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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston
Apress, 2007
Essential reading for someone thinking about starting a software company
As someone who is in the middle of trying to get a software company off the ground, I can say that the stories in this book tell the real story of what it means to found a startup. I highly recommend it to anyone thinking about starting a software/tech company, ...
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The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion
Robert Spencer
Regnery Publishing, 2007
No Modifing The Truth
By reading Spencer's book, I now have a clear idea of the dangers involved in trusting any Muslin. Mohammed, being the example for all Muslims was ultimately untrustworthy and strove to find fault in other while all the time harboring great defect in himself. All of ...
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Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin (Lives of the Founders)
Bill Kauffman
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008
The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us?if he is known at all?as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation of the Constitution in Philadelphia that summer ...
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24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success: Learn the Most Important Investment Techniques from the Founder ...
William J. O'Neil
McGraw-Hill, 1999
To All The Reviewers Denouncing O'Neil's "Sales Pitch" Of IBD - It is the HEART AND SOUL of his investment philosophy.
That is WHY he is "plugging" his paper. You must UNDERSTAND his paper to USE his paper so he "PLUGS" his paper - more correctly - DISSECTS - his paper so you can more easily USE the information. To all the ingnoramus reviewers who denounce this book as a "Sales ...
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The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, ...
Signet Classics, 2003
Why we are who we are.
You will not know American History without reading these papers. I am a history major and forget or never realized the importance of these papers. I know I never read them in college.
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The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
Stephen P. Halbrook
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008
The depth and detail added to source material quotes makes this a fine pick
THE FOUNDERS' SECOND AMENDMENT: ORIGINS OF THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS considers the history of the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms in early America from 1768 to 1826, offering up the first book-length account of these origins based on the Founders' own ...
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John Adams
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 2002
Page Turner
I absolutely loved this book! I enjoy reading history and biographies, but as anyone who does the same knows dry and dull writing can simply kill the experience. David McCullough is an amazing writer and honors his philosophy of making history interesting and turning ...
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Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Sam Calagione
Wiley, 2006
Brewing up a Business
Great story and learning material for anyone who is trying to start their own brew pub. There is a wealth of knowledge shared through Dogfish Head's sucesses and pitfalls. Great read for anyone starting a business, brewery or not.
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America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who ...
Kenneth C. Davis
Collins, 2008
Amazing
If you're into history, this book will open your eyes to what the time was like during early America. Very enlightning and interesting.
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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous
Hazelden, 2002
Arrived as Described
The seller kindly emailed me after she sent the book off to me. She wanted to make sure it arrived in good time, and asked me to email when it arrived so she could monitor the actual days required to mail it. That showed a conscientious spirit, which is reassuring ...
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Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
Leszek Kolakowski
W. W. Norton, 2008
A High Point of Intellectual History
This is an outstanding description and analysis of the history of Marxism as a philosophic enterprise and doctrine. Kolakowski's goal is a fair and lucid history of Marxism as an intellectual enterprise. This is a highly ambitious undertaking requiring familiarity ...
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What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity?
N. T. Wright
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997
Great Explanation and Defense of New Perspective
This book is a well written explanation and defense of the New Perspective on Paul. Wright breaks down Paul's theology in a way that makes sense of his background as a first century Jewish Pharisee. He indeed shows that Paul's theology is not a new faith as a mixture ...
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1776: Son of Liberty: A Novel of the American Revolution (Young Founders)
Elizabeth Massie
Tor Teen, 2007
?We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal?? On his farm in Maryland, sixteen-year-old Caleb Jacobson hears rumors of an armed rebellion of the Massachusetts colonists against the oppressive tyranny of King George III and his soliders. Educated in a small Quaker school, Caleb has been taught that it is wrong to raise ...
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Ataturk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey
Andrew Mango
Overlook TP, 2002
Great Subject; Pedestrian Writing
Andrew Mango has obviously done a great deal of research into his fascinating subject. The book is a thorough history of the life and career of Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Even though he was autocratic in many respects, there can be no denying ...
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Separation of Church & State: What the Founders Meant
David Barton
WallBuilder Press, 2007
The real perspective
This book is exactly what the title says it is, the founding father's view of religion's place in government and government's place in religion. Mr. Barton describes the origin of the phrase "seperation of church and state" (which isnt in the constitution)and describes ...
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