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Ticket Masters by Dean Budnick; Josh Baron
mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Dean Budnick; Josh Baron

CHAPTER 7 Bigger Bangs for Your Bucks LOWRY MAYS SAID HE NEVER intended to get into the radio business. And yet by the turn of the millennium his seemingly happenchance ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 25,2014 )
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products by Kahney Leander
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-14 | Author:Kahney, Leander [Kahney, Leander]

Power Mac Cube In 2000, having filled all four of the 2×2 quadrants, Jony and the design group attempted their most ambitious product to date: the Power Mac Cube. The ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 25,2014 )
A Renegade History of the United States by Russell Thaddeus
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Russell, Thaddeus [Russell, Thaddeus]

FROM NERO TO BIANCO Despite his popularity, by the height of his career, Louis Prima was part of a dying breed. In 1906 an Italian government official named Luigi Villari ...
( Category: Historiography March 25,2014 )
A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers by Lawrence G. McDonald; Patrick Robinson
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-21 | Author:Lawrence G. McDonald; Patrick Robinson

8 The Mortgage Bonanza Blows Out These were people who, in the five thousand years of recorded human house construction, never would have been granted a mortgage to purchase even ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 25,2014 )
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Michael Moss [Moss, Michael]

For a brief moment, when production costs were outstripping revenue, it looked like Philip Morris had made a bad bet on the Lunchables. Right after Hamish Maxwell signed off on ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 25,2014 )
The Broker by John Grisham
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:John Grisham [Grisham, John]

THE envelope had been opened by his secretary, just like all the other mail from yesterday and the day before. But inside the first envelope was another, this one addressed ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1994-12-15 | Author:Sylvia Nasar [Nasar, Sylvia]

At first, it seemed like just another one of Nash’s cryptic, disorganized performances, more free association than exposition. But halfway through, something happened. Donald Newman recalled in 1996: One word ...
( Category: Game Theory March 25,2014 )
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1998-04-22 | Author:Jodi Picoult [Picoult, Jodi]

“Hi,” Gus said breathlessly, sliding into the booth. She smiled at Michael, who was flicking the laminated menu with his thumbnail. “How is he today?” “He's okay,” Michael said. “Looking ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-06-10 | Author:Jon Krakauer

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I ...
( Category: Murder & Mayhem March 25,2014 )
Unreal Estate by Michael Gross
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Michael Gross [Gross, Michael]

Beverly Hills Grayhall (1100 Carolyn Way) Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner bought what had once been Arthur Letts Jr.’s estate in Holmby Hills for the record-setting price of $1.05 million ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 25,2014 )
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Tim O'Brien

The Man I Killed His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole, his ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

sneer. We quote a professor summing up: “A study of Teach for America tells us more about the ideological, even psychological needs of today’s middle-class white and minority youth than ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-09-06 | Author:Eric Schlosser [Schlosser, Eric]

10/ global realization WHENEVER I TOLD SOMEONE in Berlin that I was planning to visit Plauen, I got the same reaction. It didn’t matter whom I told — someone old ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 25,2014 )
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-03-24 | Author:Jon Krakauer [Krakauer, Jon]

* 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 )
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
mobi, epub |eng | 1984-03-05 | Author:Jay McInerney

P.S. Should you get lucky with cousin or inflict rare social disease this office will deny all knowledge of your actions. The presumption of Allagash appalls you. When you call ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )

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