[GILES BOLTON]AFRICA DOESN'T MATTER:How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It. ...Why is Africa still poor? What happens to the billions of aid dollars given yearly? Why do trade rules that fail African countries also cost us at the checkout line? Why doesn't Africa matter? In this engaging, jargon-free, reader-friendly guide, lon... Add to Cart
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[NELSON MANDELA]LONG WALK TO FREEDOM:The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela [MASS MARKET] ...The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's apartheid regime. Among... Add to Cart
[WOLE SOYINKA]YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN: A Memoir. (PAPER COVER) ...Early in this memoir, Soyinka, the Nobel-winning playwright, says that he is "a closet glutton for tranquillity." The account that follows details a decidedly untranquil life of activism, imprisonment, and exile over the past half century. In 1956, a... Add to Cart
[GEORGE COOPER]THE ORIGIN OF FINANCIAL CRISES:Central Banks, Credit Bubbles, and the Efficient Market Fallacy. ...“A well written book. . . . Cooper's most novel doctrine is that investors do not have to be irrational to generate bubbles. . . . Mr. Cooper traces present difficulties to the rapid growth of credit encouraged by the Fed's ultra-cheap money policy o... Add to Cart
[MISHA GLENNY] THE MCMAFIA:A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld. ...With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have fores... Add to Cart
[BARACK OBAMA]THE AUDACITY OF HOPE:Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (PAPER COVER) ...Barack Obama's first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope, Obama engages themes raised in his keynote speech at the 200... Add to Cart
[ALVIN TOFFLER]FUTURE SHOCK ...Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society. ... Add to Cart
[Barbara Ley]FINAL ACCOUNTING:Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen ...The doomed accounting firm of Arthur Andersen emerges as a grown-up version of Lord of the Flies in this fascinating insider exposé. Toffler, a Columbia Business School professor and an expert on management ethics, provides an engrossing history of t... Add to Cart