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100 Success Lessons from Warren Buffett by N. Chokkan shares the investment secrets and principles of Warren Buffett, one of the world's most successful investors. The audiobook offers actionable insights for wealth creation and financial success.

As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century. Accounts of his eventful and stormy life have oscillated...

A comprehensive and gripping narrative'---Vikram Sampath, author, historian and Fellow of Royal Historical Society'A must-read'---Sandeep Unnithan, managing editor, India TodayThere are not many Indian heroes whose lives have been as dramatic and adventurous as that of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose...

World War Gods is an epic four-part series that delves into the origins and true nature of the gods, weaving together a narrative that is as thrilling as it is revelatory. This series does more than tell a story—it challenges the way you think, introducing the groundbreaking concept of abstract history. If you crave mind-expanding revelations, if uncovering the hidden truths of the universe excites you, if you engage with deep philosophical discourse, and if you have a passion for history.

If you're Irish American or African American or Eastern European Jewish American, there's a rich literature to give you a sense of your family's arrival-in-America story. Until now, that hasn't been the case for Chinese Americans. From noted historian Mae Ngai, The Lucky Ones uncovers the three-generational saga of the Tape family. It's a sweeping story centered on patriarch Jeu Dips' (Joseph Tapes') self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush San Francisco, and the extraordinary rise it enables.

Plutarch’s Lives remains one of the world’s most profoundly influential literary works. Written at the beginning of the second century, it forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world. His “parallel lives” were originally presented in a series of books that gave an account of one Greek and one Roman life, followed by a comparison of the two. Volume 1 compares Theseus and Romulus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, and Aristides and Marcus Cato, among others.

Det er fortællingen om den viking, der senere blev dansk konge efter en magtkamp med faderen, Harald blåtand (som han myrdede!), og grundlagde Danmark. Han indtog dele af Norge og Sverige og hele England, hvor han i 1013 - året før sin død - blev anerkendt som kongen over alle engelske. Romanen er resultatet af flere års research og må betragtes som det første opgør med den historieopfattelse, ifølge hvilken Sven Tveskæg kun var en brutal parentes i dansk og nordeuropæisk historie.

Sufrió persecuciones políticas por sus ideas, huyó del nazismo y vivió la primavera intelectual de París de los años treinta. Estuvo en las trincheras de la guerra civil española, desembarcó en Normandía y dejó testimonios únicos sobre los combates de la Segunda Guerra Mundial...

"Comment Hitler a-t-il été possible ? Comment un désaxé aussi bizarre a-t-il pu prendre le pouvoir en Allemagne, pays moderne, complexe, développé et culturellement avancé ? Comment a-t-il pu, à partir de 1933, s'imposer à des cercles habitués à diriger, bien éloignés des brutes nazies ? Comment a-t-il réussi à entraîner l'Allemagne dans le pari catastrophique visant à établir la domination de son pays en Europe, avec, en son cœur, un programme génocidaire terrible et sans précédent ?

One-cent magentas were provisional stamps, printed quickly when a shipment of official stamps from London did not arrive in British Guiana. They were mostly thrown out with the newspapers; one stamp survived. Through the stories of the eccentric characters who have bought, owned, and sold the One-Cent Magenta, James Barron delivers a fascinating tale of global history and immense wealth, and of the human desire to collect.

Paris, octobre 1945. Pierre Laval est condamné à mort par la Haute Cour de Justice. Il incarne ce que la politique de collaboration a fait de pire : la déportation des juifs, le service du travail obligatoire, les exactions de la Milice, la lutte contre la résistance. Mais il y a l'autre Laval : l'Auvergnat attaché à ses origines, l'avocat socialiste et pacifiste, le maire inamovible d'Aubervilliers, le père oublié des assurances sociales, l'héritier de Briand, le diplomate qui fait face à Hoover, Mussolini, Staline et Hitler.

Blanche Wiesen Cook recreates Eleanor Roosevelt in all of her roles -- as a visionary, an activist, a political wife, and a woman far more independent than we knew. No other First Lady has had a greater influence in the course of democracy in this century, and no other book about Eleanor Roosevelt captures the complexity of her character - her wit, her passion, her boldness, and her commitment to greater dignity and security for all women and men.

فصول هذا الكتاب كانت -في الأصل- أحاديث دأب علي الطنطاوي على إذاعتها حيناً من إذاعة دمشق منذ نحو نصف قرن، كما قال في مقدمته للطبعة الجديدة من الكتاب: "كل ما في هذا...

It’s June 1953, and 10-year-old Marc Straus is in his mother’s car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his younger brother, Stephen, are transferring from public school to a Yeshiva, and Marc needs tutoring. His parents haven’t said why they’re transferring - the family isn’t religious. All Marc knows is he’ll have to protect his brother. Stephen’s a delicate kid other kids pick on. Marc’s a street fighter who knows how to wall off pain.

Grace Brewster Hopper (December 9, 1906 to January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. A pioneer of computer programming, Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer.

A quiet, wealthy plantation owner, Jack Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with disinterest. Opposed to secession and a friend to Union and Confederate commanders alike, he did not want a war. After Union soldiers seized and murdered his sons, placing their decapitated heads on the gateposts of his estate, Hinson could remain indifferent no longer. He commissioned a special rifle for long-range accuracy, he took to the woods, and he set out for revenge.

The One-Armed Whiskey Man of Jacka-s Canyon daylights a newly excavated vein in the Golden State of mind. It follows the unbelievably true life and times of accidental California pioneer Thomas D Carneal III. His prominent Northern Kentucky clan carved an ironic notch into the whiskey rebellion of 1790's and beyond. Out of the blue, tragedy struck, and the family legacy ricocheted off to the wilds of 1850’s Northern California, landing on a historic rancho, shortly after California statehood.

يعدُّ رفاعة الطهطاوي أحد قادة النهضة المعرفية في مصر في عهد عزيز مصر محمد علي باشا، ورواد الفكر التنويرى فيها، بعد فترة من الاضمحلال الفكرى عاشتها مصر...ولد ونشأ...

अविनाश धर्माधिकारी यांच्या मधाळ वाणीतील गाजलेले व्यख्यान "नव्या वैभवाची स्वप्ने सजावी : कारगिल आणि युद्धाच्या...

Tome 1 : Gênes - Austerlitz - Eylau. "J'engage le colonel Marbot à continuer à écrire pour la défense et la gloire des Armées françaises et en confondre les calomniateurs", écrivait Napoléon dans son testament. "Les Mémoires du Général Marbot" constituent un remarquable témoignage sur l'épopée des guerres napoléoniennes.