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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Fortitudine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Werth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143912681X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Billion-Dollar Molecule written by Barry Werth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research. Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing—atom by atom—both a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug, and a drug to combat the virus that causes AIDS. You will be hooked from start to finish, as you go from the labs, where obsessive, fiercely competitive scientists struggle for a breakthrough, to Wall Street, where the wheeling and dealing takes on a life of its own, as Boger courts investors and finally decides to take Vertex public. Here is a fascinating no-holds-barred account of the business of science, which includes an updated epilogue about the most recent developments in the quest for a drug to cure AIDS.
Author : Andrew Wilkinson
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1637744765
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Never Enough written by Andrew Wilkinson and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like going to business school and therapy all in one book." —James Clear, New York Times Bestselling Author, Atomic Habits Once a barista in a small cafe making $6.50 an hour, Andrew Wilkinson built a business valued at over a billion dollars by the time he was 36—and yet, his path to success was anything but a straight line. In Never Enough, Wilkinson pulls back the curtain on the lives of the ultra-rich, sharing insights into building a successful business that has been called a “Berkshire Hathaway, but for internetcompanies,” and a surprising first-person account of what it’s actually like to become a billionaire. Never Enough features both the lessons Wilkinson has learned as well as the many mistakes made on the road to wealth—some of which cost him money, happiness, and important relationships. Taking a “no secrets” approach to stories the wealthy rarely reveal, Wilkinson is unwaveringly honest about some of the unexpected downsides of money: its toxic effect on personal relationships, how the lifestyles of the rich and famous aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, and how competition with peers leaves everyone—even billionaires—feeling like they never have enough. In this book, you’ll discover: A candid glimpse into the lives of the super-rich and what truly matters beyond money Insights on building a successful business from the ground up Lessons learned from the mistakes made on the journey to his fortune The surprising realities of life as a billionaire and the challenges that come with extreme wealth In this rare and deeply honest account, Wilkinson examines his journey to nine zeros, what came after that pinnacled number, and the essential things money can’t buy.
Author : Tom Wainwright
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395840
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Narconomics written by Tom Wainwright and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola. And what can government learn to combat this scourge? By analyzing the cartels as companies, law enforcers might better understand how they work -- and stop throwing away 100 billion a year in a futile effort to win the "war" against this global, highly organized business. Your intrepid guide to the most exotic and brutal industry on earth is Tom Wainwright. Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. The cast of characters includes "Bin Laden," the Bolivian coca guide; Old Lin," the Salvadoran gang leader; "Starboy," the millionaire New Zealand pill maker; and a cozy Mexican grandmother who cooks blueberry pancakes while plotting murder. Along with presidents, cops, and teenage hitmen, they explain such matters as the business purpose for head-to-toe tattoos, how gangs decide whether to compete or collude, and why cartels care a surprising amount about corporate social responsibility. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them.
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Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Office Economist written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Manufacturers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 2200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Author : Megan Shull
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593524586
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Billion Dollar Girl written by Megan Shull and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "LUMINOUS and FULL OF HEART, this book is a STUNNING GEM." —Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Princess Diaries and Airhead series From the bestselling author behind Disney’s The Swap comes a profoundly moving novel about one girl’s unforgettable journey to discover that life’s true jackpot might not be what it seems. Full of joy and moxie, Billion Dollar Girl grabs hold and won’t let go. River Ryland is the girl everyone wants to be around. But this brave 13-year-old has a secret that's getting harder and harder to hide: she lives mostly alone in a ramshackle, single-wide trailer with a mom who drops in and out of her life. After a visit from Social Services goes horribly wrong, longing for security, River sets off on the run. Soon, a case of mistaken identity gives River a chance to live a life that she had never even dreamed. But, when her newfound safety is shattered, River discovers, against all odds—one in 307 million, to be exact—that life's true jackpot isn't anything that it seems. A simultaneously heart-wrenching and exhilarating exploration of what we value, suspenseful and wise, Billion Dollar Girl is a deeply-felt reminder that we are inexplicably intertwined; a hopeful story of our times.
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Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book American Advance written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth M. Keisel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738593893
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Dayton Aviation written by Kenneth M. Keisel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hallowed skies blanket Dayton, Ohio, a city once known as the "Cradle of Aviation"--and with good reason. It was in Dayton that two brothers became the unlikely creators of the world's first airplane, but that is just the start of the story. Dayton Aviation: The Wright Brothers to McCook Field examines Dayton's civil and military aviation history from its start with the Wright Brothers to the founding of Wright and Patterson Fields in the 1930s, a period that saw the construction of the world's first airport, the Huffman Flying Prairie. Dayton was home to the first airplane factory and, later, the world's largest aircraft factory. The city introduced the world to crop dusting, landing lights, free-fall parachutes, pressurized cabins, night aerial photography, the first private-cabin plane, and the first strategic bomber. In downtown Dayton, office workers could look out windows and watch history unfold as pilots broke one world record after another in the skies over the city. Dayton was, and still is, the airplane capital of the world. These images, captured by the founding fathers of aviation, show that from 1904 through the 1930s, if it was happening in the air, it was happening in Dayton.
Author : Chris Lee (Financial adviser)
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ISBN 13 : 9780473474959
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Billion Dollar Bonfire written by Chris Lee (Financial adviser) and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of South Canterbury Finance (SCF) is one of the biggest New Zealand stories of the last decade. The sweep of events, from Timaru to the Beehive, include some of the most revealing moments on issues critical to this country - everything from poor governance and systemic issues in the finance sector, through to the structural risks this exposed and the costs it ultimately presented to all New Zealanders. There has not yet been a book that has attempted to tell this story, certainly not one from an `insider' perspective. The Billion Dollar Bonfire by Chris Lee will be the first book to do both these things. Chris tells this fascinating story as both a long-standing New Zealand financial advisor and a protagonist in the narrative. As he writes in the opening chapter, he knew Alan Hubbard personally and, from the late 1990s, had clients invest with SCF. His main motivation for writing the book, made explicit throughout, is his overriding concern that this could all happen again without significant changes to our law and the culture of the capital markets industry. The book is underpinned by substantial research: thousands of documents - including new material from OIAs and other sources - and interviews, both public and anonymous, with many of the key figures.
Author : Paul R. Hare
Publisher : Fonthill Media
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Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Undarkened Skies written by Paul R. Hare and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full story of the American aeroplane building programme in book form for the first timeComprehensively illustrated, including some previously unpublished photographsRich in detail, this will be of interest to aviation and military historians as well as modellers Soon after entering the war in April 1917, American propaganda promised that the country would ‘darken the skies over Europe’ by sending over ‘the greatest aerial armada ever seen’. Encouraged by the French Government, America promised to build no fewer than 22,000 aeroplanes within a year and to field and maintain a force of 4,000 machines, all of the latest type, over the Western Front during 1918. This was to provide adequate air support for her own troops, as well as a way of using her industrial strength to bypass the squalor of the war in the trenches, and so bring an end to the stalemate of attrition into which the war had descended. However, by the time of the Armistice more than eighteen months later, just a few hundred American-built aeroplanes had reached the war fronts and several investigations into the causes of the failure of the project were already in progress. Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War examines the fascinating history of American aircraft manufacturing during the latter years of the First World War, in addition to investigating the causal factors of America’s lack of progress in the air.
Author : D. Clayton James
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118822935
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book America and the Great War written by D. Clayton James and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America and the Great War, 1914-1920, the accomplished writing team of D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provides a succinct account of the principal military, political, and social developments in United States History as the nation responded to, and was changed by, a world in crisis. A forthright examination of America's unprecedented military commitment and actions abroad, America and the Great War includes insights into the personalities of key Allied officers and civilian leaders as well as the evolution of the new American "citizen soldier." Full coverage is given to President Wilson's beleaguered second term, the experience of Americans-including women, minorities, and recent arrivals-on the home front, and the lasting changes left in the Great War's wake.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Air Force Journal of Logistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Lee (Financial adviser)
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ISBN 13 : 9780473504144
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Billion Dollar Bonfire written by Chris Lee (Financial adviser) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of South Canterbury Finance (SCF) is one of the biggest New Zealand stories of the last decade. The sweep of events, from Timaru to the Beehive, includes some of the most revealing moments on issues critical to this country - from poor governance and systemic issues in the finance sector, through to the structural risks this exposed and the costs it ultimately presented to all New Zealanders. The Billion Dollar Bonfire sets out to tell this story from an "insider" perspective. Chris Lee is a long-standing New Zealand financial advisor and a protagonist in the narrative. He knew Allan Hubbard personally and, from the late 1990s, had clients invest with SCF. This is a book written with passion and purpose. As Lee makes plain, this could all happen again unless significant changes are made to our law and the culture of the capital markets industry. So the book is underpinned by substantial research: thousands of documents (including new material from OIAs and other sources) and interviews, both public and anonymous, with many of the key figures.
Author : Wayne Biddle
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801868283
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Barons of the Sky written by Wayne Biddle and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This panoramic history of the rise of the American aerospace industry traces the careers of the men whose names became synonymous with today's military-industrial complex.
Author : Lori A. Henning
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163747
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Harnessing the Airplane written by Lori A. Henning and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its dawn in the early twentieth century, the new technology of aviation posed a crucial question to American and British cavalry: what do we do with the airplane? Lacking the hindsight of historical perspective, cavalry planners based their decisions on incomplete information. Harnessing the Airplane compares how the American and British armies dealt with this unique challenge. A multilayered look at a critical aspect of modern industrial warfare, this book examines the ramifications of technological innovation and its role in the fraught relationship that developed between traditional ground units and emerging air forces. Cavalry officers pondered the potential military uses of airplanes and other new technologies early on, but preferred to test them before embracing and incorporating them in their operations. Cavalrymen cautiously examined airplane capabilities, developed applications and doctrine for joint operations, and in the United States, even tried to develop their own, specially designed craft. Throughout the interwar period, instead of replacing the cavalry, airplanes were used cooperatively with cavalry forces in reconnaissance, security, communication, protection, and pursuit—a collaboration tested in maneuvers and officially blessed in both British and American doctrine. This interdependent relationship changed drastically, however, during the 1930s as aviation priorities and doctrine shifted from tactical support of ground troops toward independent strategic bombardment. Henning shows that the American and British experiences with military aviation differed. The nascent British aviation service made quicker inroads into reconnaissance and scouting, even though the British cavalry was the older institution with more-established traditions. The American cavalry, despite its youth, contested the control of reconnaissance as late as the 1930s, years after similar arguments ended in Britain. Drawing on contemporary government reports, memoirs and journals of service personnel, books, and professional and trade journals and magazines, Harnessing the Airplane is a nuanced account of the cavalry’s response to aviation over time and presents a new perspective on a significant chapter of twentieth-century military history.
