Download or read book Amazing Decisions written by Dan Ariely and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Ariely, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, and illustrator Matt R. Trower present a playful graphic novel guide to better decision-making, based on the author’s groundbreaking research in behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology. The internationally renowned author Dan Ariely is known for his incisive investigations into the messy business of decision-making. Now, in Amazing Decisions, his unique perspective—informed by behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology—comes alive in the graphic form. The illustrator Matt R. Trower’s playful and expressive artwork captures the lessons of Ariely’s groundbreaking research as they explore the essential question: How can we make better decisions? Amazing Decisions follows the narrator, Adam, as he faces the daily barrage of choices and deliberations. He juggles two overlapping—and often contradictory—sets of norms: social norms and market norms. These norms inform our thinking in ways we often don’t notice, just as Adam is shadowed by the “market fairy” and the “social fairy,” each compelling him to act in certain ways. Good decision-making, Ariely argues, requires us to identify and evaluate the forces at play under different circumstances, leading to an optimal outcome. Amazing Decisions is a fascinating and entertaining guide to developing skills that will prove invaluable in personal and professional life.

Download or read book Too Rich written by Pony Duke and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her godson writes an autobiography of the tobacco heiress, one of America's richest women.

Download or read book The Duke Family written by Evelyn Duke Brandenberger and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dukes of Durham 1865 1929 written by Robert Franklin Durden and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly a record of the life and descendants of Washington Duke. He was born 20 Dec 1820 to Taylor Duke and Dicey Jones. He married Mary Caroline Clinton in 1842. They were the parents of two children. She died in 1847. He married Artelia Toney in Dec 1852. They were the parents of three children. She died in 1858. He died 8 May 1905.

Download or read book The Silver Swan written by Sallie Bingham and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her lifetime, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. This is also the story of the great houses she inhabited, including the classically proportioned limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue, the sprawling Duke Farms in New Jersey, the Gilded Age mansion Rough Point in Newport, Shangri La in Honolulu, and Falcon’s Lair overlooking Beverly Hills. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. In 2012, when eight hundred linear feet of her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to probe her identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father’s fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights. In The Silver Swan, Bingham is especially interested in dissecting the stereotypes that have defined Duke’s story while also confronting the disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy.

Download or read book Sins of a Duke written by Suzanne Enoch and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lust is a Sin . . . Sebastian Griffin, the Duke of Melbourne, has raised his younger siblings, seen to it that they made correct matches, and basically kept everyone in line. Seen as the most powerful man in England, Sebastian has a reputation for propriety and has maintained a scandal-free life. Until now. Josefina Katarina Embry is a beauty, to be sure, but she claims to be the princess of a faraway country. While she dazzles the ton with her wit and charm, Sebastian suspects she's up to something. And he's determined to expose her . . . if only he wasn't so distracted by her brazen sensuality and the irresistible allure of her kiss. Sebastian knows an affair will lead them into scandal, but will the most powerful man in England risk all for a princess of dubious lineage . . . or will he allow a most sinful desire to rule his heart?

Download or read book The Duke Family Vol 1 written by Larry W Duke and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive account on The Duke Family to be published in the last 30 years. The book is a collaborative history of The Duke Family, genetic line Haplogroup I(M170) Group 2. Our migration from England to the American Colonies is covered in this work as well as our spreading into many other territories. I believe our gateway ancestor to be William Ducke (Duke), born 1620, immigrant from Plymouth, England to Virginia Colony, formerly Warrosquyouke County. William was sponsored by Gentleman, Justinian Cooper. Justinian claimed the head-rights on William Ducke on October 24, 1639; however, William probably made the actual trip on "The George" during 1637. William Ducke settled in Isle of Wight County, near the Old Cypress Swamp. Out first-born ancestor in colonial America, was John Duke, Born in 1640. He married Elizabeth King, and the Group 2 Duke line was launched. This book utilizes multiple sources, as well as DNA, to document this line from 1637 to present. Sources include birth records, marriage records, death certificates, land deeds, family bibles, hospital records, tax records, church records, census documents, military paperwork, and a pythora of other sources. The Duke Family Book contains data for approximately 7000 Duke family members plus their non-blood line in-direct associations. The narrative section on the family is extremely detailed, with each family member having a unique, identification number that can be cross-referenced from the index for easier searches.

Download or read book Bold Entrepreneur written by Robert Franklin Durden and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold Entrepreneur is the scholarly biography of James B. Duke, a man who was more important to Duke University than it was to him or his life. His munificence in underwriting the establishment and permanent support of Duke University came towards the end of his life, after a long series of remarkable achievements in the business world. Along with such achievements, his great philanthropic actions have earned him a prominent place in history. James B. Duke, or Buck as his family called him, took over the family's tobacco manufacturing business after his father retired. He also played a key role in the establishment and then management of the British-American Tobacco Company in and after 1901-1902. From the standpoint of business history alone, this was a pioneering and colorful venture. Duke also ventured into Canadian hydroelectricity, a highly creative and bold move that dramatically revealed his entrepreneurial panache and genius. In this fascinating biography, Durden presents the life of a man who was not only a business genius, but also an avid horticulturist. He spent several million dollars on transforming a large portion of the Duke family farm in New Jersey into a magnificently landscaped park, one of the late Gilded Age's most magnificent country estates. This is also the biography of a most creative entrepreneurial capitalist, one who, after a lifetime of big business successes, finally turned his talent towards investing in a unique plan for perpetual philanthropy in the Carolinas. "Duke's labors, loves, and legacy are all deftly chartered in this meticulously researched and impeccably presented portrait, which unflinchingly presents the good with the bad." -Midwest Book Review, July 2003 ". . . the author makes a compelling case that this robber baron was a native genius whose business skills benefited all." -The News & Observer, August 3, 2003 "...Bold Entrepreneur ably relates the story of a fascinating historical figure and fills a large void in the historiography of the region." -The South Carolina Historical Magazine, October 2003 "...a very solid and compelling biography of a man who helped shape the history of North Carolina." -Georga Historical Quarterly, 2004

Download or read book The Duke Family written by Larry W Duke and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume 2 in the series "The Duke Family", by author Larry W. Duke. As in Vol. 1, this information only applies to Duke family members of the genetic designation, Haplogroup I(M170) Group 2. This book is comprised of family photos spanning from 1799 - 2019. All of the Duke photos are of family members either validated by DNA testing, or official birth and marriage certificates. However, some indirect family members are also included. The author wishes to be notified if you have photos not included in this book that you wish to be added. The author intends to publish a new edition approximately every three (3) months, based upon size of updates. Recap based on Vol. 1: "I believe our gateway ancestor to be William Ducke (Duke), born 1620, immigrant from Plymouth, England to Virginia Colony, formerly Warrosquyouke County. William was sponsored by Gentleman, Justinian Cooper. Justinian claimed the head-rights on William Ducke on October 24, 1639; however, William probably made the actual trip on "The George" during 1637. William Ducke settled in Isle of Wight County, near the Old Cypress Swamp. Out first-born ancestor in colonial America, was John Duke, Born in 1640. He married Elizabeth King, and the Group 2 Duke line was launched."

Download or read book The Duke Family written by Evelyn Duke Brandenberger and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Duke Family 2 0 written by Larry W. Duke and published by Grimoire Press International. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the 3rd Generation of Descendants, 2nd Generation of Descendants, 1st Generation of Descendants, Generation of Peers, and the 1st Generation of Ancestors. Larry has been working on his genealogy for several years and has amassed a substantial amount of information about the Duke Family of Group 2. His collection consists of paper documents, electronic documents, information stored in online databases, and a plethora of information gathered from family members he met online while on his quest for the truth about his family. Jennifer Ann Hatfield, a professional genealogist with 30 years of experience, is credited with igniting Larry's interest in family history and research. After years of arduous work, his family history was finally ready to be released into the public domain. "I believe our gateway ancestor to be William Ducke (Duke), who was born in 1620 in England," writes the author. William most likely came from Devonshire, England, and landed in Warrosquyouke County, Virginia (later known as Isle of Wight County), according to historians. William was sponsored by businessman Justinian Cooper, who sponsored and received land grants for dozens of immigrants to IOW Virginia during the colony's early history. In 1637, William is believed to have made the actual voyage on "The George." In Isle of Wight County, near the Old Cypress Swamp, William Ducke established his home. John Duke, who was born in 1640, was the first group 2 ancestor to be born in colonial America. He married Elizabeth King, and the Duke line of Group 2 was officially "born."

Download or read book The Duke Family written by Larry W Duke and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume 3 in the series "The Duke Family", by author Larry W. Duke. As in Vol. 1 and 2, this information only applies to Duke family members of the genetic designation, Haplogroup I(M170) Group 2. This book is comprised of a listing (by state) of Duke Family burial locations. This edition includes burials in states Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The author wishes to be notified if you have burial information not included in this book that you wish to be added. The author intends to publish a new edition approximately every three (3) months, based upon size of updates. Recap based on Vol. 1 and 2: "I believe our gateway ancestor to be William Ducke (Duke), born 1620, immigrant from Plymouth, England to Virginia Colony, formerly Warrosquyouke County. William was sponsored by Gentleman, Justinian Cooper. Justinian claimed the head-rights on William Ducke on October 24, 1639; however, William probably made the actual trip on "The George" during 1637. William Ducke settled in Isle of Wight County, near the Old Cypress Swamp. Out first-born ancestor in colonial America, was John Duke, Born in 1640. He married Elizabeth King, and the Group 2 Duke line was launched."

Download or read book Duke Family History written by Bill Duke and published by . This book was released on 2011* with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crossing Back written by Marianna De Marco Torgovnick and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itself Marianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the rupture of two of her life’s most intimate relations when her mother and brother died in close proximity. Mourning rocked her life, but it also led to the solace and insight offered by classic books and the practice of meditation. Her resulting journey into the past imagines a viable future and raises questions acute for Italian Americans but pertinent to everyone, about the nature of memory and the meanings of home at a time, like ours, marked by cultural disruption and wartime. Crossing Back: Books, Family, and Memory without Pain presents a personal perspective on death, mourning, loss, and renewal. A sequel to her award-winning and much-anthologized Crossing Ocean Parkway, Crossing Back is about close familial ties and personal loss, written after the death of her remaining birth family, who had always been there, and now were not. After their loss, she entered a spiritual and psychological state of “transcendental homelessness”: the feeling of being truly at home nowhere, of being spiritually adrift. In a grand act of symbolic reenactment, she found herself moving apartments repeatedly, not realizing she did so subconsciously to keep busy, to stave off grief. By reading and studying great books, she opened up to mourning, a process she constitutionally resisted as somehow shameful. Over time, she discovered that a third death colored and prolonged her feelings of grief: her first child’s death in infancy, which, in the course of a happier lifetime, had never been adequately acknowledged. Her new losses led her finally to take stock of her son’s death too. Reading and meditating, followed by writing, became daily her healing rituals. A warm and intimate user’s guide to books, family, and memory in the mourning process, the end-point being memory without pain, Crossing Back is a wide-ranging memoir about growing older and learning to ride the waves of change. Lively and conversational, Torgovnick is masterful at tracking the moment-to moment, day-to-day challenges of sudden or protracted grief and the ways in which the mind and the body seem to search for—and sometimes find—solutions.

Download or read book The Duke Legacy written by D. W. Duke and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Duke is very young when he first realizes there is racial discrimination in the South. Living outside of Hillsboro, North Carolina, in the mid-1820s, he is one of ten children in a family that shares the wilderness with bears, rattlesnakes, and mountain lions. Washington learns about the world around him from his scholarly father, nurtures a compassion for others, and eventually grows into a man deeply troubled by the institution of slavery. Unaware of what awaits him, Washington is conscripted into the Confederate Army and reluctantly leaves his three-hundred-acre farm in 1864 to fight in the war. When the Civil War is over, Washington is left widowed, with nothing but his farm, two blind mules, a wagon load of tobacco, and his four children. Determined to rise from the rubble, Washington soon begins building the foundation for the Duke financial empirealthough not without challenges. As Washington ages, his sons eventually capture his dream to establish Duke University. Even with the familys successes, though, there is tragedy and heartache; Washingtons granddaughter, Doris, dies under suspicious circumstances in 1993 and her estate becomes embroiled in a legal battle. Based on a true story, this compelling and inspirational tale examines the life of a gentle giant and his descendants who together built a multibillion-dollar empire, numerous charitable foundations, and a renowned academic institution, proving that anyone can overcome adversity to achieve greatness.

Download or read book The Winter Duke written by Claire Eliza Bartlett and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She survived the curse. Now she must survive the throne. All Ekata wants is to stay alive—and the chance to prove herself as a scholar. Once Ekata's brother is finally named heir to the dukedom of Kylma Above, there will be nothing to keep her at home with her murderous family. Not her books or her experiments, not her family's icy castle atop a frozen lake, not even the tantalizingly close Kylma Below, a mesmerizing underwater kingdom that provides her family with magic. But just as escape is within reach, her parents and twelve siblings fall under a strange sleeping sickness, and no one can find a cure. In the space of a single night, Ekata inherits the title of duke, her brother's captivating warrior bride, and ever-encroaching challengers from without—and within—her ministry. Nothing has prepared Ekata for diplomacy, for war, for love . . . or for a crown she has never wanted. If Kylma Above is to survive, Ekata must seize her family's magic and power. And if Ekata is to survive, she must quickly decide how she will wield them both. The Winter Duke is an enchanted tale of intrigue by Claire Eliza Bartlett, author of the acclaimed young adult fantasy novel We Rule the Night.

Download or read book The Duke Symes Family written by Jane Sims Davison Morris and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Duke married Hannah Grendon prior to 1672 in Charles City County, Colony of Virginia. She was the widow of William Bird. Their descendant Fanny Duke, daughter of Burwell and Frances Duke, Sr., married Briggs Sims in Warren County, North Carolina in 1796. Another ot their daughters, Holly Duke, married Benjamin L. Sims, brother of Briggs Sims, on 9 March 1805 also in Warren County. Briggs Sims died in Bedford County, Tennessee in 1832. "Sometime in 1832 Fanny (Duke) Sims removed with her family to from Bedford County to Green County, Missouri ..."--Page 214. Benjamin L. Sims died 9 March 1835. Holly Sims married Rev. Harris G. Joplin on 23 January 1834 in Green County, Missouri. She died in about 1842. Descendants lived and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and elsewhere