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  • Qwest for truth...and change by Weston, Rick
    Rick Weston

    Qwest for truth...and change

    This book depicts a journey through Corporate America and a number of scandals that destroyed wealth, brought down larger-than-life personalities and gravely damaged major corporations.While the author examines elements of the acts that ensnared some firms in accounting scandals, it is moreover an examination...
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  • Nixland: My Wild Ride in the Inner City Check Cashing Industry by Nix, Tom
    Tom Nix

    Nixland: My Wild Ride in the Inner City Check Cashing Industry

    TomNix fought his way up from the mean streets of San Pedro to revolutionize (and sanitize) check cashing services. While the Beastie Boys* sang about Nix Check Cashing, he was hit with armed robberies, cutthroat competition, the L.A. Riots, and an assassination threat by...
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  • Billion Dollar Lies: How Lennar Corporation Swindled Pensioners, Lenders, And Partners And Undermined The Foundation Of Our Justice System by Marsch, Nicolas
    Nicolas Marsch

    Billion Dollar Lies: How Lennar Corporation Swindled Pensioners, Lenders, And Partners And Undermined The Foundation Of Our Justice System

    This is a chilling tale of corporate fraud and deceit that is in a class by itself. When Lennar Corporation was confronted over hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged "losses" in a lucrative development partnership, they hired a scorched-earth litigation team to clean...
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  • Inventing Onself: Blending Buiness and Poliitics by Craig, William F.
    William F. Craig

    Inventing Onself: Blending Buiness and Poliitics

    This is an autobiographical adventure story depicting how one can overcome adversity by using education and experience to reinvent oneself. In 1989, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) went out on strike against the Pittston Coal Company, which operated 52 mines in Virginia,...
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  • Henry Hewitt: A Wisconsin Pioneer by Brehm, William Allen, Jr.
    William Allen Jr. Brehm

    Henry Hewitt: A Wisconsin Pioneer

    This book summarizes the life and family of Henry Hewitt (1814-1897) who was born in Paythorne, Yorkshire, England, and emigrated to Wisconsin in the United States of America in 1842. Hewitt settled in Menasha, Wisconsin, after beginning his career as a construction manager building...
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  • William Gilbert: A Family of Papermakers by Brehm, William a.
    William a. Brehm

    William Gilbert: A Family of Papermakers

    This biography of William Gilbert of Philadelphia tells the story of a family with paper-making in its blood. It was written on the occasion of the induction of William Markley Gilbert into the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame in October 2014.Author: William a....
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  • Mountain Ranch at the End of the Road: Horses, Cows, Guns and Grizzlies in the Canadian Wilderness by Hook, Tom
    Tom Hook

    Mountain Ranch at the End of the Road: Horses, Cows, Guns and Grizzlies in the Canadian Wilderness

    Why would a Colorado rancher sell the home place--the ranch his family had owned and operated for four generations--and move the entire operation to a remote 300,000-acre spread in British Columbia, Canada? For the adventure! And adventure is what Tom and Connie Hook and...
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  • F. K. Weyerhaeuser by Twining, Charles E.
    Charles E. Twining

    F. K. Weyerhaeuser

    Frederick King Weyerhaeuser, eldest male of the Weyerhaeuser lumbering family's third generation, may not have matched his grandfather Frederick in fame or power, but among the progeny none was more widely known and respected -- and, within the family, loved -- than he was....
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  • James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest by Martin, Albro
    Albro Martin

    James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest

    James J. Hill (1838-1916), the Empire Builder, created a vast railroad network across the northwestern United States. In this splendid biography, Martin, the first researcher to have access to Hill's voluminous correspondence, richly portrays a man of many parts: an entrepreneur, a family man,...
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  • Entrepreneur to Investor the Hard Way by Durgin, David L.
    David L. Durgin

    Entrepreneur to Investor the Hard Way

    Step into the bare-knuckle world of a high-tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist and meet Dave Durgin. Dave evolved from engineer to bootstrap businessman to high-tech entrepreneur in a challenging business environment. The knowledge he shares in this book will be an inspiration to fellow...
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  • Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford by Bryan, Ford R.
    Ford R. Bryan

    Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford

    An illustrated collection of essays about the various people, events, and experiments from Henry Ford's lifetime. The 55 chapters of Friends, Families & Forays are bursting with details about the people and the pursuits that colored the life of Henry Ford. Here the reader...
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  • Salant, Cbs, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant by Buzenberg, Susan
    Susan Buzenberg

    Salant, Cbs, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant

    Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism tells the story of CBS News during its golden era. The late Richard S. Salant was president of CBS News for sixteen years throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He became widely recognized by...
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  • The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation by Boston, Michael B.
    Michael B. Boston

    The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation

    "A fresh reassessment of one of the most powerful black men in American history. This book will help reshape the prism through which the life, work, strategy, and contributions of Booker T. Washington are examined."--David H. Jackson Jr., author of A Chief Lieutenant of...
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  • The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization by Evans, Curtis J.
    Curtis J. Evans

    The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization

    The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of...
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  • Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy by McGinty, Brian
    Brian McGinty

    Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy

    Bold, flamboyant, extravagant, devious, visionary, Agoston Haraszthy (1812-1869) is one of the most fascinating--and elusive--figures in the history of American agriculture. Apart from his pioneer efforts to establish a world-class wine industry in California, he holds other important distinctions: he was the first Hungarian...
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  • Me and Paul: Untold Stories of a Fabled Friendship by Nelson, Willie
    Willie Nelson

    Me and Paul: Untold Stories of a Fabled Friendship

    Stories of Willie Nelson and Paul English's misadventures became legendary, but many have gone untold--until now.Immortalized in Willie Nelson's road song "Me and Paul," Paul English was the towering figure who acted as Willie's drummer, bodyguard, accountant, partner in crime, and right-hand man for...
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  • Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, Financial Genius, Philosopher, and Philanthropist by Risso-Gill, Christopher
    Christopher Risso-Gill

    Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, Financial Genius, Philosopher, and Philanthropist

    Peter Cundill (1938-2011) was highly regarded as one of the greatest value investors of his time, but he was also a teacher and mentor who was generous with his knowledge and shared the wealth of his experience with many aspiring investors. He was taken...
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  • Jacob H. Schiff: His Life and Letters Part 2 by Adler, Cyrus
    Cyrus Adler

    Jacob H. Schiff: His Life and Letters Part 2

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • My Life at AOL by Wilkinson, Julia L.
    Julia L. Wilkinson

    My Life at AOL

    For the first time, the story of America Online is told from the perspective of an employee in the trenches. Learn what it was really like to be at this company that was at the epicenter of the Internet revolution.Author: Julia L. WilkinsonISBN-10: 075961525XISBN-13:...
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  • The Education of a Very Young Madam by Lee, Ma-Ling
    Ma-Ling Lee

    The Education of a Very Young Madam

    Full of juicy details about what really goes on behind the bedroom door, The Education of a Very Young Madam is a provocative exposé of the newest developments in the world's oldest profession. A stripper at age fifteen, involved with majorleague gang members before...
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  • Greenspan: The Man Behind Money by Martin, Justin
    Justin Martin

    Greenspan: The Man Behind Money

    Alan Greenspan is one of the most powerful and enigmatic men in the world. Although endlessly pursued by the press and ceaselessly present in the public spotlight, very little about his private life has ever been revealed. Greenspan: The Man Behind Money presents the...
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  • The Greed of a Dime: The Compelling Story of an Inventor, His Dream His Destiny by Moor, Stephen E.
    Stephen E. Moor

    The Greed of a Dime: The Compelling Story of an Inventor, His Dream His Destiny

    Rarely, has there ever been an insider's account as graphic as The Greed of a Dime.Hard hitting... gut wrenching... can only begin to describe this mind-boggling trip inside the high stakes journey of this back-yard inventor. From getting past the front door, to the...
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  • Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Adelman, Jeremy
    Jeremy Adelman

    Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

    The life and times of one of the most provocative thinkers of the twentieth century Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the...
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  • Henry Perky: The Shredded Wheat King by Holechek, James A.
    James A. Holechek

    Henry Perky: The Shredded Wheat King

    Henry D. Perky (1843-1906) The Shredded Wheat King Lawyer, railroad builder, expo organizer, inventor of Shredded Wheat, utopian educator, Henry D. Perky is a fascinating representative of the American entrepreneur in the wide-open Gilded Age. Jim Holechek dramatizes all the achievements and failures that...
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  • Rebounding From Homelessness: How To Forgive Through The Process by Pope, Sheila Deann
    Sheila Deann Pope

    Rebounding From Homelessness: How To Forgive Through The Process

    Dr. Sheila Pope shares her journey of how she learned to forgive herself and others after she discovered her home had been sold without her knowledge. She shares how she fought her way through temporary homelessness to landing on her feet again.Author: Sheila Deann...
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  • The Influence Effect by Zuley, Eric J.
    Eric J. Zuley

    The Influence Effect

    Eric Zuley is the connector of Influencers and has brought together some very powerful and amazing groups of people. The eZWay Influence is a collaboration of master influencers including their stories and tidbits of information to help you grow your influence. Join us and...
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  • Zero to 30 Billion!: Commonsense Lessons From the Life of Riley by Riley, Scott
    Scott Riley

    Zero to 30 Billion!: Commonsense Lessons From the Life of Riley

    This book is for every person who believes they can start their own business -- or improve the company they work for: You can do it regardless of your age, level of education, or whether your resources are ample or modest. Just keep it...
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  • The Formula: 7 Principles to Transform Doubt and Despair into Confidence and Success by Leever, Dan
    Dan Leever

    The Formula: 7 Principles to Transform Doubt and Despair into Confidence and Success

    Transform Doubt and Despair into Confidence and SuccessHaving grown up learning disabled, Dan Leever spent much of his life feeling like a failure. But he turned his difficulty into a drive to succeed, eventually overseeing the fiftyfold growth in value of MacDermid Inc. in...
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  • CEO of Insanity: The Rise of an International Phenomenon by Praz, Daniel J.
    Daniel J. Praz

    CEO of Insanity: The Rise of an International Phenomenon

    Follow the epic story of a lifetime...CEO of Insanity chronicles the unbelievable journey of Daniel Praz, the creator of "Sandless Refinishing" from the moment of invention through bringing the system and brand he came to call "Mr. Sandless" to ten countries. Discovered by Praz...
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  • Capital And Interest: A Critical History Of Economical Theory by Bohm-Bawerk, Eugen V.
    Eugen V. Bohm-Bawerk

    Capital And Interest: A Critical History Of Economical Theory

    Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economical Theory by Eugen V. Bohm-Bawerk is a comprehensive analysis of the theories of capital and interest in economics. The book is divided into three parts, each of which explores a different aspect of the topic. The...
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  • Many Paths: A Poet's Journey Through Love, Death, and Wall Street by McEver, Bruce
    Bruce McEver

    Many Paths: A Poet's Journey Through Love, Death, and Wall Street

    This is a story of a successful businessman, Bruce McEver, the founder of Berkshire Capital and a global pioneer of investment banking, who is devastated by the sudden and unexpected death of his wife of thirty years, a beautiful and talented opera singer who...
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  • Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen's Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All by Ullmann, Owen
    Owen Ullmann

    Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen's Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All

    Named one of Investopedia's 7 Best Economics Books of 2022 The trailblazing story of Janet Yellen, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of economics, and her lifelong advocacy for an economics of empathy that delivers the fruits of a prosperous society to people at the bottom...
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  • Working in Tall Buildings by Wilt, Don
    Don Wilt

    Working in Tall Buildings

    Vol. II- I Get Serious ...About Communications How, after only playacting my way through college, I used a stint teaching high school journalism to launch a career in the newly emerging field of Organizational Communications was covered in Vol. 1 of this personal memoir....
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  • Design * Driven * Drama: How I Built an Interior Design Career...My Way: Dynamics of a Profession Unimagined by Koontz Hill, Carol Elizabeth
    Carol Elizabeth Koontz Hill

    Design * Driven * Drama: How I Built an Interior Design Career...My Way: Dynamics of a Profession Unimagined

    DESIGN*DRIVEN*DRAMA: How I Built an Interior Design Career - My Way by author Carol Elizabeth Koontz Hill is an account of pursuing a dream career. The journey follows Ms. Hill from high school through college and into the many states, cities, and design firms...
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  • The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip by Guinn, Jeff
    Jeff Guinn

    The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip

    In 1914 Henry Ford visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year they joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They continued their summer road trips until 1925. Although they traveled with an...
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  • A Very Public Offering: The Story of theglobe.com and the First Internet Revolution by Paternot, Stephan
    Stephan Paternot

    A Very Public Offering: The Story of theglobe.com and the First Internet Revolution

    A decade before Facebook, Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman created the first social network in their college dorm room. After a meteoric rise, theglobe.com became world-famous for its billion-dollar IPO, only to quickly plummet toward the depths. This very personal history details what it...
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  • My Fabulous & Fearless Journey by Simone, Arian
    Arian Simone

    My Fabulous & Fearless Journey

    Imagine that 87% of Americans admitted that they are not happy on their jobs. Yet, they continue to work 40 hours on a job they do not love; all while giving up hope on their dreams. After graduating from college, gainfully employed, Arian never...
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  • First: Breaking Generational Poverty by Nuby, Lester, Jr.
    Lester Jr. Nuby

    First: Breaking Generational Poverty

    Author Lester Nuby Jr. began life in a dilapidated house in Bell Springs Mountain, Alabama, but now he is a successful businessman who doesn't have to worry about money. It wasn't easy for Nuby to scrounge his way out of poverty, a task made...
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  • Burnout Diaries: How Work Stress Almost Killed Me by Donovan, Janna
    Janna Donovan

    Burnout Diaries: How Work Stress Almost Killed Me

    "Compelling story, wonderful writing, courageous honestyand an important cautionary tale about Burnout. Enthusiastically recommended!"David Posen, M.D., Author of Is Work Killing You?BURNOUT DIARIES is the gritty, personal account of Janna Donovan, a marketing manager who found herself battling burnout in a foreign country. It...
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  • Because I Can: The Robust Guide to Being Effective by Bradshaw, Tim
    Tim Bradshaw

    Because I Can: The Robust Guide to Being Effective

    A toolkit for making things happen, proven in real-life situations from Afghanistan to the boardroom via Mount Everest.Author: Tim BradshawISBN-10: 1788603028ISBN-13: 9781788603027Publisher: Practical Inspiration PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2022Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.64h x 5.04w x 0.63d
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  • Unprecedented: Canada's Top Ceos on Leadership During Covid-19 by Mayer, Steve
    Steve Mayer

    Unprecedented: Canada's Top Ceos on Leadership During Covid-19

    A remarkable collection of exclusive, first-person stories on leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic from 29 chief executives at iconic Canadian companies. Unprecedented is an extraordinary business book for extraordinary times: a collection of exclusive, first-person stories on leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic from twenty-nine...
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  • Año Nuevo: The Journey from Growing up at Año Nuevo to Working with Steve Jobs by Elliot, Jay
    Jay Elliot

    A Nuevo: The Journey from Growing up at A Nuevo to Working with Steve Jobs

    Jay Elliot, the bestselling author of The Steve Jobs Way and Leading Apple with Steve Job gives readers an insight into his journey from a historic ranch on the California coast to working as a Senior Vice President of Apple working directly with Steve...
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  • Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur by Greenburger, Francis J.
    Francis J. Greenburger

    Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur

    Prior to the real-estate boom of the 1980s, Francis J. Greenburger risked it all to buy three older loft buildings at 50 West Street near the current 9/11 Memorial. He ultimately dreamed of one day erecting a magnificent skyscraper in their place. But disaster...
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  • Elon Musk: Changing The World With Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity. by Fringe, Nicholas
    Nicholas Fringe

    Elon Musk: Changing The World With Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity.

    Elon Musk spotlights the tech industry. Musk, the famous entrepreneur, and innovator supporting SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity, OpenAI, and more. Musk started the famous payment system PayPal and sold it for a whopping 1.5 billion. Musk wishes to save our world: he wishes to send...
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  • Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff by Arvedlund, Erin
    Erin Arvedlund

    Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff

    The untold story of the Madoff scandal, by one of the first journalists to question his investment practices Despite all the headlines about Bernard Madoff, he is still shrouded in mystery. How did he fool so many smart investors for so long? Who among...
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  • Confessions of a Wall Street Insider: A Cautionary Tale of Rats, Feds, and Banksters by Kimelman, Michael
    Michael Kimelman

    Confessions of a Wall Street Insider: A Cautionary Tale of Rats, Feds, and Banksters

    Although he was a suburban husband and father, living a far different life than the "Wolf of Wall Street," Michael Kimelman had a good run as the cofounder of a hedge fund. He had left a cushy yet suffocating job at a law firm...
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  • Web 2 by Carneiro, Nehemias
    Nehemias Carneiro

    Web 2

    Author: Nehemias CarneiroISBN-10: 1794564241ISBN-13: 9781794564244Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2019Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d
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  • F. Auerbach & Bros. Department Store: The Store That Performs What It Promises by Stone, Eileen Hallet
    Eileen Hallet Stone

    F. Auerbach & Bros. Department Store: The Store That Performs What It Promises

    After an arduous journey to Utah's Mormon frontier, three Jewish immigrant brothers built a flagship institution that lasted more than a century in downtown Salt Lake City. The F. Auerbach & Bros. story is one of personal challenges, Prussian folktales, perilous sea voyages, Wild...
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  • Shine On You Crazy Daisy - Volume 5 by Simmons, Trudy
    Trudy Simmons

    Shine On You Crazy Daisy - Volume 5

    Running your own business takes real courage. These are the stories of businesswomen who have worked their way through adversity; through trials and tribulations; through the ups and downs and have found themselves and their businesses along the way. We find courage in different...
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  • Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse by Olsen, Joshua
    Joshua Olsen

    Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse

    A visionary developer and master planner, James Rouse was a key figure in the story of how and why the United States was built the way it was during the last half century. This engaging biography touches upon all aspects of Rouse's life.Author: Joshua...
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