The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and HowIt’s Transforming the American Economy Wal-Mart isn’t just the world’s biggest company, it is probably the world’s most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects [...]
The Apple iPad 2 is definitely one of the best tablet computers around today. From its elegant design to its powerhouse of a cpu, the iPad 2 is a well-built, useful machine. Apple invested tons of money and time designing lots of handy features such as extended battery life, dual digital cameras, better apps and [...]
Energy: A Beginner’s Guide (Beginners Guide (Oneworld)) In this user-friendly and informative book, prolific author and academic Vaclav Smil provides an introduction to this far-reaching term and gives the reader a greater understanding of energy’s place in both past and present society. Starting with an explanation of the concept, he goes on to cover such [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry who may be called upon to make [...]
What You Should Know About Politics…But Don’t: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues The first and only issue-based nonpartisan guide to contemporary American politics. It’s a very exciting time in American politics. Voter turnout in primaries and caucuses across the nation have shattered old records. More than ever, in this election year people are paying [...]
Steve Jobs Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized [...]
Flying Off Course IV: Airline economics and marketing The airline industry presents an enigma. High growth rates in recent decades have produced only marginal profitability. This book sets out to explain, in clear and simple terms, why this should be so. It provides a unique insight into the economics and marketing of international airlines. Flying [...]
Total Housing: Alternatives to Urban Sprawl This book is conceived as evidence supporting the qualities of dense, urban living, and as a hopeful antidote against sprawl. Necessity and investigation are prerequisites for the design of housing: Total Housing refers to the need to understand that social, environmental, and economic factors affect form, and that living [...]
Why I’m a Democrat “Why I’m a Democrat” is a book about politics that isn’t too political. To reveal the heart of the party through the ties that bind its members, editor Susan Mulcahy has compiled a dazzling array of answers to the title question in the form of interviews, essays, emails, lists, and artwork. [...]
A Microsoft Life Ever wondered what a pig flu had to do with the launch of Windows 98? What the Redmond Reality Distortion Field is? What it’s like to trade emails with Bill Gates? Join Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse as he walks you through humorous and sometimes touching anectdotes from his 15 years at Microsoft in [...]
Facebook: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals) (English and English Edition) ISBN13: 9781449397418 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Facebook’s spreading about as far and fast as the Web itself: 500 million members and counting. But there’s a world of [...]
Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance This classic book presents a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the field of insurance while emphasizing the consumer. The new Tenth Edition first examines the concept of risk, the nature of the insurance device, and the principles of risk management. It then discusses the traditional fields of life and health [...]
Politics: A Treatise on Government This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to [...]
How Computers Work (9th Edition) Having sold more than 2 million copies over its lifetime, How Computers Work is the definitive illustrated guide to the world of PCs and technology. In this new edition, you’ll find detailed information not just about every last component of hardware found inside your PC, but also in-depth explanations about [...]
Laptops For Dummies The latest edition of the bestselling guide to getting started with a laptopNo one knows computers like veteran author Dan Gookin. With this new edition of his bestseller, he shares his wealth of knowledge and once again finesses even the most complex of topics and presents it in such a way that [...]