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  Never Give In

  The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

  by Winston S. Churchill, Winston Churchill

  Winston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, and it was through his oratory that his words made their greatest and most enduring impact. While the definitive collection of Churchill's speeches fills eight volumes, here for the first time, his grandson, Winston S. Churchill, has put together a personal selection of his... (more)
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  Only the Paranoid Survive

  How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

  by Andrew S. Grove

  Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive , Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside. Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection... (more)
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  William James

  His Life and Thought

  by Gerald E. Myers

  This magisterial book is the first comprehensive interpretive and critical study of one of America's foremost philosophers and psychologists. Gerald Myers traces James's life and career and then uses this fresh biographical information to illuminate his writings and ideas.
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  Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business

  by Robert Mondavi

  In 1965, after a notorious family feud, Robert Mondavi-then fifty-two years old-was thrown out of his family's winery. Far from defeated, Mondavi was dedicated to a vision of creating a superior wine. What has happened since that fateful day is one of the greatest success stories of American business. Today, the Robert Mondavi Winery is one of the most respected in the world, and Mondavi is the man who is most... (more)
• Yojiro Takaoka: o Construtor de Sonhos

  

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  Five English Reformers

  by J. C. Ryle

  Few martyr's words can be more stirring than those of Bishop Hugh Latimer's to Dr. Nicholas Ridley: Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. But, why were such men burned at the stake? What were the great convictions in which they lived and for which they were prepared to sacrifice life itself? What... (more)