Without Reservation: How a Controversial Indian Tribe Rose to Power and Built the World's Largest Casino (Häftad)
avJeff Benedict
ISBN: 9780060931964 - UTGIVEN: 2001-07With compelling detail, Without Reservation tells the stunning story of the rise of the richest Indian tribe in history.In 1973, an old American Indian woman dies with nothing left of her tribe but a 214-acre tract of abandoned forest. It seems to be the end of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe. But it [...]
The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football (Häftad)
avJeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
ISBN: 9780345803030 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
NCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as "athlete-students" give everything they've got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game. But what is the[...]
The Mormon Way of Doing Business (Häftad)
avJeff Benedict
ISBN: 9781455522941 - UTGIVEN: 2012-06The Founder of JetBlue. The former CEO of Dell Computers. The CEO of Deloitte & Touche. The former Dean of the Harvard Business School - and now a US Presidential candidate in Mitt Romney. They all have one thing in common. They are devout Mormons who work long hours but always spend their Sundays e[...]
My Name Used to Be Muhammad: A True Story of a Muslim Who Became a Christian (Inbunden)
avJeff Benedict, Tito Momen
ISBN: 9781609077105 - UTGIVEN: 2013-11Tito Momen was raised Muhammad Momen. He was born in Nigeria and was taught to observe the strict teachings of Islam. At age five he woke at 4:45 every morning to attend the mosque and perform dawn prayer with the other men in his village. Training to memorize the Qur'an began at age six. It was at [...]
