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Author
Publisher
Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Seven years after the financial crisis of 2008, financiers remain villains in the public mind. Most Americans believe that their irresponsible actions and complex financial products wrecked the economy and destroyed people's savings, and that bankers never adequately paid for their crimes. But as Economist journalist Andrew Palmer argues in Smart Money, this much maligned industry is not only capable of doing great good for society, but offers the...
Author
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Describes new technologies that are helping make fossil fuels, biofuels, water and wind energy, and solar energy more efficient, and discusses different ways we will get energy in the future"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When turbulence is the new normal, an organization's survival depends on vigilant leadership that can anticipate threats, spot opportunities, and act quickly when the time is right. In See Sooner, Act Faster, strategy experts George Day and Paul Schoemaker offer tools for thriving when digital advances intensify turbulence.
Vigilant firms have greater foresight than their rivals, while vulnerable firms often miss early signals of external threats...
73) Financially forward: how to use today's digital tools to earn more, save better, and spend smarter
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1 Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Chief digital officer at Northwestern Mutual, founder/CEO of LearnVest, and New York Times bestelling author shows how to use the simple tools of the digital age to get more out of our money. We live in a new financial world. Our wallets--like every other aspect of our lives--have gone fully digital. From mobile pay to on-demand everything to cryptocurrencies, technology is rewriting the rules for how we earn, save, spend and invest. Technology has...
74) Crazy cars
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Race Point Publishing, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This book distills the history of science into 100 epic experiments that have fueled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment, including observations of phenomena predicted by theories and hypotheses, such as the bending of light as it goes past the Sun. As the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman said, zIf it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong.y From the discovery...
76) The leading edge
Author
Publisher
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Pub. Date
c1986
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for under-resourced urban schools and developed digital platforms for remote agrarian communities. But after a decade of designing technologies for humanitarian causes, Toyama...
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