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The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Ariel Levy

11 We separated for a while. Lucy stayed out on Shelter Island and I found an apartment in the city. Sometimes it was a relief to be on my own, ...
( Category: LGBT May 4,2017 )
The Upstarts by Brad Stone
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-01-30 | Author:Brad Stone

That summer, Uber considered closely the lessons of its Uber Taxi experiment. In Chicago it had put a cheaper ride next to a pricier one, and, according to internal data, ...
( Category: Entrepreneurship May 1,2017 )
The Airbnb Story by Leigh Gallagher
epub |eng | | Author:Leigh Gallagher

The He-Said, She-Said of Home Sharing Airbnb’s response has always been that it doesn’t want corporate profiteers, and that over the years it has worked to eliminate them. It stepped ...
( Category: Company Profiles May 1,2017 )
The Golden Passport by Duff McDonald
epub |eng | 2017-02-17 | Author:Duff McDonald

The case method teaches students to think on their feet and to argue with conviction, even if they don’t entirely know what they’re talking about. That’s what management consultants do, ...
( Category: History April 27,2017 )
Janesville by Amy Goldstein
epub |eng | | Author:Amy Goldstein

Days later, Janesville’s fortunes get a fresh dent. Yet again, it comes from Detroit. That Friday night, General Motors and the United Auto Workers reach a tentative agreement on a ...
( Category: State & Local April 25,2017 )
Letters to a Young Writer by Colum McCann
epub |eng | 2017-04-03 | Author:Colum McCann

The whole idea that people have a clue as to how the world works, is just a piece of laughable metaphysical colonialism perpetrated upon the wild country of time. —LORRIE ...
( Category: Letters April 7,2017 )
Goodbye Paradise
epub |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Sarina Bowen

Fourteen Working for Joe Perry was awesome. In spite of his messy desk, he ran a solid operation. I liked the guys there, too. They were relaxed in a way ...
( Category: LGBT March 24,2017 )
Say It Again by S. Moose
epub |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:S. Moose [Moose, S.]

THE WEEK FLIES by and I’m on a plane to Chicago for work. It sucked leaving, but it’s necessary since the clients need me and my work doesn’t have anyone ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 24,2017 )
The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Tim Wu

Eventually, one thing led to another. “Of course, I had no idea what I was saying; much of what I said was based on what I had seen on General ...
( Category: Direct March 22,2017 )
Secret Formula by Frederick Allen
epub |eng | | Author:Frederick Allen

Hobbs’s path to the top was unorthodox, to say the least. In the late 1930s, the fertilizer and cotton oil business run by Nell Woodruff’s uncles in Athens, Georgia, was ...
( Category: Infrastructure March 22,2017 )
Crude Volatility by Robert McNally
epub |eng | 2017-01-16 | Author:Robert McNally

THE GHOST OF JAKARTA The unexpected price increase in 1996 and 1997 averted a full clash between Venezuela and other OPEC members.9 But later in 1997 the Asian financial crisis ...
( Category: Oil & Energy March 19,2017 )
Since Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Frederick Lewis Allen [Allen, Frederick Lewis]

§5 Through the years 1934 and 1935, President Roosevelt was sore beset. Economic recovery was lagging badly. For a measure of what was happening, let us return once more to ...
( Category: United States March 13,2017 )
The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate by Gwenda Blair
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Gwenda Blair

To a family that had already known success, Donald Trump brought more. His first deal had been a remarkable triumph, and his second, Trump Tower, seemed likely to do even ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 26,2017 )
The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (Pacific Basin Institute Book) by David Elliott
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-15 | Author:David Elliott

Impact of the 1965 Hard Line in My Tho The effects of the 1965 hard line were felt for a long time. For one thing, the depopulation of the countryside ...
( Category: Biography & History February 25,2017 )
Powerhouse by James Andrew Miller
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:James Andrew Miller

PETER SEALEY, Executive: I was a senior officer at Coca-Cola and was on a task force to help the Coca-Cola Company diversify. The company wanted to signal to Wall Street ...
( Category: Entertainment February 24,2017 )

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