This week, the company released a Web application called Little Black Book for Facebook members.
The Black Book of Communism numbers the murdered at more than 100 million.
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You Need A Little Black Book of Potential Business: Before you begin a career transition, you need to have a list of people that you will call first.
And in the center is LinkedIn's richest and fastest-growing opportunity: turning the company's 161 million member profiles into the 21st-century version of a "little black book" that no corporate recruiter can live without.
Vehicle damage reports like CarFax are widely available on the Internet and make it easy to spot cars that have been suffered heavy flood damage, said Ricky Beggs, vice president and managing editor of Black Book, a guide to the wholesale market for used car dealers.
The report gives a list of eight "Black Swan" scenarios -- a reference to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "Black Swan, " which posits that history is built on unforeseeable, surprise events.
Nassim Taleb also addresses regime change in chaotic systems in his book The Black Swan.
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The movie inspired the best-selling book "Black Hawk Down" by Mark Bowden and an eponymous, Oscar Award-winning movie directed by Ridley Scott.
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In 2007 Nassim Nicholas Taleb created a widely-spread meme and best-selling book on Black Swans, highly unexpected events that carry major scale and impact.
From an investor's perspective, the idea of planning for low-probability, high-consequence events is well treated in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
More importantly perhaps, it counts Nassim Taleb, who popularized this notion with his best-selling book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable as a member of its research team.
They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.
"It's important for African-Americans to see there are other race struggles going on in the world, " says Wells, whose e-book "Black Paris Profiles, " shares the stories of 24 black American and Afro-Caribbean folks who reinvented their lives here.
Named a New York Times bestselling business book, Basic Black is now in its eighth printing.
Plus some fuzzy, picture-book images of black-robed friars and armored conquistadors I couldn't identify.
And the Black Swan is a famous book about extremely rare events that most financial models cannot predict.
He has written extensively about the times in his book, The Black Banners.
These "known unknowns" he dubbed "grey swans", in a reference to Nicholas Nassim Taleb's book "The Black Swan", about the nature of unpredictability.
Compared to being Fooled By Randomness, the title of his first book, The Black Swan, a rare but powerful event, presents much greater a challenge.
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The only politician he discusses at any length in his first book is the black man who was mayor of Chicago when Obama first moved there, in 1985, Harold Washington.
Inspired by the Portuguese colonists' white bean stew, they created a concoction with the earthier (and in my book, tastier) black beans.
Mr. ALEXANDER: I'd like this book to really give black women something to celebrate themselves in which they should walk away with lot of pride about the diversity of their beauty and the diversity of their hair as something that--I think when a black woman comes into the world, hair is something that is discussed in her life very early on.
Ironically, paperback rights for the book have been sold to Black Swan, an imprint owned by Bertelsmann.
However the book remained popular on the black market and was often available to buy under the counter.
But the people at Samsung were ready and the little black boxes, no bigger than a book, were already on display.
She happened to have been at a book signing at the largest black bookstore in L.A. when the now-dead person - who wasn't then - James Simpson Lee Hastings Jr.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of The Black Swan fame has written a new book titled Anti-Fragile: Things That Gain From Disorder in which he provides a reasoned basis for believing that the current Fed policy will bring us way more inflation and much sooner than expected.
It included a copy of the book, of course, but also a few superuseless promotional items, including a black highlighter pen, and this version of the Superuseless Superpowers e-book.
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