Tag: Dynasty

Free Download Richard S. Tedlow, "The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM’s Founding Father and Son"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0060014059, 0060014067 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 0.6 mb
For an extraordinary fifty-seven-year period, one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing companies was run by two men who were flesh and blood. The chief executives of the International Business Machines Corporation from 1914 until 1971 were Thomas J. Watson and Thomas J. Watson, father and son. That great corporation bears the imprint of both men – their ambitions and their strengths – but it also bears the consequences of a family that was in near-constant conflict.

Free Download The Hustons: The Life and Times of a Hollywood Dynasty (Audiobook)
English | July 01, 2014 | ASIN: B00KQ05MQ6 | M4B@64 kbps | 37h 43m | 1 GB
Author: Lawrence Grobel | Narrator: David Drummond
When John Huston died at 81 on August 28, 1987, America lost a towering figure in movie history. The director of such classic films as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, Prizzi’s Honor, and The Dead, John Huston evoked passionate responses from everyone he encountered. He was at the center of a dynasty, with three generations of Oscar winners (Walter, John and Anjelica). Now, for the first time as an audiobook, the complete story of this remarkable family is told in The Hustons by Lawrence Grobel.
The book chronicles the family’s history – from Walter’s days on the vaudeville circuit and his later fame on Broadway, through John’s meteoric rise, to Anjelica’s emergence as a great actress in film today. Grobel interviewed John Huston for over 100 hours and conducted 200 interviews with John’s four children, three of his five wives, many of his mistresses, producers, writers, technicians, and a number of celebrities who rarely grant interviews.

Free Download The Cecils : The Dynasty and Legacy of Lord Burghley
by David Lee
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1399083775 | 256 Pages | True ePUB | 2.75 MB

Free Download Tim Adler, "The House of Redgrave: The Lives of a Theatrical Dynasty"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1781312249, 1845136233 | EPUB | pages: 342 | 0.6 mb
From the landmark films of Tony Richardson to the untimely death of Natasha Richardson â?? this is the saga of one of the greatest dynasties in British film and theatre.

Free Download Forging Dynasty Businesses: The Competitive Edge of Enduring Teams by Chuck Violand
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1637425244 | 174 pages | True EPUB | 1.58 MB
This book is designed to help small businesses thrive in an increasingly competitive world.

Free Download The Severan Dynasty: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Roman Empire’s Rulers Before Rome’s Imperial Crisis by Charles River Editors, Jim D. Johnston
English | 2009 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07Q3XDS11 | MP3@64 kbps | 1.7 Hours | 46 Mb
"If a man were called upon to fix that period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the deaths of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." (Edward Gibbon)
"The Five Good Emperors," a reference to the five emperors who ruled the Roman Empire between 96 and 180 CE (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius), was a term first coined by Machiavelli and later adopted and popularized by historian Edward Gibbon, who said that under these men, the Roman Empire "was governed by absolute power under the guidance of wisdom and virtue."

Free Download Ian Halperin, "Kardashian Dynasty: The Controversial Rise of America’s Royal Family"
English | ISBN: 1501128884 | 2016 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigator Ian Halperin pulls back the curtain on America’s notorious Kardashian family-exposing their shaky foundation for fame-one shocking revelation at a time.

Free Download The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 (Audiobook)
English | October 30, 2007 | ASIN: B00JHJVCJI | M4B@64 kbps | 4h 27m | 124 MB
Author: William Dalrymple | Narrator: Robert Bathurst
At 4 PM on a dark, wet, winter’s evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin was buried in eerie silence – no lamentations, no panegyrics, for as the British commissioner in charge of the funeral insisted, "No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests". This Mughal was Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most talented, tolerant, and likeable of his remarkable dynasty, who found himself leader of a violent uprising he knew from the start would lead to irreparable carnage.

Free Download Natalia Nowakowska, "Church, State and Dynasty in Renaissance Poland: The Career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468-1503) "
English | ISBN: 0754656446 | 2007 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the career of Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468-1503) arguably the most powerful churchman in medieval or early modern Central Europe. Royal prince, bishop of Kraków, Polish primate, cardinal, regent and brother to the rulers of Hungary, Poland, Bohemia and Lithuania, Fryderyk was a leading dynastic politician, diplomat, ecclesiastic and cultural patron, and a pivotal figure in three Polish royal governments. Whereas Polish historians have traditionally cast Fryderyk as a miscreant and national embarrassment, this study argues that he is in fact a figure of fundamental importance for our understanding of church and monarchy in the Renaissance, who can enhance our grasp of the period in a variety of ways. Jagiellon’s career constitutes an ambitious state-building programme – executed in the three spheres of government, ecclesiastical governance and cultural patronage – which reveals the multi-dimensional ways in which Renaissance monarchies might exploit the local church to their own ends. This book also offers a rare English language insight into the development of the Reformation in central Europe, and an analysis of the reigns of Kazimierz IV (1447-92), Jan Olbracht (1492-1501), Aleksander (1501-6), Poland’s evolving constitution, her foreign policy, Jagiellonian dynastic strategy and, above all, the tripartite relationship between church, Crown and state.

Free Download Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection By Meng-Lung Feng
2000 | 794 Pages | ISBN: 0295978430 | PDF | 45 MB
"Stories Old and New" is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s "Gujin xiaoshuo" (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and nuns, pirates and emperors, and officials both virtuous and corrupt. The streets and abodes of late-Ming China come alive in Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang’s smooth and colorful translation of these entertaining tales. "Stories Old and New" has long been popular in China and has been published there in numerous editions. Although some of the stories have appeared in English translations in journals and anthologies, they have not previously been presented sequentially in thematic pairs as arranged by Feng Menglong. This unabridged translation, illustrated with a selection of woodcuts from the original Ming dynasty edition and including Feng’s interlinear notes and marginal comments, as well as all of the verse woven throughout the text, allows the modern reader to experience the text as did its first audience nearly four centuries ago.