Andrew: 10354 books
All Things Possible
Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In this full and frank memoir—a personal story of duty, family, justice, politics and resilience—New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reflects on his rise, fall, and rise in politics, and recounts his defining personal and political moments and tough but necessary lessons he has learned along the way.
With 16-page of color photos.
by Marcel Allain, Grant Allen, John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll...
The Athletics Incubus: How College Sports Undermine College Education
How College Sports Undermine College Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Previously published as part of HIGHER EDUCATION?
A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier colleges. But is it worth it?
In this provocative work, the renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive...
No Boston Olympics
How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In 2013 and 2014, some of Massachusetts’ wealthiest and most powerful individuals hatched an audacious plan to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston. Like their counterparts in cities around the world, Boston’s Olympic boosters promised political leaders, taxpayers, and the media that the Games...
Tescopoly
How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
You can shop anywhere you like -- as long as it's Tesco
The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and those of our children? In this searing analysis Andrew Simms, director of the acclaimed think-and-do-tank the New Economics...
by Andrew Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Contrary to the age-old sporting truism, what happens on tour sometimes needs to be told. 'For as long as the game of cricket has been played internationally, there have been journos "on the tour" ... Life on the road is tough. But as you are about to experience, it's bloody entertaining...
The American System
Speeches on the Tariff Question and on Internal Improvements
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Andrew Stewart (1791-1872) advocated protectionist policies for nearly two decades in the House of Representatives, gaining national renown as Chairman of the House Committees on the Tariff and Internal Improvements in the 1820s. Many of Stewart’s congressional speeches on economic doctrine were...
by Andrew Romans
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
40 leading venture capitalists come together to teach entrepreneurs how to succeed with their startup
The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital is packed with invaluable advice about how to raise angel and venture capital funding, how to build value in a startup, and how to exit a company with...
by Andrew Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The Vernons first came to England with William the Conqueror, and this book starts with the story of the early Vernons, including many aristocratic families. Rev Richard Vernon came from a branch in Staffordshire, and was appointed rector of Hanbury in 1580. His son Edward was able to buy the manor...
by Andrew Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
This book tells the story of the first 53 years of the life of John Somerset Pakington. Born in Powick, Worcestershire, in 1799 as John Russell, he enjoyed his early life as a country gentleman and something of a dandy, and, using his diaries and other sources, the story of his marriage, a duel (said...
by Andrew Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Though America is a new country by the standards of earlier civilisations, its history makes up in breadth, dynamism and sheer flamboyance what it lacks in actual duration; for only a few centuries ago the most powerful single nation in the world was nothing more than a network of trading-posts. In...
Ghoul Brittania
Notes from a Haunted Isle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
INCLUDES THE THREE BEST GHOST STORIES EVER Who among us, lying in bed at night, listening to the noises of the house – that creak in the stairs, the clock ticking away in the empty hall – has not experienced a momentary chill, that first tremor of fear? What is it about Britain, asks...
by Andrew Eames
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. Andrew Eames' journey along its length brings us face to face with the Continent's bloodiest history...
Canada's Entrepreneurs
From The Fur Trade to the 1929 Stock Market Crash: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Molson. Redpath. Desjardins. Labatt. Massey. Eaton. These names are as much a part of our national identity as our hockey teams and our literature, but few of us know much about the people behind them - the individuals who have energized this country's economic life for over four centuries, and whose...