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  • No Limits
    Nick Haritatos
    Opening during the Nazi occupation of Greece, bestseller No Limits is a true-life adventure story of Nick Haritatos. From his humble beginnings in war-torn Greece to southern Africa, Haritatos began a remarkable journey to success, buying his first business at sixteen and creating a portfolio of successful companies in Rhodesia, South Africa, and the United States.Buffeted by w...
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    15,71 €

  • The House On Dogbone St.
    Julia Duthie
    In The House on Dogbone St., Julia Duthie takes us on a walk through the tumultuous life she was destined to endure.The feeling of treading on eggshells for the little girl who had no choice but to navigate one of the most dreadful paths that life could offer, displaying her resilience and go-getter attitude no matter what obstacle was thrown her way, is fascinating. We cannot ...
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    25,54 €

  • In The Toy Box
    Sal Panicci
    'Try retail. They never lay you off,' said a very good friend of mine whose perspective I respected since he was going to be a millionaire by the time he was thirty-five. So began my more-than-thirty-year journey of fun and frolic in the service to mankind--and mankind does so want to be serviced.I said goodbye to an 'eight thirty to five with an hour for lunch' corporate life ...
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    9,61 €

  • MS Shoes Hudco Government Andrews Ganj Land
    Alborz Azar
    In MS Shoes HUDCO Government Andrews Ganj Land; a true story revealing the litigation for the last Twenty-Seven years, without producing a resolution, due to the laws in India.HUDCO continued to use various applications, which would take more than five years to decide. Even after the decrees were passed in favor of MS Shoes, the appeals took more than ten years to determine the...
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    33,43 €

  • Winfield-Living in the Shadow of the Woolworths
    Monica Randall
    Monica Randall grew up on the Gold Coast of Long Island and was fascinated by the massive estates and their tantalizing stories. Millionaire F. W. Woolworth built Winfield, the grandest of its manors in the 1910s. On a clear day, you can see the New York City skyline from its balustraded roof, yet for nearly a century few have been allowed to enter its gates. In the 1960s Monic...
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    17,83 €

  • Tommy Come Lately
    Nicolas Thomas
    A story about an optimistic young man that eventually loses everything as a result of the dissolution of a Fortune 1000 corporation. 401K, IRA, home, and nearly life itself. Standing alone fighting some of the top executives.  It takes twenty years to get there and another twenty years to get from there. It describes power games of executives and survival games of employees. An...
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    17,30 €

  • A Man Called Peace
    Henderson Carter
    Dr. Henderson Carter, Senior Lecturer in History at the UWI Cave Hill Campus, artfully weaves an intimate, yet intricate tapestry of the maritime interconnections between Saba and Barbados. Central to this tapestry is the son of Capt. Frank Hassell, Eric Alphonzo, who left primary school at age 11 to pursue the life of a ship hand on his father’s boat. Eric would later become c...
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    83,61 €

  • Firstborn
    Fred W. Kennedy
    Firstborn, which celebrates the legacy of Luis Fred Kennedy, his family and business, is a narrative that takes on a character of its own, larger than life. At the age of twenty one, after the sudden death of his father in 1930, Luis Fred became co-manager of Grace, Kennedy & Co. Ltd., a Jamaican enterprise founded by his father and Dr. John J. Grace in 1922. Serving as Governi...
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    43,75 €

  • Firstborn
    Fred W. Kennedy
    Firstborn, which celebrates the legacy of Luis Fred Kennedy, his family and business, is a narrative that takes on a character of its own, larger than life. At the age of twenty one, after the sudden death of his father in 1930, Luis Fred became co-manager of Grace, Kennedy & Co. Ltd., a Jamaican enterprise founded by his father and Dr. John J. Grace in 1922. Serving as Governi...
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    60,42 €

  • Southview to Gettysvue
    Bill Schmidt
    Born in a coal camp in Southview, Pennsylvania, to a German immigrant father who was a coal miner for thirty-seven years, my future looked preordained. I was headed to the coal mines or the steel mills in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was just a way of life in Appalachia, and the measurement of success was just getting a job, eventually getting married, and raisin...
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    26,83 €

  • The House That Pasta Built
    Joe / Joe Fresta
    This book is based on a true story, about a group of second-generation Italian /Sicilian kids from The Hill in South St. Louis, and their dream of building a successful chain of Italian restaurants. They had no money in the beginning, but it did not stop them from embarking on a roller coaster path to success.They faced one trauma after another, survived the early tragic death ...
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    10,24 €

  • Navigating Motherhood
    Laura Elizabeth
    Being a new mother can be daunting at the best of times. With so much information out there, and so many experts telling you what’s best, it can be overwhelming to discern what’s best for you and your family.Navigating Motherhood is a collection of stories from everyday mothers, sharing their personal parenting experiences and what worked best for them. From here you can soak i...
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    21,46 €

  • Retired/Rewired! Not Expired!
    Joel Cadesky
    Joel Cadesky knew he was expected to live by the strong work ethics of integrity and service that were modelled for him by his family and community. He brought these strengths with him when he left his secure teaching position of nine years to start over with his young family in tow in a new career, in a new city.38 years later Joel finds that he is re-energized and at the age...
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    31,22 €

  • Marília Mendonça, A Rainha Da Sofrência
    Bruno Ribeiro
    Acho norma um saco. Tudo o que me mandam fazer, eu faço o contrário.Esta frase, dita por Marília Mendonça, ajuda a compreender a forma transgressora com que a artista goiana conduziu sua vida e obra. Ela viveu apenas 26 anos, mas de modo intenso e produtivo. Com suas composições, Marília deu vez e voz às mulheres na música sertaneja, gênero musical predominantemente masculino. ...
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    19,38 €

  • The Soul of a Shoemaker
    Susan Cork
    A Shoemaker struggles to survive in an oppressed society. Can he outsmart the brutal regime before he becomes the next victim?My father, Frank Katana, escaped communist Yugoslavia on foot over sixty years ago and found his way to Canada, where he started a shoe manufacturing business.  He left everything behind to escape from a brutal regime. He believed he would have a better ...
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    16,05 €

  • The Soul of a Shoemaker
    Susan Cork
    My father, Frank Katana, escaped communist Yugoslavia on foot over sixty years ago and found his way to Canada, where he started a shoe manufacturing business.  He left everything behind to escape from a brutal regime. He believed he would have a better life for himself and his family if he could have the opportunity to thrive in a free country. This story is a glimpse into his...
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    14,70 €

  • أبدو الأزيم
    عبد العظيم محمد
    عشتُ أرقب وأحلِّل وأغامر، أرقب مَن اختاروا التمسُّك الحَرفي بالعادات والتقاليد وكأنَّها طوق النجاة في هذه الحياة. أرقب مَن اختاروا المغامرة في تجارب الحياة، وأرقب إدارتهم لطبيعة المغامرات وكيفية الظفر بنتائجها.أرقب مَن اختاروا الالتزام الديني كسبيل وحيد للنجاة، ولكن كنتُ ألاحظ اختلاف المدارس في هذا الشأن، فمنهم المتصوِّف، ومنهم السَّلفي، ومنهم الجهادي، ومنهم الإخواني، وغيرهم كث...
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    12,51 €

  • Sugar, Ships & Slavery - Sugaropolis
    Vincent P Gillen
    Greenock, on the West Coast of Scotland earned the sobriquet of 'Sugaropolis' as it was the major refiner of sugar imported from the Caribbean and the East Indies. This book details the history of the refineries and the people who owned them. Fully illustrated throughout, the book is the second volume in a new History of Greenock, called Sugar, Ships & Slavery which examines th...
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    111,78 €

  • 2022 Historical Honorary Doctorate Degree Yearbook
    Apostle Dr. Bridget Outlaw
    The 2022 Historical Honorary Doctorate Degree Graduations Yearbook highlights some of the phenomenal Graduations from Shekinah Glory Theological Seminary and Institute and some of the Graduations which were held from Daughters of Destiny Enterprises, Inc.’s various Training Academies and Workshops. ...
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    87,33 €

  • After 60 and On the Edge Like Indiana Jones
    David Thomas Smith
    The Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO-SACO) is a volunteer organization that utilizes Canadian business professionals to help developing nations in capacities related to their domestic business expertise. After more than three decades of work as an urban planner, David Smith began a second career in volunteer service, sharing his expertise on urban and strategic pla...
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    33,68 €

  • Wash Behind Your Ears, Billy
    Charles W. (Bill) Cox
    Have you ever fantasized about pursuing a new career? Do you feel that a career change would be impossible given your personal responsibilities? Author Bill Cox has done it numerous times. Wash Behind Your Ears, Billy: The Greatest Story Ever Told About Me by Me is a memoir that chronicles the author’s time as a banker, real estate broker, building superintendent, criminal inve...
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    19,86 €

  • My Life In Advertising and Scientific Advertising
    Claude C. Hopkins
    Bringing the best of Claude C. Hopkins together. Here, you’ll get two landmark works in one, and discover his fixed principles and basic fundamentals that still prevail today.1) Scientific Advertising is a book written by Claude C Hopkins and is cited by many advertising and marketing personalities (such as David Ogilvy, Gary Halbert, and Jay Abraham) as a ''must-read'' book.Th...
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    22,07 €

  • My Life In Advertising and Scientific Advertising
    Claude C. Hopkins
    Bringing the best of Claude C. Hopkins together. Here, you’ll get two landmark works in one, and discover his fixed principles and basic fundamentals that still prevail today.1) Scientific Advertising is a book written by Claude C Hopkins and is cited by many advertising and marketing personalities (such as David Ogilvy, Gary Halbert, and Jay Abraham) as a ''must-read'' book.Th...
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    34,55 €

  • The Story of Timbertrove
    Shirley O’Kelly
    Timbertrove is a unique, award-winning, 100% Irish-owned family business, in the Dublin mountains. Owned by husband and wife team, Henry and Shirley O’Kelly, it has over 30 years’ experience in the design, manufacture and installation of top quality timber products. It also operates a Country Store and Café. THE STORY OF TIMBERTROVE is a story of ...... two people, from ordinar...
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    34,08 €

  • Bootstrap Entrepreneur
    Christina Schweighofer / John Miller
    'Inspiring and heartfelt' -Grand Forks HeraldHe defied naysayers and stood up to bankers. A fascinating history of America’s rise to technological leadership, seen through the eyes of someone who helped make it happen.Do you know which midwestern city was the first tech hub, decades before Silicon Valley?Do you know why computer memory, back then, was made by hand?In the early ...
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    13,53 €

  • PATRICE MOTSEPE
    Janet Smith
    Business tycoon Patrice Motsepe is never shy to shake up the status quo. He has always followed his instincts to stay ahead of the curve. An icon of corporate South Africa, he is as much known for his leadership in the world of football as for his philanthropy.He was a top lawyer when he pursued his dream of being an entrepreneur, making a deal with Anglo American in the late 1...
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    16,64 €

  • Pieman - The Papa D Story
    Dennis Bourgo / June V. Bourgo
    Pieman - The Papa D Story is the story of one man’s journey to self during a special time in his life. A time that fell into place when he learned to let go and trust his intuition.It is also a business adventure towards the end of his working life, with plenty of obstacles to overcome. It might have never been a success if he hadn’t opened his mind and accepted that things can...
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    22,12 €

  • Pieman - The Papa D Story
    Dennis Bourgo / June V. Bourgo
    Pieman - The Papa D Story is the story of one man’s journey to self during a special time in his life. A time that fell into place when he learned to let go and trust his intuition.It is also a business adventure towards the end of his working life, with plenty of obstacles to overcome. It might have never been a success if he hadn’t opened his mind and accepted that things can...
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    12,06 €

  • Pieman - The Papa D Story
    Dennis Bourgo / June V. Bourgo
    Pieman - The Papa D Story is the story of one man’s journey to self during a special time in his life. A time that fell into place when he learned to let go and trust his intuition.It is also a business adventure towards the end of his working life, with plenty of obstacles to overcome. It might have never been a success if he hadn’t opened his mind and accepted that things can...
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    23,14 €

  • Pieman - The Papa D Story
    Dennis Bourgo / June V. Bourgo
    Pieman - The Papa D Story is the story of one man’s journey to self during a special time in his life. A time that fell into place when he learned to let go and trust his intuition.It is also a business adventure towards the end of his working life, with plenty of obstacles to overcome. It might have never been a success if he hadn’t opened his mind and accepted that things can...
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    15,19 €