The Best Business Book I Read This Year
African Affairs- "An impressive list of scholars has been assembled and the standard of the contributions is high." The writers of the series have strayed away from the book a bit, including Shaibani Khan's and Wazir Khan's deaths; Esan Dawlat's predicament and the story behind Humayun's poisoning. The series has some elements of the books that need more explanation, such as Babur entering Timur's resting place after capturing Samarkand. There is a classic debate over books and movies— which is better? And in the case of The Empire', the scales tip in favour of the book. Empire of the Bay is about nation-building and exploration, about trade wars and starvation, about brutal weather…..and a meek and beautiful bird.
The Venetian mastery of the seas and her imperial expansion, however, truly begin with the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople in 1204, which brought many choice ports over Venetian overlordship. In a way, the "and American Power" part of this book is less about showing how American Hegemony, in the governmental sphere, allows ExxonMobil to push smaller nations around in negotiation than it is about showing the limits of American power. The mistrust that ExxonMobil has in the State in several countries, see portions of the book dealing with Nigerian piracy, may come into play once Tillerson takes the helm at State. This might come in the form of reforming State's position toward Africa, how it handles diplomatic relations with despots , and other likely areas where Tillerson saw ineffective State operations in the countries ExxonMobil had to deal with. This again mirrors 'Padmaavat' , where Malik Kafur is head over heels for Allauddin but the latter doesn't want to take things further.
These biases and omissions, though, are a small price to pay in a book that immerses the reader so fully in the pomp and turmoil of mediaeval Venice. This collection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, latterly Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at Cambridge and a foremost authority on the economics of the modern British Empire. The contributors include an impressive array of former students, colleagues, and friends, and their subjects range widely across the economic and administrative fields of British imperial history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This world changing mission, however, doesn’t exempt Facebook from possible disruption. Just like any other business, it must continue to adapt and thrive. This combination of world changing mission and innovative tenacity is the secret sauce other businesses can take from Facebook’s story to apply to their own operations. The author provides birds eye view of the British Imperial Years, the rise to the fall. Although it is said "The Sun never sets on British Empire" and I wish Sun of Happiness and compassion never sets on any community or nation but this book is more of a guide to people in power and in public life. What setsEmpire of Painapart from those earlier books is that Keefe doesn’t focus on victims, their families, or others who’ve been extensively covered elsewhere.
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Despite its merits, however, the book has a few drawbacks, largely related to the author’s own cultural sympathies. The Ottoman Empire–referred to, in a rather hostile manner, as ‘the Turks’ in most instances–is portrayed as an inevitable regional disaster falling upon various enclaves in turn, rather than as a complex historical actor. Other Venetian rivals, such as Genoa and Pisa, are likewise passed over.
As viewers and readers, we must read and see Babur in his times. Today, each side claims to have the 'right' history and pervade its versions to the current times to satiate egos of supremacy, often forgetting that we are in a different universe now. A Harvard student and programming prodigy, Mark Zuckerberg, created a social networking site for his fellow students at thefacebook.com. The site would have more than 1,000 students in one day and half of the undergraduate population in a month. The site grew like wildfire beyond its humble beginnings to other schools and high schools.
She doesn’t add a great deal to these works, with the exception of well-chosen quotations from a trove of letters Nast wrote late in his life to his second wife, which are touching and revealing about, for example, the sting he felt from business setbacks ... Breeziness is arguably a legitimate stylistic choice for a book about slick magazines. But the abundance of clichés in Condé Nast isn’t defensible ... Some sentences are case studies in what can happen when metaphors collide. Becoming Facebook shares how Facebook navigated in meeting these challenges, but always persisted on in its world disrupting mission of making the world more connected and open. By adopting and staying focused on such a bold mission, the book insists, Facebook has been able to achieve technological marvels like sharing, collecting and categorizing over a billion posts per day.