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Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went From Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur by Ryan Blair
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Ryan Blair [Blair, Ryan]

GET REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE Closely related to your tolerance for risk is your willingness to sacrifice. You need to be able to stomach a large amount of uncertainty in your daily ...
( Category: Business May 27,2014 )
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Alice Schroeder [Schroeder, Alice]

45 Call the Tow Truck Omaha • 1982–1989 Once disembarked from the QE II, Susie Buffett listened to her husband’s tales of Mrs. B or whatever his latest fixation might ...
( Category: Business May 27,2014 )
Drinking Life by Pete Hamill
epub |eng | 1994-01-19 | Author:Pete Hamill [Hamill, Pete]

3 THE GIRL’S NAME was Jenny. She had a long face framed by long brown hair. Her nose was long too, and she was self-conscious about it. I hate this ...
( Category: Journalists May 27,2014 )
The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon by John Paul Rathbone
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:John Paul Rathbone [Rathbone, John Paul]

Within a decade, Lobo’s mighty works would also disappear. Fifty years after that, Castro’s socialist revolution would seem like an Ozymandian dream too. Nine IMPERIAL AFFAIRS Fortune is a woman ...
( Category: United States May 27,2014 )
Travels With Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2001-05-01 | Author:Martha Gellhorn [Gellhorn, Martha]

There the diary finishes; now I am on my own, with a few fairly useless East African notes and my memory. The prospect is daunting. As near as I can ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction May 27,2014 )
The Man Who Invented the Computer by Jane Smiley
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Jane Smiley [Smiley, Jane]

Although Atanasoff was invited to the February 1946 unveiling of ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended, the demonstration of the machine did not clear up any mysteries for ...
( Category: Scientists May 26,2014 )
Twiggy by Andrew Burrell
epub |eng | 2013-09-18 | Author:Andrew Burrell [Burrell, Andrew]

10. THE GREAT ESCAPE As Mark Twain said, reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. —ANDREW FORREST Forrest’s exhilaration at proving the doubters wrong was fleeting. Within a few months ...
( Category: Mining May 26,2014 )
Intimate Wars by Merle Hoffman
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Merle Hoffman

AMID THE TURMOIL of my days at Choices, my life was changed irrevocably by another kind of opposing force. I received a piece of paper that would hang over the ...
( Category: Abortion & Birth Control May 26,2014 )
The House in France by Gully Wells
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Gully Wells [Wells, Gully]

WHEN WE GOT BACK TO Oxford that fall, Martin moved with Adam and Kevin, another college friend, into a rose-covered cottage beside a trout-filled stream in a picturesque Cotswold village, ...
( Category: Journalists May 26,2014 )
Eliot Ness by Douglas Perry
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-19 | Author:Douglas Perry [Perry, Douglas]

*** Once he’d pulled himself together, Harwood turned his attention to winning on appeal. Just days after the conviction, he hired private investigators and technical experts. He wanted to show ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
epub |eng | 1999-08-31 | Author:A. Scott Berg [Berg, A. Scott]

“I feel sure in closing,” Reilly said, “even Colonel Lindbergh wouldn’t expect you and doesn’t expect you to do anything but your duty under the law and under the evidence.” ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 26,2014 )
There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me by Eva Gabrielsson
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Eva Gabrielsson [Gabrielsson, Eva]

( Category: Love & Romance May 26,2014 )
The Science of Leonardo by Fritjof Capra
epub |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Fritjof Capra [Capra, Fritjof]

ARISTOTLE’S SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE For science at the time of the Renaissance, the most important Greek philosopher was Aristotle. A student of Plato, Aristotle was by far the most brilliant ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 26,2014 )
Michael O'Leary by Alan Ruddock
epub |eng | 2007-01-23 | Author:Alan Ruddock [Ruddock, Alan]

For several weeks now skywatchers have been reporting that Ryanair’s new plane is indeed flying in and out of Dublin. This week, Ryanair confirmed this was the case, but described ...
( Category: Business May 26,2014 )
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? by Lee Iacocca
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Lee Iacocca [Iacocca, Lee]

A SIMPLE BUSINESS LESSON In business, the budget-cutting process is pretty simple. You get your key people in a room and you say, “Sales are down, and costs are up. ...
( Category: Business May 26,2014 )

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