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Guide to Managing Growth

Turning successes into even bigger successes

by Rupert Merson, The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

The how-to guide to tackling business growth problems head on Responding effectively to the demands of a growing company, regardless of size, is one of the great challenges facing businesses in this increasingly competitive climate. Successful growth requires careful attention to the robustness of...
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Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side

Seeking Justice In Guantanamo Bay

by Clive Stafford Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008

Every time human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith lands in Cuba, he takes the eight o'clock ferry to the windward side; his journey ends at Guantánamo Bay. One of the few people in the world who has ongoing independent access to the prison, Smith reveals the grotesque injustices that are perpetrated...
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Inside the Cell

The Dark Side of Forensic DNA

by Erin E. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

Josiah Sutton was convicted of rape. He was five inches shorter and 65 pounds lighter than the suspect described by the victim, but at trial a lab analyst testified that his DNA was found at the crime scene. His case looked like many others-arrest, swab, match, conviction. But there was just one problem-Sutton...
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How We Fight White Supremacy

A Field Guide to Black Resistance

by Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019

This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -- and ideas for how each of us can contribute Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If...
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A Radical Faith

The Assassination of Sister Maura

by Eileen Markey
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016

On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women-three of them Catholic nuns-were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American public...
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Game Query

Nontrivial Trivia from the Minds at The Economist

by Simon Wright, Josie Delap, Geoffrey Carr
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018

Test yourself against The Economist's champion quiz team - the only trivia book you'll ever need! Trivia books are a dime a dozen. Trust The Economist, which knows the price and the value of everything, to do something different. In its first ever trivia book in a 175-year history, the...
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Fantasy Island

Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico

by Ed Morales
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019

A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew...
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La isla de la fantasia

El colonialismo, la explotacion y la traicion a Puerto Rico

by Ed Morales
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019

Un recuento crucial y preciso de los 122 anos de Puerto Rico como colonia de los EE. UU. A dos años del huracán María, Puerto Rico aún sigue recuperándose de la destrucción física de la tormenta y el colapso de la infraestructura resultante. La devastación agravó los efectos dañinos...
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Talk on the Wild Side

Why Language Can't Be Tamed

by Lane Greene
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018

Language is the most human invention. Spontaneous, unruly, passionate, and erratic it resists every attempt to discipline or regularize it--a history celebrated here in all its irreverent glory. Language is a wild thing. It is vague and anarchic. Style, meaning, and usage are continually on...
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Money and Soccer: A Soccernomics Guide

Why Chievo Verona, Unterhaching, and Scunthorpe United Will Never Win the Champions League, Why Manchester City, Roma, and Paris St. Germain Can, and Why Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Manchester United Cannot Be Stopped

by Stefan Szymanski
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015

Modern soccer is big business. From the ill-received takeover of Manchester United by the Glazer family to Paris Saint Germain's current shopping spree for the best footballers on the planet, soccer finance has become an increasingly important part of the game. Barely a summer goes by now without...
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More Noble Than War

A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine

by Nicholas Blincoe
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019

A new lens into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, revealing how soccer has influenced politics--and how politics has shaped the beautiful game. Soccer has never been apolitical. This is especially true for Israel and Palestine. Its history in the region is longer than the conflict itself. Almost...
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Grassroots

Politics . . . But Not as Usual

by Phil Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012

This offbeat true story is a comedy and a tragedy about politics, from anti-globalist protest to domestic turmoil. It's about idealism, obsession and failure in Seattle, a progressive city on the fringe of America's continent and consciousness. Grant Cogswell is a poet, a punk rock-fan, an anarchist,...
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Guerra Contra Todos los Puertorriqueños

Revolución y Terror en la Colonia Americana

by Nelson A Denis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 24, 2015

“Prepárese para ser enfurecido. Una lectura obligada y reveladora.” -Robert Domínguez, New York Daily News En 1950, después de cincuenta años de ocupación militar y gobierno colonial, el Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico montó una fallida revolución armada contra Estados Unidos....
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