Home > Business & Money > Biography & History
Biography & History
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World by Perkins John
mobi |eng | 2007-06-04 | Author:Perkins, John [Perkins, John]

32 Lebanon: “Stark Raving Mad” A chauffeur drove me from the Beirut airport to the luxurious Phoenician Intercontinental. A young bellman greeted me enthusiastically, took my bag, and ushered me ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
Money & Power: The History of Business by Howard Means
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Howard Means

Within five years more cotton spindles had been put in motion, more iron furnaces erected, more iron smelted, more bars rolled, more steel made, more coal and copper mined, more ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
Rivethead by Ben Hamper
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-08-15 | Author:Ben Hamper

7 ANOTHER LAYOFF SWALLOWED ME UP, THIS TIME, THE GRAND-pappy of ‘em all. I was out of work for nearly a year, far too long a span when you stopped ...
( Category: Automotive March 25,2014 )
Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple by Michael Moritz
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Michael Moritz

Bolstered by his chat with Valentine, Markkula offered to give Jobs and Wozniak advice about how to organize Apple. They got together in the evenings and over weekends and Markkula ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 25,2014 )
Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-05 | Author:Howard Schultz

DON’T GET DIZZY ON WALL STREET’S EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER If I had to pick the happiest day of my business career, it would have to be June 26, 1992. That ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 25,2014 )
I'm Feeling Lucky by Edwards Douglas
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-19 | Author:Edwards, Douglas [Edwards, Douglas]

Post Apocalypse It was November 2000 when I first learned that Google was buying another company. The acquisition, code-named "Yogi," was an online archive of Usenet posts known as Deja ...
( Category: Business March 25,2014 )
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters by Bob Lutz
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-09 | Author:Bob Lutz

At any rate, my healthy disdain for an orderly but failing planning process came to be accepted by the planners, and we achieved a satisfactory and often humor-filled mutual tolerance ...
( Category: Business March 25,2014 )
Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer by William Knoedelseder
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:William Knoedelseder

15 “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?” After bailing his son out of trouble in Tucson, August III made sure the “Busch heir” had a soft landing back home in ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 25,2014 )
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Robert A. Caro

14 Three Encounters AT ABOUT 4:30 A.M., while Johnson was sleeping, the autopsy was finally completed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and the coffin was brought by that gray Navy ambulance ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Team Rodent by Carl Hiaasen
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Carl Hiaasen

Fantasy Fantasy Island IN A FEW MONTHS, an eighty-five-thousand-ton ocean liner will be launched from a shipyard in Marghera, Italy. The ship is decorated like no other of its kind. ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 25,2014 )
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
mobi |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Jon Krakauer

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
Inside the Kingdom by Robert Lacey
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Robert Lacey

CHAPTER 22 Infinite Reach By the spring of 1997 Osama Bin Laden had been living in Afghanistan for nearly a year. He had been working with the Taliban to set ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
hunter s thompson - hell's angels by Hell's Angels
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hell's Angels

We were almost to Williams' store, and I suddenly remembered my burr-haired inquisitor with his high-powered language barrier. We made the turn at the bottom of the hill and I ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
Rita Moreno: A Memoir by Rita Moreno
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Rita Moreno

MEETING MARLON I am wearing a scent, Vent Vert by Balmain, as I write these words. It is a scent that Marlon Brando often wore. It’s a woman’s perfume, but ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-01 | Author:Martha Gellhorn

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: Authors March 25,2014 )

First Prev [133] [134] [135] [136] 137 [138] [139] [140] [141] Next Last