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Book SynopsisFor most of human history the rules of power were clear: power was something to be seized, and then jealously guarded. Under this 'Old Power' we lived in a world of rulers and subjects.Now, we all sense that something has changed. From #MeToo to Harvey Weinstein; Corbyn to Trump; from YouTube sensations to darker phenomena such as the emergence of ISIS – in our new hyper-connected world, ideas and movements can spread and flourish with astonishing force and speed.In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest story of our age and trace how New Power is the key to understanding where we are and will prosper in the 21st Century.Drawing on examples from business, politics, popular culture and social justice, as well as case studies of organisations like LEGO and TED, they explain the forces that are changing the course of our age.In a world increasingly shaped by New Power, this book will show you how to shape your future.Trade ReviewClever, witty and creative, Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans are baby-faced wunderkinds of digital activism. -- Decca Aitkenhead * The Guardian *A vital book. New Power can light a flame bright enough to outshine the glinting fangs and tiki torches' -- Russell BrandAn essential lens to use when thinking about how the world has changed, how to spread ideas or start a movement, or create change -- Richard BransonThe Networked Age has revolutionized the way the public engages with institutions and organizations. New Power is an essential and extremely insightful guide for anyone who wants to maximize the opportunities for progress and impact in today's new tightly connected world. -- Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and co-author of the #1 NYT bestsellers The Alliance and The Startup of You.Jeremy Heimans has been working to change the world from a very young age, and with remarkable impact. Here with his co-author Henry Timms he distils a lifetime of experience into a fantastic primer on how the rules of the game have changed. It’s packed with vivid examples that show how organisations as diverse the Pentagon, Uber, Kickstarters and Black Lives Matter are trying to shape our world, and gives vital insights into who will succeed. * Geoff Mulgan *Power is shifting as never before, so New Power is addressing a vital issue for our times: how to make the voices and choices of all, not just a few, count for something. Plaudits to the authors for their determination to help shape the future. * David Milliband *Understanding the concept of 'new power' and how that differs to 'old power' is essential for any leader in politics, business or nonprofits. This book will inform and inspire all those wanting to make change in the world today. It will help citizens to understand the power we have as individuals to influence others, and the collective power of many to achieve a goal against all odds. -- Jane Goodall PhD, DBE, Founder - the Jane Goodall institute & UN Messenger of PeaceA wonderfully incisive contribution that not only explains how the dynamics of power are changing, but also provides the tools - and, importantly, the confidence - to harness those changes to spread our ideas and make a better world. -- Paul Polman, CEO of UnileverIf you do not understand new power, you will not fare well in the new networked world of the 21st Century. It's that simple. -- Annie-Marie Slaughter, President & CEO, New AmericaNew Power masterfully draws out the big battle of our times - whether all this new power will end up being used for good or bad. -- Craig Newmark, founder of CraiglistA must-read, New Power is a gift to our movements. It's not just about going viral - it's about connecting millions of people * Alicia Garza, co-founder, Black Lives Matter *We all feel like life is spinning out of control, in our lives and in our politics - and it’s hard to to know where our power has gone, or how to get it back. This brilliant book is where the answer begins. * Johann Hari *A thought-provoking and eye-opening book. * Booklist *Heimans and Timms provide fascinating examples of new power at work: how NASA enlisted the crowd (nonexperts) to foster open innovation; the heightened participatory experience of worship at Denver's House of All Sinners and Saints, where whoever shows up is in charge; and how crowdsourcing of ideas rejuvenated the Lego brand. The authors also offer a cogent analysis of the contrasting campaigning styles of Barack Obama (participatory) and Donald Trump ("leader of a vast, decentralized social media army" via Twitter). Their accounts of how diverse groups like the National Rifle Association and TED use both old and new power approaches with great success may well inspire many. These ideas—first introduced in the Harvard Business Review­­—will intrigue anyone who wants to channel the new power of the crowd. * Kirkus Review *A good place to start understanding a world in which you have to 'occupy yourself' before the hashtags start coming for you. -- Miranda Green * Financial Times *A window to a whole new world. -- David Brooks * New York Times *There is a potent new force to be reckoned with, it is called New Power and it is causing a seismic wave in politics and workplaces. -- Katie Strict * Evening Standard *Table of ContentsChapter - 1: Welcome to the New Power World Chapter - 2: Thinking Old Power, Thinking New Power Chapter - 3: From Sound Bites to Meme Drops: How Ideas Spread Chapter - 4: How to Build a Crowd Chapter - 5: What Makes New Power Communities Work (and Why They Sometimes Don't) Chapter - 6: What Makes New Power Communities Work (and How They Fuse with the Wider World) Chapter - 7: The Participation Premium Chapter - 8: Taking the Turn from Old to New Power Chapter - 9 : Leadership Chapter - 10: The Art of Blending Power Chapter - 11: New Power at Work Chapter - 12 : The Future: A Full-Stack Society Section - i: Glossary: How to Speak New Power Acknowledgements - ii: Acknowledgements Section - iii: Notes Index - iv: Index

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Book SynopsisSelling is not only a critical part of every business, but it's also fundamental to every society. We need to trade products, services and ideas in order to create the world we want. With the help of a host of examples and practical exercises, How to Sell With Complete Confidence gives you everything you need to influence others and sell effectively and ethically. It guides you through every stage in the process – from understanding the motivations and needs of customers, to making positive connections and structuring relevant and successful sales. Providing a foundation in the psychology of selling and neuro-linguistic programming, the book looks beyond traditional 'hard sell' methods and promotes a refreshed and positive attitude to the subject. It will empower your ability to monetise ideas, believe in your products or campaign for a better world.

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Book SynopsisPeople buy people, which means that managing our presence and profile is critical. We are constantly meeting and speaking to people who are short of both time and attention. By exploring the concepts of energy (to increase presence) and story structure (to bring content alive and make it concise, accessible and memorable), Edie Lush and Charlotte McDougall offer a practical guide for beating nerves and building the foundation for real self-awareness and confidence.How To Speak With Confidence in Public will help you build your presence and profile and explore techniques to help you present yourself, your personality and your messages in a confident, personable and compelling way - wherever you are and whoever you are talking to. What you'll learn - A heightened awareness of what effective and engaging communication looks and sounds like.- Practical techniques to immediately help you come across with more confidence and authority.- A practical methodology to help you prepare and structure your content and bring it to life.- Nerves: how they can affect us, and what to do about it!Table of ContentsChapter - 1: Introduction Chapter - 2: Dynamic energy Chapter - 3: Telling the story Chapter - 4: The science behind this stuff Chapter - 5: Preparing for an interview Chapter - 6: Case study: the job interview Chapter - 7: The Big Speech Chapter - 8: The body is wired for images Chapter - 9: Case study: the Big Speech Chapter - 10: How to start - and end - strong Chapter - 11: Case study: pitching for business Chapter - 12: Conclusion Section - i: Author's Note Acknowledgements - ii: Acknowledgements Index - iii: Index

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Book SynopsisDo you struggle to remember people's names at social events or business networking meetings? How often do you forget where you left your keys or your phone? Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why? A leading memory expert, Phil Chambers shows you how to make these lapses a thing of the past. With how to: train your memory, find out how to have facts and figures at your fingertips. Give speeches from memory, remember all your passwords, rapidly learn foreign language vocabulary and make studying easier, more rewarding and fun. Written in simple step-by-step fashion, with lots of exercises and examples, you will be guided from absent-mindedness to memory mastery.

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Book SynopsisBlending humour and behavioural economics, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delves into the truly illogical world of personal finance to help people better understand why they make bad financial decisions, and gives them the knowledge they need to make better ones.Why does paying for things often feel like it causes physical pain?Why does it cost you money to act as your own real estate agent?Why are we comfortable overpaying for something now just because we’ve overpaid for it before?In Small Change, world renowned economist Dan Ariely answers these intriguing questions and many more as he explains how our irrational behaviour often interferes with our best intentions when it comes to managing our finances. Partnering with financial comedian and writer Jeff Kreisler, Ariely takes us deep inside our minds to expose the hidden motivations that are secretly driving our choices about money.Exploring a wide range of everyday topics – from credit card debt and household budgeting to holiday sales – Ariely and Kreisler demonstrate how our ideas about dollars and cents are often wrong and cost us more than we know. Mixing case studies and anecdotes with tangible advice and lessons, they cut through the unconscious fears and desires driving our worst financial instincts and teach us how to improve our money habits.Fascinating, engaging, funny and essential, Small Change is a sound investment, providing us with the practical tools we need to understand and improve our financial choices, save and spend smarter and ultimately live better.Published in the US as Dollars and Sense.Trade ReviewEngaging and funny, rife with anecdotes and advice, the book defangs a difficult topic while teaching a lot. * Publishers Weekly *A user-friendly and often entertaining treatise on how to be a more discerning, vastly more aware handler of money. * Kirkus Reviews *If you want to know why you always buy a bigger television than you intended, or why you think it's perfectly fine to spend a few dollars on a cup of coffee at Starbucks, or why people feel better after taking a 50-cent aspirin but continue to complain of a throbbing skull when they're told the pill they took just cost one penny, Ariely has the answer. -- Daniel Gross * Newsweek *Ariely raises the bar for everyone. in the increasingly crowded field of popular cognitive science and behavioural economics, he writes with an unusual combination of verve and sagacity. * Washington Post *If you want to get better at making good financial decisions, read “Dollars and Sense”…What the two authors do brilliantly is take behavioral economics and make it accessible. * Washington Post *

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Book Synopsis‘A well-reported and researched history of the ways in which plucky economists helped rewrite policy in America and Europe and across emerging markets.’ The Economist ‘A highly readable, exhilaratingly detailed biographical account.’ Sunday Telegraph As the post-World War II economic boom began to falter in the late 1960s, a new breed of economists gained influence and power. Over time, their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing governments, unleashing corporations and hastening globalization. Their fundamental belief? That governments should stop trying to manage the economy. Their guiding principle? That markets would deliver steady growth and broad prosperity. But the economists’ hour failed to deliver on its premise. The single-minded embrace of markets has come at the expense of economic equality, the health of liberal democracy and of future generations. Across the world, from both right and left, the assumptions of the once-dominant school of free-market economic thought are being challenged, as we count the costs as well as the gains of its influence. In The Economists’ Hour, acclaimed New York Times writer Binyamin Appelbaum provides both a reckoning with the past and a call for a different future. ‘A reminder of the power of ideas to shape the course of history.’ New YorkerTrade ReviewThis thoroughly researched, comprehensive, and critical account of the economic philosophies that have reigned for the past half century powerfully indicts them. * Publisher Weekly (starred) *A marvel of popular historical writing. * New York Times *A highly readable, exhilaratingly detailed biographical account. * Sunday Telegraph *That such sophisticated people presided over a dangerous build-up in financial risk suggests that something larger was at work than a naïve faith in markets. Appelbaum’s strength is that he generally acknowledges these complexities. * Atlantic *The New York Times financial writer maps the advance of economists - from the Kennedy administration onward - out of the academy and into government, elevating free markets in the sausage - making of public policy and sparking the inequity that plagues us today. * O Magazine *Lively and entertaining . . . The Economists' Hour is a reminder of the power of ideas to shape the course of history. -- Liaquat Ahamed * New Yorker *"An entertaining and well-written look at how market-oriented ideas rose from the academy and transformed nations. -- Tyler CowenBinyamin Appelbaum has written a powerful must-read for all those interested in reinvigorating the credibility of economics, especially in policymaking circles. -- Mohamed A. El-ErianWriting in accessible language of thorny fiscal matters, the author ventures into oddly fascinating corners of recent economic history . . . Anyone who wonders why government officials still take the Laffer curve seriously need go no further than this lucid book. * Kirkus *A well-reported and researched history of the ways in which plucky economists helped rewrite policy in America and Europe and across emerging markets. * Economist *

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Book SynopsisThe Google Story is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable organizations of our time. Every day over sixty-four million people use Google in more than one hundred languages, running billions of searches for information on everything and anything. Through the creative use of cutting-edge technology and a series of groundbreaking business ideas, Google's thirty-five year old founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have in ten years taken Google from being just another internet start-up to a company with a market value of over US$80 billion. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to the inner workings of Google, this book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company that has become so familiar its name is used as a verb around the world. But even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult challenges in a business that changes at lightning speed. In this new and updated edition to celebrate Google’s 10th birthday, David A. Vise has written a new preface and new final chapter which look at further developments since 2005 and how Google will continue to expand and innovate while trying to follow its founders' mantra: DO NO EVIL 'If you want to know how the Google boys became wealthy and powerful beyond dreams, then David Vise's assiduously researched The Google Story is for you.' Sunday Telegraph 'If Google were to take on critical faculties as well as its other attributes Vise's book would probably come out on top.' The Times

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Book SynopsisThis collection examines law and justice on television in different countries around the world. It provides a benchmark for further study of the nature and extent of television coverage of justice in fictional, reality and documentary forms. It does this by drawing on empirical work from a range of scholars in different jurisdictions. Each chapter looks at the raw data of how much "justice" material viewers were able to access in the multi-channel world of 2014 looking at three phases: apprehension (police), adjudication (lawyers), and disposition (prison/punishment). All of the authors indicate how television developed in their countries. Some have extensive public service channels mixed with private media channels. Financing ranges from advertising to programme sponsorship to licensing arrangements. A few countries have mixtures of these. Each author also examines how "TV justice" has developed in their own particular jurisdiction. Readers will find interesting variations and thought-provoking similarities. There are a lot of television shows focussed on legal themes that are imported around the world. The authors analyse these as well. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in law, popular culture, TV, or justice and provides an important addition to the literature due to its grounding in empirical data.Trade ReviewThe survey, within its chosen and well defined limits of scope and approach, offers, first and foremost, reliable quantitative affirmation of the American dominance of law and justice on TV (with the exception of the UK), and of the dominance of series featuring police focus over lawyer and punishment focus ... The survey will serve as excellent framework and basis for further studies along the quantitative/empirical lines laid out. -- Lars Ole Sauerberg * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of Contents1. A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV Peter Robson and Jennifer L Schulz 2. Australia Cassandra Sharp 3. Belgium (Flanders) Hilde Van den Bulck, Kathleen Custers and Jan Van den Bulck 4. Britain Peter Robson 5. Canada Jennifer L Schulz 6. Denmark Glen Odgaard 7. France Barbara Villez (with Valentin Rolando) 8. Germany Stefan Machura and Michael Böhnke 9. Greece Nickos Myrtou, Stamatis Poulakidakos and Panagiota Nakou 10. Israel Itay Ravid 11. Italy Ferdinando Spina 12. Poland Zofi a Zawadzka 13. Spain Anja Louis 14. Switzerland Lukas Musumeci and Fabian Odermatt 15. United States of America Christine A Corcos

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to offer a systematic and analytical overview of the legal framework for residential construction. In doing so, the book addresses two fundamental questions: Prevention: What assurances can the law give buyers (and later owners and occupiers) of homes that construction work – from building of a complete home to adding an extension or replacing a shower unit – will comply with minimum standards of design, safety and build quality? Cure: What forms of redress - from whom, and by what route - can residents expect, when, often long after completion of construction, they discover defects? The resulting problems pose some big and difficult questions of principle and policy about standards, rights and remedies, which in turn concern justice more generally. This book addresses these key issues in a comparative context across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is an accessible guide to the existing law for residents and construction professionals (and their legal advisers), but also charts a course to further, meaningful reforms of the legal landscape for residential construction around the world. The book’s two co-authors, Philip Britton and Matthew Bell, have taught in the field in the UK, Australia and New Zealand; both have been active in legal practice, as have the book’s two specialist contributors, Deirdre Ní Fhloinn and Kim Vernau.Trade ReviewPhilip Britton and Matthew Bell have accumulated decades of research and teaching, culminating in this authoritative book … This book is powerful rebuttal to any denial that there is something seriously wrong in this area, both in the UK and elsewhere. -- David Sawtell * Housing After Grenfell Blog *A landmark book that will serve well the needs of anyone involved in this neglected area of law. The authors are to be congratulated on their fine achievement. -- Julian Bailey, White & Case LLP * International Construction Law Review *This book is an excellent analysis of residential construction law in a multitude of jurisdictions … I would recommend this as a very important and well researched analysis of the history of construction law, the current status of construction law and where it may be heading. -- Kelvin Oldridge * BDPS News *This much-needed and excellent book fills a real gap in the residential construction field. It is a practical, comprehensive guide, packed with highly authoritative analysis and all presented in a most readable form. One of the book’s many strengths is that it takes a comparative approach, discussing problems and remedies in Ireland, New Zealand, the different states in Australia and in each of the three main jurisdictions within the UK. * Her Honour Frances Kirkham CBE, Chartered Arbitrator, Adjudicator and Mediator, Atkin Chambers, UK *It is a breath of fresh air to have a book devoted entirely to the oft neglected area of residential building … this book is a valuable resource for anyone involved in residential building work … Britton and Bell have [provided] the data and analysis that is the bedrock of any evidence-based reforms. -- Paula Gerber * Building and Construction Law Journal *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Residential Construction: Defects in Context 3. Regulation of Residential Construction 4. Contract Law in Residential Construction 5. Beyond Contract: Other Rights of Legal Action 6. Consumer Protection: Other Forms 7. Insurance and Third-Party Warranties 8. Inspections in Residential Construction 9. Pathways to Individual Redress 10. Time Limits for Taking Action 11. Multi-Unit Developments: Blocks of Flats 12. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis is the 10th edition of John Tiley’s classic textbook on revenue law, covering the UK tax system, income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and corporation tax, as well as incorporating sections dealing with international and European tax, savings, charities, and - new to this edition - value added tax and stamp duties. The new edition has been comprehensively revised and fully updated with the latest case law, statutory and other developments, including the Finance Act 2021. The book’s companion website provides bonus chapters on investment intermediaries, pensions, charities, and the UK’s value added tax and stamp duties. The companion website will also supply annual updates to the print edition as well as study questions to help students navigate this complex subject. The book is designed for students taking modules in tax law in the final year of their law degree, or for more advanced courses. It is also a valuable resource for academics and professionals in the field. It provides an account of the rules as well as citation of the relevant literature from legal periodicals and some discussion of, or reference to, the background material in terms of policy, history or other countries’ tax systems to give readers a contextual overview of the subject. Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsbury.pub/tileys-revenue-law. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION TO UK TAX LAW 1. Definitions and Theories 2. Jurisdiction: The Taxing Power 3. Sources 4. The Setting of the Tax System 5. Tax Avoidance PART II: INCOME TAX 6. Historical Introduction 7. Income Tax: Basic Concepts 8. The Tax Unit 9. Taxation and Social Security 10. Deductions and Credits for Taxpayer Expenditure and Losses 11. Personal Reliefs and Tax Reductions 12. Calculations 13. Employment Income: Scope and PAYE 14. Employment Income: Emoluments/Earnings 15. Benefits in Kind and the Convertibility Principle 16. The Benefits Code and Exemptions 17. Employee Share Schemes 18. Employment Income: Deductions and Expenses 19. Business Income—Part I: Scope 20. Business Income—Part II: Basis of Assessment and Loss Relief 21. Business Income—Part III: Principles and Receipts 22. Business Income—Part IV: Trading Expenses 23. Business Income—Part V: Timing and Trading Stock (Inventory) 24. Capital Allowances 25. Income from Land in the United Kingdom 26. Savings Income: Interest and Premium, Bond and Discount 27. Miscellaneous Income Including Annual Payments 28. Income Not Otherwise Charged 29. Trusts 30. Death and Estates 31. Income Splitting: Arrangements and Settlements PART III: CAPITAL GAINS TAX 32. Introduction and Policy 33. Structure and Elements 34. Assets 35. Disposals: (1) General 36. Disposals: (2) Gifts, Bargains Not at Arm’s Length and Other Gratuitous Transactions 37. Leases 38. Options 39. Death 40. Trusts 41. Shares, Securities and Other Fungible Assets 42. Capital Gains Tax and Business 43. Computation of Gains PART IV: INHERITANCE TAX 44. Inheritance Tax: Introduction 45. Transfers of Value by Disposition 46. Death 47. Gifts with Reservation 48. Settled Property: Introduction 49. Trusts with Interests in Possession 50. Relevant Property Trusts with No Qualifying Interest in Possession 51. Favoured Trusts 52. Companies 53. Exempt Transfers: Conditions and Allocation Where Partly Exempt 54. Particular Types of Property 55. Valuation: Rules, Charges and Reliefs 56. Accountability and Administration 57. Incidence of Tax 58. International PART V: CORPORATION TAX 59. Corporation Tax—Introduction, History and Policy 60. Structure 61. Distributions 62. Computation (1): General Rules 63. Computation (2): Accounting-based Rules for Specific Transactions 64. Groups and Consortium Companies: General 65. Control, Groups and Consortium Companies: Capital Gains 66. Exempt Distributions: Demergers 67. Close Companies 68. Anti-avoidance: Special Provisions PART VI: INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN UNION TAX 69. International Tax: Introduction and Connecting Factors 70. Enforcement of Foreign Revenue Laws 71. UK Residents and Foreign Income 72. Source: The Non-resident and the UK Tax System 73. Controlled Foreign Companies 74. Capital Gains 75. Unilateral Relief Against Double Taxation 76. Double Taxation: UK Treaty Relief 77. European Union Tax Law Bonus chapters – available on Companion Website: PART VII: TAX-PREFERRED SAVINGS AND CHARITIES 78. Favoured Methods 79. Investment Intermediaries 80. Pensions 81. Charities 82. Value Added Tax and Stamp Duties

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Book SynopsisMR Leiser, formerly of Vrije Universiteit-Amsterdam and Leiden University, the Netherlands, is an expert specialising in digital, legal, and platform regulation.

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Book SynopsisExam boards: WJEC and WJEC EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: BusinessFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout the course. Tailored to the 2015 WJEC and Eduqas specifications and brought to you by the leading A-level Business publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions and sample answers.- Ensure understanding with concise coverage of each topic, broken down into manageable chunks- Help students apply their knowledge to up-to-date examples that cover key content areas such as technology- Consolidate understanding with exam tips and knowledge-check questions- Practise exam-style questions for every question type, with plenty of opportunities to develop the maths and quantitative skills that students need to succeed- Improve students' exam technique and show them how to reach the next grade using sample student answers and commentary for each exam-style question- Use flexibly in class or at home, for knowledge acquisition during the course or focused revision and exam preparationThis Student Guide covers the content of:- 2015 WJEC AS/A-level Business specifications regulated by Qualifications Wales- 2015 WJEC Eduqas AS/A-level Business specifications regulated by Ofqual

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Book SynopsisExam boards: WJEC and WJEC EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: BusinessFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout the course. Tailored to the 2015 WJEC and Eduqas specifications and brought to you by the leading A-level Business publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions and sample answers.- Ensure understanding with concise coverage of each topic, broken down into manageable chunks- Help students apply their knowledge to up-to-date examples that cover key content areas such as technology- Consolidate understanding with exam tips and knowledge-check questions- Practise exam-style questions for every question type, with plenty of opportunities to develop the maths and quantitative skills that students need to succeed- Improve students' exam technique and show them how to reach the next grade using sample student answers and commentary for each exam-style question- Use flexibly in class or at home, for knowledge acquisition during the course or focused revision and exam preparationThis Student Guide covers the content of:- 2015 WJEC AS/A-level Business specifications regulated by Qualifications Wales- 2015 WJEC Eduqas AS/A-level Business specifications regulated by Ofqual

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Book SynopsisExam boards: WJEC and WJEC EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: BusinessFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout the course. Tailored to the 2015 WJEC and Eduqas specifications and brought to you by the leading A-level Business publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions and sample answers.- Ensure understanding with concise coverage of each topic, broken down into manageable chunks- Help students apply their knowledge to up-to-date examples that cover key content areas such as technology- Consolidate understanding with exam tips and knowledge-check questions- Practise exam-style questions for every question type, with plenty of opportunities to develop the maths and quantitative skills that students need to succeed- Improve students' exam technique and show them how to reach the next grade using sample student answers and commentary for each exam-style question- Use flexibly in class or at home, for knowledge acquisition during the course or focused revision and exam preparationThis Student Guide covers the content of:- 2015 WJEC AS/A-level Business specifications regulated by Qualifications Wales- 2015 WJEC Eduqas AS/A-level Business specifications regulated by Ofqual

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Book SynopsisExam boards: WJEC and WJEC EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: BusinessFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout the course. Tailored to the 2015 WJEC and Eduqas specifications and brought to you by the leading A-level Business publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions and sample answers.- Ensure understanding with concise coverage of each topic, broken down into manageable chunks- Help students apply their knowledge to up-to-date examples that cover key content areas such as technology and globalisation- Consolidate understanding with exam tips and knowledge-check questions- Practise exam-style questions for every question type, with plenty of opportunities to develop the maths and quantitative skills that students need to succeed- Improve students' exam technique and show them how to reach the next grade using sample student answers and commentary for each exam-style question- Use flexibly in class or at home, for knowledge acquisition during the course or focused revision and exam preparationThis Student Guide covers the content of:- 2015 WJEC AS/A-level Business specifications regulated by Qualifications Wales- 2015 WJEC Eduqas AS/A-level Business specifications regulated by Ofqual

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Book SynopsisExam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC/Eduqas Level: A-level Subject: Business First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2017Master the skills you need to set yourself apart and hit the highest grades; this year-round course companion develops the higher-order thinking skills that top-achieving students possess, providing step-by-step guidance, examples and tips for getting an A grade.Written by experienced author and teacher Phil Waterhouse, Aiming for an A in A-level Business:Helps you develop the 'A grade skills' of analysis, evaluation, creation and applicationTakes you step by step through specific skills you need to master in A-level Business, so you can apply these skills and approach each exam question as an A/A* candidateClearly shows how to move up the grades with sample responses annotated to highlight the key features of A/A* answersHelps you practise to achieve the levels expected of top-performing students, using in-class or homework activities and further reading tasks that stretch towards university-level studyPerfects exam technique through practical tips and examples of common pitfalls to avoid Cultivates effective revision habits for success, with tips and strategies for producing and using revision resources Supports all exam boards, outlining the Assessment Objectives for reaching the higher levels under the AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas specifications.

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Book SynopsisExam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: EconomicsFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2017Master the skills you need to set yourself apart and hit the highest grades; this year-round course companion develops the higher-order thinking skills that top-achieving students possess, providing step-by-step guidance, examples and tips for getting an A grade.Written by experienced author and teacher James Powell, Aiming for an A in A-level Economics:- Helps you develop the 'A grade skills' of analysis, evaluation, creation and application- Takes you step by step through specific skills you need to master in A-level Economics, so you can apply these skills and approach each exam question as an A/A* candidate- Clearly shows how to move up the grades with sample responses annotated to highlight the key features of A/A* answers- Helps you practise to achieve the levels expected of top-performing students, using in-class or homework activities and further reading tasks that stretch towards university-level study- Perfects exam technique through practical tips and examples of common pitfalls to avoid - Cultivates effective revision habits for success, with tips and strategies for producing and using revision resourcesSupports the major exam boards, outlining the Assessment Objectives for reaching the higher levels under the AQA, Edexcel and OCR specifications.

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Book SynopsisExam board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Economics First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2017 (A-level)- Find key facts at your fingertips with quick summaries of the content, concepts and terms from the AQA A-level Economics specification- Get better grades in your exams with tips on exam technique, mistakes to avoid and important things to remember- Revise and practise using end-of-topic questions and in-depth synoptic questions at the end of each section- Benefit from the knowledge of experienced teachers and authors Steve Stoddard and David Horner.

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Book SynopsisExam board: Edexcel Level: A-level Subject: Economics First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Covering what you really need to know for Edexcel A-level Economics - in less than 130 pages, this revision guide makes revision easy - whether you're getting started early or you need to do some last-minute cramming.- Find key facts at your fingertips with quick summaries of the content, concepts and terms from the Edexcel A-level Economics specification- Get better grades in your exams with tips on exam technique, mistakes to avoid and important things to remember- Revise and practise using end-of-topic questions and in-depth synoptic questions at the end of each section- Benefit from the knowledge of experienced teachers and authors Steve Stoddard and David Horner

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Book SynopsisExam board: AQA Level: A-levelSubject: AccountingFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2018 (AS); Summer 2019 (A-level)Target success in business with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on. With My Revision Notes, every student can: - Plan and manage a successful revision campaign using the topic-by-topic planner- Consolidate subject knowledge by working through clear and focused content coverage- Identify areas for improvement with regular 'Now Test Yourself,' tasks and answers- Improve exam technique through practice questions and examples of typical mistakes to avoid- Get exam ready with extra quick quizzes and answers to the practice questions available online

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Book SynopsisExam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Administration & IT First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: May 2019Get your best grade with comprehensive course notes and advice from Scotland's top experts, fully updated for the latest changes to SQA Higher assessment. How to Pass Higher Administration & IT Second Edition contains all the advice and support you need to revise successfully for your Higher exam. It combines an overview of the course syllabus with advice from top experts on how to improve exam performance, so you have the best chance of success.- Revise confidently with up-to-date guidance tailored to the latest SQA assessment changes - Refresh your knowledge with comprehensive, tailored subject notes- Prepare for the exam with top tips and hints on revision techniques- Get your best grade with advice on how to gain those vital extra marks

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Book SynopsisExam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Business Management First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: May 2019Get your best grade with comprehensive course notes and advice from Scotland's top experts, fully updated for the latest changes to SQA Higher assessment. How to Pass Higher Business Management Second Edition contains all the advice and support you need to revise successfully for your Higher exam. It combines an overview of the course syllabus with advice from a top expert on how to improve exam performance, so you have the best chance of success.- Revise confidently with up-to-date guidance tailored to the latest SQA assessment changes - Refresh your knowledge with comprehensive, tailored subject notes- Prepare for the exam with top tips and hints on revision techniques- Get your best grade with advice on how to gain those vital extra marks

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Book SynopsisIan Marcousé's accessible and engaging textbooks brought together in one updated volume covering everything your students need to know for the Pearson Edexcel A level Business specification.- Breaks content down into short, clear chapters - covering all topics in the depth students need- Updated business examples throughout the text and in end of unit case studies bring the subject to life- A range of questions and activities provide students with the opportunity to apply what they know and practise questions- Builds students' confidence with key terms used in context and compiled in an accessible glossary - Supported by an Answer Guide to assist teaching and save time This Student Book has been endorsed for use with the Pearson Edexcel A Level Business qualification.

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Book SynopsisThese fully revised and up-to-date new editions and answer guides from Wolinski and Coates provide comprehensive coverage of the AQA A-level Business specification.- Wolinski and Coates' comprehensive yet accessible style remains unchanged, covering everything students will need to succeed- Updated fact files and case studies give profiles of real business, so students can understand the real-world context of what they're learning- Practice exercises and case studies with questions throughout allow students to apply their knowledge and prepare for assessment- Answer guides support teaching and save time in marking

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Book SynopsisThese fully revised and up-to-date new editions and answer guides from Wolinski and Coates provide comprehensive coverage of the AQA A-level Business specification.- Wolinski and Coates' comprehensive yet accessible style remains unchanged, covering everything students will need to succeed- Updated fact files and case studies give profiles of real business, so students can understand the real-world context of what they're learning- Practice exercises and case studies with questions throughout allow students to apply their knowledge and prepare for assessment- Answer guides support teaching and saves time in marking

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Book SynopsisThis new edition Student Guide has been fully updated for 2019 and covers Theme 1 Introduction to markets and market failure A-level Paper 1 Markets and business behaviour, and A-level Paper 3 Microeconomics and Macroeconomics will both draw on topics from Theme 1.With clear topic summaries of content needed for the exams, knowledge-check questions and samples of exam-style questions and answers throughout, this guide will help you prepare for exams with confidence.-Identify key content for the exams with our concise summary of topics-Find out what examiners are looking for with our Questions and Answers section-Test their knowledge with rapid-fire questions and answers-Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout-Reinforce learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section

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Book SynopsisThis new edition Student Guide has been fully updated for 2019 and covers Theme 3 Business behaviour and the labour market, A-level Paper 1 Markets and business behaviour, and A-level Paper 3 Microeconomics and Macroeconomics will both draw on topics from Theme 3.With clear topic summaries of content needed for the exams, knowledge-check questions and samples of exam-style questions and answers throughout, this guide will help you prepare for exams with confidence.- Identify key content for the exams with our concise summary of topics- Find out what examiners are looking for with our Questions and Answers section- Test your knowledge with rapid-fire questions and answers- Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout- Reinforce learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section

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Book SynopsisThis new edition Workbook has been fully updated for 2019 and covers Theme 3 Business behaviour and the labour market A-level Paper 1 Markets and business behaviour, and A-level Paper 3 Microeconomics and Macroeconomics will both draw on topics from Theme 3.Up-to-date and focused to help students practice their skills and improve their subject knowledge both inside and outside the classroom, this Practice Workbook:- Covers specific aspects of the course, providing targeted support for complex and challenging topics- Reinforces students' understanding, with more new practice questions and exam-style questions to develop their skills and improve their confidence- Includes more sample answers with commentary to help students meet the demands of the specification- Adapts easily and flexibly to existing textbooks and schemes of work - Provides opportunities for self-directed learning and self-testing, helping students revise on their own terms

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Book SynopsisReinforce your understanding of CCEA AS Unit 1: Introduction to Business and improve your exam technique for the CCEA Business AS Unit 1 assessment.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help you aim for and achieve the highest grades. This Student Guide will help you to:- Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics- Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout- Reinforce your learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section- Test your knowledge with rapid-fire knowledge check questions and answers- Find out what examiners are looking for with our Questions & Answers section

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Book SynopsisIn Catching Hell, longtime seafood mogul Allen Ricca and author Joe Muto take readers behind the scenes of the high-end restaurant world and the international market for seafood, and how that industry has been impacted perhaps like no other due to the COVID-19 pandemic.This book exposes the fact that the American diner is being lied to on a regular basis. The culprit varies – sometimes it’s a chef or restaurant owner trying to cut corners to save money; other times it’s an unscrupulous supplier looking to pass off poor product to an unwitting receiver. And the cost of that scam eventually gets passed on to the consumer, whether it be in the form of higher prices at restaurants and markets, lower quality (or even counterfeit) product getting delivered onto your plate, or – God forbid – food poisoning. Furthermore, Ricca argues, the pandemic has only increased corruption in this industry.This book serves as both an exposé and a call to arms, empowering consumers with the knowledge to make more informed choices when dining out. Some of the things this explosive book reveals: The one fish you should never order, one that’s always a rip-off. (And the one fish that’s always a delicious, virtually-unknown bargain.) Why restaurants that advertise “fresh” fish are almost always lying. How to get your favorite restaurant to treat you like royalty – without dropping thousands of dollars. How the covid-19 pandemic has impacted our food supply chain and what it has meant for the everyday worker. Trade Review"An essential read for anyone looking to understand how the restaurant industry really works. Informative, hilarious and gripping. You'll devour every page and still be left wanting more."—Chef Hung Huynh, Season 3 Winner of Bravo’s Top Chef"A book that will not disappoint! Catching Hell is both entertaining and informative, a must read for 2022."—Jamie Bissonnette, James Beard award-winner, Chef & Partner Toro, Coppa, and Little Donkey Boston"Ricca knows this industry inside and out. He tells the story of his colorful career, and explains the business, with enthusiasm, wit, and candor—in lively, often salty, language we all can understand."—Robert Hormats, former vice chairman Goldman Sachs International and Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the environment (2009-2013)"Come for the seafood, but stay for the gripping tale of personality clashes behind the scenes at some of your favorite restaurants. Ricca and Muto paint a vivid picture of a rough-and-tumble industry that touches all of our lives, but until today, most of us knew nothing about."—Patrick O’Shaughnessy CEO Positive Sum Venture Capital and author, Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune"Allen Ricca is constantly exploring new products and discovering new tastes, as well as revisiting & satisfying old ones. One thing is constant: his curiosity and dedication to quality food (sourcing) as well as his unyielding commitment to our industry's supply chain is unmatched. I am proud to work with him."—Erik Sun, Owner, PursuitFarms Wagyu, executive chef Intercrew LA"I have known and worked with Allen and his family for over 25 years. This endlessly entertaining book perfectly captures his personality, and gives an unflinching look at the chaotic process that brings seafood from oceans around the world to restaurant kitchens around the corner."—M.J. Alam, Partner and Executive Chef Limani Rockefeller Center NYC"Everyone has something to learn from Catching Hell—whether you are interested in seafood traceability, ethical business practices, or just getting the most out of your seafood order. "—Morgan Chow scientist for California Natural Resources Agency"A heady rollercoaster of jaw-droppers and heart-warmers, Catching Hell is an honest-to-goodness gift to the everyday diner and food-lover. All thanks to the restaurant world’s number-one champion, and the greatest dining companion I’ve ever had."—Patty Diez, network development manager at Eater

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Book SynopsisIt’s time to make performance management work. We’ve moved on from antiquated tools like typewriters or checkbooks, but bosses still rely on the same annual performance review process to manage employees the same way they did 70 years ago. It fails our modern hybrid workplaces and it doesn’t improve performance, especially for today’s millennial and Gen-Z workforce. It succeeds only in lowering employee engagement, undermining trust in management, decreasing transparency, and increasing turnover. There must be a way to make work better for all of us. There is. Make Work Better shows HR, leaders, and middle managers the modern path to better employee performance, amplified engagement and company culture, and more empowered people. Readers will learn how to: Make goals and OKRs more useful, more often for everyone Eliminate ratings and implement a promotion process that reflects reality and retains employees Make check-ins more productive at better intervals for managers and reports Teach everyone to better deliver and receive more effective structured and unstructured feedback Make recognition count, and create formal development paths for high performers Use data to make the right people decisions and eliminate bias Structure your organization to maximize the impact of HR and People Operations Featuring front line insights from adopters of the process at Google, Intuit, Vertiv, Pepsico, and other leading organizations, Make Work Better gives readers everything they need to improve their organization from wherever they sit.Trade Review “Make Work Better is a radical manifesto—and blueprint—for operating excellence in our fast-changing world of work. Drawing on decades of experience, Doug Dennerline and Jamie Aitken rethink the stale conventions of performance management and come up with something new: a how-to guide for “performance enablement.” Packed with practical advice and instructive case studies, Make Work Better is required reading for anyone with a stake in empowering people to achieve at the highest level.”— John Doerr, bestselling author of Measure What Matters “Make Work Better provides leaders with actionable steps to create a culture of trust, empowering employees at all levels to do their best work. It's a must-read for those seeking to build resilient and agile organizations that can adapt and thrive in today's dynamic landscape.”— Laurie Ruettimann, host of the Punk Rock HR podcast and author of Betting on You “The workforce and workplace are undeniably changing, but the way we manage and evaluate performance has barely evolved in over 70 years. Doug and Jamie have done a brilliant job making the case for why leading companies need to rethink performance management, and they have provided a roadmap for how to lead a workplace transformation. Don’t wait to read this one.”— Eric Yuan, CEO and founder of Zoom “If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that employee engagement isn’t a ‘nice to have’—it’s an essential element in high-performing teams and companies. Make Work Better gives leaders actionable steps to create cultures of trust and empower employees at all levels of an organization to do their best work. It’s an essential read in this dynamic moment.”— Gaby Toledano, COO and board member, former chief people officer of Tesla, Electronic Arts, and Siebel Systems “Doug and Jamie have written the ultimate playbook for C-suite leaders looking to build a high-performance business that puts people at the center. If CEOs and CHROs read one book this year—Make Work Better should be it.”— Jenny Dearborn, award-winning thought leader, speaker, and author on data-driven sales and leadership “Make Work Better is a practical and example-filled book that challenges traditional performance management practices and presents a bold vision for putting people at the center of work. Doug and Jamie provide down-to-earth guidance for CEOs and CHROs on how to foster high-performance cultures that enable employees to thrive. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to change their approach to leadership and empower their teams to achieve their full potential in today's fast-paced, ever-changing business environment. Highly recommended!”— Karie Willyerd, author, 6-time chief learning officer

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Book SynopsisThe real story about how to be a successful seller on Amazon, from a leading consultant. Amazon is the most powerful business incubator in the history of the world. Unfortunately, where there is great opportunity, get-rich-quick schemes abound. Most available books about selling on Amazon peddle a dream that is unattainable for sellers. They promise riches at the cost of only five hours a week, or a long-term income for an initial investment of just $1,000.The Amazon Incubator is different. This book instead offers realistic, sustainable strategies for building a long-term, profitable business on Amazon. Whether sellers are burgeoning entrepreneurs or own the e-commerce channel at an established brand, they will benefit from the strategic thinking and in-depth Amazon know-how delivered in an easily digestible format. The reader will be guided through exercises to define their goals, determine their product set, and execute like a champ.

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Book SynopsisA leader in the data economy explains how we arrived at AI—and how we can navigate its future. In The Datapreneurs, Bob Muglia helps us understand how innovation in data and information technology have led us to AI—and how this technology must shape our future. The long-time Microsoft executive, former CEO of Snowflake, and current tech investor maps the evolution of the modern data stack and how it has helped build today’s economy and society. And he explains how humanity must create a new social contract for the artificial general intelligence (AGI)—autonomous machines intelligent as people—that he expects to arrive in less than a decade. Muglia details his personal experience in the foundational years of computing and data analytics, including with Bill Gates and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, and others that are not household names—yet. He builds upon Isaac Asimov’s Laws of Robotics to explore the moral, ethical, and legal implications of today’s smart machines, and how a combination of human and machine intelligence could create an era of progress and prosperity where all the people on Earth can have what they need and want without destroying our natural environment.The Datapreneurs is a call to action. AGI is surely coming. Muglia believes that tech business leaders, ethicists, policy leaders, and even the general public must collaborate answer the short- and long-term questions raised by its emergence. And he argues that we had better get going, because advances are coming so fast that society risks getting caught flatfooted—with potentially disastrous consequences. Trade Review"Muglia rightly refocuses us on the people, not just the algorithms and machines, behind the next wave of artificial intelligence." —Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft “As a values-based leader, Bob brings a unique point of view that inspires others to solve today’s greatest technical challenges.” —Mark C Thompson, chief executive leadership coach and New York Times bestselling author Bob remained at the forefront of data technology throughout his career, and his informed perspective makes this book extremely compelling.”—Paul Maritz, technology investor, former CEO of VMware, and former group vice president at Microsoft "As the Information Age evolves into the Age of AI, data has never been more critical to the enterprise or, dare I say, humanity. There is nobody better than Bob to frame the important conversations about the data road ahead."—Brad Gerstner, Serial Entrepreneur and Founder / CEO of Altimeter Capital

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Book SynopsisAn instant USA Today bestseller. A founder's wild memoir of startup success, told from hot tub inception to $50 million exit with the humor of a comic and the perspective of an educator. In The Startup Story: An Entrepreneur’s Journey from Idea to Exit, renowned serial entrepreneur Martin Warner takes a fledgling company all the way from zero to hero, selling it for $50 million after a mere 17 months. It’s a memoir of whirlwind entrepreneurial success, a nonfiction narrative that puts the reader in the CEO’s seat, giving the feel of what it’s really like to steer a company around the toughest of tracks and come out with a massive payday. A mix of Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, and The Apprentice, The Startup Story reads like a novel but is strictly a true story packed with entrepreneurial insights. It is a rollercoaster ride through the heaven and hell of the tech business world, populated by geeks, pirates, conmen, tycoons, geniuses, and fools. Forced to do everything at warp speed, Warner chucks all the accumulated wisdom of his own Entrepreneur Seminar out of the window on his way to a holy grail exit. Along the way, readers piece together an entrepreneurial how-to (and how-not-to) manual, with each chapter traversing the highs and the lows of founding a growing company. It shows the reader how to build a tech company out of pure desire and dogged willpower, combined with some timely expertise. The short, hilarious, and hair-raising history of Warner and his company, botObjects, provides a parable of the quintessential business experience packed with entrepreneurial insights and lessons to be learned.Trade Review"An engaging work for budding entrepreneurs looking to learn from others' experiences as well as readers curious about the evolution of the technologies that impact life now and in the future. Recommended for public- and academic-library business collections." —Booklist

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Book SynopsisViral Media: A Digital Production Marketing Guide for Advertisers, Journalists, and Public Relations Professionals demonstrates how to integrate multiple forms of media into a successful ad campaign, newscast, promotional event, TV show, or feature film so that the content stands out and gains attention in a world oversaturated with media.Section I provides students with an overview of the main stages of the digital media production process, discusses personnel involved at its various stages, and explains how to develop collaborative team goals and evaluate a creative concept. Section II explores the essential duties and responsibilities of a crew during the production and post-production stages, detailing production techniques, equipment usage, and necessary editing skills. Section III reveals techniques to increase word-of-mouth interest and the type of content needed to engage a target audience. Section IV outlines ethical standards of journalistic behavior. Section V features case studies of business-initiated viral marketing successes, spotlighting campaigns from Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Capital One, and more.Viral Media is well suited for undergraduate and graduate courses in mass communication, broadcasting, creative media, media studies, marketing, and film, television, and media production.

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Book SynopsisEven after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy—an economy that has little to do with sharing access to good and services and everything to do with selling this access—and the companies behind it: LinkedIn, Uber, and Airbnb. In this society, we all are encouraged to become microentrepreneurs of the self, acting as if we are our own precarious freelance enterprises at a time when we are being steadily deprived of employment rights, public services, and welfare support. The book considers the contemporary university, itself subject to such entrepreneurial practices, as one polemical site for the affirmative disruption of this model. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

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Book SynopsisDrawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism To live in this world is to be conditioned by capital. Once paired with Western democracy, unfettered capitalism has led to a shrinking economic system that squeezes out billions of people—creating a planet of surplus populations. Wageless Life is a manifesto for building a future beyond the toxic failures of late-stage capitalism. Daring to imagine new social relations, new modes of economic existence, and new collective worlds, the authors provide skills and tools for perceiving—and living in— a post-capitalist future. Forerunners: Ideas FirstShort books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the leadTrade Review"This lucid and penetrating study not only lays bare the critical features of our decaying social order and its historical roots, but also provides valuable guidelines for the task of ‘seizing our autonomy back’ in a world of justice, freedom, communal life, and human dignity. Perceptive and enlightening, and a ray of light in dark times."—Noam Chomsky

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Book SynopsisThe history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used.Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information.Robertson’s unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an “automatic memory” machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about women’s nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today’s digital world.Trade Review"How we store information reflects the aspirations we have about what to remember. Taking this idea to heart, Craig Robertson's essential history of the filing cabinet is the definitive account of verticality and efficiency as guiding principles for corporate capitalism."—Melissa Gregg, senior principal engineer, Client Computing Group, Intel"Craig Robertson’s book offers a fascinating account of how the humble file cabinet and the associated practice of filing shaped the emergence of modern conceptions of information. These influences continue to reverberate—from the organization of our computer desktops to our assumptions about ‘information’ as a discrete entity that can be stored, manipulated, and retrieved. A significant contribution to media studies and information studies."—Jennifer S. Light, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*"In this fascinating history, Craig Robertson shows how a seemingly mundane thing was central to the rise of modern bureaucracies, information society, and the gendered relations of office labor. Wonderfully researched and full of surprises, The Filing Cabinet explores an object and a system that orchestrated new ways of knowing, remembering, and experiencing the world."—Lynn Spigel, Northwestern University "[The filing cabinet] worked to blur the past into the present with active storage; and the future into the present by encouraging forethought. The Filing Cabinet would be particularly helpful for researchers who want to write about media materialism without getting lost in the minutiae of model numbers."—LSE Review of Books "[Robertson’s] prowess for raiding an archive is formidable, and he has a talent for cherry-picking unusual details."—Washington Examiner "Captivating . . . the filing cabinet, despite its deep roots in our contemporary information architecture, is just one step in our epistemological journey, not its end."—The Atlantic "Timely, incisive, and impressively imaginative."—The New Rambler "If you’re a reader who relishes the unconventional, if you’ve pondered arcane subjects at odd times, or if you want a conversation-breaker at the water cooler, find The Filing Cabinet. Yep, this is the book you need now."—Idaho Press "Robertson persuasively sets out the ways in which domestic furniture and organising practices were reshaped to mirror those found in offices."—Literary Review "A useful and thought-provoking text for those of us dependent on the filing cabinet and the subsequent technologies they inspire, this book deserves a wider readership in both the art historical and cultural studies fields."—College & Research Libraries "Robertson eloquently describes the historical account of the filing cabinet."—International Journal of Communication "Robertson deconstructs and situates the filing cabinet in its historical contexts of use, with the support of a rich apparatus of beautiful images."—H-Net Reviews Table of ContentsContentsPreface: Discovering the Power of the Filing CabinetIntroduction: Making Paper Work EfficientlyPart 1. The Cabinet1. Verticality: A Skyscraper for the Office2. Integrity: A Steel Container for Paper3. Cabinet Logic: A Structure for Efficiency and Information Part II. Filing4. Granular Certainty: Bringing System to the Office5. Automatic Filing: Delegating Memory to a Machine6. The Ideal File Clerk: Controlling Work in the Office7. Planned Storage: Domesticating Cabinet LogicAfterword: File Cabinets, Out of Time and Out of PlaceAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWith the rise of global competitiveness among industries, it has become increasingly vital to develop novel strategies to assist in optimizing value-chain networks, thus helping to secure economic success. By employing engineer-to-order practices, many enterprises have improved their manufacturing processes.Supply Chain Strategies and the Engineer-to-Order Approach evaluates innovative processes and original operational models, frameworks, and architectures in the topic areas of industrial engineering and management science. Featuring optimized enterprise chain management strategies and emergent research within the field, this book is an essential reference source for professional, academics, and researchers specializing in enterprise operations and engineer-to-order procedures.

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Book SynopsisThe issue of sustainability has become a vital discussion in many industries within the public and private sectors. In the business realm, incorporating such practices allows organizations to re-design their operations more effectively.Green Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Business Practice examines the challenges and benefits of implementing sustainability into the core functions of contemporary enterprises, focusing on how green approaches improve operations in an ecological way. Highlighting key concepts, emerging innovations, and future directions, this book is a pivotal reference source for professionals, managers, educators, and upper-level students.

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Book SynopsisAn individual’s success as a manager is largely dependent on the effectiveness of the training and education they received. However, as new technologies and management techniques emerge within the field, it becomes necessary to evaluate ways to optimize management education programs.Management Education for Global Leadership examines the complexities and challenges present in improvising the learning process in education programs. Highlighting real-life experiences, theoretical concepts, and practical applications within the field, as well as the role of information technologies in management education and training programs, this publication is a critical reference for scholars, practitioners, policy makers, students, politicians, and managers.

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Book SynopsisAmong banking industries and insurance and security sectors, systemic risk and information uncertainty can generate negative consequences. By developing solutions to address such issues, financial regulation initiatives can be optimized. Value Relevance of Accounting Information in Capital Markets is an essential reference source for the latest scholarly research on the importance of information asymmetries and uncertainties and their effects on the overall regulation of financial industries. Featuring extensive coverage on a wide range of perspectives, such as financial reporting standards, investor confidence, and capital flows, this publication is ideally designed for professionals, accountants, and academics seeking current research on the effects of the underlying elements in investing.

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Book SynopsisVarious industries in modern society can contribute to many different sustainable development initiatives. By implementing better processes for resource usage and its impacts, businesses can play a vital role in creating a cleaner environment.Ethics and Sustainability in Global Supply Chain Management is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on organizational procedures and methods that ensure environmental sustainability, while maintaining effective production processes. Highlighting the most innovative topics and perspectives, such as life cycle costing, waste management, and business leadership, this book is ideally designed for professionals, academics, practitioners, graduate students, and researchers interested in developing green supply chain processes.

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Book SynopsisAs modern organizations become more globalized and diverse, they require additional assistance to maintain effective workflows. With the support of intermediary partners, businesses can enhance their various management processes. Global Intermediation and Logistics Service Providers is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on outsourcing strategies in contemporary business environments and examines the role of intermediaries in the dynamics of decision-making and process management. Highlighting pivotal discussions across a myriad of relevant topics, such as open innovation, competitive advantage, and social capital, this book is ideally designed for professionals, practitioners, researchers, and students interested in the impact of service providers within industrial organizations.

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