An 1854 expedition to West Africa as experienced by the Sierra Leonean clergyman and linguist Samuel Crowther.

The journals of two Sierra Leonean missionaries, published in 1859, describing their work on the banks of the Niger.

This is not only a great book about power, money, machinery, industry, production, consumption, improvements, ideas, and history. It is also a book that teaches - "one who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail."

Autobiografia de Henry Ford, fundador de la Ford Motor Company y pionero de la produccion en cadena."

FEW PEOPLE have had the transformative success as Henry Ford of Dearborn Michigan, USA. While his life-story transformed the nation and the world, the effects on its author are less understood. The purpose of this book is to explore his story as an additional study to Napoleon Hill's bestselling "Think and Grow Rich." In Hill's book, few individuals in it have more anecdotes used as examples than Ford - excepting Thomas Edison himself (who gave Ford an early boost in one of his companies.) In most days, people are challenged by their environment. They can rise to the challenge, or succumb to...