Clint Willis
Author
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio, Inc
Language
English
Description
The Mafia. La Cosa Nostra. The underground, and often not-so-underground, organization and syndicate of criminal activity that has been a part of American history for the past century. Forget television and movies, hear the true stories of the inner workings of his chaotic, violent, and surprisingly human world, a world of respect, tradition, and honor.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This gripping story of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells of Bonington's Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of the most renowned climbers, who took increasingly terrible risks on now legendary expeditions to the world's most fearsome peaks, and paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving...
Publisher
Marlowe & Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
As testified to by today's headlines, investors have learned the hard way that they can't always trust the information they get from companies, mutual-fund sponsors, brokerage analysts and other investment advisors. This collection of classic investment writing offers an alternative. The pieces collected here are by the most successful investors of the past and present -- from former Fidelity Magellan Fund manager and best-selling author Peter Lynch...
