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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups: the Untold Story
Inventor, H.B. Reese
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
There have been many famous inventors over the years, such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison. Then there is that other guy... People often wonder who invented the famous REESE's Peanut Butter Cups.
This book is written by the Grandson of H.B. Reese, founder of the REESE'S Peanut Butter...
by Malcolm Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
One of Afghanistan’s first books remembered 10 years on in new eBook
In 2007, Airman Mal Robinson kept a diary of his time with the RAF in Kandahar, Afghanistan. That diary was published and the book “From Afghanistan to Temazepam” was born. It charted his time in the war zone, coinciding...
Kirby’s Way
How Kirby and Caroline Risk Built their Company on Kitchen-Table Values
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The late J. Kirby Risk II called himself "a small-town businessman from the banks of the Wabash." He was much more. The fastidious, dapper man from Lafayette, Indiana, exuded philanthropy and free enterprise. Like a sheepdog, he tended the flock, rounded up strays, darted to key places to...
by Ian Fineman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
He's one of the world's most accomplished, inspiring, and innovative entrepreneurs of the 21st Century. The life and lessons brought forward by Tesla founder Elon Musk are brain fuel for the entrepreneurs, educators, and elite minds of tomorrow.In the latest installment of his bestselling...
Lucky Dogs
From Bourbon Street to Beijing and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
When walking the French Quarter and watching a Lucky Dog salesman set up that colorful cart and call out to entice customers, don't you wonder how such a business works? As a knowing review in Rolling Stone stated, "People have always loved the cart and harbored a mysterious need to ride it....
Joseph Locke
Civil Engineer and Railway Builder 1805 - 1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Most historians recognize the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, inter-city routes. Two are very well known: Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The third was Joseph Locke, who should be recognized for having...
Super miliardari. Da Steve Jobs a Mark Zuckerberg, Vita, Morte, Miracoli, Storie e Segreti degli Uomini più Ricchi del Mondo. (Ebook Italiano - Anteprima Gratis)
Da Steve Jobs a Mark Zuckerberg, Vita, Morte, Miracoli, Storie e Segreti degli Uomini più Ricchi del Mondo
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Programma di Super Miliardari
Da Steve Jobs a Mark Zuckerberg, Vita, Morte, Miracoli, Storie e Segreti degli Uomini più Ricchi del Mondo
STEVE JOBS: UNA MELA PER SOLLEVARE IL MONDO
Un imprenditore fuori dagli schemi.
Da Lisa alla Pixar: l'inarrestable cammino di Jobs.
Think positive. Think...
by Ross Slater, Douglas Wight
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
It's 8am, it's freezing cold and I'm about to dump a lorry load of coal on the doorstep of the Prime Minister. Just a typical day in the life of an activist for Greenpeace, the world's biggest and best-known environmental campaigners. They're hoping I'll help them score massive publicity coup - one...
The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse
The Remarkable Autobiography of the Award-Winning Scientist Who Synthesized the Birth Control Pill
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse by Carl Djerassi (129,000 words; 26 illustrations)
This unusually wide-ranging memoir, moving from Europe to America, academia to industry, science to art, triumph to tragedy, is the idiosyncratic life story of Carl Djerassi, teenage refugee from...
Stihl American
Exemplary People—Extraordinary Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Legacies are not easily built. They take dedicated individuals who are willing to risk everything, work hard, and be examples of excellence. The eclectic group of pioneers who laid the foundation for Stihl's success in America could not have been more different from each other. But they shared the...
by Prasun Barua
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Welcome to the TECH KNOW PRODUCTS & SHOPPING! This book contains various types of topics on various products and digital shopping technology. After reading this book, you will know about products which are required in our daily life. We need to shop these types of products from various sources....
For Time and All Eternity
The Sterling and Ellie Colton Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Eleanor Ricks left her Idaho home and journeyed to Salt Lake City to enroll at the University of Utah. Entering the freshman girls' dorm, she got on the elevator from the front. At the same moment Nancy Colton entered the back of the elevator, with her brother Sterling, who carried her luggage. Both...
Oilfield Revolutionary
The Career of Everette Lee DeGolyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hats—and he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil exploration. Though not a politician, he played an important role in the national politics of energy. Though trained as a geologist, he became an important...
by Ian Rodwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
I have worked in construction for many years (since 1978) and worked in many countries including the UK, the Channel Islands, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Qatar, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Kuwait. I have enjoyed the work (a bit) and experienced loads of new and interesting things.
However...