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  The Essential HBO Reader

  Jeffrey P. Jones, Gary R. Edgerton

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  Essays on the history of HBO, a company designed to please audiences instead of advertisers, and the impact of its distinctive programming: “Recommended.” —Choice 
   
  The founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s—when it debuted by telecasting a Paul Newman movie and an NHL game to 365 households in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania—was a harbinger of the innovations that would transform television as an industry and a technology in the decades that followed. HBO quickly became synonymous with subscription television—and the leading force in cable programming. 
   
  Over decades, it’s grown from a domestic movie channel to an international powerhouse with a presence in over seventy countries. It is now a full-service content provider with a distinctive brand of original programming, famed for such landmark shows as The Sopranos and Sex and the City. It’s brought us Six Feet Under and The Wire, Band of Brothers and Angels in America, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Def Comedy Jam, Inside the NFL and Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Taxicab Confessions and Autopsy, and multiple Oscar-winning documentaries. 
   
  The Essential HBO Reader brings together an accomplished group of scholars to explain how HBO’s programming transformed the world of television and popular culture, and provides a comprehensive and compelling examination of HBO’s development into the prototypical entertainment corporation of the twenty-first century. 
   
  “An important assessment of the original programming HBO has created in the past few decades?how these programs are derived and what impact they have had.” —Choice 
   
  “A thorough treatment of HBO’s programming . . . a useful addition to a growing number of books about American television in the ‘post-network’ era.” —American Studies

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  The XYZ Factor - The...

  Nancy Lublin, Alyssa Ruderman

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  What is the XYZ factor? 
   
  The XYZ Factor isn't a place or a company or an age. It's a new kind of culture where innovation, accessibility, and transparency are the norm. It's an environment created on the principles of the Millennial generation to foster intergenerational productivity in a new kind of office culture. An XYZ organization's employees are challenged, engaged, and excited to produce. Simply put, XYZ companies have an "it" factor that helps them rise above the competition. 
   
  Any company can become an XYZ company. This audiobook is your blueprint. 
   
  Each chapter is written by a DoSomething.org staff member. Their firsthand experience with DoSomething.org, an organization that helps young people make the world suck less, gives them exceptional insights into working magic in the corporate world. And with over 3 million members and more than 200 active campaigns, such as collecting clothes for teenagers in homeless shelters, helping older adults learn to use technology, and creating anti-bullying comics, DoSomething.org is a standout organization-not only for its message, but for the way it operates. 
   
  When you listen to The XYZ Factor, you're getting the recipe for the awesome sauce that has driven the success of the world's largest organizations for young people and social change. This guidebook is your key to answering the questions your company has looming over its cubicles, such as: 
   
  • How do I create an office environment that fosters collaboration and creativity?• How do I form the right partnerships that appeal to our brand and our audience?• How do I authentically reach the Millennial generation? 
   
  If you want to take your business or organization from okay to amazing, you need The XYZ Factor.

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  Of Privacy and Power - The...

  Henry Farrell, Abraham L. Newman

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  We live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and e-commerce platforms are reshaping the world economy. This means that states' jurisdictions and rule systems clash. How have they negotiated their differences over freedom and security? Of Privacy and Power investigates how the European Union and United States, the two major regulatory systems in world politics, have regulated privacy and security, and how their agreements and disputes have reshaped the transatlantic relationship. 
  The transatlantic struggle over freedom and security has usually been depicted as a clash between a peace-loving European Union and a belligerent United States. Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman demonstrate how this misses the point. The real dispute was between two transnational coalitions—one favoring security, the other liberty—whose struggles have reshaped the politics of surveillance, e-commerce, and privacy rights. Looking at three large security debates in the period since 9/11, the authors examine how the powers of border-spanning coalitions have waxed and waned. Globalization has enabled new strategies of action, which security agencies, interior ministries, privacy NGOs, bureaucrats, and other actors exploit as circumstances dictate.

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  Manage Your Customers Manage...

  Dr. Jim Anderson

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  As though being a product manager was not tough enough, it turns out that not only do we have to manage our products, but we also have to manage our customers. Customers don't particularly want to be managed and so they are not necessarily going to make this an easy task for us to accomplish.
  
  What You'll Find Inside:
  PRODUCT MANAGERS NEED TO KNOW HOW MUCH TIME TO INVEST IN A PROSPECT
  PRODUCT MANAGERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO UPGRADE CUSTOMERS
  PRODUCT MANAGERS NEED TO LEARN TO K.I.S.S. THEIR CUSTOMERS
  PRODUCT MANAGERS NEED TO MAKE THE PRODUCT PURCHASE PROCESS PERFECT
  
  In order to manage customers, first we need to have customers. What this means for a product manager that we are going to have to come up with ways to transform prospects into paying customers. Customers come with a lot of customer data. If we want to have any hope of understanding who our customers are or what they want, we're going to have to come up with a way to get all of that customer information into the same database.
  
  All too often product managers like to point out their most loyal customers as one of their most valuable assets. However, it turns out that these customers may not be very profitable. Instead, we need to allow all of our customers to show us how our product can become even better.
  
  Every customer starts out as a prospect. In order to turn them into a customer it is going to take both time and effort. The big question that product managers face is just exactly how much time is it worth to put into a given prospect in order to turn them into a customer? Once you've successfully landed a customer, they will start to use the current version of your product. When you upgrade your product to the next version, it's going to be the product manager's job to find a way to get your customer to also upgrade.
  
  In order for a customer to make the decision to buy your product, they are going to have to carefully evaluate all of the product information that they have. Successful product managers know that in order to speed this process up, they have to be careful to not give their customers too much information.

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  How to Be Debt Free: The...

  R.M. Walker

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  How to Be Debt Free: The Ultimate Guide on How to Live Debt Free, Learn How You Can Eliminate Debt and Start Living a Debt Free LifestyleDebt is something that you owe, typically money. It can be very easy to accumulate debt, that's why most people are suffering under an enormous amount of debt. Some people think it's fun to be able to get something without having to pay for it first and before they know it, they have to pay multiple credit cards every month. According to a Pew Research Study, more than half of Americans are spending more than what they actually earn and so they use credit to bridge the gap. This is the reason why many people have so much debt.Debt can make your life easier but can certainly ruin your life as well. It is important to know how to handle your debt and manage your credit. This audiobook will show you how to understand debt so you can have a better handle on it. You will learn various strategies on how you can get out of debt. You will also discover how you can prevent yourself from accumulating too much debt in the future.This audiobook will discuss the following topics:- What Exactly is Debt- Why Do People Get Into Debt?- How to Avoid DebtsYou can have a great lifestyle without drowning in debts. All you need to do is come up with a realistic budget and know what you can buy based on your budget. It is not worth it to have the latest things when you will spend 10 years paying for them. If you want to learn how to improve your financial situation and start living a debt free lifestyle, scroll up and click "add to cart" now.

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  The Prosperous Leader - How...

  Jacob M. Engel, Jeffrey A. Krames

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  An actionable, easy-to-understand guide that gives you the tools you need to succeed and achieve prosperity.  The Prosperous Leader articulates twenty-four steps for those starting or leading a business or organization or looking to move up to the next level. Outlining the many different theories that abound today, Engel combines them with real life stories of how ordinary yet committed people applied each of these principles to achieve success.   With the six C’s of organizational growth and development that demonstrate a clear correlation between the style of the entrepreneur and whether or not prosperity can be realistically achieved, you will be able to chart your own path as you learn the skills you need to improve your own leadership and management capabilities. In doing so, you will examine your own unique individual strengths and weaknesses so that you can maximize the former while mitigating the latter—giving you the power to take control of your own success.

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