The Road Ahead

Source Code

My Beginnings

Bill Gates

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Barnes & Noble’s Best Business Books of 2025 The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age. “A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years. . . . Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in vivid color.” —GeekWire The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education. Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world. Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Bill Gates

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.

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I miei inizi

Bill Gates

Il racconto degli inizi di uno degli imprenditori e filantropi più influenti e innovativi dell'epoca moderna. In uscita in contemporanea mondiale. I successi imprenditoriali di Bill Gates sono ben noti: il ragazzo che, all'età di soli vent'anni, abbandonò gli studi universitari a Harvard e avviò un'azienda di software destinata a diventare un colosso del settore e trasformare radicalmente il modo in cui lavoriamo e viviamo; il multimiliardario che si è poi dedicato alla filantropia impegnandosi in cause importanti come la lotta ai cambiamenti climatici, la salute globale e l'istruzione. Per questo, Source Code non riguarda il periodo d'oro di Microsoft né la Fondazione Gates o il futuro della tecnologia. È invece la storia umana e personale di come Bill Gates è diventato chi è oggi: la sua infanzia, i primi interessi, le prime passioni. Racconta della sua famiglia, di una nonna dai ferrei principi e di due genitori ambiziosi, delle prime amicizie e della perdita improvvisa del suo migliore amico, della lotta per integrarsi e della scoperta di un mondo di computer e codici all'alba di una nuova era. Ripercorre i passi di un ragazzo che, dalle fughe notturne in un vicino centro informatico quando era solo un adolescente, è arrivato a concepire, nella sua stanza al college, una rivoluzione che avrebbe cambiato il mondo per sempre. Bill Gates, in queste pagine, condivide per la prima volta la sua storia, con calore, saggezza e umanità. Un ritratto affascinante e rivelatore.

Com prevenir la pròxima pandèmia

Bill Gates

Què hauria d'haver après el món sobre la COVID-19? Es pot evitar una nova pandèmia? «Sempre hi ha hagut malalties, però no cal que esdevinguin desastres planetaris. Aquest llibre tracta de com els governs, els científics, les empreses i els individus podem construir un sistema que contingui les epidèmies perquè no es converteixin en pandèmies. Hi ha, evidentment, més raons que mai per fer-ho ara. Ningú que hagi viscut la covid se n'oblidarà mai. De la mateixa manera que la Segona Guerra Mundial va canviar la manera de veure el món el segle passat, la covid ha canviat la manera com veiem ara el món. Però no hem de viure amb por d'una altra pandèmia. El món es pot preparar per respondre davant de qualsevol malaltia que emergeixi, i per contenir-la. En aquest llibre exposo un pla per eliminar l'amenaça que suposen les pandèmies per a la humanitat i per evitar que no hàgim de viure mai més una altra covid.» Bill Gates

Hoe we een klimaatramp kunnen vermijden

De oplossingen die er al zijn en de doorbraken die we nodig hebben

Bill Gates

In dit urgente en gezaghebbende boek zet Bill Gates een veelomvattend, praktisch (en toegankelijk) plan uiteen over hoe de wereld op tijd de uitstoot van broeikasgassen tot nul kan reduceren om een klimaatramp te voorkomen

Business @ the Speed of Thought

Succeeding in the Digital Economy

Bill Gates

The New York Times bestseller about the ever-evolving role of digital technology in the business world. #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller#1 Business Week Bestseller In Business @ the Speed of Thought, Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates discusses how technology can help run businesses better and how it will continually transform the nature of business in the future. Gates stresses the need for managers to view technology not as overhead but as a strategic asset, and offers detailed examples from Microsoft, GM, Dell, and many other successful companies. "Clear, richly detailed . . . A smart investment." — Business Week "A road map for managers . . . effectively walks the reader through the business of life and improvements the wired world represents. . . . Plenty of specific tips and advice." — USA Today "For business people, companies, or even individuals who want practical advice from an industry leader about how they might move forward in a changing environment, Gates's latest effort is well worth reading." — Christian Science Monitor

The Smartest Guys in the Room

The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind

The inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America's seventh largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything.

Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies

Erica Olsen

Create a roadmap for your company’s future success—the For Dummies way Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies not only teaches you how to build a solid business strategy, but it gives you the tools to do it. Checklists, worksheets, and real-life examples guide you through answering your most pressing questions. Plus, all-new online resources make creating a lasting strategy easier than ever. Build a company vision statement, assess your strategic position, engage your team, and execute your plan—with easy-to-understand instructions and explanations that anyone can follow. This revised edition shows you how to adapt your strategy, plan for the unknown, and stay resilient through all the changes facing today’s businesses. Advice from For Dummies experts will make any business leader’s strategic dreams a reality. Learn the basics of how to create a long-term business strategy Create your mission and vision statements and a strategic framework Get organized, engage your team, and deploy your strategy through objectives and key results Access resources, worksheets, checklists and more—in the book and online This is the For Dummies guide for business owners and C-suite executives who are building or rethinking their company’s strategy and planning a path for growth. It’s a big job, but you don’t have to do it alone. Dummies has your back.

Poverty Policy and Poverty Research

The Great Society and the Social Sciences

Robert H. Haveman

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The Sushi Economy

Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy

Sasha Issenberg

Journalist Sash Issenberg traces sushi's journey from Tokyo street snack to global delicacy, in this fascinating history. Issenberg examines not just the foodstuff itself, but the history, economics and businesses behind the famous fish recipes. It covers topics including the birth of modern sushi, the mysterious underworld of pirates and the tuna black market, Nobu Matsuhisa and what sushi chefs really do behind the bar. It jumps from Mediterranean docks to tuna-auctions to cargo holds to Shanghai streets, all the while making a surprising case against eating local.

Digital Code of Life

How Bioinformatics is Revolutionizing Science, Medicine, and Business

Glyn Moody

A behind-the-scenes look at the most lucrative discipline within biotechnology Bioinformatics represents a new area of opportunity for investors and industry participants. Companies are spending billions on the potentially lucrative products that will come from bioinformatics. This book looks at what companies like Merck, Glaxo SmithKline Beecham, and Celera, and hospitals are doing to maneuver themselves to leadership positions in this area. Filled with in-depth insights and surprising revelations, Digital Code of Life examines the personalities who have brought bioinformatics to life and explores the commercial applications and investment opportunities of the most lucrative discipline within genomics. Glyn Moody (London, UK) has published numerous articles in Wired magazine. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Rebel Code.

When Corporations Rule the World

David C. Korten

In a well-reasoned, extensively researched analysis, David Korten exposes the harmful effects of economic globalization; sets out the underlying causes of today's social, economic, environmental, and political crises; and outlines a strategy for creating localized economics that empower people and communities within a system of global cooperation.

Manufacturing Industries

Unknown author

Includes critical reviews.

The Annalist

A Magazine of Finance, Commerce and Economics

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Accounting and Business Economics

Insights from National Traditions

Yuri Biondi, Stefano Zambon

The recent financial crisis has sparked debates surrounding the nature and role of accounting in informing capital markets and regulatory bodies about the financial performance and position of a firm. These debates have drawn attention to the broader implications of accounting for the economy and society. Accounting and Business Economics brings together leading international scholars to examine the current state of accounting theory and its fundamental connection with the economics and finance of firms, viewing the business entity from not only accounting, but also national, economic, social, political, juridical, anthropological, and moral points of view.

A Status Report on the U.S. Economy

Hearings Before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget

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Management and Administration

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The Journal of Home Economics

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