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Why Did Europe Conquer the World? (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Philip T. Hoffman
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Philip T. Hoffman

1 For additional ways in which history influences outcomes, see Greif 2006 and David 1994 for path dependence and the way it allows history to affect institutions. 2 Imperial China ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 2,2017 )
The Greatest War Stories Never Told (The Greatest Stories Never Told) by Rick Beyer
mobi |eng | 2013-07-29 | Author:Rick Beyer

Mayan Indians started chewing chicle two thousand years ago, and people in Mexico have been doing it ever since. Santa Anna himself probably chewed chicle, which may be how Adams ...
( Category: Military December 2,2017 )
The New Realities by Peter Drucker
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Peter Drucker

10 The Paradoxes of Economic Development Few people these days could imagine the excitement and enthusiasm when President Harry Truman committed the US to world-wide economic development in his 1950 ...
( Category: World December 2,2017 )
Roots: The Enhanced Edition: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Alex Haley [Haley, Alex]

It was about the noon hour on a sultry day late in August when Aunt Sukey came waddling as fast as she could out to the fiddler among his tomato ...
( Category: Americas December 2,2017 )
The Innovator's Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth by David Silverstein & Philip Samuel & Neil DeCarlo
mobi |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:David Silverstein & Philip Samuel & Neil DeCarlo

The Five Solution Strategies Each of the five solution strategies offers a suggestion to lead your thoughts around what a potential solution to a problem triad may be. The strategies ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
The World Is Flat : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
mobi |eng | 2007-07-23 | Author:Thomas L. Friedman

Eight The Quiet Crisis Close games for the Americans were rare in previous Olympics, but now it appears to be something the Americans should get used to. —From an August ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 2,2017 )
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
mobi |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Steven Johnson

5 Control Artist On the screen, the pixels dance: bright red dots with faint trails of green, scurrying across a black background, like fireflies set against the sky of a ...
( Category: Sociology December 2,2017 )
Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America by William H. Frey
mobi |eng | 2014-11-18 | Author:William H. Frey

Some of the trends spurring these shifts were suggested in the 1990s.20 One is the continued decline in segregation in southern areas that are magnets for both blacks and whites ...
( Category: Sociology December 2,2017 )
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America by Les Standiford
mobi |eng | 2005-05-09 | Author:Les Standiford

15 OVER THE EDGE HAD THIS BEEN A MODERN-DAY standoff, with Frick in close touch with his emissaries by cell phone and Carnegie observing the scene via CNN satellite feed, ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup by Michael D'Antonio
mobi |eng | 2010-05-25 | Author:Michael D'Antonio

“Come now, there must have been one . . .” “Bless you, one? A hundred!” cried he. “I can tell you I’m daft on them. Blonde, brunette, redhead—there’s a special ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy (The Greatest Stories Never Told) by Rick Beyer
mobi |eng | 2013-07-29 | Author:Rick Beyer

It didn’t have a whole lot to do with jazz, but what Gershwin and Grofe created under the press of deadline proved to be one of the most enduring and ...
( Category: Music December 2,2017 )
Public Relations by Edward L. Bernays
mobi |eng | 2013-07-28 | Author:Edward L. Bernays [Bernays, Edward L.]

17 A Typical Survey Finding—America Looks at Nursing IN public relations it is not only the individual organization or its product that needs to be integrated with society. Very often ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales December 2,2017 )
First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics by E. A. Wallis Budge
epub |eng | 2003-12-02 | Author:E. A. Wallis Budge

( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 2,2017 )
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II by Robert A. Caro
mobi |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Robert A. Caro

THERE WAS ANOTHER possible explanation as well. For more than a month before the first primary, unprecedented amounts of money had been devoted to persuading voters that Coke Stevenson had ...
( Category: Americas December 2,2017 )
Bourbon: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of an American Whiskey by Fred Minnick
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Fred Minnick [Minnick, Fred]

The Dant family’s bourbon history runs deep in Kentucky. Joseph Washington Dant built a small distillery in 1836 in Marion County. He sired seven sons, including J. B., who introduced ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine December 2,2017 )

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