Author: Thomas B. Allen
Publisher: Turner Pub
ISBN: 9781570360671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Shows artifacts left at the memorial, including medals, letters, crosses, combat paraphernalia, and flags
Offerings at the Wall
Author: Thomas B. Allen
Publisher: Turner Pub
ISBN: 9781570360671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Shows artifacts left at the memorial, including medals, letters, crosses, combat paraphernalia, and flags
Publisher: Turner Pub
ISBN: 9781570360671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Shows artifacts left at the memorial, including medals, letters, crosses, combat paraphernalia, and flags
Letters on the Wall
Author: Michael Sofarelli
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062043374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Since its creation in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become the most visited National Park Services site. Each year, 4.5 million people come to the Wall. Many of them leave letters or other special objects. Every night, park rangers collect and inventory these mementos—now numbering well over 90,000—and put them into government storage. Michael Sofarelli, the son of a Vietnam War veteran, has combed through the archives searching for the most gripping letters and objects: a mother awaiting word of her missing son, a former comrade recounting a battle story, a pair of well-worn ballet slippers, and a collection of cigars. These items are not only a tribute to the fallen soldiers; they pay tribute as well to the families and friends who waited at home and the comrades who have never forgotten their brothers. They tell the story of a war that is still being fought by many who served and a conflict that changed the lives of many Americans forever.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062043374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Since its creation in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become the most visited National Park Services site. Each year, 4.5 million people come to the Wall. Many of them leave letters or other special objects. Every night, park rangers collect and inventory these mementos—now numbering well over 90,000—and put them into government storage. Michael Sofarelli, the son of a Vietnam War veteran, has combed through the archives searching for the most gripping letters and objects: a mother awaiting word of her missing son, a former comrade recounting a battle story, a pair of well-worn ballet slippers, and a collection of cigars. These items are not only a tribute to the fallen soldiers; they pay tribute as well to the families and friends who waited at home and the comrades who have never forgotten their brothers. They tell the story of a war that is still being fought by many who served and a conflict that changed the lives of many Americans forever.
The Wall
Author: Sal Lopes
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This enduring document commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a collection of touching photographs capturing the intense emotional response the monument provokes from virtually all its visitors. Includes excerpts from letters and notes left as offerings at the Wall.
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This enduring document commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a collection of touching photographs capturing the intense emotional response the monument provokes from virtually all its visitors. Includes excerpts from letters and notes left as offerings at the Wall.
Offerings
Author: Richard Smolev
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0897337077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Kate Brewster's quest to become the first woman to run a Wall Street institution is about to come to fruition. Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker whose most valuable but unknown asset may be a painting stolen from a Jewish family as they fled Austria after the Nazi invasion. Kate's professional challenges play out amid a family crisis: her husband's company is imploding and he may have to relocate to a remote part of China to save even a small portion of his business. Her integrity is challenged when she's accused of slowing down a deal to sell her husband's company to divert the sizeable sales commission to Drake, her new company. As a result, Kate uncovers an illegal trading scheme involving her partners, and their downfall triggers another firm's attempt at a hostile takeover of Drake. Against seemingly impossible odds, Kate is able to strike a balance between the demands of the deal she is running and the right of a patriarch's family to seek closure for wounds that date back generations.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 0897337077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Kate Brewster's quest to become the first woman to run a Wall Street institution is about to come to fruition. Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker whose most valuable but unknown asset may be a painting stolen from a Jewish family as they fled Austria after the Nazi invasion. Kate's professional challenges play out amid a family crisis: her husband's company is imploding and he may have to relocate to a remote part of China to save even a small portion of his business. Her integrity is challenged when she's accused of slowing down a deal to sell her husband's company to divert the sizeable sales commission to Drake, her new company. As a result, Kate uncovers an illegal trading scheme involving her partners, and their downfall triggers another firm's attempt at a hostile takeover of Drake. Against seemingly impossible odds, Kate is able to strike a balance between the demands of the deal she is running and the right of a patriarch's family to seek closure for wounds that date back generations.
Offerings
Author: Michael ByungJu Kim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1950691691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The national bestseller that Gary Shteyngart has called, "A potent combination of a financial thriller and a coming-of-age immigrant tale. . . . Offerings is a great book." With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default. For Dae Joon—also known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his father so loved—the stakes are personal. Raised in the US and Harvard Business School–educated, Dae Joon is a jangnam, a firstborn son, bound by tradition to follow in the footsteps of his forebears. But rather than pursue the path his scholar-father wanted, he has sought a career on Wall Street, at the epicenter of power in the American empire. Now, as he and his fellow bankers work feverishly with Korean officials to execute a sovereign bond offering to raise badly needed capital, he knows that his own father is living on borrowed time, in the last stages of a disease that is the family curse. A young woman he has met is quietly showing the way to a different future. And when his closest friend from business school, a scion of one of Korea's biggest chaebol, asks his help in a sale that may save the conglomerate but also salvage a legacy of corruption, he finds himself in personal crisis, torn by dueling loyalties, his identity tested.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1950691691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The national bestseller that Gary Shteyngart has called, "A potent combination of a financial thriller and a coming-of-age immigrant tale. . . . Offerings is a great book." With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default. For Dae Joon—also known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his father so loved—the stakes are personal. Raised in the US and Harvard Business School–educated, Dae Joon is a jangnam, a firstborn son, bound by tradition to follow in the footsteps of his forebears. But rather than pursue the path his scholar-father wanted, he has sought a career on Wall Street, at the epicenter of power in the American empire. Now, as he and his fellow bankers work feverishly with Korean officials to execute a sovereign bond offering to raise badly needed capital, he knows that his own father is living on borrowed time, in the last stages of a disease that is the family curse. A young woman he has met is quietly showing the way to a different future. And when his closest friend from business school, a scion of one of Korea's biggest chaebol, asks his help in a sale that may save the conglomerate but also salvage a legacy of corruption, he finds himself in personal crisis, torn by dueling loyalties, his identity tested.
Posada
Author: Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939675422
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge is a feminist collection of poetry straddling borders, and arose when daughter of Mexican immigrants, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, traveled from Los Angeles to the Tucson-Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border in August 2011 to volunteer with the humanitarian aid organization, No More Deaths. She hoped to gain a concrete understanding of the "wall," and the result was a book illustrating a speaker driven to activism by a need to honor her family's journey.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939675422
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge is a feminist collection of poetry straddling borders, and arose when daughter of Mexican immigrants, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, traveled from Los Angeles to the Tucson-Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border in August 2011 to volunteer with the humanitarian aid organization, No More Deaths. She hoped to gain a concrete understanding of the "wall," and the result was a book illustrating a speaker driven to activism by a need to honor her family's journey.
Maya Lin
Author: Jeanne Walker Harvey
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 1250112494
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"The bold story of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial"--
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 1250112494
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"The bold story of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial"--
Initial Public Offerings (IPO)
Author: Greg N. Gregoriou
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080461670
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
After the cooling off of IPOs since the dot com bubble, Google has rekindled the fire for IPOs. This IPO reader contains new articles exclusive to this reader by leading academics from around the world dealing with quantitative and qualitative analyses of this increasingly popular and important area of finance. Articles address new methods of IPO performance, international IPOs, IPO evaluation, IPO underwriting, evaluation and bookbuilding. Although numerous articles are technical in nature, with econometric and statistical models, particular attention has been directed towards the understanding and the applicability of the results as well as theoretical development in this area. This reader will assist researchers, academics, and graduate students to further understand the latest research on IPOs.*Interest in IPOs is increasing again after the Google IPO, and IPOs are up significantly from last year*Chapters by well known academics provide an international perspective, describing research results from IPO data in countries spanning the globe*Research is based on real results from IPO data collected over the past 5-7 years
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080461670
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
After the cooling off of IPOs since the dot com bubble, Google has rekindled the fire for IPOs. This IPO reader contains new articles exclusive to this reader by leading academics from around the world dealing with quantitative and qualitative analyses of this increasingly popular and important area of finance. Articles address new methods of IPO performance, international IPOs, IPO evaluation, IPO underwriting, evaluation and bookbuilding. Although numerous articles are technical in nature, with econometric and statistical models, particular attention has been directed towards the understanding and the applicability of the results as well as theoretical development in this area. This reader will assist researchers, academics, and graduate students to further understand the latest research on IPOs.*Interest in IPOs is increasing again after the Google IPO, and IPOs are up significantly from last year*Chapters by well known academics provide an international perspective, describing research results from IPO data in countries spanning the globe*Research is based on real results from IPO data collected over the past 5-7 years
Shrapnel in the Heart
Author: Laura Palmer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394759885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394759885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war.
Burnt Offerings
Author: Robert Marasco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933618845
Category : Fine books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a reprint of a classic horror novel, Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco with a new introduction and artwork.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933618845
Category : Fine books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a reprint of a classic horror novel, Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco with a new introduction and artwork.