The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.
Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to be[...]
"An immersive play-by-play of the company's ascent.... It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story." -- Laura Bennett, "New Republic" Amazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering l[...]
Raised from infancy by their grandmaster, twelve-year-old Fu and his temple brothers Malao, Seh, Hok, and Long think of their temple as their home and their fellow warrior monks as their family, so when the temple is destroyed by an army led by a former monk Ying, they set out to uncover the secrets[...]
While dealing with death and destruction for the first time, Malao, the youngest of the Five Ancestors and the master of the monkey fighting style, is adopted by a troop of monkeys led by a one-eyed albino and hears rumors of a mysterious recluse called the Monkey King who looks and acts like him. R[...]
With the temple and Grandmaster now gone, twelve-year-old Seh, a snake-style master, joins a bandit gang and meets a mysterious woman whose name means Cobra, while trying to stay ahead of the vengeful Ying. Reprint.[...]
The final book of the popular Five Ancestors series focuses on Long, the wisest of the surviving Cangzhen monks. After hiding out for a year in the Shanghai Fight Club, he now must reveal himself, connect with his temple brothers, and prevent Tonglong from killing the emperor and taking over the For[...]
It is 350 years after the events of The Five Ancestors. Phoenix Collns lives in Indiana with his grandfather who is teaching him kung fu. But Phoenix's real love is mountain bike racing. When unsettling events reveal that his grandfather is not only one of the legendary five Cangzhen monks, but also[...]
Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and convenience at disruptively low prices. This book offers the biography of the company that placed one of the bets on the Int[...]
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
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The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.
Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to b[...]
Templet har bränts ner till grunden. Mästaren är död. De fem som överlevde har spritts för vinden. Tolvåriga Fu och hans bröder Malao, Seh, Hok och Long är uppkallade efter de djur som motsvarar deras personlighet och kampstil - Tiger, Apa, Orm, Trana och Drake. De har vuxit upp i Cangzhent[...]
Apa är den andra boken i serien om fem förfäder.
Fem unga munkar har överlevt förstörelsen av Cangzhentemplet. Var och en av dem har namn efter ett djur och är mästare i en speciell kung-fu stil - Tiger, Apa, Orm, Trana och Drake. De försvinner ut i skogen fast beslutna att följa sin [...]
På jakt efter sanningen
Seh, mästare på orm-stilen i kung fu, vet att kunskap är makt. Han använder sina
skarpa sinnen att samla information om sina bröder, om templet och om
mästaren. Men nu när mästaren är borta och templet lagts i ruiner är Sehs värld
slagen [...]