191 Results for : industrialist
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 696min
Prior to the U.S. entering WWII, a small coterie of British spies in Washington, D.C., was formed. They called themselves the Baker Street Irregulars after the band of street urchins who were the eyes and ears of Sherlock Holmes in some Arthur Conan Doyle stories. This group constituted the very beginning of what would become M16, the British version of the CIA, and they helped support the fledgling American intelligence service, known at the time as the OSS. Among them were writers Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, and the flamboyant Canadian industrialist turned professional saboteur William Stephenson, known by the code name "Intrepid", upon whom Fleming would later base his fictional M16 agent James Bond. Richly detailed and carefully researched, Conant's narrative uses never-before-seen wartime letters, diaries and interviews to create a fascinating, lively account of deceit, double dealing and moral ambiguity - all in the name of victory. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000417/bk_high_000417_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pitfall , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 568min
Life has never been easy for former Army Ranger John Brenner. The wounded Iraqi war vet and ex-cop must rely on his wits, his fists, and a wry sense of gallows humor to make it through each challenging day. For at his core, this transplanted West Virginian is a throwback to an antebellum time: he is a Southern man of honor. But his latest mission may be his last. The task seems straightforward: Find industrialist Jacob Cahill's missing teenage daughter Sarah and bring her safely home. But for John Brenner, nothing ever goes quite as planned. In searching for the girl he will discover a new and unimaginable corruption hiding beneath a corporate façade, and come face to face with a ruthless killer known to his victims only by a macabre appellation: Boneless Chuck. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jacob Bruce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052312/bk_acx0_052312_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Think and Grow Rich , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min
Napoleon Hill was born into poverty in 1883. As a teenager, he began writing as a reporter for small newspapers. He had visions of becoming a lawye and did, in fact, enter law school, but financial constraints soon forced him to withdraw. Then, in 1908, industrialist Andrew Carnegie commissioned him to interview hundreds of successful men and women, in an effort to prove his theory that success could be distilled down to a clear-cut formula. Hill interviewed the most famous (and richest) people of the time, and "The Success Formula" was published in Hill's 1928 book The Law of Success. Hill reveals additional information on his success formula in the most famous of his works, Think and Grow Rich, published in 1937. It has sold more than 30 million copies to date. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Core Media Productions. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bill/000002/bk_bill_000002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Last Marlin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 593min
The Last Marlin is an unforgettable memoir of growing up in the 50s. Young Fred is a Jewish boy stretched between the divergent values of parents who cannot tolerate one another. Fred's father, Abe, is a brilliantly talented salesman whose relentless will drives him to succeed, whatever the cost. He marries Stella, an abstract artist, a student of De Kooning and Hans Hoffmann, but also the daughter of a wealthy industrialist with whom Abe forges an alliance. When the marriage flounders, Fred's world is assaulted, and he must negotiate the tense family divide. Scenes range from Long Island synagogues and smoky nights with legendary painters, to the boats of drug smugglers in Bimini and the marlin-rich waters of the Gulf Stream. Fred sinks boats and battles thousand-pounders, believing that fishing is the answer to all his problems. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lloyd James. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001884/bk_blak_001884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Fourth Bear (eBook, ePUB)
The Gingerbreadman: Psychopath, sadist, genius, convicted murderer and biscuit is loose in the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary have been reassigned due to falling levels of nursery crime, and The NCD is once more in jeopardy. That is, until a chance encounter during the Armitage Shanks literary awards at the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club lead Jack and Mary on the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta 'Goldilocks' Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Toad. She had been about to break a story involving unexplained explosions in Herefordshire, Pasadena and the Nullabor Plain; The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems. How could the bear's porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time? Was Goldy's death in the nearby 1st World War themepark of Sommeworld a freak accident? And is it merely chance that the Gingerbreadman pops up at awkward moments? But there's more. What does a missing scientist with a terrifying discovery in subatomic physics, a secret weapon of devastating power, a reclusive industrialist known only as the Quangle Wangle and Colonel Danvers of the National Security all have in common?- Shop: buecher
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Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America and How to Stop It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min
In 1995, for all practical purposes, the United States will have spent itself into bankruptcy. The government will have to spend more to make its interest payments that it will collect in taxes and America will enter an age of financial disaster that will dwarf the Great Depression and hail the end of the United States as we now know it. Harry E. Figgie, Jr., a leading cost-reduction expert, industrialist and entrepreneur, explains exactly how we got into this mess through the failure of our leaders to act with courage and resolve, and what national bankruptcy will mean for every one of us, rich or poor. Most important, he provides us with a detailed plan of action, a way out of these dire straits, if we can summon the will to act now, and to force our leaders to act. "Bankruptcy 1995" is a vital call to arms at a moment of great crisis for our nation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph Campanella. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000322/bk_pnix_000322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Fredorian Destiny: The Evaran Chronicles, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 616min
The timeline is wrong. This is discovered when Dr. Albert Snowden and his niece, Emily, travel with Evaran to a galactic cultural exhibition event on Kreagus, the capital home world of the Kreagan Star Empire and galactic superpower near Earth. The Fredorians should be presenting an ancient artifact, known as the Arkaron, to the Kreagan emperor. The problem is they aren't. Evaran has decided to step in and help the Fredorians achieve their destiny while stabilizing the timeline. They must find the three lost Arkaron crystals in order to assemble the Arkaron. To make matters worse, Seeros, a powerful industrialist, has a bounty on their heads, causing bounty hunters to harass them each step of the way. As if that weren't enough, an unknown faction is hiring freelance mercenaries to hunt them down as well. Evaran is joined by others, and together, they will have to navigate these perils to assemble the Arkaron and achieve the Fredorian destiny. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Pauley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/054489/bk_acx0_054489_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Wind Chill Factor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 924min
His marriage destroyed by drinking, John Cooper returns to Cambridge, Massachusetts, trying to recapture the joy he felt as an undergraduate in Harvard University’s sacred halls. He is just beginning to piece his life together when he gets a telegram calling him home to Minnesota. The message comes from Buenos Aires, and with Cooper’s family history, that can mean only one thing: The Nazis are staging a comeback. To John and his brother, their grandfather was a kind, distinguished old man. But to the American people, he was the worst kind of traitor. An industrialist who spent the 1930s in business with Fascists, he became infamous as “America’s Number One Nazi.” When Hitler’s old lieutenants decide to get together a Fourth Reich, the Coopers are the first family they call. John hasn’t even made it to Minnesota when the first attempt on his life comes—a message that if he isn’t ready to honor his family legacy, he will die for it." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006191/bk_adbl_006191_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Murder on Marble Row: Gaslight Mystery Series #6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible and personally asks detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to track them down. Malloy is up to the task, but he faces a different kind of challenge when he encounters Sarah Brandt paying a condolence call on the Van Dykes. Faced with the impossibility of ever expressing his true feelings for Sarah, Frank had vowed never to see or work with her again. For her part, Sarah is glad to be working with Malloy once again in his hunt for a dangerous killer, though they clash over his conviction that the murder was politically motivated. Frank would like to dismiss her concerns, but whether he likes it or not he needs Sarah's help, because, as he is about to discover, the marble facades of Fifth Avenue hide as many dark and twisted secrets as any tenement on the Lower East Side. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Callie Beaulieu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/005635/bk_tant_005635_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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O'Hara's Choice: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 896min
Two decades after the Civil War, first-generation Irish-American Zachary O'Hara, son of a legendary Marine and a force of a man in his own right, finds himself playing a critical role as the very existence of the Marine Corps is being decided. If he can help persuade the Secretary of the Navy that the Marines will be crucial to America's security in years to come, all the while hefting a heavy, secret weight in his heart, he'll save the Corps and make his career.But there's an obstacle in his path that this warrior hadn't planned on. Amanda Blanton Kerr, the daughter of a ruthless industrialist, is on a mission of her own; passionate, obstinate, and whip-smart, she's an heiress poised to blaze a trail for all women.O'Hara's Choice is the story of the inevitable collision of these two handsome, fighting spirits, in which getting their souls' desires could jeopardize everything they, and their parents before them, scraped and struggled to achieve. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Garrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001155/bk_harp_001155_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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