Grand Fortunes
Title | Grand Fortunes PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Pinçon |
Publisher | Algora Publishing |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 189294118X |
Going back for generations, the fortunes of great families consist of far more than money; they are also symbols of culture and social interaction. They are at the heart of dense family and extra-family networks, of international coalitions and divisions. The authors elucidate the mechanisms by which they accumulate and expand their wealth, status and influence even while staying out of the public eye. Paradoxically there is a quasi-collective nature to these private fortunes, as families enjoy sojourns at each other's estates, help each other weather difficult times and intermarry.
Geopolitics of Chaos
Title | Geopolitics of Chaos PDF eBook |
Author | Ignacio Ramonet |
Publisher | Algora Publishing |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1892941171 |
Director of Le Monde Diplomatique, the author presents an original, discriminating and lucid political matrix for understanding what he calls the OC current disorder of the worldOCO in terms of Internationalization, Cyberculture and Political Chaos."
The Temptation of Innocence
Title | The Temptation of Innocence PDF eBook |
Author | Pascal Bruckner |
Publisher | Algora Publishing |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1892941260 |
A highly insightful essay on the culture of dependency and its damaging effects on the moral fiber of society; from corporate welfare to affirmative action, the author takes on the culture of copping out. A book against depression, existential angst, cry-babies and whining "victims," either acting as a child in a candy store or as a martyr of one's own fears. Men against women, women against men, isn't it time to grow up and take charge of our own destiny?
Healing Or Stealing?
Title | Healing Or Stealing? PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Marie Abgrall |
Publisher | Algora Publishing |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1892941511 |
Healing or Stealing shows how certain cults and healing groups victimize people through mental manipulation and mind-control.
Russian Intellignce Services
Title | Russian Intellignce Services PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Plougin |
Publisher | Algora Publishing |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 1892941252 |
Russia's tumultuous early history is unearthed with a view to deciphering the strategies and stratagems that prevailed. Written by best-selling Russian author Vladimir Plougin, a professor at Moscow State University, the stories are drawn from ancient chr.
The American Short-horn Herd Book
Title | The American Short-horn Herd Book PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Falley Allen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1216 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Cattle |
ISBN |
Re-Founding The World
Title | Re-Founding The World PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Claude Guillebaud |
Publisher | Algora Publishing |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Civilization |
ISBN | 1892941333 |
"[A leading French Christian writer,] Guillebaud leads the search for the Greek, Jewish and Christian roots of our fundamental Western values. . . an erudite and frank analysis of the perverse trends that undermine morality today and calls for a revolutio.