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An American History

By: Tom Nicholas

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“An incisive history of the venture-capital industry.” —New Yorker “An excellent and original economic history of venture capital.” —Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “A detailed, fact-filled account of America’s most celebrated moneymen.” —New Republic “Extremely interesting, readable, and informative...Tom Nicholas tells you most everything you ever wanted to know about the history of venture capital, from the financing of the whaling industry to the present multibillion-dollar venture funds.” —Arthur Rock “In principle, venture capital is where the ordinarily conservative, cynical domain of big money touches dreamy, long-shot enterprise. In practice, it has become the distinguishing big-business engine of our time...[A] first-rate history.” —New Yorker VC tells the riveting story of how the venture capital industry arose from America’s longstanding identification with entrepreneurship and risk-taking. Whether the venture is a whaling voyage setting sail from New Bedford or the latest Silicon Valley startup, VC is a state of mind as much as a way of doing business, exemplified by an appetite for seeking extreme financial rewards, a tolerance for failure and experimentation, and a faith in the promise of innovation to generate new wealth. Tom Nicholas’s authoritative history takes us on a roller coaster of entrepreneurial successes and setbacks. It describes how iconic firms like Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia invested in Genentech and Apple even as it tells the larger story of VC’s birth and evolution, revealing along the way why venture capital is such a quintessentially American institution—one that has proven difficult to recreate elsewhere.

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Harvard University Press

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0674240111

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Rehab Science: How to Overcome Pain and Heal from Injury

By: Tom Walters,Glen Cordoza

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Rehab Science: How to Overcome Pain and Heal from Injury

By: Tom Walters,Glen Cordoza

Alleviate Pain. Rehabilitate Injuries. Move Better! At some point in your life, you will experience pain and suffer from injury. But you are not powerless. Your body is not fragile. It is strong and adaptable. With the right education, exercise strategies, and mindset, you can figure out what’s wrong and take the first steps toward healing. That is exactly what you will learn how to do in Rehab Science. In this book, you will gain: A foundational understanding of pain science—and how to treat both acute and chronic pain conditions The ability to systematically address injuries—identify the type of injury you have and implement the right methods and exercises Step-by-step programs for improving movement and mobility and increasing strength and tissue capacity Pain-relieving and injury-healing strategies, including soft tissue massage, stretching, mobility, and resistance exercise The confidence and education to make informed decisions—like whether or not to get surgery Insight on how to prevent injuries and future flare-ups Being armed with such knowledge removes the fear and anxiety associated with pain and injury and frees you up to take charge of your health. Because there are solutions. Whether you have pain from unknown causes, you sustained an injury, or you have chronic pain and nothing else has worked, the protocols give you a clear blueprint to follow. Simply go to the body region where you feel pain or have an injury, choose the protocol that matches your symptoms or condition, and start following the three-phase exercise program. This book provides 30 programs for the most common pain and injuries in every body region: Low back pain Sprain and strains—including ankle and wrist sprains, hamstring strains, and whiplash Nerve pain—such as sciatica, carpal tunnel, herniated discs, and lumbar stenosis Tendinopathies—like tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, hip flexor, gluteal, and patellar tendinopathy Ligament and tendon tears—Achilles, rotator cuff, hamstring, groin, ACL, MCL, LCL, and PCL Shoulder and hip impingements Dislocations and labral tears Meniscus tears Plantar fasciitis Shin splints Arthritis—neck, knee, and hip And much, much more If you want the power to get out of pain and rehab your injury—and to do as much as possible on your own—look no further than Rehab Science.

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Victory Belt Publishing

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162860140X

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Web 2.0 and Beyond

Understanding the New Online Business Models, Trends, and Technologies

By: Tom Funk

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Web 2.0 and Beyond

Understanding the New Online Business Models, Trends, and Technologies

By: Tom Funk

Web 2.0 has taken on buzzword status. It's now shorthand for everything that is new, cutting-edge, and gaining momentum online. Web 2.0 can describe particular Web sites; cultural trends like social networking, blogging, or podcasting; or the underlying technology that makes today's coolest Web applications possible. Many Web 2.0 innovations were pioneered by behemoths like Google, Amazon, Apple, YouTube, and MySpace. But even the smallest, leanest companies can take advantage of the new trends, new and open-source programming tools, and new networks. This book presents a wealth of ideas that will enable any business to quickly and affordably deploy Web 2.0 best practices to gain customers and maximize profits. Web 2.0 is more a series of trends than a basket of things: —More and more, power is in the hands of individual users and their networks. —Web content is distributed, sorted, combined, and displayed across the Web in formats and places not anticipated by the content creators. —New technology now makes rich online experiences and complex software applications possible, and at a low cost. —Integration is breaking down walls between PCs and mobile devices. Web 2.0 is a landscape in which users control their online experience and influence the experiences of others. Business success on the Web, therefore, now comes from harnessing the power of social networks, computing networks, media and opinion networks, and advertising networks. Web 2.0 takes advantage of higher bandwidth and lighter-weight programming tools to create rich, engaging online experiences that compete with television and other offline activities. With examples and case studies from real businesses, this book demonstrates what makes a successful Web 2.0 company, regardless of its size or resources. A non-technical guide, it is aimed squarely at the marketer or business manager who wants to understand recent developments in the online world, and to turn them into practical, competitive advantages.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313351880

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Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff

An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor

By: Tom Zaniello

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Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff

An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor

By: Tom Zaniello

The revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edition's 150. The new book is global in scope, with examples of labor films from around the world. Viewers can turn to this comprehensive, annotated guide for films about unions or labor organizations; labor history; working-class life where an economic factor is significant; political movements if they are tied closely to organized labor; production or the struggle between labor and capital from a "top-down"—either entrepreneurial or managerial—perspective. Each entry includes a critical commentary, production data, cast list, MPAA rating (if any), suggested related films, annotated references to books and websites for further reading, and information about availability of films for rental and/or purchase. This edition addresses both historical and contemporary films and features many more documentaries and hard-to-find information about agitprop and union-financed films.Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor features fifty-eight production stills and frame enlargements. It also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labor films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements. To read Tom Zaniello's blog on the cinema of labor and globalization, featuring even more reviews, visit http://tzaniello.wordpress.com.Praise for the earlier edition—"Zaniello has created a useful and far-reaching guide with abundant information.... These are the sorts of films that prove what James Agee wrote in these pages nearly fifty years ago: 'The only movies whose temper could possibly be described as heroic, or tragic, or both, have been made by leftists.'"—The Nation"Zaniello has done a monumental job identifying the films that should be included in this genre.... Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff is sorely needed and long overdue."—Cineaste"An engaging and opinionated book.... Even though mining, trucking, Jimmy Hoffa, and class warfare are the book's major themes, what holds the project together is Zaniello's sense of fun and wit. [Zaniello is] a better writer than most major film critics."—Village Voice Literary Supplement

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Cornell University Press

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1501711199

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Riddle

By: Tom Hillstrom

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Riddle

By: Tom Hillstrom

Monk Ling, a New York City Police detective, investigates the murder of James Whittaker, the visiting brother of the British Prime Minister, who may have been killed by the KGB, the Mafia, or powerful political interests.

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Berkley

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0515089494

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The Best 368 Colleges 2009

By: Robert Franek,Princeton Review,Tom Meltzer,Christopher Maier

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The Best 368 Colleges 2009

By: Robert Franek,Princeton Review,Tom Meltzer,Christopher Maier

A survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in sixty-two different categories, along with a wealth of information and applications tips.

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Princeton Review

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0375428720

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9780375428722

John Carradine

The Films

By: Tom Weaver

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John Carradine

The Films

By: Tom Weaver

Over more than six decades and 200 films, supreme movie villain John Carradine defined the job of the character actor, running the gamut from preacher Casey of The Grapes of Wrath to his classic Count Dracula of House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. But for every Prisoner of Shark Island or Jesse James, Carradine--who also did great work on Broadway and the classical theater (he produced, directed and starred in Hamlet)--hammed it up in scores of "B" and "C" horror and exploitation films, developing the while quite a reputation for scandal. Through it all, though, he remained a survivor and a true professional. This is the first ever work devoted exclusively to the films of John Carradine. In addition to the comprehensive filmography, there is a biography of Carradine (contributed by Gregory Mank), commentary on the man by indie film director Fred Olen Ray (who helmed many latter-day Carradine movies), and an interesting piece by director Joe Dante, who writes about Carradine's involvement in Dante's 1981 werewolf movie The Howling.

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McFarland

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1476611645

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9781476611648

Slocum and the Red River Renegades

By: Jake Logan,Tom Colgan

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Slocum and the Red River Renegades

By: Jake Logan,Tom Colgan

Slocum turned down Claudette Durant's offer to take her to Fargo, but when four dirty bushwackers beat him senseless and dumped him into the Mississippi on their way to Fargo, Slocum changed his mind. Now, he's Miss Durant's new bodyguard on a vengeance trail to Fargo.

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0425107019

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The Best 361 Colleges

By: Robert Franek,Tom Meltzer,Christopher Maier,Erik Olson

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The Best 361 Colleges

By: Robert Franek,Tom Meltzer,Christopher Maier,Erik Olson

115,000 current college students speak out about their colleges' classes, professors, dorms, social scenes, sports, and more!

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0375765581

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VC

VC

Rehab Science: How to Overcome Pain and Heal from Injury

Rehab Science: How to Overcome Pain and Heal from Injury

Web 2.0 and Beyond

Web 2.0 and Beyond

Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff

Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff

Riddle

Riddle

The Best 368 Colleges 2009

The Best 368 Colleges 2009

John Carradine

John Carradine

Slocum and the Red River Renegades

Slocum and the Red River Renegades

The Best 361 Colleges

The Best 361 Colleges

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