Download or read book The Case of the Missing Mogul written by C. Eaton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1886, a locomotive disappears from a siding near Marshall, Texas. When a thorough search fails to reveal any trace of it, the Division Manager of the Texas & Louisiana Railway decides to seek assistance from Tennyson Pierce, A Dallas attorney with a reputation for solving unusual crimes. Pierce is accompanied on the journey to East Texas by his new friend, Dr. Jarvis Weston, setting the stage for a tangled investigation that eventually stretches from the financial centers of New York City and Philadelphia to the casinos of western Louisiana. Along the way, Weston proves his worth by uncovering some key evidence concerning a conspiracy to establish a rail monopoly in Texas. However, it is the incisive deductions of Pierce that finally expose the true motive for the theft and lead to a daring confrontation on a remote stretch of track deep within the Piney Woods.
Download or read book The Missing Mogul written by Barry Eaton and published by . This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1886, a locomotive disappears from a siding near Marshall, Texas. When a thorough search fails to reveal any trace of it, the Division Manager of the Texas & Louisiana Railway decides to seek assistance from Tennyson Pierce, a Dallas attorney with a reputation for solving unusual crimes. Pierce is accompanied on the journey to East Texas by his new friend, Dr. Jarvis Weston, setting the stage for a tangled investigation that eventually stretches from the financial centers of New York City asnd Philadelphia to the casinos of western Louisiana. Along the way, Weston proves his worth by uncovering some key evidence concerning a conspiracy to establish a rail monopoly in Texas. However, it is the incisive deductions of Pierce that finally expose the true motive for the theft and lead to a daring confrontation on a remote stretch of track deep within the Piney Woods.
Download or read book Hope and Fear written by Ronald H. Fritze and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring to control world affairs and bring about a New World Order? Was Donald Trump a victim of massive voter fraud? Is Elizabeth II a shapeshifting reptilian alien? Who is doing all this plotting? In Hope and Fear, Ronald H. Fritze explores the fringe ideas and conspiracy theories people have turned to in order to make sense of the world around them, from myths about the Knights Templar and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, to Nazis and the occult, the Protocols of Zion and UFOs. As Fritze reveals, when conspiracy theories, myths, and pseudo-history dominate a society’s thinking, facts, reality, and truth fall by the wayside.
Download or read book The Return of the Moguls written by Dan Kennedy and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Return of the Moguls chronicles an important story in the making, one that will affect more than just the newspaper business—it has the power to change democracy as we know it. Over the course of a generation, the story of the daily newspaper has been an unchecked slide from record profitability and readership to plummeting profits, increasing irrelevance, and inevitable obsolescence. The forces killing major dailies, alternative weeklies, and small-town shoppers are well understood—or seem obvious in hindsight, at least—and the catalog of publications that have gone under reads like a whoÕs who of American journalism. During the past half-century, old-style press barons gave way to a cabal of corporate interests unable or unwilling to invest in the future even as technological change was destroying their core business. The Taylor family sold the Boston Globe to the New York Times Company in 1993 for a cool $1.1 billion. Twenty years later, the Times Company resold it for just $70 million. The unexpected twist to the story, however, is not what they sold it for but who they sold it to: John Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox. A billionaire who made his money in the world of high finance, Henry inspired optimism in Boston because of his track record as a public-spirited business executive—and because his deep pockets seemed to ensure that the shrunken newspaper would not be subjected to further downsizing. In just a few days, the sale of the Globe was overtaken by much bigger news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one of the world’s richest people, had reached a deal to buy the Washington Post for $250 million. Henry’s ascension at the Globe sparked hope. Bezos’s purchase seemed to inspire nothing short of ecstasy, as numerous observers expressed the belief that his lofty status as one of our leading digital visionaries could help him solve the daunting financial problems facing the newspaper business. Though Bezos and Henry are the two most prominent individuals to enter the newspaper business, a third preceded them. Aaron Kushner, a greeting-card executive, acquired California’s Orange County Register in July 2012 and then pursued an audacious agenda, expanding coverage and hiring journalists in an era when nearly all other newspaper owners were trying to avoid cutting both. The newspaper business is at a perilous crossroads. This essential book explains why, and how today’s new crop of media moguls might help it to survive.
Download or read book Death of the Moguls written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the “rulers of film.” Wheeler Winston Dixon examines the careers of such moguls as Harry Cohn at Columbia, Louis B. Mayer at MGM, Jack L. Warner at Warner Brothers, Adolph Zukor at Paramount, and Herbert J. Yates at Republic in the dying days of their once-mighty empires. He asserts that the sheer force of personality and business acumen displayed by these moguls made the studios successful; their deaths or departures hastened the studios’ collapse. Almost none had a plan for leadership succession; they simply couldn't imagine a world in which they didn’t reign supreme. Covering 20th Century-Fox, Selznick International Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Republic Pictures, Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures, Dixon briefly introduces the studios and their respective bosses in the late 1940s, just before the collapse, then chronicles the last productions from the studios and their eventual demise in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He details such game-changing factors as the de Havilland decision, which made actors free agents; the Consent Decree, which forced the studios to get rid of their theaters; how the moguls dealt with their collapsing empires in the television era; and the end of the conventional studio assembly line, where producers had rosters of directors, writers, and actors under their command. Complemented by rare, behind-the-scenes stills, Death of the Moguls is a compelling narrative of the end of the studio system at each of the Hollywood majors as television, the de Havilland decision, and the Consent Decree forced studios to slash payrolls, make the shift to color, 3D, and CinemaScope in desperate last-ditch efforts to save their kingdoms. The aftermath for some was the final switch to television production and, in some cases, the distribution of independent film.
Download or read book More Haunted Houses written by Joan Bingham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, More Haunted Houses is a guide to cryptic hangouts and ghostly locales in the United States. From a robber's cave that echoes with voices of its past to America's own Loch Ness Monster to a vampire-infested cemetery, this fascinating companion volume to Haunted Houses USA takes us on a tour of some of America's spookiest places.
Download or read book The Mogul s Unexpected Baby written by Mindy Klasky and published by Peabridge Press. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-night stand results in a billionaire's secret baby just as he's forced to make a marriage of convenience. Former foster kid Sloane Davenport tried to avoid an accidental pregnancy. Now, she’ll do anything to stay independent, even hide her secret baby from her love-’em-and-leave-’em one-night stand. Billionaire playboy Ethan Hartwell is tortured by a dire secret, one certain to drive away any sane woman. But his grandmother’s ultimatum—find a wife or lose his family fortune—sends him back to Sloane, the one fling he can’t forget. How will a marriage of convenience and an instant family transform these unexpected lovers? Previously released as The Mogul’s Maybe Marriage. True Love Classics are romances by USA Today bestselling Harlequin authors, including originals and popular reissues. Mindy’s True Love Classics include: Harmony Christmas Harmony Hearts Harmony Hero "Harmony Lights" Three Part Harmony Small Town Daddy Dance The Mogul’s Unexpected Baby 011723mfm
Download or read book Deep in a Texan s Heart written by Sara Orwig and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sam Gordon finds out a one-night-stand has resulted in fatherhood, he means to marry Lila Hacket whether she wants to or not. But Lila has a career of her own and is not so easily pursuaded to be the "perfect wife" to a cowboy.
Download or read book Mogul India 1653 1708 written by Niccolao Manucci and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moguls written by Norman J. Zierold and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deal from Hell written by James O'Shea and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive in to bankruptcy and public scandal? The Deal from Hell is the riveting narrative in which veteran editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to that ongoing disaster.
Download or read book Product Focused Software Process Improvement written by Markku Oivo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-12-02 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Product Fucused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2002, held in Rovaniemi, Finland in December 2002. The 48 revised papers presented together with 2 keynote contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on improvement management, process modeling, software quality, Agile software development, process improvement approaches, methods and techniques, embedded software process improvement, process improvement case studies, effective use of measurements, wireless services, use cases, knowledge management, embedded systems methods, COTS quality techniques, frameworks, mobile solutions, and methods and techniques.
Download or read book Bad Blood written by Linda A. Fairstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of a trial involving a businessman charged with murdering his wife, Manhattan prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is summoned to investigate an explosion of unknown origin 600 feet below street level when it is traced back to her case.
Download or read book Adverse Possession written by Kirk Marty and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2016 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cautionary tale of a big real estate deal gone bad: A cesspool’s brew of money, mud, murder, and blood. After a messy break-up with his old law firm, young attorney Nick Shuman gets in over his head, when he takes on a big case brought by a small but wealthy California landowner. It’s 2007 and the price of real estate is exploding. Shuman’s new client, Joe Munoz, is being sued by a large insurance company with an army of attorneys looking to complete a massive development deal in an unspoiled corner of Southern California. Only Joe and his key piece of land, “Little Rocking-Horse Ranch,” stand in the way. But Joe has a past that adds a wild card to the mix: an unsolved, decades-old murder tied to him and the ranch, and his murky reasons for refusing to sell it for the huge sum offered. To fend off their mighty foes and launch their own quest to tilt against the windmills of Big Business and Institutionalized Power, Nick and Joe assemble a rag-tag cast of unlikely allies and characters. In a constant game of catch-up, things get dirty fast. A high-powered, crooked law firm and the Russian mob complicate matters for the under-manned defenders of “Little Ranch.” The stakes rise faster than the real estate market, as evidence disappears, and lives and loves are cut down or ruined. The September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the inescapable crush of The Great Recession shatter this deadly struggle for everyone.
Download or read book Michael Ondaatje written by Lee Spinks and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje’s entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje’s beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications, including The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In The Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, drawing attention to the various contexts and intertexts that have informed his work. The book contains a broad overview of Ondaatje’s career for students and readers coming to his work for the first time. It also offers an original reading of his writing which significantly revises conventional accounts of Ondaatje as a postmodern or postcolonial writer. As the fullest account of Ondaatje’s work to date, Spinks’s approach draws on a range of postcolonial theory and, as well as being a landmark in Ondaatje scholarship, makes a distinctive contribution to debates about postcolonial literature and the poetics of postmodernism.
Download or read book Why Taiwan Matters written by Shelley Rigger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in an updated paperback edition, Why Taiwan Matters offers a comprehensive but compact introduction to a country that exercises a role in the world far greater than its tiny size would indicate. Leading expert Shelley Rigger explains how Taiwan became such a key global player, highlighting economic and political breakthroughs so impressive they have been called "miracles." She links these accomplishments to Taiwan's determined society, vibrant culture, and unique history. Drawing on arts, economics, politics, and international relations, Rigger explores Taiwan's importance to China, the United States, and the world. Considering where Taiwan may be headed in its wary standoff with China, she traces how the focus of Taiwan's domestic politics has shifted to a Taiwan-centered strategy. All readers interested in Asia and international affairs will find this an accessible and entertaining overview, replete with human interest stories and colorful examples of daily life in Taiwan.
Download or read book Figment of the Heart written by Michelle Woody and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Damarus is a Vice cop, working undercover on the streets. With seventeen files of missing prostitutes and three dead bodies, Lucy must risk her life to solve the case before the numbers grow higher. As the case unfolds, she learns she is a target of the conspiracy. Painfully, Lucy learns who the players are of the game. She must race to rescue the women or fall victim to the evil scheme. Figment is a man from Lucy's past, with street connections and the protection of a powerful businessman. Quietly, he watches over Lucy and her girls on the street. He has spoken his love for Lucy, but not pressed her for a response. When he decides to help her with the case, he finds himself entangled in the conspiracy that costs him everything he loves. Amidst car chases, explosions, and betrayals, Lucy and Figment embark on a perilous adventure to rescue the girls, save themselves and solve the case. The tasks facing Lucy are great. Can Lucy catch the man responsible and protect herself and the women? And can she confront her feelings and solve the mystery of the man named Figment?
