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Presents 50 biographies from the popular series, rewritten for an older audience and each accompanied by a timeline, featuring extra information, important dates, and photos.

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Successful entrepreneur and business leader Akira Yamamura tells the true story of his fight to succeed and survive in a global business environment. The story begins with his unusual early family life and his rebellion against the path his father, an influential politician, expected of him, and continues with his enduring setbacks and striving toward creating a billion-dollar hi-tech enterprise. Alone with little money, he went to the United States to study and better himself. There, through many twists and turns, he created a life where he rose through the ranks to lead a rapidly growing international company. This story will inspire and promote the idea of ambition in readers of all ages.

Biography --- Biography & Autobiography

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Peut-on être croyant et exercer son esprit critique sur le livre sacré de l’islam ?L’homme et le penseur auquel cette biographie est consacrée est l’une des plus belles intelligences que le monde musulman a produite. Né en 980 à Afshana (aujourd’hui en Ouzbékistan), Avicenne, de son vrai nom Ibn Sînâ, ne fut pas seulement le médecin dont l’enseignement a traversé les siècles, mais un philosophe engagé, curieux de tous les savoirs, en particulier des grands penseurs grecs. Son œuvre ne fut pas un vain mot. Pour lui, la philosophie islamique, à laquelle il donna une armature théorique, était un enjeu historique : trois siècles après la mort du Prophète, il s’agissait d’enraciner la raison et la logique en islam, de donner les moyens au croyant de résister au rigorisme des théologiens et autres docteurs de la loi.Cette histoire raconte ainsi l’impérieux combat qu’Avicenne mena pour réformer l’islam au tournant du XIe siècle. Sans faire école, il a eu de nombreux disciples, mais son athéisme supposé, plus sûrement révolutionnaire que la pensée païenne selon ses détracteurs, aura durablement discrédité cette belle odyssée intellectuelle.

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"Originally published in 1904, Commanders of the Dining Room features brief biographies of over 50 African American head waiters and front-of-house restaurant staff. Maccannon, himself an African American and a former headwaiter, also offers a quick portrait of the Head and Second Waiters' National Benefit Association. The HSWNBA quickly became a union (of sorts) for the industry and for African American hotel workers. Though the HSWNBA was formed in Chicago and held conventions there, many of the waiters profiled in this book hail from southern restaurants. Maccannon published Commanders to increase the visibility and stature of Black waiters; to assure employers that they could count on members of the HSWNBA to thoroughly know their business; to attest to their commitment to be dependable workers who would not create labor unrest; and to showcase model African American manhood. Commanders proclaimed to young waiters that they could achieve success if they educated themselves, worked hard, and joined an association like the HSWBA. In Commanders they could see headwaiters, at the pinnacle of the profession, who had once started out at the bottom and worked their way to the top, overcoming a variety of challenges along the way. Maurice Carlos Ruffin's foreword provides a personal meditation on what Commanders might mean for contemporary audiences while simultaneously grounding the "respectability politics" of these men in the long Civil Rights Movement. And Danya Pilgrim's new introduction contextualizes Maccannon and his book in the early twentieth century"--

Waiters --- Biography.

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Get the Summary of Vivek Ramaswamy's Woke, Inc. in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Vivek Ramaswamy is a traitor to his class. He's founded multibillion-dollar enterprises, led a biotech company as CEO, he became a hedge fund partner in his 20s, trained as a scientist at Harvard and a lawyer at Yale, and grew up the child of immigrants in a small town in Ohio. Now he takes us behind the scenes into corporate boardrooms and five-star conferences, into Ivy League classrooms and secretive nonprofits, to reveal the defining scam of our century. The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, America's elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are. They sell us cheap social causes and skin-deep identities to satisfy our hunger for a cause and our search for meaning, at a moment when we as Americans lack both.

Political Science --- Biography --- Biography & Autobiography