Gandhi–The Story of My Experiments With Truth

Gandhi–The Story of My Experiments With Truth

Translated By: Mahadev Desai

The Gandhis belong to the Bania caste and seem to have been originally grocers. But for three generations, from my grandfather, they have been Prime Ministers in several Kathiawad States. Uttamchand Gandhi, alias Ota Gandhi, my grandfather, must have been a man of principle. State intrigues compelled him to leave Porbandar, where he was Diwan, and to seek refuge in Junagadh. There he saluted the Nawab with the left hand. Someone, noticing the apparent discourtesy, asked for an explanation, which was given thus: ‘The right hand is already pledged to Porbandar.’ Ota Gandhi married a second time, having lost his first wife. He had four sons by his first wife and two by his second wife. I do not think that in my childhood I ever felt or knew that these sons of Ota Gandhi were not all of the same mother. The fifth of these six brothers was Karamchand Gandhi, alias Kaba Gandhi, and the sixth was Tulsidas Gandhi. Both these brothers were Prime Ministers in Porbandar, one after the other. [download]

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Michael Jackson–Ultimed Music Legend

Michael Jackson–Ultimed Music Legend

By: Katherine Krhon

Eight-year-old Michael Jackson stood in front of the audience gathered at Roosevelt High School in Gary, Indiana, in 1966. “The Jacksons” Michael and his brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon were competing in a citywide talent show at the school. Young Michael looked adorable with his easy smile and big, bright eyes. Sharing vocals with his brother Jermaine, Michael crooned “My Girl,” a song made famous by the Temptations. When the Jacksons finished their song, the audience gave them a standing ovation. The judges at the show gave them first prize. After the show, the excited boys took turns holding the big trophy they had won. All the Jackson boys were talented, but Michael stood out onstage. His high, clear voice had the emotional depth of a much older person. [download]

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Cleopatra–A Biography

Cleopatra–A Biography

By: Duane W. Roller

in 34 b.c. a remarkable ceremony took place in the Gymnasium of Alexandria. Cleopatra VII, 35 years of age, ruler of Egypt for the past 17 years and a Roman citizen, legally confirmed that her Ptolemaic kingdom—established 270 years previously by Ptolemy I, her ancestor and a companion of Alexander the Great—had been restored to its former territorial glory. It now extended from Cyrene in North Africa through Egypt proper, well up the Nile, and around the eastern perimeter of the Mediterranean, including Cyprus and parts of Crete, to the edge of the Aegean. Cleopatra’s four children participated in the ceremony, as they were to continue the kingdom and to create a network of allied monarchies that would extend as far as Armenia and Parthia (the modern Iranian plateau). Because Cleopatra was allied with the Roman Republic. [download]

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The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield The Young

The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield The Young

By: Charles Dickens 

I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this book, in the first sensation of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. Y interest in it, it is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret pleasure in the achievement of a laong design, regret in the separation from many companions – that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confidences, and private emotions. Beside which, all that I could say of the story, to any purpose, I have endeavoured to say in it. [download]

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A Beginner’s Guide To The World Economy

A Beginner’s Guide To The World Economy

By: Randy Charles Epping

If economists want to be understood, let them use plainer word….(and) address those words less to politicians and more to everybody else. Politicians care about what voters think, especially voters in blocks, and not a shred about what economists think. Talking to politicians about economics is therefore a waste of time. The only way to make governments behave as if they were economically literate is to confront them with electorates that are. [download]
 
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The Law and Economics of Corporate Governance

The Law and Economics of Corporate Governance

 

Edited By: Alessio M. Pacces

 

This book includes the proceedings of the conference on ‘Changing Perspectives on Corporate Law and Economics’, held in Rotterdam on 6 November 2008 in honour of one of the founders of the economic analysis of law, Guido Calabresi. The collection is made up of six main contributions and six shorter comments by the speakers who acted as discussants. The subject matter of the book corporate governance is one of the most heated topics in the economic analysis of law. In the aftermath of the largest global fi nancial crisis after the 1930s, the negative consequences of which we are still experiencing, the connection between law and corporate fi nance has been evident from the news. More generally, this connection is extremely important for the governance of enterprises, which aff ects not only the fi nancial markets, but also the effi ciency of production, economic growth, and the overall well being of our societies. [download]

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