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The Chastening
Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System And Humbled The Imf
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
Lauded by reviewers and scholars alike, Paul Blustein's The Chastening examines the role of the International Monetary Fund in the series of economic crises that rocked the globe in the last decade. Based on hundreds of interviews with officials at the IMF, the World Bank, the U.S. Treasury, the Federal...
When Money Dies
The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation’s currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter...
War and Gold
A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The world was wild for gold. After discovering the Americas, and under pressure to defend their vast dominion, the Habsburgs of Spain promoted gold and silver exploration in the New World with ruthless urgency. But, the great influx of wealth brought home by plundering conquistadors couldn't compensate...
Shooting for Tiger
How Golf's Obsessed New Generation Is Transforming a Country Club Sport
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
While many parents encourage their children to become the next Einstein or Yo-Yo Ma, some push their kids to become the next Tiger Woods. No longer does an elite, elderly set dominate golf. A new class of driven teenaged players is transforming the game, and a series of high-profile, professionally-...
Who Gets What
Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Agent Orange, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Virginia Tech massacre, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Deep Horizon gulf oil spill: each was a disaster in its own right. What they had in common was their aftermath—each required compensation for lives lost, bodies maimed, livelihoods wrecked,...
What Is Life Worth?
The Inside Story of the 9/11 Fund and Its Effort to Compensate the Victims of September 11th
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Soon to be a major motion picture: the true story of the man put in charge of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and a testament to the enduring power of family, grief, love, fear, frustration, and courage.
Just days after September 11, 2001, Kenneth Feinberg was appointed to administer the...
A Governor's Story
The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Jennifer Granholm was the two-term governor of Michigan, a state synonymous with manufacturing during a financial crisis that threatened to put all America's major car companies into bankruptcy. The immediate and knock-on effects were catastrophic. Granholm's grand plans for education reform, economic...
Connect
How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Why being radically connected with society is not just the right thing to do, it is an imperative for a company's bottom line
Based on John Browne's decades of experience as one of the world's most successful and innovative CEOs, with research by McKinsey & Company, Connect is a practical manifesto...
Encore
Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
In one of the most significant social trends of the new century, and the biggest transformation of the American workforce since the women's movement, members of the baby boom generation are inventing a new phase of work.
Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers who are not content,...
The Mosaic Principle
The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Life-personally and professionally-is lived to the fullest as a mosaic, encompassing a rich and complex set of diverse experiences that provide purpose, meaning, happiness, and success.
Yet, the pressures of modern society push us toward narrower focus and deeper specialization in our lives...
Swiped
How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam folders, and those are good ideas as far as they go. But the truth is, there are people out there -- a lot of them -- who treat stealing your identity...
Car Crazy
The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In Car Wars, G. Wayne Miller, author of Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them and Men and Speed: A Wild Ride through NASCAR's Breakout Season, takes readers back to the wild and wooly years of the early automobile era-from 1893, when the first U.S.-built...
Mugabe
Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally the defiant white prime minister Ian Smith was forced to step down and Mugabe...
by Martin Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.
Martin...