Robert Morris: America's First Financier
Cyrus McCormick's Reaper and the Industrialization of Farming
John D. Rockefeller and the Modern Corporation
J. P. Morgan Saves the Country
Henry Ford and the Model T
Charles Merrill and the Democratization of Stock Ownership
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Busy travellers hunting for the best places to visit need look no further than these authoritative and witty guides that provide the most up-to-date coverage of a city, including shopping, art, music, sports, theatre, and nightlife. With the inside scoop from both anonymous inspectors and top-notch [...]

The connection between American popular culture and religion is the subject of this multifaceted and innovative collection. In fourteen lively essays whose topics range from the divine feminine in "The Da Vinci Code" to Madonna's "Like a Prayer," and from the world of sports to the ways in which cyb[...]

This volume contains the text of De l'avenir politique de l'Angleterre by French writer Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert (1810-70).[...]

A collection of twenty varied stories with menage themes.

"The American Discovery of Europe" investigates the voyages of America's Native people to the European continent before Columbus' 1492 arrival in the "New World". The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, Jack D. Forbes employs a va[...]

As computers and the tasks they perform become increasingly complex, researchers are looking to nature -- as model and as metaphor -- for inspiration. The organization and behavior of biological organisms present scientists with an invitation to reinvent computing for the complex tasks of the future[...]

From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge-fund honchos, "All the Money in the World "gives us the lowdown on today richest Americans. Veteran journalists Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan delve into who made and lost the[...]

The new 12th edition of "Bailey & Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology" solidifies its reputation as the classic text in the field of microbiology. This new edition features the same comprehensive, authoritative content - and adds new and updated material throughout. The team of authors includes three we[...]