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The Bill Cook Story II
The Re-Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Working from the spare bedroom of his Bloomington, Indiana, apartment in 1963 with a $1,500 investment, Bill Cook began to construct the wire guides, needles, and catheters that would become the foundation of the global multi-billion-dollar Cook Group. This story has been eloquently told in Bob Hammel’s...
Citizen Swain
Tales from a Minnesota Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
For an insider’s take on the last eighty years in Minnesota history, sit down with Tom H. Swain’s memoir. It is a personal look at the people and events that shaped the state’s history, written by a civic and business leader—and a true public servant—with a genuine knack for telling a story....
by Franco Parpaiola
Language: German
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Sich auf See zu fragen, warum und weshalb Schiffskatastrophen entstehen oder wieso Schiffe sinken können, ist zwecklos. Wir, die leitenden Offiziere im technischen Bereich an Bord, sind meist damit beschäftigt, unsere Schiffe von Punkt A nach B zu bringen und sind mächtig froh, wenn das ohne ernsthafte...
by Toni Mascolo, Stafford Hildred
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
TONI MASCOLO was a happy one-year-old toddler in the sleepy Italian town of Scafati, near Pompeii, when, in September 1943, the Allied landings at Salerno brought war to his family's doorstep. More than seventy years later, he is the distinguished head of Toni & Guy, a Knight of the Italian Republic,...
Eaton's
The Trans-Canada Store
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Explore the broad, fascinating history of the Eaton's department store empire. Exhaustively researched and thoughtfully written by a prominent department store historian. Canada's largest and most well-known department store, Eaton's was an icon of Canadian culture. From its founding in 1869 to its...
by Joseph Frazier Wall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In a remarkable essay entitled "Wealth" and published in 1889, Andrew Carnegie argued that there were only three alternatives by which a man of great wealth could dispose of his fortune: Leave it to his family, bequeath it in his will for public purposes, or administer its distribution for public benefit...
Marx und wir
Warum wir eine neue Gesellschaftsidee brauchen
Language: German
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Was hat uns Karl Marx heute zu sagen? Ist der Kapitalismus noch zu retten? Oder brauchen wir eine neue Gesellschaftsidee? Gregor Gysi untersucht kritisch, unterhaltsam und pointiert die Bedeutung des Marx’schen Denkens und seiner Rezeption, die von akademischer Erbauungsliteratur bis zum Popart-Design...
Evolution Of An Eco~Bohemian
Soil to Soul, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
THIS IS A PREVIEW ONLY OF A SECTION OF THE BOOK.
Thank you for taking the time to preview the Introduction and Evolution 1 ~ and for giving me feedback. Still working out the bugs and the root rot.
In total, there are SIX Evolutions.
I'm in the final proof and design phase...
Never Lost Again
The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
As enlightening as The Facebook Effect, Elon Musk, and Chaos Monkeys—the compelling, behind-the-scenes story of the creation of one of the most essential applications ever devised, and the rag-tag team that built it and changed how we navigate the world
Never Lost Again chronicles the evolution...
by Nicole Aschoff
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah
As severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, and increasing alienation push capitalism against its own contradictions, mythmaking has become as central to sustaining our economy as profitmaking.
Enter...
Adland
Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
James P. Othmer, advertising executive turned novelist, gives us a hilarious, personal, and sneakily profound chronicle of the past, present, and future of the advertising business. On one level it’s the wickedly funny, compelling personal chronicle of the rise and fall of a modern-day ad man;...
You Buy the Peanut Butter, I'll Get the Bread
The Absolutely True Adventures of Best Friends in Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Best friends and business partners, two remarkable women share their secrets to starting and succeeding in your own business
Part inspiring business story and part insider’s how-to, You Buy the Peanut Butter, I’ll Get the Bread shares the lessons two best friends learned while making their...
Ponzi
The Incredible True Story of the King of Financial Cons
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Just who was the man whose name has become synonymous with the classic “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” scam in which money from new investors is used to reward earlier ones? In December 1919, he was an unknown thirty-eight-year-old, self-educated Italian immigrant with a borrowed two-hundred dollars...
Distilled
A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball, and Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
While much has been written about his father, Sam, a titan of industry, there is no public record of Charles Bronfman’s thoughts on his own life, family, career and his significant accomplishments in sport and philanthropy.
Distilled does just that, chronicling key events in the life of...