In 1969, John Brooks published "Business Adventures," his collection of New Yorker business stories — "Twelve classic tales from the worlds of Wall Street and the modern American corporation".
By Joshua Rothman July 11 , 2014In 1969, John Brooks published "Business Adventures," his collection of New Yorker business stories — "Twelve classic tales from the worlds of Wall Street and the modern American corporation".
Despite Leib's associations with the famous, you may be unfamiliar with his earlier adventures in collections of novellas called "Goldkorn Tales" and "Ice Fire Water".
Get it here >> "Business Adventures" by John Brooks This collection of New Yorker stories by John Brooks became Bill Gates' all-time favorite business book after Warren Buffett recommended it to him in 1991.
Thewissen reports on his discoveries in the wilds of India and Pakistan, weaving a narrative that reveals the day-to-day adventures of fossil collection, enriching it with local flavors from South Asian culture and society.
Need to know the value of your adventuring uncle's collection of tribal art?
That would be a real shame, because this is a carefully-crafted treat: part adventure and part puzzle collection starring a strange helicopter... thing.
Like other pulp magazines, it was a collection of adventure stories, originally printed on coarse, pulpy paper but later moved to a slick format.
Having studied Napoleon in some depth for my Ethan Gage adventure novels and my collection of his aphorisms, "Napoleon's Rules," I think it's instructive to look at ways the two men are alike and - more importantly - how they differ.
The first poem, The Shadow Man, is an early version of a poem that Tolkien went on to publish in his 1962 collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
In October Knopf published "A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine," a collection of Mr. McInerney's wine columns for House & Garden, a Condé Nast magazine.
