Le livre de fortune

William O. Jenkins (1878–1963) was a Tennessee farm boy who ventured to Mexico in search of fortune and became that country’s wealthiest and most infamous industrialist. Dropping o...

In 1930s rural Argentina, a determined fifteen-year-old left an isolated, poverty-stricken life to find her fortune in the “Paris of South America”—Buenos Aires. There, with few co...

Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The wide-spread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely...

Au début du xxe siècle déjà, certaines écoles en gestion hôtelière suisses attiraient des étudiant·e·s venu·e·s de l’étranger, bénéficiant en leur sein d’une offre éducative alors ...

Qual é a hora certa para começar a investir? Esta obra foi feita para você aprender e aprimorar seu conhecimento sobre finanças e investimentos. Ela é fruto de uma pesquisa no sist...

First published in 1891, this memoir describes the life of the metallurgist and inventor Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–1885), best-known for discovering the method of eliminating p...

The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch’s legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy. ...