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Report copyright infringementby Mark Johnson (Author), Steve Tarter (Author)Tracks Across America is a compelling addition to the study of the history of business in America.Since its invention, the "Caterpillar" tractor has played a key role in the industrial development of the United States. From the turn of the century to Neil Armstrong's first step on the lunar surface, "Tracks Across America" traces the evolution of both a machine and the company that built it. Written by a retired Cater...

Competing with Giants: How One Family-Owned Company Took on the Multinationals and Won

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Report copyright infringementby Phương Uyên Trần (Author), Jackie Horne (Author), Brian Tracy (Foreword by)Asia's growing economic clout is starting to re-shape global business rules that have been molded by Western multinationals for many decades. The region's rising star, Vietnam, is now flexing its economic muscles and Competing with Giants tells the story of its transformation from war ruin to dynamic nation through the experiences of Tân Hiệp Phát (THP), the drinks company founded by Phư...

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Report copyright infringementby Laurance R. Doyle (Author)About the AuthorDr. Laurance R. Doyle, a Principal Investigator at the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in Mountain View, CA, became interested in astronomy at age 6, when his Dad gave him a map of the Solar System with stars in the background, and told him the stars were other people's suns. After receiving his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Astronomy at San Diego State University, Laurance earned his Ph....

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Report copyright infringementby Esmeralda Santiago (Author)Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author's emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, where she continually strives to find a balance between becoming American and staying Puerto Rican. While translating for her mother Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleop...

Food Truck Mogul: A Business Guide to Your Food Truck Startup

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Shemtob (Author)Food Truck Mogul by Daniel Shemtob is more than just a guide for aspiring food truck owners; it's a dynamic and entertaining blueprint for any entrepreneur looking to turn their passion into profit. Daniel takes readers on his rollercoaster journey from bankruptcy to building a multimillion-dollar food truck empire. His candid storytelling reveals the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, from sleepless nights perfecting recipes to the thri...

The Money Noose: Jon Corzine and the Collapse of MF Global

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Skyrm (Author)"Skyrm makes complex financial scenarios accessible to all interested readers in an informative and entertaining manner. We can all learn something from this book." -Thomas Peterffy, Chairman, CEO, and President of Interactive Brokers"Skyrm put together the story of MF Global like no one else could in providing the ultimate autopsy covering destructive financial engineering that's played such a big role in our capital markets." -Lawrence G. ...

Join My Club, Do You Believe In Miracles?: Book 2

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Report copyright infringementby D. Basil Mulqueen (Author)"A true-life adventure that reads like fiction, as a wayward son faces a diagnosis of cancer with his father ... and beats the odds."-Nicolas Gilmartin Teranzi, Online Critics CornerA most unique story, the life of D Basil MulQueen. Aside from his encounter with Ted Bundy, events involving Karl Wallenda, Muhammad Ali, Gordie Howe, John Lennon, Bobby Sands, and other notable characters, MulQueen himself has led an interesting life - fro...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Evans (Author)A longtime investigative journalist uncovers one of the great untold stories of twentieth-century international intrigue, and the secrets it has held until now. Shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and Bobby Kennedy, two of the world′s richest and most powerful men, disliked one another from the moment they first met. Over several decades, their intense mutual hatred only grew, as did their desire to compete for the affections of Jackie, the k...

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Report copyright infringementby Janiece S. Nolan (Author)Sugar Doll's Storied Life is Janiece Simmons Nolan's autobiography covering her personal history, family legacy, and broader social change in twentieth-century America. Beginning with her Texas roots, Nolan traces the influences of family, education, and historical events on the development of her intellectual and professional life. Through accounts of academic training, public service, and institutional leadership, she places her exper...

Oasis Don't Look Back: The Illustrated Biography

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Report copyright infringementby Carolyn McHugh (Author)This is the incredible story of Oasis in a lavishly illustrated hardback edition. With over 70 million albums sold worldwide, a place in the Guinness Book of Records for achieving 22 consecutive Top Ten singles including such classics as ' Wonderwall', ' Champagne Supernova', ' Rock n Roll Star' and ' Don't Look Back in Anger' - plus a bulging treasure chest of over 30 BRIT, MTV, NME and Q Awards - Oasis were one of the greatest, most suc...

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Lyn Weaver (Author)Locked in the Psych Ward: A Memoir of Broken Promises and False ConfessionsA woman struggling with severe sexual compulsions is admitted to a prestigious psychiatric ward, where her unethical psychiatrist ignores her actual problem and instead "treats" her as a victim of satanic ritual abuse. He overmedicates her with powerful drugs and uses discredited forms of "therapy," leaving her worse off than before.The year is 1985, and Weaver i...

A Woman of Firsts: Margaret Heckler, Political Trailblazer

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Heckler (Author), Jean Sinzdak (Foreword by)A Top Five Pick on The Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program's 2025 Gender Equity Summer Reading ListThe extraordinary story of Margaret O'Shaughnessy Heckler offers a rare view into the behind-the-scenes world of American politics from the 1960s through the 1980s. Her career spanned five presidencies: Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. The daughter of Irish immigrants, Margaret Heckle...

Life's A Hike: Short stories and lessons from an entrepreneur on a long walk discovering what's next

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Report copyright infringementby David Silver (Author)Life's a Hike is a raw and reflective collection of short stories and lessons from entrepreneur Dave Silver, written during a 70-mile walk along Spain's Camino de Santiago. After more than a decade building REC Philly-a nationally recognized creative community-Dave reached an unexpected turning point. The business that had defined his identity came to an end, leaving behind a question many ambitious people eventually face: What happens when...

Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

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Report copyright infringementby Antonia Fraser (Author)In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion, daringly placed thirty-six barrels of gunpowder in a cellar under the Palace of Westminster. Their aim was t...

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Report copyright infringementby Thaao Penghlis (Author)I have met and worked with many entertainers in my life. The idea of this book came to me one evening while visiting Cuba. I expand on this in the chapter 'Finding a seed inside Havana.' Also, the wonderful actress Doris Roberts came for dinner one evening and wrote a letter that stated, "An extraordinary cook who takes pleasure in inviting his friends to his home for an evening of great food, wine and interesting conversation. The table ...

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Report copyright infringementby James de Francia (Author)"A 'true-to-life' understanding of a time when success seemed possible..." -Richard J. Wall, A ReviewerThere was a brief time in Vietnam, before the true American-Vietnamese war commenced, when the social and cultural influence of the French was progressively giving way to that of the newly arrived Americans. It was a time of relative peace, albeit interrupted by spasms of guerrilla warfare, amidst increasing political upheaval, and soc...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Olney (Author), Alice Waters (Foreword by)This book begins in New York in 1951 where Olney, a struggling artist, waited tables in Greenwich Village, then moves to Paris and weaves a magical description of food that becomes so real--as if you were actually there with Olney. It is a long-awaited story of the man who brought the simplicity of French cooking to the United States, and a statement about one of the finest and most important food professionals ...

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Report copyright infringementby Paget Jackson Toynbee (Author)History of the Letters of Dante From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day by Paget Jackson Toynbee offers a detailed account of the historical reception and study of Dante Alighieri's letters. Beginning with the earliest known references in the fourteenth century, the book traces the evolution of scholarly interest in Dante's correspondence through subsequent centuries. Toynbee meticulously examines the discovery, preservation...

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Report copyright infringementby Hermione Lee (Author)Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is an undisputed master--the art of biography. Here Lee considers the cultural and historical background of different types of biographies, looks at the factors that affect biographers, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Carol D. Doswell (Author)" Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." John 4:13-14 In the gospel of John, we meet the woman at the well. Now, I would like to introduce you to Carol Doswell, the real-life woman at the well. Carol was married five t...

I'm Doing It For You: Journey to Realizing that He Was There All the Time

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Report copyright infringementby Reginald Dancil (Author)This book exposes readers to the author's life both before and after having a heavenly vision, allowing readers to see the impact of this spiritual intervention. There is a little tragedy, comedy and drama in everyone's life, so the book includes bits of all of that in expressing it message. Ultimately, the book's objective is to inform the reader that no matter their offense, Jesus loves them and died so that they could live. It's impor...

Dateline: World-20 Dispatches from the Earth & One from Hell

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Report copyright infringementby Milton J. Nieuwsma (Author), Tom Stites (Foreword by)"A favorite shelf in my bookcase leads with By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, a compendium of journalism the great novelist wrote to support himself as he worked on his fiction. Right next to it is Ernie's War, dispatches by Ernie Pyle, the most famous of World War II correspondents. Milton Nieuwsma's fine volume joins this shelf of honor." -From the foreword by Tom Stites, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editor/jou...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Cunningham (Author)EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The All-American Boys* is a no-holds-barred candid memoir by a former Marine jet jockey and physicist who became NASA's second civilian astronaut. Walter Cunningham presents the astronauts in all their glory in this dramatically revised and updated edition that was considered an instant classic in its first edition over two decades ago. From its insider's view of the pervasive "astropolitics" that guided the function...

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Report copyright infringementby Patty D. Rickman (Author)A Safe Space to Land is not just a book.This is where silence ends-and your voice begins. A lighthouse for survivors of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault-especially for those who were silenced, made to question their reality, or pushed to surrender their voice to power, control, and fear. If you are holding this, you are not alone. Inside these pages is what so many were never given: language for trauma b...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer T. Roberts (Author)Hailed by Cicero as "the father of history," Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveler who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words, in particular, the wars between Greece and Persia. In his hands, the Greeks' unforeseeable defeat of the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes with their vast hosts made for fascinating storytelling. Influenced by the work...

My Daddy's Promise: Lessons Learned Through Caregiving

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Report copyright infringementby Carl W. Kenney (Author)One night, Carl W. Kenney II received a phone call that forced a decision. A neighbor found his father naked and unconscious on the bathroom floor. If not for the neighbor dropping by to check on his daddy, he would have died. It was not the first time. It was difficult for his daddy to manage life alone. This time was different. It was time to make a decision to become his father's caregiver.My Daddy's Promises: Lessons Learned Through C...

Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others

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Report copyright infringementby Stacy Horn (Author)For Stacy Horn, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir-the Choral Society of Grace Church in New York-never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. She's not particularly religious, and her voice is not exceptional (so she says), but like the 32.5 million other chorus members throughout this country, singing makes her happy. Horn brings us along as she sings...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Howell (Author)Like the tagline says, this is "the mad misadventures of two English lads crossing America as the Rolling Stones." The rapscallions in the delightful novel find posing as famous rockers was an aphrodisiac to midwestern girl on their cross-country journey ... until facts of their impersonation catches up with them. But there is a prize waiting at the end of this pilgrimage: a slender blonde living in a treehouse. "Mark Howell is a gifted stor...

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Report copyright infringementby Rodney Thomas (Author)Rodney Thomas a man of many trials and struggles, but whom has over came them, with a power that's unbelievable to heares that is reading this autobiography. Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 29, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Ferdinand Lundberg (Author) In the late 1930s bombshell of a book appeared which told the story of the lords of wealth and their glittering clans. It was called AMERICA'S SIXTY FAMILIES. It rocked the nation and became a classic. Lundberg showed how America was ruled by a plutocracy of inherited wealth, even under the New Deal. At the time he could only provide a sampling of the economic and political patterns of those families, which, for one reason or another...

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Report copyright infringementby John A. Kerner (Author)Editorial Reviews From Booklist Called to active duty late in 1943, University of California-San Francisco surgical resident Kerner went to England with the Thirty-fifth Infantry Division in May 1944. Landing in Normandy shortly after D-Day, he was involved in combat for 264 days in France, the Low Countries, and Germany. He glorifies neither himself nor the military but, describing much individual and small-group heroism, shows how hard-...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Terrone (Author)Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Italian Studies. I love this collection of essays by Maria Terrone, an exceptionally talented woman of Italian American ancestry who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with maternal roots firmly established, as she shows us, in Sicily's long history. Subtly crafted, witty, honest, it brings to life a New York one instantly recognizes. Her New York is an international city, ranging from the factories of Long Is...