Author : Paul Stiles
Publisher : Crown Business
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
In the tradition of "Liar's Poker" comes a darkly comic tale of an amoral, profit-mad Wall Street. An outsider on the inside of financial giant Merrill Lynch, Paul Stiles witnessed financial history in the making, including the Orange County debacle. "Riding the Bull" is the story of what happens when an idealist grapples with the dark side of today's high-stakes financial marketplace.
Author : Munro Leaf
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 1977-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0451479025
A true classic with a timeless message! All the other bulls run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights. Ferdinand, on the other hand, would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when Ferdinand is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? The Story of Ferdinand has inspired, enchanted, and provoked readers ever since it was first published in 1936 for its message of nonviolence and pacifism. In WWII times, Adolf Hitler ordered the book burned in Nazi Germany, while Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, granted it privileged status as the only non-communist children's book allowed in Poland. The preeminent leader of Indian nationalism and civil rights, Mahatma Gandhi—whose nonviolent and pacifistic practices went on to inspire Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.—even called it his favorite book. The story was adapted by Walt Disney into a short animated film entitled Ferdinand the Bull in 1938. Ferdinand the Bull won the 1938 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).
Author : Jim Rogers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119049849
Profiting from China without getting burned is currently an obsession with the international investment community. The estimated size of the Chinese economy has just been revised upwards, making it the 4th largest in the world behind the US, Japan and Germany, and ahead of the UK but the idea that investing in China is a sure-fire, get-rich-quick investment story is dangerously misleading. * The author of the bestselling Investment Biker, Adventure Capitalist, and Hot Commodities, is providing a book that provides a window into what will soon be the most vital, most lucrative market of our time: China. * While the Chinese economy has had an annual average growth of 9.4 percent since 1978, and despite the ongoing speculation about China's future, its stock market is now emerging from a six-year low. * As the Chinese economy continues to lumber toward a free market system - and as the Chinese government inevitably unpegs its currency and opens its stock market to more foreign investment, Rogers foresees an abundance of opportunities for investors. * In this book, he shows readers not only how to take advantage of China's coming dominance - what, where, how, and when to buy - but how China will impact individual companies, markets, and economies around the world. * "Nobody with blue eyes has ever made money investing in China," the old saying goes. Jim Rogers aims to disprove this adage. Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age 37. Since then, he has served as a sometime professor of finance at Columbia University's business school, and as a media commentator. He appears twice a week on Fox Business News, and is the author of three immensely successful books.
Author : Marjorie Cowley
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1607342537
A brother and sister's search for a new life and new home . . . 5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia during a terrible drought, Jomar and Zefa's father must send his children away to the city of Ur because he can no longer feed them. At fourteen, Jomar is old enough to apprentice with Sidah, a master goldsmith for the temple of the moongod, but there is no place for Zefa in Sidah's household. Zefa, a talented but untrained musician, is forced to play her music and sing for alms on the streets of Ur. Marjorie Cowley vividly imagines the intrigues, and harsh struggle for survival in ancient Mesopotamia.
Author : Dave Hitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2009-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470345233
Dave Hitz likes to solve fun problems. He didn’t set out to be a Silicon Valley icon, a business visionary, or even a billionaire. But he became all three. It turns out that business is a mosaic of interesting puzzles like managing risk, developing and reversing strategies, and looking into the future by deconstructing the past. As a founder of NetApp, a data storage firm that began as an idea scribbled on a placemat and now takes in $4 billion a year, Hitz has seen his company go through every major cycle in business—from the Jack-of-All-Trades mentality of a start-up, through the tumultuous period of the IPO and the dot-com bust, and finally to a mature enterprise company. NetApp is one of the fastest-growing computer companies ever, and for six years in a row it has been on Fortune magazine’s list of Best Companies to Work For. Not bad for a high school dropout who began his business career selling his blood for money and typing the names of diseases onto index cards. With colorful examples and anecdotes, How to Castrate a Bull is a story for everyone interested in understanding business, the reasons why companies succeed and fail, and how powerful lessons often come from strange and unexpected places. Dave Hitz co-founded NetApp in 1992 with James Lau and Michael Malcolm. He served as a programmer, marketing evangelist, technical architect, and vice president of engineering. Presently, he is responsible for future strategy and direction for the company. Before his career in Silicon Valley, Dave worked as a cowboy, where he got valuable management experience by herding, branding, and castrating cattle.
Author : Eleanor Kuhns
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448310873
In a world of Goddess worship, sacred snakes and sacrifice, human jealousy, resentment and betrayal still run wild . . . Ancient Crete, 1450 BC. When her sister Arge drops to the floor in convulsions and then dies at her wedding, fifteen-year-old Martis, a young poet and bull leaper in training, is certain she was murdered. The prime suspect is the groom, Saurus, a barbarian from the Greek mainland, but when Arge’s Shade visits Martis, swearing Saurus is not her murderer, Martis vows to uncover the truth. As Martis begins asking questions, she discovers that while her sweet sister Arge may have had no secrets, many of the people around Martis certainly do... but if the murderer is not Saurus, then who is it? The Egyptian lady who frequents the docks, one of Martis’s other sisters, her father, or someone entirely different? Martis is in a battle against time to save her sister’s Shade from eternal unrest and uncover the killer before they strike again . . .
Author : Maia Wojciechowska
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 144246593X
Maia Wojciechowska's 1965 Newbery Medal winner about a young boy struggling with his father's legacy. Manolo was only three when his father, the great bullfighter Juan Olivar, died. But Juan is never far from Manolo's consciousness--how could he be, with the entire town of Arcangel waiting for the day Manolo will fulfill his father's legacy? But Manolo has a secret he dares to share with no one--he is a coward, without afición, the love of the sport that enables a bullfighter to rise above his fear and face a raging bull. As the day when he must enter the ring approaches, Manolo finds himself questioning which requires more courage: to follow in his father's legendary footsteps or to pursue his own destiny?
Author : Michael Rice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317725840
Everyone has heard of the Minotaur in the labyrinth on Crete and many know that the Greek gods would adopt the guise of a bull to seduce mortal women. But what lies behind these legends? The Power of the Bull discusses mankind's enduring obsession with bulls. The bull is an almost universal symbol throughout Indo-European cultures. Bull cults proliferated in the Middle East and in many parts of North Africa, and one cult, Mithraism, was the greatest rival to Christianity in the Roman Empire. The Cults are divergent yet have certain core elements in common. Michael Rice argues that the ancient bulls were the supreme sacrificial animal. An examination of evidence from earliest prehistory onwards reveals the bull to be a symbol of political authority, sexual potency, economic wealth and vast subterranean powers. In some areas representations of the bull have varied little from earliest times, in others it has changed vastly over centuries. This volume provides a well-illustrated and accessible analysis of the exceptionally rich artistic inheritance associated with the bull.
Author : Connie Roop
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2002-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780613508339
Using primary sources, historic prints, and photographs, profiles the brave warrior whose accomplishments and actions brought him a place in American history
Author : Rick Baty
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2014-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780991551101
When it comes to the quality of our lives, is seeing really believing, or does our attitude create our reality? Rick Baty has lived a rich life, full of both good and not-so-good times. The bull's horns have gotten him more than once, and now he's learned how to change his attitude to grab those horns and turn things around. Along the way, he discovered that despite our culture's focus on winning, it is losing that builds character. He now navigates the unpredictable waters of life with a simple map: appreciate the good times, trust your instincts, keep a strong faith and hold your dear ones close to you. Whether your life is currently the magic carpet ride you always envisioned, or whether the bull's got you, the wisdom in this little book helped Rick survive his not-so-good days, and it can help you, too. Rick reminds us all to remember this: When the bull hooks you, life isn't over. It has just begun.
