18 Results for : adelson
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The Billionaire's Apprentice: How 21 Billionaires Used Drive, Luck and Risk to Achieve Colossal Success , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 116min
As mentioned in the Wall Street Journal's "MarketWatch", The Billionaire's Apprentice provides a complete account of the business lives of 21 extraordinary billionaires. This book is for people who want to learn the ins and outs of business by studying the examples of the best. Just as a philosopher might study Plato or Socrates to establish a philosophical foundation, so too a businessman can study the greatest businessmen and women in order to establish a business foundation. While listening to this audiobook, you will realize that these billionaires are ordinary men and women who have achieved incredible success through hard work, determination, luck, and risk. You will be inspired to aim big and, most importantly, to learn about business. Included in the selection are accounts from the lives of Amancio Ortega, Andrew Carnegie, Cheung Yan (aka Zhang Yin), Daniel K. Ludwig, Frederick W. Smith, Frederic Tudor, Friedrich Weyerhäuser, Gina Rinehart, Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, Howard Hughes, Jean Paul Getty, John Jacob Astor, John Paul Dejoria, John Huntsman (Sr.), John Kluge, John D. MacArthur, John D. Rockefeller, Manoj Bharghava, Roman Arkadyevich Abromovich, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn, and T. Boone Pickens. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Otey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039649/bk_acx0_039649_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp - on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 760min
Mark Hanna, the turn-of-the-century iron-and-coal-magnate-turned-operative who leveraged massive contributions from the robber barons, was famously quoted as saying: "There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can’t remember what the second one is." To an extent that would have made Hanna blush, a series of developments capped by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision effectively crowned a bunch of billionaires and their operatives the new kings of politics. Big Money is a rollicking tour of a new political world dramatically reordered by ever-larger flows of cash. Ken Vogel has breezed into secret gatherings of big-spending Republicans and Democrats alike, from California poolsides to DC hotel bars, to brilliantly expose the way the mega-money men (and rather fewer women) are dominating the new political landscape. Great wealth seems to attach itself to outsize characters. From the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to the bubbling nouveau cowboy Foster Friess; from the Texas trial lawyer couple Amber and Steve Mostyn, to the micromanaging Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, the multimillionaires and billionaires are swaggering up to the tables for the hottest new game in politics. The prize is American democracy, and the players' checks keep getting bigger. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Yen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017456/bk_adbl_017456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1218min
The Lives of Dwarfs is extraordinary in its range and vision. Beautifully written. Totally absorbing. (Ursula Hegi, author of Stones from the River) "As a little person, husband, and father of a little person, I dream of the day when dwarfs attain full acceptance in society. The Lives of Dwarfs provides a giant step in that direction." (Rick Spiegel, former president of Little People of America) "This important book makes it possible for both average- and short-statured people to challenge our collective understanding of dwarfism as a synonym for diminishment or as an array of cute and evil fairy-tale figures. The libratory work of this book is to invite us all to reimagine dwarfism as a livable experience and tenable way of being in the world." (Rosemarie Garland Thomson, author of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature) "A work of compassionate scholarship. A unique contribution to the literature of physical deformity and social isolation and a gift to the individuals whose personal struggle this is." (Linda Hunt, actor) Historically, they have borne the labels "freaks" and "oddities"; they have been collected as pets, displayed as spectacles, and treated as comic relief. Now, for the first time, in this elegant and comprehensive volume, the lives of dwarfs are explored in all their fullness and humanity. Spanning the centuries from ancient Egypt to the present, this unique social history chronicles the various ways this population has been exploited, describes their strategies for coping, and notes the persistent influence of mythology upon perceptions of them by others. The narrative also highlights the lives of eminent individuals and contains a thought-provoking account of the representation and participation of dwarfs in the arts, enhanced by outstanding color photographs. Betty M. Adelson, the mother of a daughter with dwarfism, bri ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Shalhoub Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/055597/bk_adbl_055597_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
The transformations of the Strip-from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to "starchitecture"-and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015-ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the "implosion capital of the world" as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new-offering a non-metaphorical definition of "creative destruction." In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts-with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.- Shop: buecher
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Luminous Spirals,Chamber Music of Chinary Ung
Lucy Shelton (Sopr), William Anderson (Gtr), Da Capo Chambers Players, Michael Adelson (Dir)- Shop: odax
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Adelson e Salvini
Daniela Barcellona (Mezzosopran) - Simone Alberghini (Bariton) - u.a. - Opera Rara Chorus - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Daniele Rustioni (Dir) // SPECIAL PRICE // Opera Rara releases Bellini's first opera Adelson e Salvini, written in 1825 while the composer was still a student at the Naples Conservatory.- Shop: odax
- Price: 29.66 EUR excl. shipping
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Complete Operas
Complete Operas : Adelson e Salvini, Bianca e Fernando, Il Pirata, u.a. (24 CDs fuer 6 + 1 CD-Rom Boocklets)- Shop: odax
- Price: 77.33 EUR excl. shipping
