The Associates

Author : Richard Rayner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393333612
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California (Enterprise) written by Richard Rayner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true-life tale of ruthless ambition, staggering greed, and the making of a nation. Four men--Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins--rose from their position as middle-class merchants to become the force behind the transcontinental railroad.

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307576159
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Associate written by John Grisham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret that could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One night that secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have a compromising video they’ll use to ruin him—unless he does exactly what they say. What they offer Kyle is something any ambitious young lawyer would kill for: a job in Manhattan as an associate at the world’s largest law firm. If Kyle accepts, he’ll be on the fast track to partnership and a fortune. But there’s a catch. Kyle won’t be working for the firm but against it in a dispute between two powerful defense contractors worth billions. Now Kyle is caught between the criminal forces manipulating him, the FBI, and his own law firm—in a malignant conspiracy not even Kyle, with all his intellect, cunning, and bravery, may be able to escape alive. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

Author : Richard Rayner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242412
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California (Enterprise) written by Richard Rayner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A first-rate look at the little-known story behind the creation of America's first continental railroad…Entertaining and well written." —Publishers Weekly One hundred forty years ago, four shopkeepers in Sacramento, California, rose to become the force behind the American transcontinental railroad, achieving along the way wealth beyond measure. To build influence and maintain power, they lied, bribed, and, when necessary, arranged for obstacles, both human and legal, to disappear. Their names were Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins, and they were known as "The Big Four" or "The Associates." Their drive for money—nothing more, nothing less—was epic. Their legacy is a university, public gardens, museums, mansions, banks, and libraries—and to a large degree, California itself. A captivating chronicle of a crucial period in American urban expansion, The Associates is a true-to-life tale of ruthless ambition, staggering greed, and the making of a nation.

Author : Associates of Dr. Bray (Organization)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Account of the Designs and Proceedings of the Associates of the late Doctor Bray. For the year 1807 written by Associates of Dr. Bray (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Jay Osborn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395270974
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Associates written by John Jay Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Rayner
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
ISBN 13 : 162373018X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Suit written by Richard Rayner and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Rayner had a peripatetic childhood, and it seemed he found some sense of place when he attended Cambridge University. The study of philosophy combined with an obsession with books, however, served as the catalyst for a bizarre life of crime. Mounting debts propelled the author into a series of adventures, as he plundered bookstores for elusive first editions, forged checks, and acted as an accomplice in a Keystone Kops-like attempted bank robbery. In a memoir that's "compelling, edgy, painfully alive" (Times Literary Supplement), like "stripped-down Dostoevsky" (Time), this is the personal story, both tragic and comic, of an absence of identity and a long checkered past of crimes and misdemeanors.

Author : Robert F. Dalzell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674257658
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enterprising Elite written by Robert F. Dalzell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other single group of individuals, the Boston Associates were responsible for the sweeping economic transformation that occurred in New England between 1815 and 1861. Through the use of the corporate form, they established an extensive network of modern business enterprises that were among the largest of the time. Their most notable achievement was the development of the Waltham-Lowell system in the textile industry, but they were also active in transportation, banking, and insurance, and at the same time played a major role in philanthropy and politics. Evaluating each of these efforts in turn and placing the Associates in the context of the society and culture that produced them, the author convincingly explains the complex motives that led the group to undertake initiatives on so many different fronts. Dalzell shows that men like Francis Cabot Lowell, Nathan Appleton, and Amos and Abbott Lawrence are best understood as transitional figures. Although they used modern methods when it suited their interest, they were most concerned with protecting the positions they had already won at the top of a traditional social order. Thus, for all the innovations they sponsored, their commitment to change remained both partial and highly selective. And while something very like an industrial revolution did occur in New England during the nineteenth century, paradoxically the Associates neither sought nor welcomed it. On the contrary, as time passed they became increasingly preoccupied with combating the forces of change. In addition to the light it sheds on a crucial chapter of business history, this gracefully written study offers fresh insights into the role and attitudes of elites during the period. Furthermore it contradicts some of the prevailing thought about entrepreneurial behavior in the early phases of industrialization in America.

Author : Carolyn Crane
Publisher : Carolyn Crane
ISBN 13 : 0988313138
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Shadows written by Carolyn Crane and published by Carolyn Crane. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Into the Shadows feeds into that yen for the dark, damaged hero like catnip for felines.” ~Dear Author Rule #1: Don’t fall for your crime boss father’s favorite killer NADIA fell for the most feared hitter on her late father’s payroll. Thorne’s a lost cause—as dangerous and damaged as they come, but she’s not sorry. Without Thorne she wouldn’t have their beautiful boy. Now Thorne’s burst back into her life after being gone for two years, arrogant and demanding, making himself right at home. She can’t let him figure out Benny is his…so she enlists a friend to play their son’s daddy. THORNE knows exactly how Nadia sees him—as a brute and a killer willing to play her sexy games. And that’s how it has to stay. Leaving her way back when was the hardest thing he ever did, but it was the only way to protect her. Now his undercover mission has thrown them back together…and it drives him crazy to see her with another man…and another man’s baby. "It's going to be hard for another book this year to impress me more than this one... Into the Shadows is suspenseful, gritty, violent, sexy - everything I want in a romantic suspense." ~Smexy Books "Wow. I loved this book! This is one of my best books of the year and has reminded me why Carolyn Crane is one of my favourite authors. With Into the Shadows she has crafted a book that was emotionally intense, full of action and hot as hell." ~Under the Covers "This is one of those reviews in which I just want to tell you "buy it, read it, and thank me later", but I know that doesn't work with you greedy people. So let me tell you why you should follow my advice... Because this book will rock your socks off!" ~The Bookaholic Cat ******** **This standalone suspense book is #3 in the Undercover Associates series, but it can be read on its own.** **Nominated for the 2014 RITA award**

Author : Heike Geissler
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1635900360
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seasonal Associate written by Heike Geissler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center. No longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig. But the job, intended as a stopgap measure, quickly becomes a descent into humiliation, and Geissler soon begins to internalize the dynamics and nature of the post-capitalist labor market and precarious work. Driven to work at Amazon by financial necessity rather than journalistic ambition, Heike Geissler has nonetheless written the first and only literary account of corporate flex-time employment that offers “freedom” to workers who have become an expendable resource. Shifting between the first and the second person, Seasonal Associate is a nuanced expose of the psychic damage that is an essential working condition with mega-corporations. Geissler has written a twenty-first-century account of how the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt.

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Associate Training Programs in the Medical and Biological Sciences at the National Institutes of Health written by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: