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The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game by Mary Pilon
mobi |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Mary Pilon

ANSPACH CONNECTS THE DOTS “All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon.” —VOLTAIRE As the Anti-Monopoly trial gained attention in ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources December 2,2017 )
Search For A Secret, a Novel, Vol. 3 , A by G. A. Henty
epub |eng | | Author:G. A. Henty

* * * CHAPTER VIII. RISEN FROM THE DEAD. I take up my pen again, but in what a different spirit to that with which I laid it down, as ...
( Category: Children's Books December 2,2017 )
In Times of Peril by G.A. Henty
epub |eng | | Author:G.A. Henty

* * * CHAPTER XIII. LUCKNOW. Lucknow, although the capital of Oude, the center of a warlike people smarting under recent annexation, had for a long time remained tranquil after ...
( Category: Education & Teaching December 2,2017 )
The Young Buglers by G.A. Henty
epub |eng | | Author:G.A. Henty

CHAPTER XI. THE FIGHT ON THE COA. All through the winter of 1809-1810, Wellington had remained quietly on the frontier of Portugal, engaged in disciplining his troops, many of whom ...
( Category: History December 2,2017 )
Personality and Social Behavior (Frontiers of Social Psychology) by Unknown
mobi |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Unknown

Tracy, J. L., Shaver, P. R., Albino, A. W., & Cooper, M. L. (2003). Attachment styles and adolescent sexuality. In P. Florsheim (Ed.), Adolescent romance and sexual behavior: Theory, research, ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 2,2017 )
Leadership (Harper Perennial Political Classics) by James MacGregor Burns
mobi |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:James MacGregor Burns

Voting: The Conversion of Opinion “How does this vague, fluctuating, complex thing we call public opinion—omnipotent yet indeterminate, a sovereign to whose voice everyone listens, yet whose words, because he ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
Trust: A History by Geoffrey Hosking
mobi |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Geoffrey Hosking

5 Promised Lands Nations and Symbols of Trust In a public lecture of 1882 at the Sorbonne the French thinker Ernest Renan asked the question ‘What is a nation?’, and ...
( Category: Sociology December 2,2017 )
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar
mobi |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Sylvia Nasar

Chapter IX Immaterial Devices of the Mind: Keynes and Fisher in the 1920s The world is gradually awakening to the fact of its own improvability. Political economy is no longer ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition by Milton Friedman
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-02-14 | Author:Milton Friedman

1 It is by no means so fantastic as may appear that such a step would noticeably affect the size of families. For example, one explanation of the lower birth ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
Nicomachean Ethics (Hackett Classics) by Aristotle
mobi |eng | 1999-11-30 | Author:Aristotle

7 7.§1–8. A new approach to the good should avoid these objections to other views. We begin from plausible criteria for the good, and we find that happiness meets these ...
( Category: Philosophy December 2,2017 )
The Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis by John F. Wasik
mobi |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:John F. Wasik

MANAGING THE SPECTACLE Mid-1920s Scandals I’ve long respected President Calvin Coolidge. He knew when not to talk and what not to say. —Charles Walgreen, founder of the drugstore chain.1 Tired ...
( Category: Engineering December 2,2017 )
Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead by Shannon K. O'Neil
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Shannon K. O'Neil [O'Neil, Shannon K.]

Economic history shows us that trade has been a positive engine for wealth creation. From the vast Roman and British empires to the successes of the smaller Nordic trading states ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 2,2017 )
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Carl von Clausewitz

CHAPTER SEVEN Interaction between Attack and Defense The time has come to consider defense and attack separately, insofar as they can be separated. We shall start with defense for the ...
( Category: Military December 2,2017 )
Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior by Mike Leach & Buddy Levy
mobi |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Mike Leach & Buddy Levy [Leach, Mike]

GERONIMO’S ADVERSARIES: BRITTON DAVIS, ARMY OFFICER (JUNE 4, 1860–JANUARY 23, 1930) Born at Brownsville, Texas, Davis graduated from West Point in 1881. He joined the 3rd Cavalry and was sent ...
( Category: Americas December 2,2017 )
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (Annotated) (Illustrated) by Diogenes Laertius
mobi |eng | 2014-01-03 | Author:Diogenes Laertius

Monimus Monimus of Syracuse was a pupil of Diogenes; and, according to Sosicrates, he was in the service of a certain Corinthian banker, to whom Xeniades, the purchaser of Diogenes, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 2,2017 )

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