Other titles of interest.For those who dream of starting their own companies comes Built from Scratch, by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank Arthur M. Blank is an American businessman and a co-founder of Home Depot. Today he is known for his philanthropy and his ownership of the Atlanta Falcons team in the National Football League and the Georgia Force team in the Arena Football League. , with Bob Andelman (Times Books, Random House). Built from Scratch tells the story of the one of the world's most successful businesses: Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , the U.S. retail chain for do-it-yourselfers. Two men filled with ideas founded the business 20 years ago. Today, the company has almost 800 outlets - including one in Chile - and sales of $30 billion. And it all began when the chain's founders found themselves unemployed. The Slave Trade slave trade Capturing, selling, and buying of slaves. Slavery has existed throughout the world from ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Slaves were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan , by Hugh Thomas
U.S. publishing company. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon (1899–1960) and M. Lincoln Schuster (1897–1970), whose initial project, the original crossword-puzzle book, was a best-seller. ) is not just a definitive study on slavery. The British historian recounts how fabulous fortunes were made from slave commerce; why trader Richard Oswald Richard Oswald (November 5, 1880 - September 11, 1963) was an Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter. Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began his career as an actor on the Viennese stage. was dubbed "citizen of the world" (he had properties in Scotland, London, Florida, Jamaica, Virginia and Sierra Leone) and how one of his associates was Benjamin Franklin; how the wealthy residents of the French city of Nantes sent their clothing to be laundered in Saint Domingue-modern-day Haiti-because they believed that the water from the Caribbean island's mountains was superior to that of Britain for washing. The commerce in human beings among Africa, the Mediterranean and America was a key factor in the development of the New World and European prosperity. Thomas calculates that between 1492 and 1870, some 11 million African slaves were transported across the Atlantic, an enormous forced migration that radically changed Latin America and the world. |
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