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Diamonds, Gold, and War
The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Champion of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Franklin Delano Roosevelt stands astride American history like a colossus, having pulled the nation out of the Great Depression and led it to victory in the Second World War. Elected to four terms as president, he transformed an inward-looking country into the greatest superpower the world had ever...
Richard M. Nixon
A Life in Full
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and reviled for his shady manner and cutthroat tactics. Conrad Black, whose epic biography of FDR was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, now separates...
Free Flight
Inventing the Future of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized hub-and-spoke routing system. Virtually all of the technological...
Murdoch's World
The Last of the Old Media Empires
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. No one before him has trafficked in media influence across those nations so effectively, nor has anyone else so singularly redefined the culture of news and the rules of journalism. In a stretch spanning...
They Are All My Family
A Daring Rescue in the Chaos of Saigons Fall
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War in April 1975, as Americans fled and their Vietnamese allies and employees prepared for the worst, John Riordan, a young banker, the assistant manager of Citibank's Saigon branch succeeded in rescuing 106 Vietnamese. They were his 33 Vietnamese staff members...
Mark Felt
The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Liam Neeson.
The covert Watergate whistleblower tells the story of the dramatic showdown between the FBI and the Nixon White House
In the 1970s, Mark Felt was given the code name "Deep Throat" and shared intelligence on the Watergate break-in...
Paper Promises
Debt, Money, and the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Longlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
For the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, as the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid, we find ourselves again in crisis. But the oncoming defaults have a time-worn...
Ship of Fools
How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The "Irish Economic miracle" was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until...
by Paul Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort.”-Financial Times
The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos
In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction...
A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel
Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping.
The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family-the...
Will the Boat Sink the Water?
The Life of China's Peasants
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in modern...
So Much to Do
A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Every city and every state needs a Richard Ravitch. In sixty years on the job, whether working in business or government, he was the man willing to tackle some of the most complex challenges facing New York. Trained as a lawyer, he worked briefly for the House of Representatives, then began his career...
No Ordinary Disruption
The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Our intuition on how the world works could well be wrong. We are surprised when new competitors burst on the scene, or businesses protected by large and deep moats find their defenses easily breached, or vast new markets are conjured from nothing. Trend lines resemble saw-tooth mountain ridges.
The...