Subject(s): Gross domestic product Summary: "In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignor

Subject(s): Metadata | Electronic information resources -- Management | Information retrieval | Digital media | Digital preservation | Digital humanities | Cultural property -- Digitization Summary: "This book explores the analysis and interpretation, discovery and retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects, including image, music and mo

Subject(s): Obama, Barack | United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography | Legislators -- Biography -- United States | African American politicians -- Biography | Presidents -- Biography -- United States | United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 Summary: Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catap

Subject(s): Web sites -- Design | Web typography Summary: "With a vast selection of typefaces now available, there is no excuse for using boring typography in web design. The New Web Typography: Create a Visual Hierarchy with Responsive Web Design shows you how to implement web-safe fonts to create visually appealing and multi-browser-frien

Subject(s): Leadership | Communication in management | Employee motivation Summary: "Companies need High Potential leaders (Hi-Po’s) more than ever before to help them adapt to todays tumultuous, digitally-driven business environment. If you meet the Hi-Po criteria, you're in high demand--and this book explains how to fast-tra

Subject(s): Financial services industry -- Technological innovations | Financial services industry -- Planning | Strategic planning Summary: "Lessons in innovation from key FinTech trends and successes Creating Strategic Value through Financial Technology explores the growing Financial Technology (FinTech) industry to provide insight on ho

Subject(s): Retail trade -- Management | Retail trade -- Statistical methods Summary: "A non-technical guide to leveraging retail analytics for personal and competitive advantage Style & Statistics is a real-world guide to analytics in retail. Written specifically for the non-IT crowd, this book explains analytics in an approachabl

Subject(s): Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Presidents -- Biography -- United States | Revolutionaries -- Biography -- United States | Diplomats -- Biography -- United States | Legislators -- Biography -- Virginia | Governors -- Biography -- Virginia | United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 | United Stat

Subject(s): Debt | Loans, Personal | Finance, Personal Summary: "The book of financial wisdom that your future self will thank you for reading For many adults under 40, "debt" is a four-letter word--something that should be avoided but is all too often unavoidable. In The Value of Debt in Building Wealth, bestselling author Thomas

Subject(s): Suyuṭi, 1445-1505 | Mamelukes -- History | Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517 Summary: This volume is a collection of several papers devoted to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyuṭi (d. 911/1505), presented on the First Conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies (held at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, from June 23 to June 25, 2014). It aims