Agate Publishing: 143 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
If you want to find something on the World Wide Web, you Google” it. With its 1 million servers located around the world, the company handles over a billion search requests daily. But when the Internet first came online, people struggled to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Drawn from more than three decades of media coverage-print, electronic, and online-this book serves up the best, most thought-provoking insights ever spoken by Steve Jobs: more than 200 quotations that are essential reading for everyone who seeks innovative solutions and inspirations applicable to their...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
From his office in Omaha, Nebraska, without even the benefit of a computer, Warren Buffett has racked up an investment record that far surpasses his counterparts on Wall Street—or anyone else in the world, for that matter. While traditionally stock exchanges have returned about 11 percent annually...
The Chicago School
How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
When Richard Nixon said We are all Keynesians now” in 1971, few could have predicted that the next three decades would result in a complete transformation of the global economic landscape. The transformation was led by a small, relatively obscure group within the University of Chicago’s business...
The End of the Euro
The Uneasy Future of the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The End of the Euro begins with an overview of the birth of the euro itself. Understanding this history is essential to understand the anomalies built into the project from the beginning. These anomalies form the subject of chapter two, along with how they led to the situation that turned Greece,...
Play It Forward
From Gymboree to the Yoga Mat and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Play It Forward details the remarkable journey of Joan Barnes, the founder and former CEO of Gymboree, and how she learned to align her inner life with outward success.
Forty years ago, Joan Barnes founded a modest play center in a church basement with $3,000. Determined to enable women to...
Strayhorn
An Illustrated Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life is a stunning collection of essays, photographs, and ephemera celebrating Billy Strayhorn, one of the most significant yet under-appreciated contributors to 20th century American music. Released in commemoration of Strayhorn's centennial, this luxurious coffee-table...
Prince
The Man and His Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The newest, most updated book on Prince available today
Famously reticent and perennially controversial, Prince was one of the few music superstars who remained, largely, an enigma—even up to his premature death on April 21, 2016. A fixture of the pop canon, Prince is widely held to be the...
Wisconsin Supper Clubs
An Old-Fashioned Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Wisconsin Supper Clubs is a resource for and about supper clubs throughout Wisconsin that includes beautiful photographs of the unique supper club interiors, proprietors, and customers, as well as fascinating archival materials. Also recorded in this book are the regional specialties served at these...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
As one of only nine women in a class of 500 at Harvard Law School when she enrolled in 1956 and one of only four female Supreme Court justices in the history of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is frequently viewed as a feminist trailblazer and an icon for civil rights.
Ginsburg has always...
Locally Brewed
Portraits of Craft Breweries from America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Locally Brewed celebrates the Midwest's craft brewing movement with profiles of 20 of the area's brewmasters and their breweries. These are entertaining and inspiring stories of the individuals who have been essential in the exponential growth of this movement, as told through vivid interviews, beautiful...
How to Play the Game at the Top
The 9 Rules for Consummate Corporate Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Before starting his own successful company, Fenorris Pearson was a top executive with Dell and Motorola with responsibilities in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. He worked with top people on top teams building and selling top products to global audiences. Smart people like to...
Red Velvet Underground
A Rock Memoir, with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Part memoir, part cookbook, and all rock and roll, Red Velvet Underground tells the story of how musician Freda Love Smith's indie-rock past grew into her family- and food-centric present.
Smith, born in Nashville and raised in Indiana, is best known as the drummer and co-founder of bands such...
Twisted
My Dreadlock Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political history of dreadlocks...