Author: Hjalmar Horace Greeley SchachtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Confessions of "the Old Wizard"
Author: Hjalmar Horace Greeley SchachtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Confessions of "the Old Wizard"
Author: Hjalmar Horace Greeley SchachtPublisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780837178271
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Confessions of "The old wizard"
Author: Hjalmar SchachtConfessions of "the Old Wizard": autobiography, tr
Author: Hjalmar Horace Greeley SchachtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hitler's Banker
Author: John WeitzPublisher:
ISBN: 9780316643061
Category : Bankers
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
HITLER'S BANKER is a full-scale biography of Hjalmar Schacht, one of history's premier financial wizards. Chief Architect of the Nazi economy, Schacht's rampant inflation financed the creation of the most powerful war machine in Europe out of the rubble of a devastated Weimar Republic. Weitz chronicles Schacht's early life and his meteoric success in the international banking world, deftly juxtaposing the twentieth-century history of Germany itself. HITLER'S BANKER is the riveting life story of a man imprisoned by Hitler because of his anti-Nazi sentiments and charged as a war criminal by the Allies. Exonerated of all charges at Nuremberg, Schacht lived to become a successful author and economic adviser to foreign nations, and a wealthy private banker.
The Wizard and the Prophet
Author: Charles C. MannPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307961702
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
My First Seventy-six Years
Author: Hjalmar Horace Greeley SchachtPublisher: London : A. Wingate
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Confessions of a Dork Lord
Author: Mike JohnstonPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1524740810
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Despicable Me meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid in this hilarious illustrated middle grade adventure that follows a hapless warlock-in-training as he struggles to live up to his great and terrible destiny. Meet Wick. He's the son of the Dark Lord, heir to the throne of black and broken glass, and next in line to be the leader of the Grim World. Too bad he's stuck in Remedial Spell Casting (he can barely even cast the fart-revealer spell), he's allergic to fire and brimstone, and the bullies at school insist on calling him Dork Lord. Full of humor, hijinks, and lively illustrations, Confessions of a Dork Lord follows Wick through the pages of his journal as he comes up with a genius plan to defeat his foes, achieve greatness . . . and survive Middle Ages School. "I loved every page, and your kid will too!" --Melissa de la Cruz, bestselling author of the Descendants series "It's not easy being bad. But this book will give you a head start." --Pseudonymous Bosch, bestselling author of the Secret series "Hilarious! Not to be missed!" --Eoin Colfer, bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series
The Magic of Money
Author: Hjalmar Horace Greeley SchachtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Scholastic Gold)
Author: AviPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 054592247X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book now in expanded After Words edition!Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet, soon after stepping aboard the ship, she becomes enmeshed in a conflict between them! What begins as an eagerly anticipated ocean crossing turns into a harrowing journey, where Charlotte gains a villainous enemy . . . and is put on trial for murder!After Words material includes author Q & A, journal writing tips, and other activities that bring Charlotte's world to life!