E-Books → Through the Eye of a Needle Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD

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Free Download Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD By Peter Brown
2014 | 796 Pages | ISBN: 0691161771 | PDF | 10 MB
Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity.Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven.Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.

E-Books → The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997

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Free Download Piers Brendon, "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997"
English | 2007 | pages: 640 | ISBN: 0224062220, 0307388417, 0307268292 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
A comprehensive, scholarly and fascinating study of the end of the British Empire.

E-Books → Silicon Valley Bank The Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech

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Free Download Silicon Valley Bank: The Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009416170 | 293 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book provides a first-hand account of the founding, ascent, and dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a tech community bank founded in 1982 with US$5 million that became the nation's 13th largest bank and tech industry's lender and bank. In this pathbreaking work, which challenges conventional understanding of risky tech lending by showing how an independent community bank became the go-to bank for the tech industry in the United States, Xuan-Thao Nguyen includes interviews with key players, ranging from the original founders and early employees to the current CEO of SVB. Chapters explore how the relationship between the venture capital (VC) industry and SVB transformed the way commercial banks comply with banking regulators while lending and nurturing young tech clients. The book demonstrates why the relationships between investors, start-ups, bankers, lenders, experts, lawyers, regulators, and community leaders are key ingredients for ongoing innovation in the tech industry. The book concludes with the sobering dissection of SVB's sudden death by $142 billion cuts inflicted by tech bros, social media, and the Federal Reserve Bank's successive interest rate hikes to squash the overheated economy.

E-Books → Life and Death at Abbey Gate The Fall of Afghanistan and the Operation to Save our Allies

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E-Books → Aleppo The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

Published by: voska89 on 17-03-2024, 18:59 | 0

Free Download Philip Mansel, "Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City"
English | ISBN: 1784534617 | 2016 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In the first history of Aleppo in English, Dr Philip Mansel vividly describes its decline from a pinnacle of cultural and economic power, a poignant testament to a city shattered by Syria's civil war.

E-Books → End Times Fall of Empires by Graham McNeill

Published by: Emperor2011 on 15-03-2024, 10:12 | 0

End Times Fall of Empires by Graham McNeill | 3.76 MB
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Title: The End Times: Fall of Empires
Author: Various Authors
Year: 2024