The contract between "Big Five" book publisher HarperCollins and Amazon is about to expire, and HarperCollins is refusing to sign an agreement with the new terms that Amazon is asking, a source with knowledge of the situation tells Business Insider.
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Andrew Cockburn has written a must-read book. The title is Kill Chain: The Rise Of The High-Tech Assassins. The title could just as well be: How the US Government and US Military Became Murder, Inc.
One thing has become exceedingly clear in the run-up to the new biography Becoming Steve Jobs: The people closest to Steve Jobs do not like that other biography of Steve Jobs.
The basic phenomenon that Thomas Piketty devotes this book to describing is simple: "When the rate of return on capital significantly exceeds the growth rate of the economy…, then it logically follows that inherited wealth grows faster than outpu
Early last week, I had the privilege of sitting down for dinner with Robert Kiyosaki and his wife Kim.
Now, if you've never read any of their books, I highly recommend you go check them out, especially Robert's first book: Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
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Just plug into this book for a powerful ride toward your new beginning. You're going to love it, and, more than that, you move toward your own "awesome" life. I highly recommend this profoundly compelling and effective book.
A collection of articles clarifying and simplifying complex issues involving our evolution into a stagnant, almost bankrupt welfare state that is now challenged by ...
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Developing the Developed World: Entrepreneurship, Liberty, and the Future
Recorded: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
In his #1 Ne
One executive said, "Holly, the work you did is still shaking up our organization at all levels. We are more passionate now than ever about making our vision a reality as a result of the light you shed into why what we do makes a difference."
Among his many achievements, British computer science pioneer Alan Turing created one of the first theoretical models of a general-purpose computer, helped develop the concept of artificial intelligence, and was in charge of breaking the German Enigm