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Palabras para sanar
Conversaciones sobre el amor, el dolor y la vida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 16, 2018
La palabra no sólo refleja la realidad, la crea. Esta es una serie de conversaciones que giran en torno al diálogo como recurso para sanar y transformar nuestra vida. Con un estilo ameno y cercano, cada uno de los textos aborda un tema particular, como el dolor, la creatividad, la resiliencia y...
by Ben Sweetland
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
95% of all human problems stem from a negative mind. This figure includes such traits as timidity, domestic discord, business failure, bad memory, tenseness, unhappiness, worry, etc. You can do something about it... while you sleep! You are a mind with a body attached, not a body with a mind...
The Sweet Life
Find Passion, Embrace Fear, and Find Success on Your Own Terms
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The YouTube star and beauty guru shares her hard-won lessons on success, style, and finding the sweetness in all aspects of your life.
Since posting her first makeup tutorial in 2008, Dulce Candy has become one of the top beauty stars on YouTube, boasting more than 2 million subscribers and...
What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School
Notes from a Street-smart Executive
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This business classic features straight-talking advice you’ll never hear in school.
Featuring a new foreword by Ariel Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell
Mark H. McCormack, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American business, is widely credited as the founder of the modern-day...
The Warburgs
The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the Warburgs, one of the great German-Jewish banking families of the twentieth century.
Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites,...
Confessions of a Wall Street Insider
A Cautionary Tale of Rats, Feds, and Banksters
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Although he was a suburban husband and father, living a far different life than the Wolf of Wall Street,” Michael Kimelman had a good run as the cofounder of a hedge fund. He had left a cushy yet suffocating job at a law firm to try his hand at the high-risk life of a proprietary trader - and...
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad,...
My Inventions
The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century. Certainly he contributed more to the field of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead. Ultimately he died alone and impoverished having driven all of his friends away through his neurotic...
The Great Pierpont Morgan
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A revealing biography of J. P. Morgan, one of the most powerful and enigmatic financiers in history, from bestselling author Frederick Lewis Allen.
Celebrated as a titan of industry by some and decried as a monopolizing robber baron by others, John Pierpont Morgan was without a doubt a dominant...
Towers of Gold
How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into the modern metropolis we see today. In Frances Dinkelspiel's groundbreaking history, the early...
Never Stop
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Never Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, the cofounder and former leader of Karibu Books, a major indie-bookselling phenomenon and perhaps the most successful black-owned company in the history of the book industry. In this memoir, Sana reveals how his experience with Karibu jumpstarted his...
Life by the Cup
Inspiration for a Purpose-Filled Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
“[Zhena] Muzyka’s charisma leaps off the pages of this unconventional, touching, and personal guide to success” (Publishers Weekly), featuring seventeen soulful lessons and simple rituals for finding your life’s purpose, improving your relationships, and becoming healthier—all in the time...
by Oscar Howell
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Mejor Estafétalo. Detrás de este exitoso eslogan que quedó en la memoria de México, está la historia de una empresa nacional que ha logrado encarar la competencia de grandes emporios internacionales. Cuando alguien coloca un paquete o documento en las oficinas de Estafeta para su entrega, no...
by Amos Elon
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time by Amos Elon (52,000 words and 51 illustrations)
In this short biography of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), historian and journalist Amos Elon describes how the founder of the Rothschild dynasty started out by dealing in rare...