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The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation
ISBN: 9780813041711 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "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 the Tuskegee Machine "Although scholars and lay persons alike most often think of Washington as an educator, this impressive text reveals that his business ideas and practices have had a much greater and longer impact on Americans, especially African Americans."--Kenneth Hamilton, Southern Methodist... "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... |
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How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
ISBN: 9780062094551 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honor of the ship's owner, J. Bruce Ismay. In a unique work of history evocative of Joseph Conrad's classic novel Lord Jim, Wilson raises provocative moral questions about cowardice and heroism, memory and identity, survival and guilt--questions that revolve around Ismay's loss of honor and identity as his monolithic venture--a ship called "The Last Word in Luxury" and "The...
Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, looking at the collision and its af...
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Orbit: Sergey Brin and Larry Page: The Creators of Google
ISBN: 9781467516235 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Country Storekeeper in Pennsylvania: Creating Economic Networks in Early America, 1790-1807
ISBN: 9780271034133 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In early America, traditional commercial interaction revolved around an entity known as the general store. Unfortunately, most of these elusive small-town shops disappeared from our society without leaving business-related documents behind for scholars to analyze. This gap in the historical knowledge of America has made it difficult to understand the nature of the networks and trade relationships that existed between cities and the surrounding countryside at the time. Samuel Rex, however, left behind a vastly different legacy. A country storekeeper who operated out of Schaefferstown,... In early America, traditional commercial interaction revolved around an entity known as the general store. Unfortunately, most of these elusive sma... |
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Rich's: A Southern Institution
ISBN: 9781609491918 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris Rich opened a small dry goods store on what is now Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta. Over time, his brothers Emanuel and Daniel joined the business; within a century, it became a retailing dynasty. Join historian Jeff Clemmons as he traces Rich's 137-year history. For the first time, learn the true stories behind Penelope Penn, Fashionata, The Great Tree, the Pink Pig, Rich's famous coconut cake and much more, including how events at the downtown Atlanta store helped John F....
In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris Rich opened a small dry goods store on wh...
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Essays in Biography
ISBN: 9781614273264 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2012 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Most of the essays in this book were first collected and published in 1933, when Keynes had reached a turning point in what had by then become a highly successful career as an academic economist, as an official economic adviser, opponent of the reparations imposed on Germany, and critic of the orthodox economic policies of British governments. Before devoting himself fully to the final stages of his journey towards the "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,"...
2012 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Most of the essays in this bo...
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69,75 |
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The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
ISBN: 9781614273288 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2012 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. If Mises has an unheralded masterpiece, "The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science" is it. There are two senses in which this book is indeed ultimate: it deals with the very core of economics as a science, and it is the last book that he wrote. For that reason, it is a real milestone in the history of his work. In this volume, Mises argued that economics is a science because human action is a natural order of life and that it is the actions of humans that determine...
2012 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. If Mises has an unheralded ma...
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50,43 |
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Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
ISBN: 9780385349949 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The #1 international best seller The #1 international best seller |
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107,90 |
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The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
ISBN: 9780307474575 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green, America s first female tycoon. A strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth at least $100 million by the end of her life in 1916 equal to about $2.5 billion today. No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green, America s first female tycoon. A strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth ... |
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The School of Heart Knocks: How I Turned One Idea and Many Adversities into a Multi-Million-Dollar Business--and So Can You!
ISBN: 9780984490929 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deborah Johnston was not born under the best of circumstances; in fact, her mother gave her away when she was just three years old. That was the first of many hard knocks to Deborah's heart, which she openly shares in her autobiographical book. After a tormenting revelation about her marriage results in one of the darkest times in her life, Johnston could not see through the pain in her heart. It was then that she notices an ad in a local newspaper about a program that promises to change her life. Eager to feel better, she signs up. Soon, she begins to transform her career into a wildly...
Deborah Johnston was not born under the best of circumstances; in fact, her mother gave her away when she was just three years old. That was the first...
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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
ISBN: 9780226423623 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York during the late teens and 1920s. Alongside her we rub elbows with movie stars, artists, and high-profile businessmen, and experience lavish estate parties that routinely defied the laws of Prohibition. Beginning with her employment as a private secretary to James Deering of International Harvester,...
Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, ...
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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
ISBN: 9780226423593 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York during the late teens and 1920s. Alongside her we rub elbows with movie stars, artists, and high-profile businessmen, and experience lavish estate parties that routinely defied the laws of Prohibition. Beginning with her employment as a private secretary to James Deering of International Harvester,...
Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, ...
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The Simplification of Becoming a Millionaire
ISBN: 9781625168542 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of a poor boy who grew up in the small town of Summerfield, North Carolina. He was able to become a millionaire by putting in place strategies, and having the discipline to maintain those strategies throughout the stock market's up and downs. "Further, by becoming a financial advisor, I was able to build a financial planning practice, acquire clients, convince them take my advice, and follow strategies that helped many of them become millionaires as well," says author Gary L. Clark. The advice and strategies are simple, and if followed, can help almost anyone become...
This book tells the story of a poor boy who grew up in the small town of Summerfield, North Carolina. He was able to become a millionaire by putting i...
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From Cropduster to Airline Captain the Biography of Captain Leroy H. Brown
ISBN: 9781604520767 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1936, a wide-eyed boy by the name of LeRoy Brown clambered aboard a 1929 Waco 10 converted to crop dusting duty, sat down in the grimy hopper, and then launched into a clear-blue Florida sky on a wondrous flight that ignited a life-long passion with flying and airplanes. More than 35,000 flight hours later, Captain LeRoy Brown stepped out of the cockpit of a Pan American World Airways DC-10 to end a commercial aviation career that spanned nearly five decades . In between, he filled dozens of logbooks with exciting tales of flying biplane crop dusters, B-17 freight haulers, old airliners,...
In 1936, a wide-eyed boy by the name of LeRoy Brown clambered aboard a 1929 Waco 10 converted to crop dusting duty, sat down in the grimy hopper, and ...
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Thrown Under the Bus: The Rise and Fall of an American Worker
ISBN: 9780985931001 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thrown Under The Bus is a one-of-a-kind saga about a vivacious young woman of humble beginnings in pursuit of the American Dream who is forced into an unimaginable legal quandary by a mean-spirited governmental employer hell bent on revenge. What begins as a humiliating demotion for her refusal to play dirty with the boys quickly culminates into 19 years of litigation amidst an inconceivably hostile work environment that nearly drives her to the brink of insanity as she stages a valiant fight to see this harrowing nightmare to an end. Paying the ultimate price for her endeavors lies in what...
Thrown Under The Bus is a one-of-a-kind saga about a vivacious young woman of humble beginnings in pursuit of the American Dream who is forced into an...
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Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family
ISBN: 9780812981261 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NATIONAL BESTSELLER
For years, people have been asking Ezekiel Zeke Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal eldest brother in the Emanuel clan, the same question: What did your mom put in the cereal? Middle brother Rahm is the mayor of Chicago, erstwhile White House chief of staff, and one of the most colorful figures in American politics. Youngest brother Ari is a Hollywood superagent, the real-life model for the character of Ari Gold on the hit series Entourage. And Zeke himself, whom the other brothers consider to be the smartest of them all, is one of... NATIONAL BESTSELLER
For years, people have been asking Ezekiel Zeke Emanuel, the brash, outspoken, and fiercely loyal eldest brother in the... |
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Shooting History : A Personal Journey
ISBN: 9780007171859 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow's memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs.
The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow's memoirs ...
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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
ISBN: 9780061288586 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Widow Clicquot is the New York Times bestselling business biography of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, became a legend in her tumultuous times, and showed the world how to live with style. Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life the woman behind the label, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, in this utterly intoxicating book that is as much a fascinating journey through the process of making this temperamental wine as a biography of a uniquely tempered and fascinating woman.
The Widow Clicquot is the New York Times bestselling business biography of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, b...
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A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams
ISBN: 9780241951071 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. But as Jeff got older he learned to go door to door, begging rags from the rich. This title is a heartwarming and heartbreaking story of a little boy who had nothing but gained everything - twice.
Young Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. But as Jeff got older he learned to go door to door, begging rags from the rich. This title is...
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Fifty Key Figures in Management
ISBN: 9780415369787 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents the life and ideas of influential people who have helped redefine the way we think about management. It covers well known and controversial figures from around the world and from the Renaissance onwards, including: Edward Cadbury, Lao Tzu, Mary Parker Follett, Machiavelli, Henry Ford, Matsushita Konosuke, Bill Gates, Cosimo dei Medici, Henry Heinz and Jack Welch. This informative guide should be of value to those with an interest in the key personalities involved in the devlopment of management as we know it today.
This text presents the life and ideas of influential people who have helped redefine the way we think about management. It covers well known and contr...
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