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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “andrew chen”
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  • The Cold Start Problem

    How to Start and Scale Network Effects

    by Andrew Chen ...
    A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem"—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale toward billions of users.Although software has become easier to build, launching and scaling new products and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610

    Ritual and Experience

    by Andrew Chen ...
    Series series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
    This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Meeting regularly to beat themselves with whips, members of these confraternities concentrated on the suffering of Christ in the most extreme and committed way, and the images around them provided visual prompts of the Passion and the model suffering body. This study ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Shouting Zeros and Ones

    Digital Technology, Ethics and Policy in New Zealand

    Edited by Andrew Chen ...
    Series Book 83 - BWB Texts
    This vital book is a call to action: to reduce online harm, to protect the integrity of our digital lives and to uphold democratic participation and inclusion.A diverse group of contributors reveal the hidden impacts of technology on society and on individuals, exploring policy change and personal action to keep the internet a force for good. These voices arrive at a crucial juncture in our ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Masters of Scale

    Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

    by Reid Hoffman ...
    What can you learn from a Silicon Valley legend and a pantheon of iconic leaders? The key to scaling a successful business isn’t talent, network, or strategy. It’s an entrepreneurial mindset—and that mindset can be cultivated.“If you’re scaling a company—or if you just love a well-told story—this is a book to savor.”—Robert Iger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ride of a LifetimeBehind ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Hooked

    How to Build Habit-Forming Products

    by Nir Eyal ...
    Updated with a new case study, this revised edition is a how-to guide for building habit-forming products.How do successful companies create products people can’t put down? Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?In Hooked, Nir Eyal answers these ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake

    How Biases Distort Decision-Making and What You Can Do to Fight Them

    by Olivier Sibony ...
    Discover nine common business decision-making traps -- and learn practical tools for avoiding them -- in this "masterful," research-based guide from a professor of strategic thinking.** (Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow)We all make decisions all the time. It's so natural that we hardly stop to think about it. Yet even the smartest and most experienced among us make frequent and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Blitzscaling

    The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

    by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh ...
    **Foreword by Bill GatesLinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.**What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Honest Courtesan

    Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

    by Margaret F. Rosenthal ...
    The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, ... Read more

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  • Renaissance Woman

    The Life of Vittoria Colonna

    by Ramie Targoff ...
    A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian RenaissanceRamie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist's best friend—the two of ... Read more

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  • Young Michelangelo

    The Path to the Sistine—A Biography

    by John T. Spike ...
    In this biography, the author of the acclaimed Caravaggio examines the relationships that shaped Michelangelo's first thirty years.In this compelling account, renowned art historian John Spike paints a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest artists and the places and people—Lorenzo de' Medici, Leonardo, Machiavelli—that inspired and defined his early life and career. Spike's masterful text ... Read more

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  • The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

    by Abigail Brundin, Deborah Howard, Mary Laven ...
    The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the ... Read more

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  • The Medici Women

    Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence

    by Natalie R. Tomas ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late ... Read more

    $61.99 USD