Bøger af Peter Chapman

Tom Taylor lives in England. From London, he travels to Stonehenge, a prehistoric stone circle in Wiltshire, and his life is changed forever. He is forcefully thrown back into the past and has to live on his wits and a stubborn refusal to ever accept defeat. Three thousand years before his time he meets Rosetta, the daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh, Hatshepsut, and his future true love. He also meets Gomm, the High Priest, who becomes his enemy who is cursed to pursue and kill him. The great events and characters of the past leave their mark on him and on his story. He is transported to Greece and the days of Alexander the Great. The first Emperor of China tries to kill him. King Alfred of England and the Vikings clash under his gaze, and the Russian Tsar, Nicholas loses his wife to Rasputin, and his empire to the German Kaiser.. All of this time the Guardians watch and wait. The living souls rule the Universe, but the dark souls are gathering. The Earth is the cradle which decides the fate of the billions of souls who live on the web. Tom and Rosetta are the pawns. They accept the challenge- and change the course of the Universe forever

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 on, why and what you should do about it. Benefit from Peter Chapman's 25 years in the food industry with the ultimate goal to get more of your product in the shopping cart!

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 history. After 164 years, one of the largest and most respected investment banks in the world was gone, leaving everyone wondering, "How could this have happened?" Peter Chapman, an editor and writer for The Financial Times, answers this question by exploring the complete history of Lehman Brothers between those two historic Septembers. He takes us back to its early days as a cotton broker in Alabama, and then to its glory days as one of the leading corporate financiers in America. He also provides an intimate portrait of the people who ran Lehman over the decades-from Henry Lehman, the founder, to Bobbie Lehman, who led the company into the world of radio, motion pictures, and air travel in first part of the 20th century, to Dick Fuld, who allowed it to morph into a dealer of shoddy securities. Throughout his account of this imperiously rich firm, Chapman examines the impact Lehman Brothers had not only on American finance but also on American life. As a major backer of companies like Pan American Airlines, Macy's, and RKO, Lehman helped lead the country into major new industries and helped support some of its most intrepid entrepreneurs. He then shows how, starting in the 1980s, Lehman's increased focus on short-term gain investments led the firm down the dangerous path that would eventually lead to its demise. In the end, the story of Lehman Brothers is not only the story of a truly important American company but a cautionary tale of what happens when leaders lose sight of their core mission in their quest for something too good to be true.Praise for The Last of the Imperious Rich: "Thought provoking and illuminating" - The New York Times "Chapman has succeeded in holding up a mirror to America's past - and what its future might hold" - Bloomberg

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 power at any cost.

Experienced travelers pushing the envelope in a foreign country can find themselves in trouble in this world. This is a story of adventure and endurance.

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 ...