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Ralph de la Vega, President and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, shares the lessons learned in business and in life along the journey from Cuba to Corporate America.

Ralph de la Vega arrived in the United States from Cuba in 1962. He was alone. He was scared. He was 10. Separated from his parents by Cuban authorities just moments before they were to board a plane to Miami, de la Vega was baptized early--and abruptly--in the waters of adversity. It would be four long years before his mother, father, and sister gained legal passage to America. But while the boy would...

First published in English in 1935, this is a critical appraisal of contemporary thought in the post-World War One era. Written by a selection of leading Marxist thinkers, including Nikolai Bukharin who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin's show trials, this work offers a Marxist critique of contemporary thought relating to philosophy, science and history. The authors all tend towards the view that the general tendency of modern thought is to abandon the historical method and to deny progress, with the conclusion that Marxism was the only historical and progressive...

Exile and Restoration in Jewish Thought presents the history of an idea originating at the intersection of Judaic piety and the social history of the Jews: faith in a protective sovereign deity amid contrary conditions. Exiled primordially (Eden), during the Patriarchal era, in the sixth century bce, and from the first century to the twentieth, the Jewish experience of alienation has been the historical backdrop against which affirmations of divine benevolence have been constructed.

While histories of Jewish thought have tended to accentuate the speculative creativity of...

Todesfälle, die zunächst kein Verbrechen vermuten lassen, mysteriöse Begegnungen, ein schweigsamer Künstler, ein rätselhafter Verkehrsunfall, ein glasklarer Mord.
Alles steht miteinander in Verbindung. Diese Zusammenhänge sind für die Ermittler schwer zu durchschauen, zumal auch ein Mord nahe der Königsallee in Düsseldorf damit zu tun hat. Es geht um den internationalen Kunsthandel und seine Auswüchse. Fälschungen, Betrug, schmutziges Geld, das in den legalen Wirtschaftskreislauf eingebracht wird. Fabio Fameo, Tommaso Caruso und Francesca Giardi sind im...