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| Author | : Ken Auletta |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2009-11-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1101151404 |
A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media Landscape. There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As only he can, bestselling author Ken Auletta takes readers for a ride on the Google wave, telling the story of how it formed and crashed into traditional media businesses?from newspapers to books, to television, to movies, to telephones, to advertising, to Microsoft. With unprecedented access to Google?s founders and executives, as well as to those in media who are struggling to keep their heads above water, Auletta reveals how the industry is being disrupted and redefined. Using Google as a stand-in for the digital revolution, Auletta takes readers inside Google?s closed-door meetings and paints portraits of Google?s notoriously private founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as those who work with?and against?them. In his narrative, Auletta provides the fullest account ever told of Google?s rise, shares the ?secret sauce? of Google?s success, and shows why the worlds of ?new? and ?old? media often communicate as if residents of different planets. Google engineers start from an assumption that the old ways of doing things can be improved and made more efficient, an approach that has yielded remarkable results? Google will generate about $20 billion in advertising revenues this year, or more than the combined prime-time ad revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX. And with its ownership of YouTube and its mobile phone and other initiatives, Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells Auletta his company is poised to become the world?s first $100 billion media company. Yet there are many obstacles that threaten Google?s future, and opposition from media companies and government regulators may be the least of these. Google faces internal threats, from its burgeoning size to losing focus to hubris. In coming years, Google?s faith in mathematical formulas and in slide rule logic will be tested, just as it has been on Wall Street. Distilling the knowledge accrued from a career of covering the media, Auletta will offer insights into what we know, and don?t know, about what the future holds for the imperiled industry.
| Author | : Vivian Nixon |
| Publisher | : The New Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2020-06-30 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1620975300 |
"This is what we know, and we know it better than anyone else." —from the introduction by Vivian Nixon and Daryl V. Atkinson A thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America's criminal justice system, from those most impacted by it When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over three hundred currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded. What We Know collects two dozen of their best suggestions, each of which proposes a policy solution derived from their own lived experience. Ideas run the gamut: A man serving time in Indiana argues for a Prison Labor Standards Act, calling for us to reject prison slavery. A Nebraska man who served a federal prison term for white-collar crimes suggests offering courses in entrepreneurship as a way to break down barriers to employment for people returning from incarceration. A woman serving a life sentence in Georgia spells out a system of earned privileges that could increase safety and decrease stress inside prison. And a man serving a twenty-five-year term for a crime he committed at age fifteen advocates powerfully for eliminating existing financial incentives to charge youths as adults. With contributors including nationally known formerly incarcerated leaders in justice reform, twenty-three justice-involved individuals add a perspective that is too often left out of national reform conversations.
| Author | : Tim Kreider |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2013-04-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1439198713 |
A "New York Times" political cartoonist and writer presents a collection of his most popular essays and drawings about life and government hypocrisy.
| Author | : Pip Drysdale |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2019-12-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1925685853 |
Imagine seeing your loving husband on a dating app. Now imagine that’s the best thing that happens to you all week … When Charlie sees a man who is the spitting image of her husband Oliver on a dating app, her heart stops. Her first desperate instinct is to tell herself she must be mistaken – after all, she only caught a glimpse from a distance as her friends laughingly swiped through the men on offer. But no matter how much she tries to push her fears aside, she can’t let it go. Because she took that photo. On their honeymoon. Suddenly other signs of betrayal start to add up and so Charlie does the only thing she can think of to defend her position – she signs up to the app to catch Oliver in the act. But Charlie soon discovers that infidelity is the least of her problems. Nothing is as it seems and nobody is who she thinks they are ... The eagerly awaited addictive new thriller from the bestselling author of The Sunday Girl. Praise for The Strangers We Know: ‘Written with pace, intrigue and a series of disorientating twists that keeps you guessing to the end’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘A relatable heroine, a riveting mystery, and plot twists that will make you gasp. I loved it.’ Robyn Harding, bestselling author of The Party ‘I raced through this book and loved the sharp, sassy suspense story of a marriage on the edge.’ Sara Foster, bestselling author of The Hidden Hours and You Don’t Know Me ‘The Strangers We Know is simply phenomenal. Pip Drysdale is a brilliant storyteller. She has a long career ahead of her, and I will be eagerly awaiting every new book she releases.’ Better Reading Book of the Week ‘Reels you in from the first chapter … Set aside a weekend because you won’t be able to put it down after you start reading.’ Courier Mail ‘Another gripping psychological thriller from the home-grown author of The Sunday Girl.’ Who magazine ‘Twisty-turny domestic noir.’ New Idea Book of The Month 'This addictive page turner enthralls from cover to cover … exposes a relationship marked by love, lies, betrayal, tragedy and deception. An author we need to watch.’ Mrs. B’s Book Reviews ‘The next Liane Moriarty.’ Stellar Praise for The Sunday Girl: ‘The Girls Club of psychological thrillers has a worthy new member’ Herald Sun
| Author | : Maggie Thrash |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2017-08-29 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1534411283 |
From the critically acclaimed author of Honor Girl, comes a “sassy, sultry whodunit” (School Library Journal) set in an Atlanta boarding school that’s infused with subversive humor and featuring a cast of bizarre and unforgettable characters. It’s better to know the truth. At least sometimes. Halfway through Friday night’s football game, beautiful cheerleader Brittany Montague—dressed as the giant Winship Wildcat mascot—hurls herself off a bridge into Atlanta’s surging Chattahoochee River. Just like that, she’s gone. Eight days later, Benny Flax and Virginia Leeds will be the only ones who know why. Their search for the truth reveals a web of depravity hiding in plain sight at their picture perfect school. When love becomes obsession, how far will someone go to make their twisted fantasies a reality? And who has the power to stop them? A twisty, turny mystery loaded with the perfect punch of satire and heart.
| Author | : Shari Lapena |
| Publisher | : Doubleday Canada |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2019-07-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385690835 |
AN INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "No one does suburban paranoia like Shari Lapena." —Ruth Ware, internationally bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 Maybe you don't know your neighbours as well as you thought you did . . . In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses—and into the owners' computers as well—learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? After two anonymous letters are received, whispers start to circulate, and suspicion mounts. And when a woman down the street is found murdered, the tension reaches the breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more than they're telling? And how far will all these very nice people go to protect their own secrets? In this neighbourhood, it's not just the husbands and wives who play games. Here, everyone in the family has something to hide. You never really know what people are capable of . . .
| Author | : James K. Dew Jr. |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2020-11-17 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0830851895 |
What does it mean to know something? Epistemology, the study of knowledge, can often seem like a daunting subject. And yet few topics are more basic to human life. In this primer on epistemology, now in a second edition, James Dew and Mark Foreman provide an accessible entry into one of the most important disciplines within contemporary philosophy.
| Author | : Lisa Cohen |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2013-09-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0374534489 |
Chronicles the lives of New York intellectual Esther Murphy, celebrity ephemera collector Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue editor Madge Garland and their lifestyles, influence on fashion, and celebrity friendships.
| Author | : Ramani S. Durvasula Ph.D |
| Publisher | : Post Hill Press |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2019-10-01 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 168261753X |
“Don’t You Know Who I Am?” has become the mantra of the famous and infamous, the entitled and the insecure. It’s the tagline of the modern narcissist. Health and wellness campaigns preach avoidance of unhealthy foods, sedentary lifestyles, tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, but rarely preach avoidance of unhealthy, difficult or toxic people. Yet the health benefits of removing toxic people from your life may have far greater benefits to both physical and psychological health. We need to learn to be better gatekeepers for our minds, bodies, and souls. Narcissism, entitlement, and incivility have become the new world order, and we are all in trouble. They are not only normalized but also increasingly incentivized. They are manifestations of pathological insecurity—insecurities that are experienced at both the individual and societal level. The paradox is that we value these patterns. We venerate them through social media, mainstream media, and consumerism, and they are endemic in political, corporate, academic, and media leaders. There are few lives untouched by narcissists. These relationships infect those who are in them with self-doubt, despair, confusion, anxiety, depression, and the chronic feeling of being “not enough,” all of which make it so difficult to step away and set boundaries. The illusion of hope and the fantasy of redemption can result in years of second chances, and despondency when change never comes. It’s time for a wake-up call. It’s time to stem the tide of narcissism, entitlement, and antagonism, and take our lives back.
| Author | : Abe S. Hoppenstein |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2010-11-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1452088608 |
The book (fiction) tells an engaging original story an epic sweeping drama with character driven pictures During the 1930s Baron Jacques Chavalmont the wealthy and respected President and Chief Executive of an infl uential private merchant bank in Paris became concerned by developments in Germany and meticulously crafted a plan for the survival of his extended family should a war ensue. The Plan required the transfer of substantial assets bullion, currencies, art and jewelry for safekeeping in the Barons Bank (The Bancario di Milano) in Buenos Aires. The Baron arranged for his ambitious son-in-law Caetano di Rosario to manage the Bancario. The book narrates how its characters a disparate group of talented men and women from Italy, Germany, Latvia, and Entre Rios (Argentina): Caetano Di Rosario, his wife Marie-Helene, their son Alain, Max Elman and his paramour Francine, Dr. Manfred Lowen, and Kathleen McCloud (from Entre Rios) converged on Buenos Aires during the 1930s. It relates their dreams, hopes, frustrations, passions, romances, adultery, greed and dishonesty. It describes how the new Buenos Aires residents successfully adapted to their new environment and how their lives interacted over time against the backdrop of events (leading to and after the Second World War) which took place in England, France, Germany, Monte Carlo, Latvia, Israel and Buenos Aires. The immigrants never saw their loved families again Most had perished in the Holocaust After the end of the Second World War a small group of European family survivors sued Caetano di Rosario and the Bancario in Buenos Aires for the recovery of their families deposited assets. The fully described litigation process culminated in a most interesting denouement that directly aff ected Caetano, Marie-Helene, Alain, Kathleen, Manfred and Sandra
