Industries
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The Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820
$24.95 Add to cartBefore Hudson’s Bay Company domination, two companies attempted large-scale corporate trapping and vied to command Northwest fur trade. On one side were the North West Company’s Montreal entrepreneurs
- Author: Keith, H. Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0874223407
- Language: English
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The Voyeur’s Motel
$16.00 Add to cartOn January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous handwritten letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your… [more below]
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 802126979
- Language: English
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Freeing Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In
$21.99 Add to cartThe transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. Trapped by a century of fossil fuel investments and politicians that struggle to plan beyond the next election, the “Big Grid” that powers our
- Author: Nussey, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1732544646
- Language: English
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Deepwater Deception
$18.99 Add to cartThis book is an adventure, an investigation and a manhunt. It divulges the real reason for the Deepwater Horizon tragedy and leads the reader toward identifying the people responsible for causing it.
- Author: Kaluza, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1946918164
- Language: English
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Million Dollar Host: Julie’s Airbnb Portfolio Earned Over a Million Dollars In Her First Year…Yours can too!
$19.95 Add to cartWhat makes a Million Dollar Host? Ask Julie George. In 2016, curiosity led her to list her first property on the trending Airbnb site. In no time at all, it became apparent that there was more than ju
- Author: George, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1922093556
- Language: English
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
$21.95 Add to cartBeneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude–the world’s largest reserves–an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist g… [more below]
- Author: Gallegos, Raúl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640122133
- Language: English
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A History of Howard Johnson’s: How a Massachusetts Soda Fountain Became an American Icon
$21.99 Add to cartLearn more about the “Father of the Franchise Industry” in this illuminating history about the Howard Johnson restaurant franchise and the man behind it all.
Howard Johnson created an orange-roofed emp
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 1609494288
- Language: English
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Workboats for the World: The Robert Allan Story
$99.95 Add to cartAlong the West Coast waterfront and in ship-handling circles around the world, few names are more respected than that of Robert Allan Ltd., the marine architecture firm that has been based in Vancouve
- Author: Allan, Robert G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 155017987X
- Language: English
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The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartThe remarkable story of rising to the top of the music charts, a second act as a tech pioneer, and the sustaining power of creativity and art.
Thomas Dolby’s hit songs “She Blinded Me with Science” an- Author: Dolby, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1250138760
- Language: English
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Delivering the Digital Restaurant: The Path to Digital Maturity
$19.95 Add to cartThe duo that explained the digital revolution in restaurants now brings your restaurant a how-to guide. The digital restaurant revolution is well underway. Restaurants that survived the pandemic now h
- Author: Orsbourn, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987666814
- Language: English
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The Unbound Prometheus
$45.00 Add to cartIn this new edition of his classic history on revolution and economic development in Europe, David Landes reasserts his original arguments in the light of current debates about globalization and compa… [more below]
- Author: Landes, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 590
- Publish Date: June 26 2003
- ISBN10: 052153402X
- Language: English
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Iwoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
$49.99 Add to cartBefore slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange vending machines, with cryptic switches and pages of encoded output. But in 1977 Steve Wozniak revolutionized the computer i… [more below]
- Author: Wozniak, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: January 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0393061434
- Language: English
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader
$18.00 Read moreThe #1 New York Times bestselling biography of how Steve Jobs became the most visionary CEO in history.
Becoming Steve Jobs breaks down the conventional, one-dimensional view of Steve Jobs that he wa… [more below]- Author: Schlender, Brent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0385347421
- Language: English
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Jell-O Girls: A Family History
$17.99 Add to cartA “gorgeous” (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America’s most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade – told by the inherit… [more below]
- Author: Rowbottom, Allie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0316510629
- Language: English
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The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America’s Energy Future
$20.00 Add to cartIt’s Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best.
Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars,- Author: Pickens, T. Boone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307396010
- Language: English
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Corky Carroll – Not Done Yet: An epic journey of the planet’s first professional surfer.
$19.95 Add to cartCome along for the ride of a lifetime. Kick back and enjoy, while Corky takes you along in his travels across the globe and shares, in his unique flair for telling a good story, about his storied, and
- Author: Carroll, Corky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0578624710
- Language: English
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The Little Shop That Could: A retailer’s love affair with community and food
$19.99 Add to cartDebra’s Natural Gourmet is a beloved, nationally-known and award-winning natural products shop in Concord, MA. For those people who think running a shop is simple, this is the story about turning on l
- Author: Stark, Debra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0974262730
- Language: English
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Barrel Strength Bourbon: The Explosive Growth of America’s Whiskey
$24.95 Add to cartThe art of creating and consuming bourbon is exploding, Carla Carlton’s Barrel Strength Bourbon is a must read for all bourbon aficionados.
Barrel Strength Bourbon provides an in-depth examination of- Author: Carlton, Carla Harris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 157860575X
- Language: English
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The Pig and I: The Tale of Our Relationship with a Beast We Eat
$28.95 Add to cartIn this lively and fascinating book, a guilt-ridden, bacon-loving journalist finds work at an industrial pig farm as he researches the long and torrid history of humans and swine.
After convincing a s- Author: Endresen, Kristoffer Hattleland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1771649909
- Language: English
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Deep Tech: Demystifying the Breakthrough Technologies That Will Revolutionize Everything
$28.99 Add to cartAre you ready to harness the next big tech opportunity?
The world of “deep tech” has launched seven simultaneous global revolutions: artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, blockchain a
- Author: Redmond, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1544518951
- Language: English
