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Publisher
Indiepix Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Four Europeans from different cultures and fields of art set off in a minibus with a quality trove of world literature. They go in search, across a vast desert-like landscape, to find a place as remote as possible where they will establish the world's last bookshop. An isolated location is just perfect for their purpose, as there, the printed books of the world will be much safer from big city termites and the ups and downs of the internet. During...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to well over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos's empire, once housed in a garage, now spans the globe. Between services like Whole Foods, Prime...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin to a modern-day Standard Oil. Unlike Rockefeller's empire, however, Bezos's company had grown voraciously without much scrutiny. In fact, for over twenty years, Amazon had emerged as a Wall Street darling and its "customer obsession" approach made it indelibly attractive to consumers across the globe....
5) Amazon
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Amazon.com. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Examine Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's ascent to power and the global impact of the empire he built. The film also investigates the darker side of the company's rapid growth, and the challenge of trying to rein in the power of the richest man in the world.
9) Jeff Bezos
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Jeff Bezos from his birth in New Mexico, to attending Princeton University, to moving to Seattle, where he started Amazon.com.