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Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2010-02-18 | Author:Michael Lewis

Chapter Seven The Salomon Diet 1986-1988 HE BOND MARKET and the people market sought their respective equilibriums, and in the two years following the dinner at Le Perigord the mortgage ...
( Category: Business March 25,2014 )
Ticket No. 9672 by Jules Verne
epub |eng | | Author:Jules Verne

CHAPTER XII. So this was the young man's secret! This was the source from which he expected to derive a fortune for his promised bride--a lottery ticket, purchased before his ...
( Category: Biography & History March 25,2014 )
109 East Palace by Jennet Conant
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jennet Conant [Conant, Jennet]

TWELVE Baby Boom EVEN BEFORE the first explosions began echoing in the canyons around Los Alamos as the scientists tested their theory of implosion, ominous rumblings of change were disturbing ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 25,2014 )
Seven Elements That Have Changed the World by John Browne
epub |eng | | Author:John Browne [Browne, John]

TITANIUM In October 1950, Popular Science magazine featured a ‘new rival’ that ‘challenges aluminum and steel as a structural material for airplanes and rockets, guns and armor’. Strong, lightweight and ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 25,2014 )
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1943-01-02 | Author:Ayn Rand [Rand, Ayn]

“What is your name?” “Dominique Francon.” “And your occupation, Miss Francon?” “Newspaper woman.” “You are the author of the brilliant column ‘Your House’ appearing in the New York Banner?” “I ...
( Category: Political March 25,2014 )
Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-28 | Author:Francis Wheen [Karl Marx ]

This absurd interlude began with a chance remark by the radical author Karl Blind, who shared the platform with Marx at an anti-Russian rally organised by the Urquhartites in May ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 25,2014 )
From the Tree to the Labyrinth
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]

8.5. Creative Intuition vs. Agent Intellect And so we come at last to a book like Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry (1953), meditated and composed in an English-speaking context ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
Mad Science by Randy Alfred
epub |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Randy Alfred

Also July 5: 1687: Isaac Newton Publishes Principia Mathematica, Foundation of Modern Physics 1937: Hormel Introduces Spam, Canned Spiced Pork Shoulder 1946: Paris Pool Sees First Bikini Bathing Suit Worn ...
( Category: Trivia March 25,2014 )
Inside Steve's Brain, Expanded Edition by Leander Kahney
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Leander Kahney

A Wealth of Stock Options One of the best perks is Apple’s employee stock options, which have become very valuable as Apple’s stock has surged a split-adjusted 1,250 percent since ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 25,2014 )
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Greg Grandin [Grandin, Greg]

CHAPTER 14 LET’S WANDER OUT YONDER IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL THE STORY OF FORDLANDIA WITHout invoking Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, that great, indelible allegory of European colonialism ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 25,2014 )
Einstein by Isaacson Walter
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-04-10 | Author:Isaacson, Walter [Isaacson, Walter]

Wresting Principles from Nature In his more radical salad days, Einstein did not emphasize this credo. He had instead cast himself as an empiricist or positivist. In other words, he ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
Wanting by Sarah Masters
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Sarah Masters [Masters, Sarah]

§Chapter Ten§ Oliver leaned his head back against the passenger seat as Langham drove away from Mr and Mrs Drum’s for the second time. They’d been to deliver the awful ...
( Category: Drawing March 25,2014 )
Trial by Fury
epub |eng | 1986-12-01 | Author:J. A. Jance [Jance, J. A.]

"We're going to drop the container off at the crime lab and make arrangements for them to send someone out to your house to dust it for prints." "You think ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 25,2014 )
One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard L. Brandt
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Richard L. Brandt

Chapter 10 Who You Calling a Bookstore? Bezos’s plans to expand beyond books started a year before those plans became known to most of the world. By the end of ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 24,2014 )
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Goodwin Doris Kearns
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Goodwin, Doris Kearns [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

CHAPTER NINETEEN “To Cut Mr. Taft in Two!” This Mar. 18, 1906, cartoon, “Reinforcing the Bench,” shows Roosevelt using a “Big Stick” to persuade Taft to take a seat on ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 24,2014 )

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