The Marmon Group

The Marmon Group PDF

Author: Jeffrey L. Rodengen

Publisher: Write Stuff Syndicate

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780945903772

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Founded in 1954, The Marmon Group is unique among American corporations. Privately owned by the Pritzker family, The Marmon Group is an assembly of more than 130 loosely affiliated companies, including such consumer stalwarts as TransUnion and the Colson Corporation. This diverse group was built through acquisition, many of which were engineered by Jay Pritzker, who today is considered one of the geniuses of corporate acquisition. After they were purchased, management of the new Marmon Group member companies fell to Jay's younger brother, Bob Pritzker, who was the head of The Marmon Group for the first fifty years. The First Fifty Years: The Marmon Group tells the interesting insider's story of building one of America's largest privately owned corporations.

Yearbook of International Organizations

Yearbook of International Organizations PDF

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13:

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Beginning in 1983/84 published in 3 vols., with expansion to 6 vols. by 2007/2008: vol. 1--Organization descriptions and cross references; vol. 2--Geographic volume: international organization participation; vol. 3--Subject volume; vol. 4--Bibliography and resources; vol. 5--Statistics, visualizations and patterns; vol. 6--Who's who in international organizations. (From year to year some slight variations in naming of the volumes).

The Wayfinders

The Wayfinders PDF

Author: Wade Davis

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0887847668

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Many of us are alarmed by the accelerating rates of extinction of plants and animals. But how many of us know that human cultures are going extinct at an even more shocking rate? While biologists estimate that 18 percent of mammals and 11 percent of birds are threatened, and botanists anticipate the loss of 8 percent of flora, anthropologists predict that fully 50 percent of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world today will disappear within our lifetimes. And languages are merely the canaries in the coal mine: what of the knowledge, stories, songs, and ways of seeing encoded in these voices? In The Wayfinders, Wade Davis offers a gripping and enlightening account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures, describing the worldviews they represent and reminding us of the encroaching danger to humankind's survival should they vanish.

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