management

Offers teens advice on entrepreneurialship, explaining the importance of setting goals, preparing a budget, finding financing, and more.

"Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a wastewater engineer. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, and daily job tasks related to this career, in the framework of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) movement. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included."--.

"When Yahoo hired star Google executive Marissa Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California's headquarters. On them, there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But just more than a year later--on November 4, 2013--Mayer sat in front those same employees in a huge cafeteria on Yahoo's campus and took the beating of her life. Her hair wet, and her tone defensive, Mayer read and answered a series of employee-posed questions challenging the basic elements of her plan. There was anger in the room - and behind it, a question: Was Mayer actually going to be able to do this thing? Nicholas Carlson's fast-paced narrative is the inside story of how Yahoo got into such awful shape in the first place, Mayer's controversial rise at Google, and her desperate fight to save an Internet icon.".

Presents information on detecting and eliminating household pollutants, poisons, and safety hazards.

Reveals the ten rules entrepreneur Sam Walton lived and worked by, explaining how those rules helped him become a successful businessman and how they can help others become successful.

A portrait of the Intel corporation and its chairman Andrew Grove, examining the company's business practices, its efforts to dominate the market through innovation, the early history of the company, and how Grove has influenced the semiconductor industry.

Describes the steps needed to create a business plan and successfully market a product or service.

Presents information on careers in the field of sports facilities operations.

Explains that the world is becoming depleted of natural resource, such as oil, coal, uranium, copper, lithium, water and arable land and that has caused governments and corporations to scramble to claim that last of these resources.

Discusses the problems of obtaining clean water throughout history, some of the solutions such as the Roman aqueducts, sewer systems, and desalination plants, and how clean water is factor in many current issues including social justice, terrorism, and climate change.