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Author : Iakov Damsky
Release : 1995
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Book Synopsis Heavy Pieces in Action by : Iakov Damsky
Download or read book Heavy Pieces in Action written by Iakov Damsky. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iakov Damsky
Release : 1997
Genre : Chess
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Book Rating : 546/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Heavy Pieces in Action by : Iakov Damsky
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Author : Nathan Woolford
Release : 2023-07-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 145/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Piece of the Action by : Nathan Woolford
Download or read book Piece of the Action written by Nathan Woolford. This book was released on 2023-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When you’re a success, when you’re at the top... that’s when they come for you. Everybody wants a piece... a piece of the action.” It’s 1960 and Klondike’s Circus is now a major, money-making juggernaut, with TV specials, Las Vegas engagements and all manner of sponsorship and endorsement deals in the pipeline. When the troupe is offered a starring role in a huge circus spectacular involving multiple promotions, boss Kal Klondike feels on top of the world. But that’s when the dark shadows start gathering. Sinister, malicious figures, all with a score to settle. And all wanting a slice of his profits. A deadly gangster. A humiliated performer. A madman long thought dead. And, at the head of the table, Klondike’s greatest rival, his former mentor and partner. Everybody wants a piece. Nobody is safe. The stage is set...
Author : Vannevar Bush
Release : 2022-06-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 263/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pieces of the Action by : Vannevar Bush
Download or read book Pieces of the Action written by Vannevar Bush. This book was released on 2022-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all. Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush—engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded science—sought to eliminate roadblocks to innovation in science and technology. In Pieces of the Action, a collection of memoir-essays, he reflects on his role in shaping the policies and organizations that powered American research and development in the mid-20th century. As the architect and administrator of an R&D pipeline that efficiently coordinated the work of civilian scientists and the military during World War II, he was central to catalyzing the development of radar and the proximity fuze, the mass production of penicillin, and the initiation of the Manhattan Project. Pieces of the Action offers his hard-won lessons on how to operate and manage effectively within complex organizations, build bridges between people and disciplines, and drive ambitious, unprecedented programs to fruition. With wry humor, Bush also shares personal observations and anecdotes—pelting cows with apples, poking fun at servicemen who tried to keep his own invention secret from him—that offer a glimpse of the personality behind the accolades. Originally published in 1970, this updated edition includes 15 archival images from Bush’s life and career and a foreword from entrepreneur and Idea Machines podcast host Ben Reinhardt that contextualizes the lessons Pieces of the Action can offer to contemporary readers: that change depends both on heroic individuals and effective organizations; that a leader’s job is one of coordination; and that the path from idea to innovation is a long and winding one, inextricably bound to those involved—those enduring figures who have a piece of the action.
Author : Joe Nocera
Release : 2013-10-15
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 890/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Piece of the Action by : Joe Nocera
Download or read book A Piece of the Action written by Joe Nocera. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new introduction describing the fallout of America’s consumer credit boom, 1994’s wildly acclaimed bestseller A Piece of the Action tells the story of how millions of middle class Americans went from being savers to borrowers and investors through the invention of credit cards, mutual funds, and IRAs—resulting in profound societal change. “America began to change on a mid-September day in 1958, when the Bank of America dropped its first 60,000 credit cards on the unassuming city of Fresno, California.” So begins Joe Nocera’s riveting account of one of the most astonishing revolutions in modern American life—what Nocera labels “the money revolution.” In the decades since, the middle class has gained access to credit cards, to mutual funds, to retirement accounts—and to hundreds of other financial vehicles that have allowed everyone to get “a piece of the action.” In this lively, engaging book, some of the great financial characters of modern times—from Charles Merrill to Charles Schwab to Peter Lynch—strut across the stage as the course of this great financial shift is charted. In an all-new introduction, Nocera takes a look back at the consequences of the money revolution. Were members of the middle class as prepared as the innovators claimed to take control of their financial lives? Or did events like the dot-com and the housing bubbles suggest something else: that far too many of us lacked the wherewithal to make sound investment decisions?
