • DK Essential Managers: Managing Meetings

    by Robert Heller ...
    Series series DK Essential Managers
    Meetings are a crucial element of the business world, but they need to be run efficiently to help and not hurt productivity. Whether you lead a meeting or attend one as a participant, there are common-sense steps you can take to make sure you and your company are getting the most out of these ubiquitous events. From assessing what kind of meeting is appropriate to the task at hand, to setting an ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Real Coke, the Real Story

    by Thomas Oliver ...
    “Examines why the set-in-its-ways Coca Cola Company tampered with a drink that had become an American institution—and blundered into one of the greatest marketing triumphs of all time.”—New YorkOn April 23, 1985, the top executives of the Coca-Cola Company held a press conference in New York City. News had leaked out that Coke, the king of soft drinks, would no longer be produced. In its place the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

    Americans are stuck.Americans are stuck.We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs and project approvals due to gridlocked leadership. And when we can’t move, when goods are delayed, and when information networks can’t connect, then economic opportunity deteriorates and social inequity grows. We don’t have to take it anymore! In Move, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How to Invest in Real Estate (For Beginners)

    Make Your First $100,000 Using This Powerful Real Estate Business Model

    Venturing into the business of real estate may be a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. If you have decided to invest in real estate and work diligently, choosing the right investment vehicles that suit your purpose, you are likely to reap all the wealth of benefits that accrue to smart investors.When you decide to start a career in real estate investing, the first thing you should consider ... Read more

    Free

  • Outsourcing’s Two Evils

    by Ernie Zibert ...
    In this booklet I discuss outsourcing’s two main evils; 'Paying for Nothing' and 'Paying Twice for Something'.This free eBook is a must read for those working in IT outsourcing. ... Read more

    Free

  • Embedding Risk Appetite Within the Strategy Process

    Risk appetite is the amount and type of risk that an organisation is willing to accept, and must take, to achieve its strategic objectives and therefore create value for shareholders and other stakeholders. Core to this definition is that risk is not just about managing potential threats but about exploiting opportunities.Risk appetite impacts all stages of an organisation’s strategy process and ... Read more

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  • The Cure for Catastrophe

    How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters

    We can't stop natural disasters but we can stop them being disastrous. One of the world's foremost risk experts tells us how.Year after year, floods wreck people's homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction and despair. But does it have to be this way?In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Future is Smart

    How Your Company Can Capitalize on the Internet of Things--and Win in a Connected Economy

    Are you ready for the IoT revolution? The Internet of Things (IoT) will soon be everywhere—embedded in interconnected devices we’ll use every day, and this book documents the shifts now under way.Cars, appliances, and wearables already transmit real-time data to improve performance, and new IoT products can even save your life. Consumer goods are just the tip of the iceberg. Amid projections that ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Estrategias para el Uso de un CRM

    A lo largo de este libro se tratará de poner de manifiesto la importancia del CRM para una compañía, independientemente del tamaño de la misma. Para ello se tratarán diferentes aspectos para su implantación, tanto a nivel de cultura empresarial como de desarrollo de aplicaciones.Utilizando comparativas entre empresas de diferentes sectores se irá desgranando la importancia y las dificultades a las ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond The E-Myth: The Evolution of an Enterprise: From a Company of One to a Company of 1,000!

    Beyond The E-Myth embraces the fundamental premise of that first book — that a small business only succeeds to the degree its owner goes to work ON the business rather than just IN it, creating the systemic Operating System that makes that business unique in the marketplace.Beyond The E-Myth expands that conversation with the entrepreneurial small business owner, in a clear, precise, and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD