5/31/2023 0 Comments The last days of the incas![]() ![]() Despite being outnumbered by more than two hundred to one, the Spaniards prevailed-due largely to their horses, their steel armor and swords, and their tactic of surprise. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. ![]() In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments The Everything Store by Brad Stone![]() ![]() ![]() As a parent of young children, I spend no time driving to stores for diapers, I can shop late at night, I can get things cheap. The Everything Store will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.ĭid you know how bad it is to work for Amazon? But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing. Compared to tech's other elite innovators - Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg - Bezos is a private man. Until now.īrad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving listeners the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. ![]() He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. ![]() The definitive story of, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.Ī started off delivering books through the mail. Audie Award Finalist, Business/Educational, 2014 ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments The Order by Angel Lawson![]() The middle-aged man clenched her hand a little coldly and said, "This is the only way to save your mother. The slender body of the girl instantly softened and looked at her father with a shudder. Your sister isn’t virgin, I want you to replace her first night." ![]() "That Prince is a fanatic for cleanliness, he likes a clean woman. The girl stared at the clear big eyes, not knowing what her father meant, she whimpered, "I know!" You also heard about the marriage between your sister and Long’s family." I promise, I promise." The girl nodded, as long as she could save her mother, as if he wanted her life, it was just a matter of words. "Lolo, you can save your mother, but you must promise me one thing." Looking at this pear flower with rain, the beautiful and charming face, he bent down his head slightly. ![]() The middle-aged man suddenly bit his teeth and pulled the girl closer. Dad, please give us one million?" The girl's tears wet the tender face. "Yes, the doctor said that if I had one million, the surgery could be done. "Your mom is not saved at all." The man was a little cold and pushed her hand. "Dad, beg you, save my mother, please save her, she will not die." In the hallway, a young girl pulled the arm of a middle-aged man who was about to leave, crying and begging. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her notes to The Virgin Suicides and The Time Traveler’s Wife feel like classics, sure to strike a powerful chord with readers. We read her love letters to The Goldfinch and Matilda, as well as her snarky break-ups with Fifty Shades of Grey and Dear John. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, she addresses those books directly. Annie Spence, who has a decade of experience as a Midwestern librarian, does this not only at her Michigan library but also at home, for her neighbors, at cocktail parties-everywhere. And they put back the books they treasure. They remove the books that patrons no longer check out. ![]() Librarians spend their lives weeding-not weeds but books! Books that have reached the end of their shelf life, both literally and figuratively. A Gen-X librarian's snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to the books in her life. ![]() |