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  • Ofield: The Autobiography of Public Relations Man Ofield Dukes by Dukes, Ofield
    Ofield Dukes

    Ofield: The Autobiography of Public Relations Man Ofield Dukes

    Ofield Dukes is considered one of the nation's most successful African-American public relations practitioners and one of the most influential people of the Civil Rights period. This book--written by Dukes himself--takes the reader from Depression-era Detroit through the Korean War and up to Washington,...
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  • The Lady with Balls: A Single Mother's Triumphant Battle in a Man's World by Combs, Alice
    Alice Combs

    The Lady with Balls: A Single Mother's Triumphant Battle in a Man's World

    During the 1970s, Alice Combs, undeterred by a former employer's condescending pronouncement, "You're just not corporate material," transformed herself from divorced mother on food stamps to successful entrepreneur. Determined, Alice overcame her initial ignorance of the recycling and baler-wire industries, and recovered from the...
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  • Sala de Dormitorios a Millonario: Cómo soñar grande, creer grande y lograr grandes by Morton, Alex
    Alex Morton

    Sala de Dormitorios a Millonario: Co sor grande, creer grande y lograr grandes

    SALA DE DORMITORIOS A MILLONARIOC mo so ar grande, creer grande y lograr grandes Sala de dormitories a millonario es un d a actual, gu a t ctica del mundo real, para tener, ser y hacer lo que quieras en la vida. Est escrito...
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  • Mentor: Life and Legacy of Joe Rosenfield by Drake, George
    George Drake

    Mentor: Life and Legacy of Joe Rosenfield

    What usually struck people about Joe Rosenfield was his wit and unwavering love for Grinnell College. In fact, Rosenfield once said about the college: "After about my third week in the place I'd fallen in love with it. A team of horses couldn't have...
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  • Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age by Timmerman, Luke
    Luke Timmerman

    Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age

    NAMED A TOP INDIE BOOK IN 2017 BY KIRKUS REVIEWSLee Hood did that rarest of things. He enabled scientists to see things they couldn't see before and do things they hadn't dreamed of doing. Scientists can now sequence complete human genomes in a day,...
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  • A Man of Salt and Trees: The Life of Joy Morton by Ballowe, James
    James Ballowe

    A Man of Salt and Trees: The Life of Joy Morton

    A Man of Salt and Trees is the first full-length biography of Joy Morton (1855-1934), founder of The Morton Arboretum--an internationally acclaimed outdoor museum of woody plants--and Morton Salt--the brand that for over a century has been a household name in the United States....
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  • Thomas Mellon And His Times by Mellon, Thomas
    Thomas Mellon

    Thomas Mellon And His Times

    In 1885, at the age of seventy-two and "in the evening of life," Thomas Mellon published his autobiography in a limited edition exclusively for his family. He was a distinguished and highly successful Pittsburgh entrepreneur, judge, and banker, and his descendants would play major...
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  • Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens by Barnard, Harry
    Harry Barnard

    Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens

    The only book-length biography of a major Michigan figure who served as Detroit's mayor and contributed to the early success of the Ford Motor Company. First published in 1958 by Charles Scribner's Sons, Independent Man is the only book-length biography of one of Michigan's...
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  • Cesar Chavez, Volume 11: A Triumph of Spirit by Griswold del Castillo, Richard
    Richard Griswold del Castillo

    Cesar Chavez, Volume 11: A Triumph of Spirit

    "Griswold del Castillo and Garcia have written a biography of Chavez, but it is also a history of the Mexican American labor movement and the Mexican American struggle for civil rights....[T]his is a fine book."--- Choice "[D]eserves to be read not only by persons...
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  • The Billionaire's Apprentice: How 21 Billionaires Used Drive, Luck and Risk to Achieve Colossal Success by Merlot, Charles
    Charles Merlot

    The Billionaire's Apprentice: How 21 Billionaires Used Drive, Luck and Risk to Achieve Colossal Success

    As mentioned in Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch, and MSN Money, The Billionaire's Apprentice provides a complete account of the business lives of twenty-one extraordinary billionaires. This book is for people that want to learn the ins and outs of business by studying...
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  • The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women by Lewis, Edward
    Edward Lewis

    The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women

    Essence magazine is the most popular, well respected, and largest circulated black women's magazine in history. Largely unknown is the remarkable story of what it took to earn that distinction. The Man from Essence depicts with candor and insight how Edward Lewis, CEO and...
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  • Beardstown Revisited by Tyson, Harold
    Harold Tyson

    Beardstown Revisited

    In 1819, Thomas Beard decided to build his town along the Illinois River. He was able to finance it immediately by selling lumber and honey, which were abundant in the region. On Main Street, next to the riverbank, Beard had a ferry and a...
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  • Formula for Fortune: How Asa Candler Discovered Coca-Cola and Turned It Into the Wealth His Children Enjoyed by Abrams, Ann Uhry
    Ann Uhry Abrams

    Formula for Fortune: How Asa Candler Discovered Coca-Cola and Turned It Into the Wealth His Children Enjoyed

    Asa Candler rose from a rural background to reap a fortune. His windfall came from purchasing the Coca-Cola formula in 1888 and establishing the company that became a national phenomenon in less than a decade. In Formula for Fortune, author Ann Uhry Abrams narrates...
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  • My Life and Work by Henry Ford: Fintan Books by Ford, Henry
    Henry Ford

    My Life and Work by Henry Ford: Fintan Books

    "My Life and Work", by Henry Ford, reads not only as a memoir of an American icon, but also shows the spirit that built America. Written in 1922, this work provides a unique insight into the observations, ideas, and problem solving skills of this...
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  • Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! by Carlson, Nicholas
    Nicholas Carlson

    Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!

    A page-turning narrative about Marissa Mayer's efforts to remake Yahoo as well as her own rise from Stanford University undergrad to CEO of a $30 billion corporation by the age of 38. When Yahoo hired star Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in...
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  • Negotiator: Reflections on an American Life from Maine to the U.S. Senate, from Baseball to Disney, from Northern Ireland to the M by Mitchell, George J.
    George J. Mitchell

    Negotiator: Reflections on an American Life from Maine to the U.S. Senate, from Baseball to Disney, from Northern Ireland to the M

    Compelling, poignant, enlightening stories from former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about growing up in Maine, his years in the Senate, working to bring peace to Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and what he's learned about the art of negotiAuthor: George J. MitchellISBN-10:...
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  • Marconi: Father of Wireless, Grandfather of Radio, Great-Grandfather of the Cell Phone, The Story of the Race to Control Long-D by Trowbridge Jr, Calvin D.
    Calvin D. Trowbridge Jr

    Marconi: Father of Wireless, Grandfather of Radio, Great-Grandfather of the Cell Phone, The Story of the Race to Control Long-D

    Not until Marconi has there been an in-depth biography that focuses on the inventor as businessman/entrepreneur and the global race that took place in an effort to dominate and control wireless technology. From the end of the Victorian Era to the First World War,...
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  • Diane: A Signature Life by Von Furstenberg, Diane
    Diane Von Furstenberg

    Diane: A Signature Life

    The frank and compelling story of an extraordinary woman and her adventures in fashion, business, and life. "Most fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince. That's where mine began," says Diane Von Furstenberg. Von Furstenberg lived the American Dream before she was...
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  • My Life and Work: Henry Ford's Autobiography, with a History of the Ford Motor Company (Hardcover) by Ford, Henry
    Henry Ford

    My Life and Work: Henry Ford's Autobiography, with a History of the Ford Motor Company (Hardcover)

    My Life and Work is the autobiography of Henry Ford; a businessman who revolutionized automotive manufacture in the early 20th century. This book takes us through the major episodes of Ford's life, from his early beginnings and the development of his successful commercial endeavors....
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  • Mark Zuckerberg: In His Own Words by Beahm, George
    George Beahm

    Mark Zuckerberg: In His Own Words

    Mark Zuckerberg: In His Own Words details the visionary thoughts and opinions of Facebook's founder entirely through direct quotations from Zuckerberg himself. It is an intimate and authoritative look at the man behind Facebook's once-in-a-generation success. This book serves up his most thought-provoking insights,...
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  • Robber Barons: The Lives and Careers of John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    Robber Barons: The Lives and Careers of John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt

    *Includes pictures *Includes the business magnates' quotes about life and work *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in...
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  • Abraham and Straus: It's Worth a Trip from Anywhere by Lisicky, Michael J.
    Michael J. Lisicky

    Abraham and Straus: It's Worth a Trip from Anywhere

    Along with the Dodgers and Prospect Park, Abraham & Straus was a legendary piece of Brooklyn's history and identity. From Abraham Abraham's modest store of 1865, A&S developed into one of America's largest department stores. It eventually became a charter member of the powerful...
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  • Bullock's Department Store by Frick, Devin T.
    Devin T. Frick

    Bullock's Department Store

    From the store's beginnings in March 1907 until its closing on June 25, 1983, Bullock's was Los Angeles's store of choice. Throughout its 76 years of operation, Bullock's flagship department store became an icon, a commercial beacon in the vast city. The name Bullock's...
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  • Let's Get Frank by Brunet, Robin
    Robin Brunet

    Let's Get Frank

    Frank Palmer is a legend in the Canadian advertising world. He not only developed Palmer Jarvis, one of the country's most acclaimed marketing communications agencies (and then became chairman and CEO of DDB Canada after selling Palmer Jarvis to the multinational ad giant), he...
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  • Paul Ricard: The Story of Provence's Drinks King by Murphy, Robert
    Robert Murphy

    Paul Ricard: The Story of Provence's Drinks King

    The biography of Paul Ricard--whose eponymous company Pernod Ricard produced and popularized pastis, an anise aperitif from his native Marseille--embodies a wonderfully rich business success story of the 20th century. Overcoming significant adversity amid the turmoil of the 1930s, Ricard built a renowned premium...
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  • Carnegie by Krass, Peter
    Peter Krass

    Carnegie

    One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately gave most of it away. He used his wealth to ascend the world's political stage, influencing the presidencies of Grover...
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  • The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania: How an Unlikely Quartet Created America's Most Improbable Art Museum by Wiegand, Steve
    Steve Wiegand

    The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania: How an Unlikely Quartet Created America's Most Improbable Art Museum

    The Maryhill Museum of Art is located on 5,300 acres in the Columbia River Gorge. Miles from any sizeable town and surrounded by the gorge's spectacular scenery, Maryhill is an internationally recognized -- and undeniably eclectic -- repository of art that ranges from one...
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  • Fortune Favors the Bold from Smartercomics by Arda, Franco
    Franco Arda

    Fortune Favors the Bold from Smartercomics

    This is the first book in the series and written by the founder of SmarterComics himself, Franco Arda. Follow this secret agent, as he gives you solid ideas on how to lead a bold life. How to take action and follow your dreams. Words...
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  • Building the Next Berkshire Hathaway by Braem, Daniel
    Daniel Braem

    Building the Next Berkshire Hathaway

    It is becoming more and more difficult to find well-managed companies in today's business world. The recent financial blowups demonstrate the overriding lack of respect for shareholders. For their own benefit, management risks shareholder assets without restraint. If the risky bets pay off, bonuses...
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  • Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products by Kahney, Leander
    Leander Kahney

    Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products

    "An adulating biography of Apple's left-brained wunderkind, whose work continues to revolutionize modern technology." --Kirkus Reviews In 1997, Steve Jobs discovered a scruffy British designer toiling away at Apple's headquarters, surrounded by hundreds of sketches and prototypes. Jony Ive's collaboration with Jobs would produce...
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  • Second Fatherland: The Life and Fortunes of a German Immigrant by Krueger, Max Amadeus Paulus
    Max Amadeus Paulus Krueger

    Second Fatherland: The Life and Fortunes of a German Immigrant

    Max Krueger came to Texas from Germany in 1868, a penniless, delicate boy of sixteen. By the time he wrote his memoirs at the age of seventy-four, he had seen the state transformed from a harsh frontier to an industrialized society and had twice...
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  • To the Max: Max Weitzenhoffer's Magical Trip from Oklahoma to New York and London--And Back by Lindley, Tom
    Tom Lindley

    To the Max: Max Weitzenhoffer's Magical Trip from Oklahoma to New York and London--And Back

    Theatrical producers who make it big on Broadway often start their climb from the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, not the raucous frontier. Even fewer would dream of becoming a successful theatre owner in the storied West End of London....
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  • House for Rent: A Small-time Landlord's Bumpy Road to Financial Freedom by Giffen, Robert
    Robert Giffen

    House for Rent: A Small-time Landlord's Bumpy Road to Financial Freedom

    Everyday adventures and lessons learned over 20 years renting single-family homes to a wide variety of tenants. Tenants come and go. Some even come and stay a long time. Most are totally unremarkable; they pay the rent on time, let you know when something...
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  • Elon Musk: Moving the World One Technology at a Time: Insight and Analysis into the Life and Accomplishments of a Technology Mogu by MacGregor, Jr.
    Jr. MacGregor

    Elon Musk: Moving the World One Technology at a Time: Insight and Analysis into the Life and Accomplishments of a Technology Mogu

    Put aside what you read on the web about Elon Musk. There is a significant amount more to him than just his genius and his accomplishments. This book lays out the life that he had before arriving in the United States and looks at...
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  • Self-Publishing Your Book in Multiple Formats: How to Set Up Your Book in Print, E-Book, Audiobook, Video, Online Course, and PDF Formats by Scott, Gini Graham
    Gini Graham Scott

    Self-Publishing Your Book in Multiple Formats: How to Set Up Your Book in Print, E-Book, Audiobook, Video, Online Course, and PDF Formats

    SELF-PUBLISHING YOUR BOOK IN MULTIPLE FORMATS is designed to help writers take advantage of the many formats for publishing and selling books. It features an introduction to the different platforms and how to prepare and publish your manuscript in each format. By doing so,...
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  • My Name is Steve Delano Bullock: How I Changed My World and The World Around Me Through Leadership, Caring, and Perseverance by Bullock, Steve D.
    Steve D. Bullock

    My Name is Steve Delano Bullock: How I Changed My World and The World Around Me Through Leadership, Caring, and Perseverance

    Steve D. Bullock spent 38 years with the American Red Cross, culminating with his appointment as Acting President following the departure of Elizabeth Dole. Prior to serving as Acting President of the national organization, he was the Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Cleveland...
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  • And You Thought Accountant's Were Boring by Katzen, Larry R.
    Larry R. Katzen

    And You Thought Accountant's Were Boring

    Ingenuity. Indictments. Injustice. Arthur Anderson: an innovative accounting firm brought down by governmental false accusations. Political fodder in the government's prosecution of Enron, the company was unjustly dismantled for its supposed connections to the corruption. The company was later vindicated by a 9 -...
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  • Reinvent Yourself: Personal, Positive Growth through any Mess, Movement and Mission! by Denley, Rick
    Rick Denley

    Reinvent Yourself: Personal, Positive Growth through any Mess, Movement and Mission!

    In this revolutionary self-help guide, the author Rick Denley, a global transformational growth coach, catapults you towards conquering any mess, movement or mission you are on, through self reinvention. For anyone going through or considering change, it will require far more energy for our...
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  • Reed Hastings: Building Netflix by Burgess, Matt
    Matt Burgess

    Reed Hastings: Building Netflix

    Reed Hastings is one of the world's foremost business leaders. As co-founder, chairman and CEO of Netflix, he has built one of the largest media and entertainment companies on the planet, with an estimated personal net worth of $3.6 billion. A notable philanthropist, he...
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  • The Hermitage Effect: How Bill Browder Went from Ally to Enemy of Russia by Mouradian, Regina
    Regina Mouradian

    The Hermitage Effect: How Bill Browder Went from Ally to Enemy of Russia

    The Hermitage Effect tells the tale of how Bill Browder went from being Putin's biggest cheerleader to Browder claiming he was Vladimir Putin's number one enemy. This book examines Sergei Magnitsky's police testimonies and speculates if the real whistleblower to the biggest tax heist...
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  • The Studebaker Brothers: The Lives and Legacy of the Family Behind the Famous Automobile Company by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    The Studebaker Brothers: The Lives and Legacy of the Family Behind the Famous Automobile Company

    *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"The automobile has come to stay. But when a man has no business, it is a rather expensive luxury, and I would advise no man, be he farmer or merchant, to buy one until he has sufficient income...
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  • The Studebaker Brothers: The Lives and Legacy of the Family Behind the Famous Automobile Company by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    The Studebaker Brothers: The Lives and Legacy of the Family Behind the Famous Automobile Company

    *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"The automobile has come to stay. But when a man has no business, it is a rather expensive luxury, and I would advise no man, be he farmer or merchant, to buy one until he has sufficient income...
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  • Hetty Green: The First Lady of Wall Street by Derbyshire, Wyn
    Wyn Derbyshire

    Hetty Green: The First Lady of Wall Street

    Hetty Howland Green (1834-1916), born Hetty Howland Robinson, and known in her later years as "The Witch of Wall Street," was born in the whaling town of New Bedford, Massachusetts to Quaker parents. This biography charts Hetty Green's extraordinary ascent up the pyramid of...
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  • My Bible of Blunders: Stumbling to Triumph in Business by Friedman, Michael
    Michael Friedman

    My Bible of Blunders: Stumbling to Triumph in Business

    After forty years in professional sport and business, Michael Friedman sits down to describe the harrowing career path that he -- a self-described "ordinary guy"-- pursued, stumbled on, raced along, departed from, triumphed through and is still following with undiminished enthusiasm.This is no "how...
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  • The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire by Weems Jr, Robert E.
    Robert E. Weems Jr

    The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire

    Born to enslaved parents, Anthony Overton became one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. Overton's Chicago-based empire ranged from personal care products and media properties to insurance and finance. Yet, despite success and acclaim as the first business figure to...
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  • Ticket to Ride: My Adventures in Making Big Money and Giving It Away by Lampl, Sir Peter
    Sir Peter Lampl

    Ticket to Ride: My Adventures in Making Big Money and Giving It Away

    The candid tale of one of Britain's most outstanding contemporary philanthropists. These pages wryly track Peter's varied career moves, from flogging tickets for one of The Beatles first major concerts, to getting inadvertently caught up in a New York family turf war while trying...
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  • An Accidental Bookseller: A Personal Memoir of Foyles by Samuel, Bill
    Bill Samuel

    An Accidental Bookseller: A Personal Memoir of Foyles

    A very personal memoir of the author's relationship with the iconic and much loved bookshop Foyles of Charing Cross Road in London. From fond childhood memories of his eccentric and brilliant grandfather William Foyle, 'the Barnum of Bookselling' and his aunt, the beautiful, charming,...
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  • Vanderbilt CD: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Cooper, Anderson
    Anderson Cooper

    Vanderbilt CD: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

    New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's...
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  • Bite in the Apple by Brennan, Chrisann
    Chrisann Brennan

    Bite in the Apple

    An intimate look at the life of Steve Jobs by the mother of his first child providing rare insight into Jobs's formative, lesser-known years.Steve Jobs was a remarkable man who wanted to unify the world through technology. For him, the point was to set...
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  • Man, Economy, And State V2: A Treatise On Economic Principles (1962) by Rothbard, Murray N.
    Murray N. Rothbard

    Man, Economy, And State V2: A Treatise On Economic Principles (1962)

    Man, Economy, and State V2: A Treatise on Economic Principles is a comprehensive economic treatise written by Murray N. Rothbard, and first published in 1962. The book is a continuation of the first volume, which was published in 1962, and it delves deeper into...
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