EPA Speeches > Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur by Janet C. Lowe, ISBN 0471293539

Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur by Janet C. Lowe, ISBN 0471293539

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"Our slogan from the very beginning was 'a computer on every desk and in every home.'"

"For me to become gun-shy might require surgery."

An icon more powerful than anything on a Windows screen, Bill Gates today stands atop his fabled Microsoft fortress staring down competitors' threats and injunctions from an annoyed U.S. Justice Department. The kind of success Gates has created rarely escapes criticism. And Bill is getting more than his share.

The story of how this Harvard dropout created the operating system that would become the worldwide standard for millions of computers is legendary. And equally legendary has been the take-no-prisoners tactics of his corporate colossus, Microsoft. We've witnessed Gates's transformation from a geeky wunderkind into a business titan.

Whether admired or detested, glorified or vilified, Gates is a household name and a worldwide curiosity. Bill Gates Speaks discloses what Bill Gates has to say on everything from financing a start-up to running a conglomerate, developing technology to raising a family, and growing his business to expanding his personal wealth. Drawing on quotes culled from speeches, articles, essays, newscasts, and interviews, this unique book weaves all of this information into a compelling and easy-to-read biography.

Here is just a sample of what you'll find inside:

"My parents weren't all that excited about their son announcing he was dropping out of a fine university to start a business in something almost nobody had heard of called 'microcomputers.'"
"I think business is very simple. Profit. Loss. Take the sales, subtract the costs, you get this big positive number. The math is quite straightforward."
"Ienvy people who thrive on three or four hours of sleep a night. They have so much more time to work, learn, and play."
"We never waste a lot of time talking about what we're doing well. It just isn't our culture.

The Words of Peace: Selections from the Speeches of the Winners of the Noble Peace Prize by Irwin Abrams, ISBN 1557042500

This acclaimed, inspirational book represents the collective voice of the 52 Nobel Peace Prize laureates since 1901. Selections are by the world's foremost historian of the Nobel Peace Prize from winners' acceptance speeches and lectures. Included are Mother Teresa, Lech Walesa, Mikhail Gorbachev, F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin, and others. The Words of Peace: Selections from the Speeches of the Winners of the Noble Peace Prize by Irwin Abrams, ISBN 1557042500
EPA Speeches > The Words of Peace: Selections from the Speeches of the Winners of the Noble Peace Prize by Irwin Abrams, ISBN 1557042500

Frederick Douglass on Women's Rights

This book collects the speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass on women's rights. Since suffrage was the major concern of the movement, the issue of voting is primary of Douglass's themes; however he also spoke and wrote resolutely on the need for women to reach their full potential by participating in every phase of American society and in every aspect of decision-making. Frederick Douglass on Women's Rights
EPA Speeches > Frederick Douglass on Women's Rights

A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America

The relationship between American Indians and Europeans on America's frontiers is typically characterized as a series of cultural conflicts and misunderstandings based on a vast gulf of difference. Nancy Shoemaker turns this notion on its head, showing that Indians and Europeans shared common beliefs about their most fundamental realities--government, record-keeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body. Focusing on eastern North American up through the end of the Seven Years War, Shoemaker closely reads incidents, letters, and recorded speeches from the Iroquois and Creek confederacies, the Cherokee nation, and other Native groups alongside British, French, and Spanish sources, paying particular attention to the language used in cross-cultural conversation. Paradoxically, the more American Indians and Europeans came to know each other, the more they came to see each other as different. By the end of the 18th century, Shoemaker argues, they abandoned an initial willingness... A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
EPA Speeches > A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America

Words That Shook the World: Twenty Epic Speeches from the Most Pwerful Leaders by Richard Greene, ISBN 0735202966

History comes alive through the voices of the great leaders and newsmakers and in the photos of the biggest events of the past 100 years. From Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King, Jr. and General Douglas MacArthur, "Words That Shook the World" is a collection of history-shaping speeches by some of the world's most exceptional orators. Words That Shook the World: Twenty Epic Speeches from the Most Pwerful Leaders by Richard Greene, ISBN 0735202966
EPA Speeches > Words That Shook the World: Twenty Epic Speeches from the Most Pwerful Leaders by Richard Greene, ISBN 0735202966

Louis Kahn: Essential Texts by Louis Kahn, ISBN 0393731138

A thoughtful selection of the celebrated architect's speeches and writings. THIS UNIQUE ANTHOLOGY draws from Louis Kahn's speeches, essays, and interviews--some never previously published--to capture the evolution and central tenets of the influential American architect's thinking, from his early work of the 1940s to his death in 1974. Professor Twombly's introduction and headnotes offer incisive commentary on the texts. Louis Kahn: Essential Texts by Louis Kahn, ISBN 0393731138
EPA Speeches > Louis Kahn: Essential Texts by Louis Kahn, ISBN 0393731138