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 Inheritors: How Family Power Built-and Broke-the World's Greatest Businesses English | August 21, 2025 | ISBN: None | 118 Pages | EPUB (True) | 135.10 KB Behind the gleaming skyscrapers, luxury brands, and global corporations lies a deeper story-one not of individual genius, but of families. Inheritors: How Family Power Built-and Broke-the World's Greatest Businesses is a sweeping exploration of the dynasties that shaped modern capitalism, from the Rockefellers and Rothschilds to the Fords, Waltons, and beyond.  Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History By Thomas Norman DeWolf 2008 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0807072818 | PDF | 1 MB In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island, curried favor with President Thomas Jefferson to continue in the trade after it was outlawed. When James DeWolf died in 1837, he was the second-richest man in America.When Katrina Browne, Thomas DeWolf's cousin, learned about their family's history, she resolved to confront it head-on, producing and directing a documentary feature film, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North. Inheriting the Trade is Tom DeWolf's powerful and disarmingly honest memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced the steps of their ancestors and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states. Their journey through the notorious Triangle Trade-from New England to West Africa to Cuba-proved life-altering, forcing DeWolf to face the horrors of slavery directly for the first time. It also inspired him to contend with the complicated legacy that continues to affect black and white Americans, Africans, and Cubans today. Inheriting the Trade reveals that the North's involvement in slavery was as common as the South's. Not only were black people enslaved in the North for over two hundred years, but the vast majority of all slave trading in America was done by northerners. Remarkably, half of all North American voyages involved in the slave trade originated in Rhode Island, and all the northern states benefited. With searing candor, DeWolf tackles both the internal and external challenges of his journey-writing frankly about feelings of shame, white male privilege, the complicity of churches, America's historic amnesia regarding slavery-and our nation's desperate need for healing. An urgent call for meaningful and honest dialogue, Inheriting the Trade illuminates a path toward a more hopeful future and provides a persuasive argument that the legacy of slavery isn't merely a southern issue but an enduring American one."Exploring the links between a grand Rhode Island mansion and dungeons in Ghana, Tom DeWolf traces the infernal trade that gave his family, and this country, great wealth and power. His journey into the past forces painful questions to the surface, and illuminates our present." -Henry Wiencek, Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America"Thomas DeWolf's personal journey into his family's long hidden slave trading past is a compelling invitation to explore how our country and many institutions, including churches, benefited from this dark chapter. Such exploration is essential if we are to move forward to a place of repair and racial reconciliation." -Frank T. Griswold, 25th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church"Tom DeWolf's deeply personal story, of his own journey as well as his family's, is required reading for anyone interested in reconciliation. Healing from our historic wounds, that continue to separate us, requires us to walk this road together." -Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights leader, chairman emeritus of the NAACP (1995-98), and author of The Autobiography of Medgar Evers, Watch Me Fly, and For Us the Living "Inheriting the Trade is like a slow-motion mash-up, a first-person view from within one of the country's founding families as it splinters, then puts itself back together again." -Edward Ball, author of Slaves in the Family"Inheriting the Trade is a candid, powerful and insightful book about how one family dealt with the infamous slave trade. This book is jarring in its candor, and revealing in its honest assessment of slavery and the Dewolf family. We must read important books like this one, if we dare to appreciate every aspect of our history, annd as the Dewolf family does, dare to change our judgments about the wretched history of slavery." -Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Executive Director, The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School  Informationswirtschaft: Eine Einfuhrung (BWL im Bachelor-Studiengang) By Thorsten Spitta 2005 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 3540296352 | PDF | 3 MB Dieses Lehrbuch f?r Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften im Grundstudium bzw. in Bachelor-Studieng?ngen behandelt umfassend die betriebswirtschaftlichen und methodischen Grundlagen des Produktionsfaktors Information. Information ist im betrieblichen Kontext konkretisiert durch die Ressource "Daten". Das Buch vermittelt anschaulich Prozesse (wie entstehen Daten?), Strukturen (wie sind Daten systematisiert und aufgebaut?) und Inhalte (was bedeuten die Daten betriebswirtschaftlich?). Es verwendet UML 2.0 als grafische Sprache und erl?utert die grundlegenden Konzepte von XML. Die umfangreichen Beispiele basieren auf realen betrieblichen F?llen.  Information security and CCP Scheme by Waqas Ahmed English | 2024 | ISBN: 1774697858 | 251 Pages | True PDF | 85 MB  Information Systems Security: 21st International Conference, ICISS 2025, Indore, India, December 16-20, 2025, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Neminath Hubballi, Rakesh Verma, Shyamasundar Rudrapatna K. English | December 14, 2025 | ISBN: 3032137136 | 520 pages | PDF, EPUB | 87 Mb This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2025, held in Indore, India, during December 16-20, 2025.  Information Security and Cryptology: 21st International Conference, Inscrypt 2025, Xi'an, China, October 19-22, 2025, Revised Selected Papers, Part III by Rongmao Chen, Robert H. Deng English | 2026 | ISBN: 9819562082 | 458 Pages | True PDF | 40 MB  Information Security Practice and Experience: Third International Conference, ISPEC 2007, Hong Kong, China, May 7-9, 2007. Proceedings By William J. Caelli (auth.), Ed Dawson, Duncan S. Wong (eds.) 2007 | 370 Pages | ISBN: 3540721592 | PDF | 4 MB The third international conference on Information Security Practice and - perience (ISPEC 2007) was held in Hong Kong, China, May 7 - 9, 2007. The conference was organized and sponsored by City University of Hong Kong. As applications of information security technologies become pervasive, - sues pertaining to their deployment and operation are becoming increasingly important. ISPEC is an annual conference that brings together researchers and practitioners to provide a con?uence of new information security technologies, their applications and their integration with IT systems in various vertical s- tors. In 2005 and 2006,the ?rst and second conferences were held successfully in Singapore and Hangzhou, China, respectively. The conference proceedings were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The Program Committee received 135 submissions, and accepted 24 papers for presentation. The ?nal versions of the accepted papers, which the authors ?nalized on the basis of comments from the reviewers, are included in the p- ceedings.The entire reviewing process tooknine weeks,eachpaper was carefully evaluated by at least three members from the ProgramCommittee. The indiv- ual reviewing phase was followed by a Web-based discussion. Papers over which the reviewers signi?cantly disagreed were further reviewed by external experts. Based on the comments and scores given by reviewers, the ?nal decisions on acceptance were made. We appreciate the hard work of the members of the P- gram Committee and external referees, who gave many hours of their valuable time.  Informatics in Medicine by Jovan Pehcevski English | November 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1774077787 | 409 pages | PDF | 26 Mb In this book - we present different topics from medical informatics, including bioinformatics methods, personalized medicine, IT solutions in medicine, and e-health and m-health. Section 1 focuses on bioinformatics methods, describing a hybrid federated cloud platform to efficiently execute bioinformatics workflows; hierarchical biological pathway data integration and mining; ensemble clustering for biological datasets; and molecular modelling to study interactions between molecules with biological activity. Section 2 focuses on personalized medicine, describing translation in data mining to advance personalized medicine for health equity; PPPM (predictive, preventive and personalized medicine) as a new model of the national and international healthcare services; myocarditis - personalized medicine by expanded endomyocardial biopsy diagnostics; optimal control approach to structured treatment interruptions for HIV patients: a personalized medicine perspective. Section 3 focuses on IT solutions in medicine, describing wireless TDMA-based body area network platform gathering multi-biosignals synchronized with patient's heartbeat; smart care beds for elderly patients with impaired mobility; novel emergency healthcare system for elderly community in outdoor environment; eSkin - study on the smartphone application for early detection of malignant melanoma; compact microstrip lowpass filter with low insertion loss for UWB medical applications. Section 4 focuses on e-health and m-health, describing e-health and telemedicine: current state and future steps; Mobi-healthcare system: body sensor network based m-health system for healthcare application; blended e-health in cognitive behavioral therapy: usage intensity, attitude and therapeutic alliance in clinical practice; performance evaluation of healthcare monitoring system over heterogeneous wireless networks; and impact of using m-health app on improving undergraduate students' sports and health habits and their attitudes toward its use.  Ju Seong Lee, "Informal Digital Learning of English " English | ISBN: 1009641670 | 2026 | 75 pages | PDF | 3 MB As globalization spreads, English has become a lingua franca. Emerging technologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence) now make learning English more accessible, affordable, and tailored to each learner. Social media and digital platforms immerse users in English, offering interactive, personalized, and engaging experiences that fuel Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE). Research spanning more than ten regions has found that IDLE brings a wide range of benefits, including greater motivation, higher academic achievement, and stronger speaking skills. Today, IDLE is being woven into schools and local communities through partnerships among teachers, NGOs, and industry leaders. This volume seeks to (a) showcase the latest research on IDLE, (b) highlight examples of IDLE in educational and community settings, and © chart future pathways for practice, research, and collaboration.  Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric. Essays in Honor of William W. Fortenbaugh By Mirhady, D. (ed.) 2007 | 286 Pages | ISBN: 9004156682 | PDF | 2 MB Each paper explores the influences on different parts of Peripatetic rhetoric, its discussion of character, emotion, reason, and style, its relationships with other texts, including those of Theodectes and the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and its relationship with the oratory of the 4th century BC. |
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