Joseph D'Agnese

This is a book for people like us, and we all know who we are.
 
We make our own hours, keep our own profits, chart our own way. We have things like gigs, contracts, clients, and assignments.  All of us are working toward our dreams: doing our own work, on our own time, on our own terms. We have no real boss, no corporate nameplate, no cubicle of our very own. Unfortunately, we also have no 401(k)s and no one matching...

A biography of Leonardo Fibonacci, the 12th century mathematician who discovered the numerical sequence named for him.

Explores how the restaurant business is transitioning away from intuitive methods toward data-driven practices, citing the examples of successful celebrity-run restaurants and culinary trendsetters to explain how modern eateries are pioneering effective new approaches. "A high-octane, behind-the-scenes narrative about how the restaurant industry, historically run by gut and intuition, is being transformed by the use of data. Seventeen years ago,...

James Patterson selects a variety of works of American mystery writing as the best of the genre from the year 2014.