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Bananas

How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

by Peter Chapman ...

In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups and brutalised workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate ... Read more

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In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups and brutalised workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate
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The Last of the Imperious Rich

Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008

by Peter Chapman ...

On September 11, 1844, Henry Lehman arrived in New York City on a boat from Germany. Soon after, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where he and his brother Emanuel established a modest cotton brokering firm that would come to be called Lehman Brothers.On September 15, 2008, Dick Fuld, the last CEO of Lehman Brothers, filed for corporate bankruptcy amid one of the worst financial crises in American ... Read more

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On September 11, 1844, Henry Lehman arrived in New York City on a boat from Germany. Soon after, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where he and his brother Emanuel established a modest cotton brokering firm that would come to be called Lehman Brothers.On September 15, 2008, Dick Fuld, the last CEO of Lehman Brothers, filed for corporate bankruptcy amid one of the worst financial crises in American
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Bananas

How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

by Peter Chapman ...

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6 hours 47 min

In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D. C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups, and brutalized workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves ... Read more

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In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D. C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups, and brutalized workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves
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Observability with Grafana

Monitor, control, and visualize your Kubernetes and cloud platforms using the LGTM stack

by Rob Chapman, Peter Holmes ...

Implement the LGTM stack for cost-effective, faster, and secure delivery and management of applications to provide effective infrastructure solutionsKey FeaturesUse personas to better understand the needs and challenges of observability tools usersGet hands-on practice with Grafana and the LGTM stack through real-world examplesImplement and integrate LGTM with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and tools ... Read more

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Implement the LGTM stack for cost-effective, faster, and secure delivery and management of applications to provide effective infrastructure solutionsKey FeaturesUse personas to better understand the needs and challenges of observability tools usersGet hands-on practice with Grafana and the LGTM stack through real-world examplesImplement and integrate LGTM with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and tools
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Married and Still Loving It

The Joys and Challenges of the Second Half

by Gary Chapman, Harold Myra ...

Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

Unabridged

4 hours

Long marriages are a gift... but they aren't always easy.You know yourselves better. You’ve learned to cherish the small things. You’re past keeping up with the Joneses.And yet, anxieties over grown children, worries about money and health, and feelings of disappointment can challenge even the best marriages.In this audio book, relationship expert Gary Chapman and Harold Myra offer wise and ... Read more

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Long marriages are a gift... but they aren't always easy.You know yourselves better. You’ve learned to cherish the small things. You’re past keeping up with the Joneses.And yet, anxieties over grown children, worries about money and health, and feelings of disappointment can challenge even the best marriages.In this audio book, relationship expert Gary Chapman and Harold Myra offer wise and
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The Goalkeeper’s History of Britain (text only)

by Peter Chapman ...

The beguiling story of one boy’s dream to play in goal, that most British of positions, culminating in the moment when he faces the mighty Zico …If the French are the flair in midfield, the Germans the attack from the inside channels, the Italians the cry-foul defence, then Britain is the goalkeeper: stand alone, the bastion of last resort, more solid than spectacular, part of the team – and yet ... Read more

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The beguiling story of one boy’s dream to play in goal, that most British of positions, culminating in the moment when he faces the mighty Zico …If the French are the flair in midfield, the Germans the attack from the inside channels, the Italians the cry-foul defence, then Britain is the goalkeeper: stand alone, the bastion of last resort, more solid than spectacular, part of the team – and yet
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A la cart

by Peter Chapman ...

A la cart is for suppliers, producers, processors and others in the food industry who want to understand what is important to food retailers. Everyone in the food industry needs to understand what retailers are doing and why. A la cart will help you drive more sales and get your items in the shopping cart more often.Go behind the closed doors of the retailers and understand what they are focused ... Read more

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A la cart is for suppliers, producers, processors and others in the food industry who want to understand what is important to food retailers. Everyone in the food industry needs to understand what retailers are doing and why. A la cart will help you drive more sales and get your items in the shopping cart more often.Go behind the closed doors of the retailers and understand what they are focused
... Read more
The Pocket Life Coach

Coach Yourself to Health and Happiness

by Peter Chapman ...

None of us have all the answers all of the time, especially when it comes to our own life. We all need a little objective guidance from time to time when we want to improve or change something about ourselves and our lives. It is not always easy to find someone who has the ability to help us change for the better and one thing is for sure, no-one is going to do it for us. This workbook is your ... Read more

$15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

None of us have all the answers all of the time, especially when it comes to our own life. We all need a little objective guidance from time to time when we want to improve or change something about ourselves and our lives. It is not always easy to find someone who has the ability to help us change for the better and one thing is for sure, no-one is going to do it for us. This workbook is your
... Read more
The Pocket Life Coach

Coach Yourself to Health and Happiness

by Peter Chapman ...

None of us have all the answers all of the time, especially when it comes to our own life. We all need a little objective guidance from time to time when we want to improve or change something about ourselves and our lives. It is not always easy to find someone who has the ability to help us change for the better and one thing is for sure, no-one is going to do it for us. This workbook is your ... Read more

$24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

None of us have all the answers all of the time, especially when it comes to our own life. We all need a little objective guidance from time to time when we want to improve or change something about ourselves and our lives. It is not always easy to find someone who has the ability to help us change for the better and one thing is for sure, no-one is going to do it for us. This workbook is your
... Read more
A la cart

A supplier's guide to retailers' priorities

by Peter Chapman ...

A la cart is for suppliers, producers, processors and others in the food industry who want to understand what is important to food retailers. Everyone in the food industry needs to understand what retailers are doing and why. A la cart will help you drive more sales and get your items in the shopping cart more often.Go behind the closed doors of the retailers and understand what they are focused ... Read more

$7.27 USD

A la cart is for suppliers, producers, processors and others in the food industry who want to understand what is important to food retailers. Everyone in the food industry needs to understand what retailers are doing and why. A la cart will help you drive more sales and get your items in the shopping cart more often.Go behind the closed doors of the retailers and understand what they are focused
... Read more
A Tyneside Heritage

by Peter S. Chapman ...

Spanning 150 years of South Shields' changing fortunes, A Tyneside Heritage is a pioneering work of interwoven local and family history.After the nineteenth-century boom years of coal exporting and shipbuilding for global markets came the First World War, then the mass unemployment and political turbulence of the 1930s. Luftwaffe bombing in the Second World War was followed by the peacetime ... Read more

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Spanning 150 years of South Shields' changing fortunes, A Tyneside Heritage is a pioneering work of interwoven local and family history.After the nineteenth-century boom years of coal exporting and shipbuilding for global markets came the First World War, then the mass unemployment and political turbulence of the 1930s. Luftwaffe bombing in the Second World War was followed by the peacetime
... Read more
Out of Time

1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain

by Peter Chapman ...

Series series Wisden Sports Writing
A vibrant and captivating portrait of the summer of 1966 – as a man, a team and a country all teetered on the cusp of momentous change***'***This joyous book, a memoir of late adolescence laced with social and football history, is also a catalogue of both the untidiness and the limits of change' Financial Times'Out of Time is a gentle and affectionate portrait of the capital's gradual awakening to ... Read more

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A vibrant and captivating portrait of the summer of 1966 – as a man, a team and a country all teetered on the cusp of momentous change***'***This joyous book, a memoir of late adolescence laced with social and football history, is also a catalogue of both the untidiness and the limits of change' Financial Times'Out of Time is a gentle and affectionate portrait of the capital's gradual awakening to
... Read more

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