Biography & History
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Steve Coll

When he reflected publicly on Africa, Wolfowitz grouped its countries into three broad categories: About a third of the continent’s nation-states seemed to be hopeless basket cases, including Sudan, Somalia, ...
( Category: Industries March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Naomi Klein

During the late 1990s, the process of turning the service sector into a low-wage ghetto advanced rapidly in Germany. The German unemployment rate reached 12.6 percent in 1998, primarily because ...
( Category: Radicalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:William D. Cohan

CHAPTER 15 $10 BILLION OR BUST From the outset, Corzine and Paulson had to figure out ways to apply tourniquets to the blood rushing out of the Goldman Sachs corpus. ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Tony Hsieh

Growing Up “What do we want to be when we grow up?” It was a question I’d been thinking about for a while. I was at a Mexican restaurant with ...
( Category: Leadership March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:Christine S. Richard

AS MBIA PUT one crisis behind it, storm clouds were forming over the U.S. subprime mortgage market. The subprime mortgage market had become an increasingly important part of the U.S. ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-03-04 | Author:John Micklethwait; Adrian Wooldridge

6 THE Triumph OF MANAGERIAL CAPITALISM 1913–1975 By the outbreak of the First World War, the big company had become a defining institution in American society: the motor of one ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Elizabeth Royte

A lot can go wrong with your home’s plumbing, but even more goes wrong in the streets. Every year, according to the American Water Works Association, between 250,000 and 300,000 ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-30 | Author:Scahill, Jeremy [Scahill, Jeremy]

The story became even more complicated in July 2006, when the Secretary of the Army, Francis Harvey, wrote a letter to Republican Congressman Christopher Shays of the House Committee on ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Liaquat Ahamed

PART FOUR REAPING ANOTHER WHIRLWIND 1928-33 16. INTO THE VORTEX 1928-29 At particular times a great deal of stupid people have a great deal of stupid money. . . . ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Kirkpatrick

10 Privacy “You have one identity.” How much of ourselves should we show the world? It’s an important question Facebook forces us to confront. Do I want you to know ...
( Category: E-Commerce March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-07-15 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

Willow Cove was a natural Dunkirk. I watched the two remaining deputies; the moment they left, I was leaving too. . . their departure could only mean that things had ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:Eamon Javers

Beckett Brown obtained a document showing that Whetstone took delivery of a high-speed machine from Germany that made hollow candy. “Although the equipment was shipped by Aasted-Mikroverk (Denmark), the invoice ...
( Category: Criminology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:John Grisham

MARY LONG was a criminalist who worked primarily with body fluids. She explained to the jury that about 20 percent of all people do not show their blood type in ...
( Category: Canadian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Great Shark Hunt

206 wanted them, but evidence of any kind is always reassuring to have, and I felt that after two or three months of sleep I might be able to use ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Robert A. Caro

THERE WAS ANOTHER possible explanation as well. For more than a month before the first primary, unprecedented amounts of money had been devoted to persuading voters that Coke Stevenson had ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )