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Jeff Bezos (Latinos in the Limelight)
Virginia Brackett
$598.78

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-- Compelling stories of Latinos making their marks in today's world -- Eye-catching full-color covers and photos -- Presents the complete story, as well as little-known details of their lives -- Great for reluctant readers The creator of Amazon.com is the focus of this title. Young readers will be intrigued by the story behind one of the first Internet megasuccesses.

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Deming Center.(Entrepreneur of the Year award to Jeff Bezos)(Brief Article): An article from: ColoradoBiz
Suzanne Lainson
$5.95

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This digital document is an article from ColoradoBiz, published by Wiesner Publications, Inc. on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 674 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Deming Center.(Entrepreneur of the Year award to Jeff Bezos)(Brief Article)
Author: Suzanne Lainson
Publication: ColoradoBiz (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Wiesner Publications, Inc.
Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Page: 50

Article Type: Brief Article

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Amazon. com. Get Big Fast. Jeff Bezos und die Revolution im Handel.
Robert Spector
$48.00

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This is the German text edition of an unauthorized account of an e-commerce leviathan's rise from obscurity. So, if one is looking for a detailed business module or a blue print of its technology, look elsewhere, as this is not the book for you. What this book offers is a very interesting, well-organized narrative on the early, heady days of Amazon.com, when it was just an upstart internet bookseller looking to make its mark big time, as well as a look at its founder, Jeff Bezos, painting a flattering and intriguing portrait of this now multi-billionaire.

For its founder, Jeff Bezos, it was not, however, just about the money. If that were the case, he would never have left his seven figure Wall Street job. For him, it was about the opportunity to be on the ground floor of a business that would change the retailing community forever. Jeff Bezos, a true visionary, chose to take that challenge, and in doing so, he would forever change the dot.com world and the retailing community. The author, a business reporter for various publications, delineates just how it was that Jeff Bezos did so.

This book offers up an interesting summary on how Jeff Bezos was able to take the online community by storm and upset the status quo. The author provides a biographical narrative on who Jeff Bezos is. It is grounded in the context of where he grew up, his schooling, as well as his early interests. It segues from his Ivy League educational underpinnings to his foray into the upper echelons of Wall Street, deriving the experience that he needed in order to take on the risky proposition of starting up his own dot.com company. It is clearly the story of a visionary and decision maker with heart.

The book succinctly details the rise of Amazon.com as an e-commerce force with which to be reckoned. It tracks its growth and change from an upstart, fledging, by- the-seat-of-its-pants-company to one that is now a staple of the popular lexicon. It superficially explores the philosophy of Jeff Bezos in terms of having his business "get big fast" and the technological, financial, and logistical hurdles that the business needed to overcome in order to do so. The author also keys in on the ability of Jeff Bezos to think out of the box, when so many business pundits said that what he sought to do could not be done.

The overall texture of this book is enhanced by Information provided by those with some insider knowledge, such as those who knew Jeff Bezos, those who worked with him in those early halcyon days, rival "brick and mortar" executives, business analysts, and financiers, among others. This book, which is a look at a visionary and his company, details how that visionary was able to transform his company into a veritable cultural phenomenon unto itself. Those who are devotees of Amazon will find this well-written book heady stuff, indeed, as it makes for absorbing reading.

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Time Magazine December 27 1999 Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos
Time Magazine
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Biography - Bezos, MacKenzie ((?)-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online
Gale Reference Team
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The Testing of Luther Albright: A Novel (P.S.)
Mackenzie Bezos
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Dietrich-Mohr (L'Etat des lieux) (French Edition)
Jean-Loup Bezos
$37.80

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The Testing Of Luther Albright
MacKenzie Bezos
$48.00

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The Testing of Luther Albright: A Novel (P.S.)
Mackenzie Bezos
$0.39

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MacKenzie Bezos's The Testing of Luther Albright, a debut novel that heralds the beginning of what bodes to be a substantial writing career, starts with this sentence: "The year I lost my wife and son, my son performed nine separate tests of my character." We don't know what "lost" means yet, but as the story unfolds, we learn that "lost" is certainly the most appropriate word.

The novel is rich with symbolism: Luther's cherished, hand-built home has a problem--and he can't find it. He is an engineer who builds dams and the structure of one of his dams is under review following an earthquake. At every turn, Luther is under siege, being tested. There are many places in the narrative where Luther might have done or said something that would have kept his wife Liz and his son Elliot close to him. Instead, a slow drift away from each other begins and then accelerates until a chasm is created.

The tests that Elliot inflicts on his father take many forms: a shaved head, sabotage of his father's meticulous home-plumbing, a downright lie about a job, a friendship with a man his father despises. All these tests are given in the hope of eliciting a valid response from Luther. Whether it is anger, shame, disappointment, embarrassment, chagrin--Elliot wants his repressed father to show it to him, to have a reaction, and Luther cannot or will not do it. The story is reminiscent in some ways of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, at least in those parts where Franzen chronicles so faithfully peoples' ability to withhold from one another. What Luther withholds is emotional honesty; indeed, real feeling of any stripe.

Elliot is writing a research paper on his grandfather and, since he has never met him, must ask Luther many questions. Luther is not forthcoming, gives monosylllabic answers and never helps Elliot in any meaningful way. Bezos (wife of Amazon.com founder Jeff) uses this device to allow Luther to reminisce privately about his father, who was emotionally unavailable and manipulative. He spent many nights sitting alone in a movie theatre and then reported to his wife that he was having an affair. She says, "I forgive you," believing that unconditional love is what she must give. Of course, his father is bitterly disappointed by this response. Luther has followed him and knows that the story isn't true. Thus is internalized a way of behaving that kills all chance for real intimacy. Luther learns his lesson well.

A story about a controlling person unable to bend to the needs of his wife and son, and yet honestly loving them inordinately, might be merely a dry recitation if it weren't for the beauty of Bezos's writing and for her ability to show us how trapped Luther is by his background and nature. Bezos writes with complete control of her material. She makes the reader eager to know what's next. --Valerie Ryan

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Jeff Bezos
Virginia Brackett

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