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Technology may be different in 2060 New York, yet the city is still a place of many cultures and great divides. And as ever, some murders receive more attention than others -- especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed -- and strangled -- with cords of black velvet ... It doesn't surprise Lieutenant Eve Dallas that Thomas Anders's scandalous death is a source of titillation...
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Center for Entrepreneurship, College of Business Administration, Wichita State University
Pub. Date
1982
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English
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Biography of Dane Gray Hansen (1883-1965, a notable businessman " ... [who] remained a confirmed bachelor ... his assets were appraised at almost $9 million, the bulk of which he willed to a charitable foundation--with the expressed wish that the earnings be used to benefit Logan and northwest Kansas." His father, Peter Hansen (1846-1925), was a Danish immigrant to Oshkosh, Wisconsin between 1864 and 1867, who moved to northwest Kansas in 1870/1872...
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Newmarket Press
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English
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Traces the rags-to-riches story of a Louisiana self-made billionaire, from his efforts to put himself through school and his entry into the millionaire leagues after investing in a computer utility company to his creations of highly profitable companies and his dedication to green energy.
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English
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The son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, Adam Arnring grows up in turn-of-the-century America, determined to shape his own destiny, and heads west to build what is to become one of the country's great retail companies, in a richly textured novel spanning three generations and the history of twentieth-century America.
5) Cloud L. Cray: the man who loved Atchison ; founder Midwest Grain Products, Inc., Atchison, Kansas
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Center for Entrepreneurship, W. Frank Barton School of Business Administration, Wichita State University
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English
7) Mr. Brooks
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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Mr. Brooks is a successful businessman, a generous philanthropist, a loving father, and a devoted husband. He is seemingly perfect, but he has a secret. He is also the notorious Thumbprint Killer, and no one has ever suspected it until now. Tracy Atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship.
8) Only you
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[2018]
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English
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In "Boundary Lines," Jillian and Aaron are torn between the demands of a family feud and their own feelings for each other, and in "The Right Path," Morgan is attracted to a Greek tycoon she suspects of criminal behavior.