Biography & History
epub |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Laton McCartney [McCartney, Laton]

30 OPENING ROUNDS On Monday, October 23, 1923, at 10:00 a.m., the Teapot Dome investigation by the Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys finally got under way in room ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure October 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Louis Hatchett

14 LET’S WATCH HIM EAT Hines had a considerable influence on the fortunes of many establishments offering lodging to travelers. His files contained many letters from proprietors whose businesses had ...
( Category: Regional & International October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:A. Destiny

Chapter Twelve Mom, Jennifer won’t hand the bread basket over,” Carmen said in a tone that sounded exactly like my brother’s. Her freckled face was twisted in an angry pout. ...
( Category: Architecture October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-01 | Author:Nomi Prins [Prins, Nomi]

While reading through Enron’s original and impressively twisted SEC filings (many of which the SEC disregarded), there’s really no way to avoid a massive headache. Enron ultimately issued an explanatory ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-27 | Author:John Bloom

The original satellite geek was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a half-deaf high school math teacher regarded as a crackpot in his little town on the Russian steppe: his calculations made orbital vehicles ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Cassidy

IV Two days after Priceline.com’s IPO, Yahoo! agreed to pay $6.1 billion for Broadcast.com. Appropriately enough, the deal was announced on April Fool’s day. The previous summer, Broadcast.com had gone ...
( Category: Industries October 13,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Ball, Deborah [Ball, Deborah]

Not long after he bought Casa Casuarina, Gianni drafted Bruce Weber, a Versace favorite, to gin up a gauzy testimonial to family life à la Versace for all the world ...
( Category: Fashion October 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Roger Lowenstein [Lowenstein, Roger]

▪ In June, Ron Tannenbaum, the UBS salesman who had pitched the warrant, left the bank—a footnote in the unfolding drama. Of greater import, credit spreads continued to widen. More ...
( Category: Economics October 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-15 | Author:David Drehle [Drehle, David]

7 FALLOUT “We will get an investigation,” Meyer London predicted at a protest rally a week after the Triangle fire. The Great Hall of the Cooper Union was full to ...
( Category: Biography & History October 11,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Bethany Mclean; Joe Nocera

The blind spot was AIG-FP’s credit default swap business. Ever since that original BISTRO deal with J.P. Morgan, FP had created a profitable niche by taking on the risk of ...
( Category: Americas October 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Bethany Mclean & Joe Nocera [Mclean, Bethany & Nocera, Joe]

The blind spot was AIG-FP’s credit default swap business. Ever since that original BISTRO deal with J.P. Morgan, FP had created a profitable niche by taking on the risk of ...
( Category: Americas October 8,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:LeBor, Adam [LeBor, Adam]

After the Allied victory, Donald MacLaren, the British intelligence agent who had brought down GAF, IG Farben’s US subsidiary, was sent to Berlin to investigate the chemicals conglomerate. MacLaren wrote ...
( Category: International October 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-02-01 | Author:Sean Griffin [Griffin, Sean]

The first in this string of films was Dead Poets Society (1989), the first Touchstone picture ever to be nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award and a surprise summer ...
( Category: LGBT October 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:In A Dry Season (com v4.0) [Season, In A Dry]

There are giant redwood trees in California, they say, that can grow another layer around the dead and blackened wood if they ever burn in a forest fire. Matthew’s disappearance ...
( Category: Mystery October 7,2017 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2002-06-28 | Author:Noreena Hertz [Hertz, Noreena]

Beautifying the BrandIn the age of the logo, reputation is paramount. Corporations are increasingly realizing that there are new expectations of them. As their actions become more and more public, ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )