Nonfiction category: 1132351 books
by Martin McMahon
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This is the story of a multimillion euro tax scandal. It exposes a conspiracy between elements of the State and Industry.
Yves Saint Laurent
Un avant-gardiste de la mode du XXe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2017
En moins d'une heure, découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Yves Saint Laurent !Déjà largement applaudi pour ses créations au sein de la maison Dior, où il devient directeur artistique à l'âge de 21 ans seulement, Yves Saint Laurent entre dans la légende lorsqu'il ouvre, avec son compagnon...
by Frances Cook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Are you stymied by debt? Clueless about where your paychecks go? Journalist, podcaster and reformed money mess Frances Cook is here for you. Tales from a Financial Hot Mess is the story of Frances getting her money sh*t sorted. With no idea where she was going wrong and what to do about it, she took...
Don't Lean On Your Excuses
A World Champion's Courageous Story That Inspires Living With No Regrets
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2019
At the age of twenty-eight, a devastating car accident left Steve Judge fighting for his life, but he put his faith in the hands of amazing medical staff who worked tirelessly to save him. Many hours later, he came round only to be told that he might never walk again.
Steve made the decision...
Teethmarks on my Chopsticks
A Knucklehead Goes to Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
What’s it really like to work on Wall Street? Follow Matt Connolly as he moves from entry-level gofer to head trader to federal defendant. Fresh out of college in 1987, Connolly stumbles onto a job as a clerk at JP Morgan. Through hard work, dumb luck, and a watchful eye, he learns how to trade...
JUST GET UP
And Manifest Your Inner Genius
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2019
**Abandoned by his father at the age of seven, Isaac Miller embarks upon a thirteen-year journey to fight his way out of a life of crime, drugs, mediocrity, and poverty. **Using his teenage imagination and work ethic as his guide, Isaac provides for his family, including his schizophrenic mother,...
by Chaim M. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on other countries for manufactured goods. Francis Cabot Lowell was one of the principal investors in building the India Wharf and the shops and warehouses close to Boston harbor. His work was instrumental...
Women With Attitude
Lessons for Career Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book answers all the questions you’ve ever wanted to ask top-ranking women directors: How did they make it to the top? What do they think of their success? How does it affect their lives? It brings individual stories of accomplishment together with expert research into the emergence of women...
by Jeffrey Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Howard Hughes was an industrialist, aviator, and eccentric, but he was also the most important movie producer during the golden age of Hollywood. At a time when filmmaking was tightly controlled and highly formulaic, Hughes used his enormous wealth to challenge the dictates and restrictions that defined...
by Richard V. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Thomas J. Lipton s America s Cup Campaigns is the saga of one man s three decade obsession with winning the America s Cup. This is author Richard V. Simpson s fifth title concerning the quest for the America s Cup the Blue Ribbon prize for the sport of large ocean racing yachts. In this book, Simpson...
The Ride of a Lifetime
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2019
A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time’s most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.
Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company...
Secrets to Shine Through the Noise
GPS to Amplify Your Brand and Find the Path to the Life You Want
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Author Akasha Lin Garnier presents Secrets to Shine through the Noise, A compelling journey from starving artist to mentorship, world travel, award-winning branding and a travel thriller series. In this cinematic guide, the author shares how to create an actionable plan and how to make a brand distinctive to rise above the noise.
by Justin Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
2016 is the bicentenary of the opening of Sydney’s ‘Rum Hospital.’ It earned its name from the partial monopoly Governor Macquarie granted to three local merchants to import rum in return for building it Prior accounts of the Hospital’s origins focus on Macquarie, the merchants and their disputes....
Die Strozzi
Eine Familie im Florenz der Renaissance
Language: German
Release Date: May 17, 2011
«Man kann mit gutem Recht sagen, daß wegen des unauslöschlichen Hasses, den die Medici gegen unsere Familie hegten, weil wir Förderer und Freunde der Freiheit sind, das Exil bei uns erblich ist, ja geradezu wie ein Familienvermögen an die Nachkommen weitergegeben wird.» Die Strozzi waren eine...