Fortune S Many Houses

Author : Simon Welfare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982128647

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Fortune's Many Houses by Simon Welfare Pdf

A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who tried to change the world for the better but paid a heavy price. This is a true tale of love and loss, fortune and misfortune. In the late 19th century, John and Ishbel Gordon, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, were the couple who seemed to have it all: a fortune that ran into the tens of millions, a magnificent stately home in Scotland surrounded by one of Europe’s largest estates, a townhouse in London’s most fashionable square, cattle ranches in Texas and British Columbia, and the governorships of Ireland and Canada where they lived like royalty. Together they won praise for their work as social reformers and pioneers of women’s rights, and enjoyed friendships with many of the most prominent figures of the age, from Britain’s Prime Ministers to Oliver Wendell-Holmes and P.T. Barnum and Queen Victoria herself. Yet by the time they died in the 1930s, this gilded couple’s luck had long since run out: they had faced family tragedies, scandal through their unwitting involvement in one of the “crimes of the century” and, most catastrophically of all, they had lost both their fortune and their lands. This fascinating family quest for the reason for their dramatic downfall is also a moving and colorful exploration of society in Victorian Britain and North America and an inspirational feast for history lovers.

Author : Michael Gross
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451666212

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House of Outrageous Fortune by Michael Gross Pdf

“Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego… Even more crammed with billionaires and their exploits than 740 Park” (Penelope Green, The New York Times). With two concierge-staffed lobbies, a walnut-lined library, a lavish screening room, a private sixty-seat restaurant offering residents room service, a health club complete with a seventy-foot swimming pool, penthouses that cost almost $100 million, and a tenant roster that’s a roll call of business page heroes and villains, Fifteen Central Park West is the most outrageously successful, insanely expensive, titanically tycoon-stuffed real estate development of the twenty-first century. In this “stunning” (CNN) and “deliciously detailed” (Booklist, starred review) New York Times bestseller, journalist Michael Gross turns his gimlet eye on the new-money wonderland that’s sprung up on the southwest rim of Central Park. Mixing an absorbing business epic with hilarious social comedy, Gross “takes another gossip-laden bite out of the upper crust” (Sam Roberts, The New York Times), whichincludes Denzel Washington, Sting, Norman Lear, top executives, and Russian and Chinese oligarchs, to name a few. And he recounts the legendary building’s inspired genesis, costly construction, and the flashy international lifestyle it has brought to a once benighted and socially déclassé Manhattan neighborhood. More than just an apartment building, 15CPW represents a massive paradigm shift in the lifestyle of New York’s rich and famous—and is a bellwether of the city’s changing social and financial landscape.

Author : Laura Carter Holloway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Capitalists and financiers
ISBN : UOM:39015000676950

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Famous American Fortunes and the Men who Have Made Them by Laura Carter Holloway Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Adler
Publisher : Dell
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307574688

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Fortune Is a Woman by Elizabeth Adler Pdf

A runaway heiress . . . a legacy of shame . . . an empire built on blood and revenge . . . The three met in the aftermath of San Francisco's devastating 1906 earthquake—the Mandarin Lai Tsin, a runaway American heiress, and a young Englishwoman. Against all odds they made their dreams come true, building one of the world’s largest trading companies and most luxurious hotels. . . . They had only each other—and bloody secrets to bury even as they rose to dizzying heights, wary of love yet vulnerable to passion in its most dangerous forms. . . . The Mandarin would pass his multi-billion-dollar empire only to the women in the Lai Tsin dynasty—along with one last devastating truth. . . . Sweeping from the turn of the century through the 1960’s, from the Orient to San Francisco and New York, Elizabeth Adler has written a magnificent novel of new wealth and old privilege, family passions and secret shame, of women surviving, triumphant, in the riveting saga of romantic intrigue.

Author : Gustavus Myers
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781537803845

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History of the Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers Pdf

Originally published in 1910, a primary source for the business and development of American power in the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1910, a primary source for the business and development of American power in the nineteenth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0003968237

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The Home and Foreign Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555017337

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The Home and foreign review [formerly The Rambler]. by Anonim Pdf

Author : S. PRAKASH
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781685383329

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Unlock Luck and Wealth with the Keys of Dharma by S. PRAKASH Pdf

This book is about decoding Horoscope through a philosophical background with a unique amalgamation through mythological stories, which gives us a clue as to how to atone for your sins. In this book, the author has covered all the Dhan Yogas, Veeprit Raj Yogas and Neechbhang Raj Yogas with the timing of wealth. We have the lock in the form of Luck, which represents the Ninth house of Lakshmi in the Horoscope, but sometimes we cannot find the right key to unlock the house of Luck. Because of evil deeds or sinful acts done in the past life, the native has Shrapit Dosh or curse which manifest in the present, so a lock of Past can be unlocked by finding a right Key in Present as our Past has the clue of our Present in a Horoscope. The intent of writing this book is not to claim to change someone's future but to help nurture and transform a native's future by doing karmic deeds so that natives can sail through easily in his/her life. This book is not about predictive astrology; it is about sharing the philosophy of life that one has to adapt to lead a sin-free life

Author : Gaël Brulé,Christian Suter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030055356

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Wealth(s) and Subjective Well-Being by Gaël Brulé,Christian Suter Pdf

This volume examines the impact of wealth on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB). As wealth is related to economic, environmental and social features of societies, this volume serves as an important resource in understanding economic and SWB. It further discusses a variety of experiences and consequences of inequalities of wealth. Through the availability of wealth data in recent international surveys, this volume explores the multiple relations between wealth and SWB. Structured around four main pillars the book presents analysis of the topic at various levels such as theoretical and conceptual, methodological and empirically, ending with a section on distribution and policies.

Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112053586142

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The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran by William Hamilton Maxwell Pdf

Author : Grace Lin
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307982605

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Fortune Cookie Fortunes by Grace Lin Pdf

Crack, crack, crack! The cookies snap open and the family’s fortunes are revealed. Mei Mei wants to know how hers will come true. Jie Jie scoffs—they never come true. But Pacy isn’t so sure. As she waits and watches, she notices magical things happening in her family. Could the fortunes really be right? And what about Pacy’s fortune: “You will see the world in a new way”? Well, yes, it’s true! Pacy has been seeing the world through fortune cookies! This exhuberantly illustrated story about every kid’s favorite part of a Chinese meal also includes a brief history of the fortune cookie. What will your fortune be? Crack! Open up a cookie and find out.

Author : Adam Smith,John Ramsay McCulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Economics
ISBN : EHC:148100003273T

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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith,John Ramsay McCulloch Pdf

Author : John BREUES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1754
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023914240

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The Fortune Hunters: Shewing ... how People May Improve Their Fortunes, and Raise Themselves in London ... Being a Guide to Such as are Strangers to the Ways and Customs of London by John BREUES Pdf

Author : Thomas GOODE (Publisher.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018296569

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G.'s new fortune teller by cards by Thomas GOODE (Publisher.) Pdf

Author : Carley Fortune
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735243767

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Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of spending summers in cottage country, on the glittering lakeshore of her childhood, she stays in a stylish apartment in Toronto, keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until Percy receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers during their youth, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm nights working in his family’s restaurant, Percy and Sam had been inseparable. And when Percy returns to the lake, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until she can confront the decisions she made, they’ll never know whether their love is bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. Told over the course of six years in the past and one weekend in the present, Every Summer After is a gorgeously romantic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.