Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Will to Succeed
One evening as I was watching the sun sinking beneath the waves of the sea, I thought to myself, ‘This same sun has risen and set countless times and, in that period, millions of lives have come to an end. Unless a person records the events and experiences of his days, his life will disappear without trace into the vastness of time and melt into the oblivion of history.’ At that moment I decided to fulfil my father‘s wish and write a book about his life as a businessman, who started the career that he loves so deeply at the age of sixteen and is still practising his profession today. Now in his seventies, he looks back over a long and busy working life in which he has been guided by th...
Domains of Influence
"In association with The Arab International Women's Forum."
Mother Tongue
A probing and poetic examination of language, food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life through the eyes of an American who moved to Parma with her husband and family. In the 1980s, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved permanently with her Italian husband and her daughter to Parma, a sophisticated city in northern Italy, where he became a professor of biology. Her search for rootedness in the city that was to be her home introduced her to complexities in her identity as she migrated into another language and looked for links beyond the joys of Verdi, Correggio, and Parmesan cheese, which visitors have rightly extolled for centuries. The local resistance to change perceived...
The Gulf Directory
None
Cairo Circles
An epic, multi-perspective debut novel bringing the streets of Cairo to life
Banking On It
ONE WOMAN'S QUEST TO REBUILD BRITAIN'S BROKEN BANKING SYSTEM 'If there was ever a business book suitable for TV adaptation, this is it' FT In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, the British banking industry had come to a standstill. Trust in the sector had been left in tatters and, despite the emergence of technologies which could revolutionise the customer experience, nobody wanted to upset the status quo. That was until Anne Boden decided to do something radical and start her own bank. Founder of Starling Bank, winner of Best British Bank three years running, in this awe-inspiring story Anne reveals how she broke through bureaucracy, successfully tackled prejudice to realise her vision for the future of consumer banking and revolutionised the entire industry forever. ***ONE OF THE TIMES TOP 5 BEST BUSINESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020*** 'A banking blockbuster' The Observer Magazine 'Sent shockwaves through the tight-knit world of UK tech and venture capital' Yahoo Finance
The House of Kanoo
Recounts the history of the Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo family business, charting in fascinating detail its growth from trading in basic commodities to becoming one of the leading international companies in Arabia. This readable family business history is also the story of the Gulf region: it shows the astonishing transformation of traditional, poor communities into states rich in oil wealth and human resources. The House of Kanoo is shown reacting to and influencing the dramatic political and economic tapestry of events over a hundred years. This period covers two world wars, the decline of the pearling industry, the discovery of oil and its impact on the economy. Events that are a background to this remarkable story.
