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Earth Wars by Hiscock Geoff
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hiscock, Geoff [Hiscock, Geoff]

In the early 1980s, Jack Welch, then head of the U.S. conglomerate General Electric, decided he no longer wanted to be in commodities. He set about divesting GE’s commodity assets, ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
A Dictionary of Business by Unknown
mobi | | | Author:Unknown

Back - New Search insurance broker A person who is registered with the Insurance Brokers Registration Council to offer advice on all insurance matters and arrange cover, on behalf of ...
( Category: Architecture March 25,2014 )
Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Peter Maass

Big Oil is getting the reward it deserves: after more than a century of power and indecency, it is shrinking. Until the 1970s, Western companies controlled most of the world’s ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels March 25,2014 )
In The Plex by Levy Steven
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Levy, Steven [Levy, Steven]

PART FIVE OUTSIDE THE BOX The Google Phone Company and the Google TV Company 1 “They already hate us—what’s the downside?” You might say that the seeds of the Google ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 25,2014 )
Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant by Paul Clemens
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Paul Clemens

I’d told Matt the day before that I’d be in around 7:30 in the morning to see the crown of 16-1 come down. How long would it take? “If everything ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 25,2014 )
No Logo by Naomi Klein
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Naomi Klein

During the late 1990s, the process of turning the service sector into a low-wage ghetto advanced rapidly in Germany. The German unemployment rate reached 12.6 percent in 1998, primarily because ...
( Category: Radicalism March 25,2014 )
Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet by Menn Joseph
mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Menn, Joseph [Menn, Joseph]

ANDY HAD PICKED THE RIGHT RAID to go on. Denis Stepanov, arrested by another team in St. Petersburg, was surly and misleading from the first interview. The twenty-three-year-old, who worked ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper by Geoffrey Gray
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Geoffrey Gray

A few days later, Richard wakes up for National Guard duty. It is dawn. He is putting on his military uniform. He hears pounding on the front door. He races ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions March 25,2014 )
Pirates of Somalia by Jay Bahadur
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Jay Bahadur

While pirate gangs have proven remarkably adept at outmanoeuvring the international naval armada, they have no monopoly on the ability to adapt tactics. The Panamanian-flagged cargo ship Almezaan had been ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-10-24 | Author:Erik Larson

TWO DAYS LATER, on Saturday, February 22, 1902, Marconi once again boarded the Philadelphia. The main purpose of this voyage was to return to Canada to close the agreement with ...
( Category: Radio March 25,2014 )
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-07-06 | Author:Dava Sobel

Grand Duke Ferdinando II Ferdinando ceded broad discretionary powers to his public health officers—a group of noblemen who answered directly and only to him. Their ordinances, aimed with good intentions ...
( Category: Religious March 25,2014 )
Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-03 | Author:Max Hastings

Back in Cairo on August 17, Churchill briefly lapsed into exhaustion. After a rest, however, he quizzed Alexander about the prospective desert offensive, which there were hopes of launching in ...
( Category: Great Britain March 25,2014 )
FDR by Jean Edward Smith
mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2007-05-15 | Author:Jean Edward Smith

NINETEEN ON THE BRINK What America does or fails to do in the next few years has a far greater bearing and influence on the history of the whole human ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Candice Millard

PART FOUR TORTURED FOR THE REPUBLIC • CHAPTER 16 • NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost, that the characters of men ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Truman by David McCullough
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-25 | Author:David McCullough

Truman, President in his own right, and Vice President Alben Barkley on the reviewing stand, Inauguration Day, January 20, 1949. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, by far the strongest, most ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )

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