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By a River, on a Hill (Paperback)
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By a River, on a Hill (Paperback)
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List price R597
Loot Price R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
You Save R45 (8%)
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By a River, On a Hill brings you into the lives of twins born
during the depression in a small steel mill town in Western
Pennsylvania and carries you through the depression, the war, the
building of the Golden Gate Bridge and on to two completely
different routes of success of each to his chosen profession. One
who gains his success on a journey that carries him to Argentina
for three years and later to Brazil for three years fighting for
acceptance in his chosen field until gaining the recognition he
deserves, becoming Chief consultant for U.S. Steel on Coke Oven
problem solving and eventually establishing an international
construction company. The other, who gains his initial success
through invention of integrated circuits before becoming an expert
in the production of the "chip" and finally his success in Silicon
Valley competing against the world's best technical minds in a
tough semiconductor industry, eventually playing the major role in
taking a small test company to be a successful Analog Semiconductor
Company. The story carries you with them through their early
experiences, the Navy, the tough steel mills and finally in their
tough fields of endeavor; carrying you as it carried them. You
experience their obstacles and their triumphs as if you were there
working your way up, side by side and battling for a place in the
sun. The title of the book relates to the goals of the twins which
are as different as their paths to reach them.
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