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Beating the Odds
Author: Eddie Brown Edition: 1 Publisher: Wiley Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 0470936622 Price: You Save: 54%
Beating the Odds: Eddie Brown's Investing and Life Strategies
Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C.Beating the Odds review. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than Billion under management.
Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother – who was his surrogate mother -- and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's lifeRead full reviews of Beating the Odds: Sustaining Inclusion in Mozambique's Growing Economy (Directions in Development) (Directions in Development).
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'New York Times 'Bestseller Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video 'Sugar: The Bitter Truth,' has been viewed more than three million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering our biochemistry and driving our eating habits out of our control. To help us lose weight and recover our health, Lu
A young man battles Hodgkin's disease and survives--with more than a little help from his Mom--in this wry and uplifting memoir about life, love, and beating the odds. When Dan Shapiro's decidely anti-drug mom put aside her convictions and grew marijuana in her backyard garden (behind a discrete screen of sunflowers), he learned that in the face of a crisis we all have the opportunity to decide what is most important to us. In this hilarious, high-spirited, sometimes harrowing memoir, Shapiro invites us into his battle with cancer, his romance with an oncology nurse, his journey through gradua
author freeman a hrabowski author geoffrey l greif author kenneth i maton format hardback language english publication year 01 02 1998 subject social sciences subject 2 gender studies gay lesbian studies title beating the odds raising academically successful african american males author freeman a hrabowski kenneth i maton geoffrey l greif publisher oxford univ pr publication date feb 16 1998 pages 256 binding hardcover edition later printing dimensions 6 50 wx 10 00 hx 1 25 d isbn 0195102193
Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11 and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than Billion under management.
Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother – who was his surrogate mother -- and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's life. His unflinchingly honest, easy-to-read memoir details how intellectual curiosity, abiding self-belief, hard work and divine providence helped Brown earn an electrical engineering degree, become an Army officer, and later a civilian IBM engineer. Readers will learn of the strife that ensued when Brown quit IBM to earn an MBA, leading to investment jobs that prepared him to start his own money management company in 1983.
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