The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
Drawing on a number of interviews with the likes of Warren Buffett and other high profile investors, Graham's surviving family, and noted finance professors, this title gives readers a look into Graham's most essential wealth-creation concepts, while telling the colourful story of his amazing business career and his multifaceted personal life.
A biography of Philadelphia physician S. Weir Mitchell. Examines his life and his interactions with many prominent nineteenth-century Americans, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jane Addams, Winifred Howells, Edith Wharton, William Osler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and Andrew ......
Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage on both the catastrophes and the socioeconomic climate of the time.
A man far ahead of his time, Archbishop Edwin V. O'Hara of Kansas City (1881-1956) orchestrated numerous initiatives that profoundly affected American Catholic life. His ceaseless activity as both priest and bishop sowed seeds that flourished long past his lifetime, from liturgical reform to Bible study, campus ministry to social justice, minimum ......
The Armory Show and the Untold Story of Modern Art in America
Explores the career of Walter Pach (1883-1958), an influential figure in twentieth-century art and culture. As critic, agent, liaison, and lecturer, Pach helped win the acceptance of modern European, American, and Mexican art throughout the North American continent.
The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
A biography of the early American printer William Parks. Examines his early career in England as well as his later work in Colonial Maryland and Virginia. Focuses on the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing.
The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
A biography of the early American printer William Parks. Examines his early career in England as well as his later work in Colonial Maryland and Virginia. Focuses on the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing.
The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940
The biography of an important agent for black social change in the early twentieth centuryA leading African American intellectual of the early twentieth century, Eugene Kinckle Jones (18851954) was instrumental in professionalizing black social work in America. In his role as executive secretary of the National Urban League, Jones worked closely ......
The first in-depth look at an influential engineer and aviation pioneerFrench-born and self-trained civil engineer Octave Chanute designed America's two largest stockyards, created innovative and influential structures such as the Kansas City Bridge over the previously ''unbridgeable'' Missouri River, and was a passionate aviation pioneer whose ......
