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Descubre la increíble historia de las leyendas que crearon el imperio estadounidense.
La determinación por alcanzar el éxito define la grandeza de la humanidad.
Los grandes hombres se forjan mediante una combinación de condiciones políticas, económicas y sociales que favorecen al bien común. Cuando las condiciones se cumplen, todos ganan. Pero cuando los intereses chocan, alguien debe perder. Esta yuxtaposición define a la historia; los...
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Quinto de la serie. Cuando su vida estaba en peligro, Alicia Montoya recurrió al único hombre en quien creía que podía confiar. Su nuevo novio, un texano alto y moreno, le ofreció refugio en su lujoso ático. Y ella aceptó ansiosa su hospitalidad y su protección.
Pero pronto descubrió la verdadera identidad de su amante: Justin Dupree, famoso playboy y eterno rival de su hermano. Alicia le había entregado su virginidad a un hombre que la...
3) Amazing Aussie Bastards: Remarkable True Tales from Magnates, Moguls and other Australian Mavericks
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Amazing bastard (colloquial), n: a bloke who does stuff that other bastards wouldn't try in a month of Sundays. We've all met them, or at least read about them-men who drive faster, climb higher, build and invent and triumph over impossible odds. Journalist Lawrence Money has assembled a collection of Amazing Aussie Bastards who truly stand out from the crowd. Immune to critics and disbelievers, undaunted by illness or financial setback, they have...
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Alex Montoya era el hijo del ama de llaves y lo bastante ingenuo como para enamorarse de la hija del jefe. Después de ser expulsado como castigo, Alex se había convertido en un millonario con un solo objetivo: la venganza. Ahora tenía a Rebecca Huntington justo donde la quería... pagando las deudas de su padre, convertida en su ama de llaves. Alex se había jurado que no volvería a sentir nada más que frío desdén por la mujer que estaba a...
5) Railroad Robber Barons: The Lives of the Magnates Who Dominated America's Rail Industry in the 19
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The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in heavy industries like oil and steel. Men like Andrew Carnegie built empires like Carnegie Steel, and financiers like J.P. Morgan merged and consolidated them. The era also made names like Astor, Cooke, and Vanderbilt instantly recognizable across the globe. Over time, the unfathomable wealth generated by the businesses...
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Can he win back his wife?
When Caroline McNeill shows up outside her husband's mansion, she claims to have no memory of the past year…or their passion-filled honeymoon. But faking amnesia is the only way Caroline can find out if Damon was behind her abduction. She needs to trust him-a man she craves but still barely knows-before she can tell him about their infant son. Did the Silicon Valley mogul merely marry to claim an inheritance then dispose...
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The Boss's Baby Bargain… When resort developer Cameron McNeill goes undercover to root out problems at his prized island property, his first discovery is the irresistible concierge, Maresa Delphine. Her business smarts are vital to his mission. But the struggling single mom could help with his personal mission, too: fulfilling the marriage terms of his grandfather's will. Maresa is overwhelmed caring for her infant niece and tending to the demands...
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Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: "I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy," he said. But our future president wasn't alone. While millions of Americans suffered financial loss, tycoons pounced to heartlessly seize thousands of homes -- their profiteering made even easier because, as prize-winning investigative reporter Aaron Glantz reveals in Homewreckers,...
10) Oil!: a novel
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After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story featuring a cavalcade of characters including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist. This lively and panoramic book, which was recently cited by David Denby in the New Yorker as being Sinclair's "most readable" novel, is now the...
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"Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office. Caspit covers a wide swath of topics, including Netanyahu's policies, his political struggles, and his fight against the Iranian nuclear program, and zeroes in on Netanyahu's...
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Carlos Slim apareció en la lista de Forbes por primera vez in 1991 con mil millones de dólares en el bolsillo, la cantidad mínima para figurar en el elenco de los magnates más acaudalados del mundo. A partir de ese momento el empresario de origen libanés ha multiplicado su fortuna con velocidad inusitada, tanto que pronto llegó a encabezar dicha lista. Este relato abarca sus días en la Facultad de Ingeniería de la UNAM, su paso por la Bolsa...
13) Alerta nocturna
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Best seller volume 244/28
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Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas...
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The Whitbys: a dynasty akin to the Astors, once enormously wealthy real-estate magnates who were considered "the landlords of New York." There was a time when the death of a Whitby would have made national news, but when the family patriarch, Roger, dies, he is alone. Word of his death travels from the longtime family lawyer to his clan of children (from four separate marriages) and the news isn't good. Roger has left everything to his twenty-one-year-old...
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"Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the world -- a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal gangs and crooked landlords, of newspaper magnates, backbiters, and petty thieves. London is the backdrop and the connecting fabric of these three lives, reinforcing...
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