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Diese packende Wirtschaftsgeschichte beleuchtet Amerikas rasanten Aufstieg zwischen obszönem Reichtum und tiefer Armut. Perfekt für den täglichen Weg zur Arbeit, zieht dich diese dynamische Erzählung tief in die USA des späten 19. Jahrhunderts. Spüre beim Hören die knisternde Energie...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the hushed drawing rooms of 1870s New York, where every gesture is scrutinized and every word carries the weight of unspoken rules, Newland Archer seems to have it all figured out. Engaged to the beautiful, dutiful May Welland, he is poised to take...

In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm. AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.  

From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United States was a major powerhouse since its early days. However, the truth is far from it. This transformation from a weak and relatively poor dominion into a world-class international power was undoubtedly a long process, yet it achieved its peak in the late 19th century. At that time, the US managed to achieve change in many aspects, from economic and social to political and military. This period of growth has become known as the Gilded Age.

In the middle of the night on March eleventh, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed’s Georgetown dorm. It was her boss at Newsweek, where she was an intern. He told her to get in her car and drive to her alma mater, the Madeira School. Her former headmistress, Jean Harris, had just shot Dr. Herman Tarnower, The Scarsdale Diet Doctor. Julia didn’t flinch. She dressed, drove to Madeira, got the story—and her first byline—and the new American Gilded Age was off and running. 

Step beyond the lamplight and into the gilded darkness of a vanished world. Ghost Stories from the Gilded Age is a classic ghost story anthology featuring eerie tales by female authors who defied convention—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and more. Narrated by an all-star ensemble of Audie, SOVAS, and One Voice award winners and nominees, this haunting audiobook collection blends Gothic elegance with supernatural unease.

AUGUST 1891. Prudence has her heart set on wearing her mother's wedding gown on the happy day, but she soon discovers the material has deteriorated so badly that it cannot be refurbished. With time running out, she decides to seek out a new American designer, a woman who trained in the House of Worth, the makers of the original dress in Paris, who now has a shop in New York City.

In October 1871, the Great Chicago Fire reduced a booming city to ashes, scattering fortunes and futures alike. Barely a year into her marriage, twenty-two-year-old Bertha Honoré Palmer stood firm as her husband, Potter Palmer, spoke of leaving Chicago. He was prepared to abandon the devastated city and begin again elsewhere. Bertha refused. Chicago would rebuild and so would they. At the restored Palmer House, Bertha turned glittering dinners into arenas of influence, learning that power could be wielded as skillfully in a ballroom as in a boardroom.

In spring 1889, Prudence and Geoffrey set sail from New York Harbor on a private yacht bound for Bradford Island, where her friend Eleanor Dickson is to be wed. The Sea Islands along the Georgia coast serve as a winter playground for the likes of the Carnegies, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and Dicksons. Despite her Yankee pedigree, Eleanor is marrying a Southern gentleman, Teddy Bennett, and Prudence is thrilled to be the maid of honor.

Band 2 der Reihe um die Gilde der schwarzen Magier von Bestsellerautorin Trudi Canavan Sonea hat sich entschieden, als Novizin in die Gilde der schwarzen Magier einzutreten, um mehr über ihre magischen Fähigkeiten zu lernen. Ein Privileg, das sonst nur Adeligen zuteil wird. In der Gilde wird...

Popular words and culture of the current generation, then a journey back in time 150 years with Gen Z, the Millennial generation, Gen X, Baby Boomers, the Silent generation, the GI generation, to the Lost generation. In this book, we explore inventions, people, and changes of the Gilded Era.

In Car Crazy, G. Wayne Miller, author of Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them and Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR's Breakout Season, takes listeners back to the wild and wooly years of the early automobile era - from 1893, when the first US-built auto was introduced, through 1908, when General Motors was founded and Ford's Model T went on the market.

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning.  

In this book, you'll learn how: data science, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, is yielding unprecedented business insights; blockchain has the potential to restructure the economy; drones and driverless vehicles are becoming essential tools; 3-D printing is making new business models possible; augmented reality is transforming retail and manufacturing; smart speakers are redefining the rules of marketing; and humans and machines are working together to reach new levels of productivity. 

Dans ce nouvel épisode, prolongement du Cabinet du Dr Leng, Preston & Child renouent avec l'univers et les personnages qui ont fait le succès de leur best-seller La Chambre des curiosités. 22e opus de la série mettant en scène l'inspecteur Pendergast, " l'agent du FBI le plus séduisant, le...

At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both Black and White. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive but also more diverse.

Rising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being elected a United States senator, George Hearst (1820–91) spent decades veering between the heights of prosperity and the depths of financial ruin.

Biltmore House, a palatial mansion being built by the Vanderbilts, American “royalty,” is in its final stages of construction in North Carolina. The country’s grandest example of privilege, it symbolizes the aspirations of its owner and the dreams of a girl, just as driven, who lives in its shadow. Kerry MacGregor’s future is derailed when, after two years in college in New York City, family obligations call her home to the beautiful Appalachians. 

Written in engaging prose with all the intrigue and suspense of a detective tale, Alias Agnes chronicles the lives of women at the cusp of the twentieth century—the opportunities that beckoned them and the challenges that thwarted their dreams.

Explore the turbulent history of industrialization, where ruthless robber barons seized immense corporate power. Perfect for your daily commute, this gripping narrative drops you into the stark divide between lavish mansions and crowded tenements. Witness the explosive birth of the modern...