Author : Brad Dimock
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781892327987
In November 1928 an empty scow was found adrift and empty in the Colorado River. No bodies were found. But since 1971 several people have come forward claiming to be the occupants; one confesses to being a murderer.
Author : Ellsworth Leonardson Kolb
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN :
Author : Vince Welch
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2004-08
Category : Boaters (Persons)
ISBN : 9781892327079
Author : Ken Auletta
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1504018605
The inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street In 1983, Lew Glucksman, then co-CEO of the heralded investment bank Lehman Brothers, demanded the resignation of chairman Pete Peterson, with whom he had long argued over how to manage the company. Shockingly, Peterson, who had taken charge a decade earlier and led Lehman from near collapse to record profits, agreed to step down. In this meticulously researched volume, Ken Auletta details the turmoil, infighting, and power struggles that brought about Peterson’s departure and the eventual sale of one of Wall Street’s oldest and most prestigious firms. Set against the backdrop of the 1980s stock exchange, where hotshot young traders made and lost millions in a single afternoon, the story of Lehman’s fall is a suspenseful battle of wills between bankers, traders, and executives motivated by greed, envy, and ego. Auletta, who conducted hundreds of hours of interviews and was granted access to private company records, has crafted a thorough, enduring, and engaging account of pivotal events that continued to influence this storied financial institution until its ultimate demise in 2008.
Author : Eilís Dillon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781590171028
When two boys from a remote island off the western Irish coast venture to the forbidden Island of Horses, they find a mysterious tame black colt and unexpected danger.
Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9049986501
Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town’s first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years ago and never recovered. Another is engaged to the city’s rising political star, an upright man who’s already boring her. And then there’s Lola, the divorced, bohemian black sheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits back—waiting for the crime to come to him.
Author : Thomas Sweet Lossing
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Dutchess County (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9780935796872
Author : Lee Dunne
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1782348220
This is a rich novel, narrated by young Paddy Maguire, of his life growing into young adulthood in a Dublin slum of the late 1930s and 40s Ireland. Consider it a Dublin version of The Catcher in the Rye with lustful, lusty, thirsty, hard-working Paddy--a character as memorable as Holden Caulfield or Studs Lonigan--drolly detailing his adventurous adolescence. Goodbye to the Hill tells the story of a young man desperate to escape the confines of poverty and stifling mores, yet is an uplifting story, peppered with picaresque incidents, colourful language, and captures the delightful humour that transcends the hard times of Dublin's inner city life.
Author : Lisa Michaels
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393322958
"An absorbing, affecting and beautifully written novel."--New York Times Book Review
Author : Scott Berkun
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118660633
A behind-the-scenes look at the firm behind WordPress.com and the unique work culture that contributes to its phenomenal success 50 million websites, or twenty percent of the entire web, use WordPress software. The force behind WordPress.com is a convention-defying company called Automattic, Inc., whose 120 employees work from anywhere in the world they wish, barely use email, and launch improvements to their products dozens of times a day. With a fraction of the resources of Google, Amazon, or Facebook, they have a similar impact on the future of the Internet. How is this possible? What's different about how they work, and what can other companies learn from their methods? To find out, former Microsoft veteran Scott Berkun worked as a manager at WordPress.com, leading a team of young programmers developing new ideas. The Year Without Pants shares the secrets of WordPress.com's phenomenal success from the inside. Berkun's story reveals insights on creativity, productivity, and leadership from the kind of workplace that might be in everyone's future. Offers a fast-paced and entertaining insider's account of how an amazing, powerful organization achieves impressive results Includes vital lessons about work culture and managing creativity Written by author and popular blogger Scott Berkun (scottberkun.com) The Year Without Pants shares what every organization can learn from the world-changing ideas for the future of work at the heart of Automattic's success.
