S Street Rising

S Street Rising
Author: Ruben Castaneda
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781620400050

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During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country's premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating secret: he was a crack addict. Even as he covered the drug-fueled violence that was destroying the city, he was prowling S Street, a 24/7 open-air crack market, during his off hours, looking for his next fix. Castaneda's remarkable book, S Street Rising, is more than a memoir; it's a portrait of a city in crisis. It's the adrenalin-infused story of the street where Castaneda quickly became a regular, and where a fledgling church led by a charismatic and streetwise pastorwas protected by the local drug kingpin, a dangerous man who followed an old-school code of honor. It's the story of Castaneda's friendship with an exceptional police homicide commander whose career was derailed when he ran afoul of Mayor Marion Barry and his political cronies. And it's a study of the city itself as it tried to rise above the bloody crack epidemic and the corrosive politics of the Barry era. S Street Rising is The Wire meets the Oscar-winning movie Crash. And it's all true.

S STREET RISING

S STREET RISING
Author: CASTANEDA RUBEN
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2015-09-10
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1620400103

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THE TWENTY THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF CARPERNTERS JOINERS

THE TWENTY THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF CARPERNTERS   JOINERS
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 692
Release: 1883
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OXFORD:555015920

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Post office directory of the Norfolk counties viz Cambridge Norfolk Suffolk afterw Post office directory of Cambridge Norfolk and Suffolk afterw The Post office directory of Norfolk and Suffolk afterw Kelly s directory of Cambridgeshire Norfolk and Suffolk

Post office directory of the Norfolk counties  viz     Cambridge  Norfolk  Suffolk  afterw   Post office directory of Cambridge  Norfolk and Suffolk  afterw   The Post office directory of Norfolk and Suffolk  afterw   Kelly s directory of Cambridgeshire  Norfolk and Suffolk
Author: Kelly's directories, ltd
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1280
Release: 1879
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OXFORD:555075167

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Samsung Rising

Samsung Rising
Author: Geoffrey Cain
Publsiher: Currency
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781101907252

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An explosive exposé of Samsung that “reads like a dynastic thriller, rolling through three generations of family intrigue, embezzlement, bribery, corruption, prostitution, and other bad behavior” (The Wall Street Journal). LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Based on years of reporting on Samsung for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Time, from his base in South Korea, and his countless sources inside and outside the company, Geoffrey Cain offers a penetrating look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody in America knows. Seen for decades in tech circles as a fast follower rather than an innovation leader, Samsung today has grown to become a market leader in the United States and around the globe. They have captured one quarter of the smartphone market and have been pushing the envelope on every front. Forty years ago, Samsung was a rickety Korean agricultural conglomerate that produced sugar, paper, and fertilizer, located in a backward country with a third-world economy. With the rise of the PC revolution, though, Chairman Lee Byung-chul began a bold experiment: to make Samsung a major supplier of computer chips. The multimillion- dollar plan was incredibly risky. But Lee, wowed by a young Steve Jobs, who sat down with the chairman to offer his advice, became obsessed with creating a tech empire. And in Samsung Rising, we follow Samsung behind the scenes as the company fights its way to the top of tech. It is one of Apple’s chief suppliers of technology critical to the iPhone, and its own Galaxy phone outsells the iPhone. Today, Samsung employs over 300,000 people (compared to Apple’s 80,000 and Google’s 48,000). The company’s revenues have grown more than forty times from that of 1987 and make up more than 20 percent of South Korea’s exports. Yet their disastrous recall of the Galaxy Note 7, with numerous reports of phones spontaneously bursting into flames, reveals the dangers of the company’s headlong attempt to overtake Apple at any cost. A sweeping insider account, Samsung Rising shows how a determined and fearless Asian competitor has become a force to be reckoned with.

Worrall s Directory of South Wales Etc

Worrall s Directory of South Wales  Etc
Author: Directories. - Wales, South
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 636
Release: 1875
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: NLS:V000568496

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Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo

Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo
Author: Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1146
Release: 1881
Genre: Buffalo (N.Y.)
ISBN: MINN:31951D02637910D

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Liar s Poker

Liar s Poker
Author: Michael Lewis
Publsiher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393066258

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The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.