Professionals & Academics
mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Sylvia Nasar

35 In the Eye of the Storm Spring 1959 It was like a tornado. You want to hang on to what you have. You don’t want to see everything go. ...
( Category: Mental Health December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Paul Downs

Bob Foote breaks the table down, wraps each piece in a moving blanket, and heads off to New York. The next morning, I find an e-mail from Nigel in my ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Edward Whitacre [Whitacre, Edward]

1. Pacific Telesis (1996/$23 billion) 2. Southern New England Telephone (1998/$5.7 billion) 3. Ameritech (1998/$84.9 billion) 4. Comcast Cellular (1999/$2.1 billion) 5. AT&T Wireless (2004/$47.4 billion) 6. AT&T (2005/$21.5 billion) ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Mary Pilon

ANSPACH CONNECTS THE DOTS “All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon.” —VOLTAIRE As the Anti-Monopoly trial gained attention in ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-10-14 | Author:Gene O'Kelly

THE GOOD GOOD-BYE “IT IS NEVER GOOD DWELLING ON GOOD-BYES,” SHE SAID. “IT IS NOT THE BEING TOGETHER THAT IT PROLONGS, IT IS THE PARTING.” —Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco, “The Fir ...
( Category: Death & Grief December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Mark Givens

Lesson 10: Pleasing Personality – Be the one who inspires others to do well, not someone who whines and complains about getting tired. Lesson 11: Accurate Thought – Analyze information ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2016-07-18 | Author:Sam Polk

CHAPTER 20 Protector of the Stupid ¤ In December 2002, at the age of twenty-three, I graduated from Columbia. The Bank of America job didn’t start for six months, and ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
mobi, azw |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Siobhan Roberts

Dateline: Cambridge, 1973. The typical scene featuring Conway loitering in the common room had changed somewhat. Now he could be found crawling around the floor, as if under a hypnotist’s ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Stephen Manes & Paul Andrews [Manes, Stephen]

* * * * * Meanwhile DOS, the cash cow, was still producing milk, cream, butter, cheese. The days of the flat fee for DOS were long gone, and Microsoft ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Steven Watts [Watts, Steven]

From its first pages, How to Win Friends and Influence People bombarded readers with psychological principles, perspectives, and recommendations. Carnegie consistently employed psychologized language to convey his ideas and drew ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Sylvia Nasar

Chapter IX Immaterial Devices of the Mind: Keynes and Fisher in the 1920s The world is gradually awakening to the fact of its own improvability. Political economy is no longer ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:Robert Mayhew [Mayhew, Robert]

You say the predominant trend of nineteenth-century intellectuals was collectivist and statist. But didn’t Nietzsche advocate individualism? What’s your estimate of him? It’s a low estimate, philosophically. I disagree with ...
( Category: Philosophy December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:John F. Wasik

MANAGING THE SPECTACLE Mid-1920s Scandals I’ve long respected President Calvin Coolidge. He knew when not to talk and what not to say. —Charles Walgreen, founder of the drugstore chain.1 Tired ...
( Category: Engineering December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-07-23 | Author:Roger Lowenstein

* Berkshire disclosed big investments at year-end. Chapter 13 THE CARPET WOMAN One question Buffett always asked himself in appraising a business is how comfortable he would feel having to ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Mike Leach & Buddy Levy [Leach, Mike]

GERONIMO’S ADVERSARIES: BRITTON DAVIS, ARMY OFFICER (JUNE 4, 1860–JANUARY 23, 1930) Born at Brownsville, Texas, Davis graduated from West Point in 1881. He joined the 3rd Cavalry and was sent ...
( Category: Americas December 2,2017 )