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Linda Greenlaw, one of the few female swordfishing captains on duty, provides the details of one memorable event searching for fish in the waters off Newfoundland. Unlike so many other accounts that tell of disasters at sea, THE HUNGRY OCEAN provides an informative look at the typical routine of a successful fishing voyage. AUTHOR: Linda Greenlaw
PUBLISHER: Brilliance Audio
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
This group portrait of the Founding Fathers emphasizes the sometimes intense associations and rivalries among Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, Adams, Franklin, Madison, and Washington.The author examines six defining moments when the personal and the political collided, and shows how their distinctive styles and visions forged a new nation. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. AUTHOR: Joseph J. Ellis
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Giants of Enterprise by Richard S. Tedlow
Witness seven extraordinary men doing what Americans do best: building new businesses. These entrepreneurs broke old rules and made their own, mastering the future by shaping it. They overcame seemingly impossible obstacles to achieve enormous success and, in the process, played a role in the creation of the modern world.Masterfully combining his understanding of business and American history, Harvard Business School professor Richard S. Tedlow illuminates the professional and personal lives of these nineteenth- and twentieth-century titans, men with penetrating insight whose need to fulfill their destiny outweighed their fear of failure:ANDREW CARNEGIEThe impoverished immigrant who rose to become the richest man In the world
GEORGE EASTMANThe personally shy but professionally assertive tycoon who created a whole new market with his Kodak Brownie camera
HENRY FORDThe gifted mechanic who put America on wheels but outlived his own usefulness
THOMAS J. WATSON SR.The founder of IBM, who knew better than anyone else how to sell
CHARLES REVSONThe founder of Revlon, who made his company domi nant through his mastery of the television revolution
SAM WALTONThe master motivator who started with a tiny shop in small-town Newport, Arkansas, and built Wal-Mart, the twentieth century's retail powerhouse
ROBERT NOYCEThe cofounder of Intel and inventor of the silicon integrated circuit, which gave Silicon Valley its nameEach of these men traveled his own special road to preeminence, a road determined by the complex interactions of his character, his company, and his times. Tedlow critically explores each visionary with compassion and wit, and in so doing sheds new light on issues of urgent importance in the business world today: How do you get a AUTHOR: Richard S. Tedlow
PUBLISHER: HarperInformation
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Eddy Arnold, Pioneer of the Nashville Sound
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Eddy Arnold was just a sweet-voiced, third-generation cotton farmer from Western Tennessee with a dream: to lift himself out of rural poverty and make a name for himself as a country performer. This book traces the history of the Arnold family...
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Charlotte and Lionel by Stanley Weintraub
Lionel Rothschild (of the British Jewish banking family) and his wife, the much younger, very beautiful, and decidedly German Charlotte are the subjects of this dual biography, which dissects many aspects of the Victorian world: domesticity, business, anti-Semitism, and politics. AUTHOR: Stanley Weintraub
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Forgotten Hero of My Lai by Mike Wallace, Trent Angers, Wei Li Wang
This is the story of the heroic helicopter pilot who intervened in the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam--thus saving hundreds of lives. AUTHOR: Mike Wallace, Trent Angers, Wei Li Wang
PUBLISHER: Acadian House Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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