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Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children by Dorie McCullough Lawson
mobi |eng | 2004-04-12 | Author:Dorie McCullough Lawson

William James and daughter Margaret Mark Twain and family (Clara far left, wife, Olivia, second from left, Jean center, and Susie far right) The Pleasures of Life JOHN ADAMS TO ...
( Category: Historical December 2,2017 )
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913: History and Digest by Virginius Gilmore Iden
mobi |eng | 2014-02-20 | Author:Virginius Gilmore Iden

(g) To require the writing off of doubtful or worthless assets upon the books and balance sheets of Federal reserve banks. (h) To suspend, for the violation of any of ...
( Category: World December 2,2017 )
The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World by Joel L. Fleishman
mobi |eng | 2007-01-08 | Author:Joel L. Fleishman

10 STEPS TO ACHIEVE HIGH IMPACT: A COMMONSENSE APPROACH TO STRATEGY Strategy is no guarantee of impact. But without it you are almost guaranteed to have no impact. Paul Brest, ...
( Category: Small Business & Entrepreneurship December 2,2017 )
Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clark's Daring Westward Expedition by Jack Uldrich
mobi |eng | 2008-01-04 | Author:Jack Uldrich

The captains' "softer, gentler" management style served them extremely well throughout the remainder of the expedition, with one possible exception. After leaving Fort Mandan, military order still pervaded the Corps ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
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 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 )
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 )
Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins & the Missing Agents of WWII by Sarah Helm
epub |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Sarah Helm [Helm, Sarah]

On March 11, 1946, Vera walked into her office in Bad Oeynhausen to be told by Somerhough that an SS man named Johann Schwarzhuber had been brought in and was ...
( Category: World December 2,2017 )
Facing Death by G. A. Henty
epub |eng | | Author:G. A. Henty

CHAPTER XVII. THE DOG FIGHT. Saturday afternoon walks, when there were no special games on hand, became an institution among what may be called Jack Simpson's set at Stokebridge. The ...
( Category: Action & Adventure December 2,2017 )
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann
mobi |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Frank Trentmann

‘Work hard, play hard’ was already a motto in the United States in the 1950s. The cult of busyness in professional and corporate life since has energized leisure further, in ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources December 2,2017 )
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web by David Weinberger
mobi |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:David Weinberger [Weinberger, David]

Bob Metcalfe presents himself as the ostensive definition of “curmudgeon,” belying a decency and personal kindness that surfaces even in one’s first interactions with him. Metcalfe, now a gentleman farmer ...
( Category: World 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 )
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
mobi |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Sven Beckert

Famine victims, probably 1899, India (Credit 11.12) — Experiencing a new kind of uncertainty thanks to world market integration, and squeezed by moneylenders, cotton growers in India, Brazil, Mexico, and ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )

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