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  • Who Owns the World

    The Surprising Truth About Every Piece of Land on the Planet

    by Kevin Cahill, Rob McMahon ...
    You don't have to be a student of geography or cartography to have an interest in the world around you, especially with globalization making our planet seem smaller than ever. Now you can IM someone in Alaska, purchase coffee beans from Timor-Leste, and visit Dubai. But what do we really know about these lands?Who Owns the World presents the results of the first-ever landownership survey of all ... Read more

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  • The Dictator's Handbook

    Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

    by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith ...
    “A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street JournalBruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • e-Pedia: List of Countries by GDP (Nominal)

    Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year

    by Wikipedia contributors ...
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    This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institutions, which are calculated at market or government official exchange rates. Nominal GDP does ... Read more

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  • D.R. Congo: the Darkness of the Heart

    How the Congolese Have Survived 500 Years of History

    by Loso Kiteti Boya ...
    Book Synopsis: This book recounts from the perspective of a Congolese native the five-hundred-year journey of the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It analyzes dispassionately the facts of the turbulent history of the country and its continuing impact on the life of the modern-day Congolese. In the book, we set out to begin the search for the Congolese answers to the DR Congos historical ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Guyana Story

    From Earliest Times to Independence

    by Odeen Ishmael ...
    The Guyana StoryFrom Earliest Times to Independence traces the countrys history from thousands of years ago when the first Amerindian groups began to settle on the Guyana territory. It examines the period of early European exploration leading to Dutch colonization, the forcible introduction of African slaves to work on cotton and sugar plantations, the effects of European wars, and the final ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A History of Nigeria

    by Toyin Falola, Matthew M. Heaton ...
    Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and culture, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Wealth of the People: The Wealth of the State

    The Wealth of the People, #5

    by Fernando Urias ...
    Series Book 5 - The Wealth of the People
    The "Wealth of the People" Book SeriesThe task of explaining the causes of the wealth of the people in a society is a complex subject for a single e-book. To facilitate the explanation and the delivery of the material, one e-book will be published in each set of topics.The following are the titles of the book series:Your WealthThe first book looks at the time savings and the wealth gained by a ... Read more

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  • Africa: Crude Continent

    The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize

    by Duncan Clarke ...
    Duncan Clarke was founder and Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners, a worldwide private advisory firm with vintage of around 40 years, the story told in Three Decades in the Long Grass, 2014. Born in Salisbury, 1948, and raised in Rhodesia, he gained the PhD (Economics) at University of St Andrews, 1975. He has published extensively on Africa and been advisor to governments and ... Read more

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  • The Money Lenders

    by Anthony Sampson ...
    First published in 1981, The Money Lenders reveals the power, the workings and the personalities of the money men who have made the world go round:The Superbankers – including Chase Manhattan's David Rockefeller, Citibank's Walter Wriston, Lloyds' Sir Jeremy Morse and Robert McNamara.The debt-ridden regimes of Poland and Iran, Brazil and Zaire, Singapore and Pakistan.The wizards of Grand Cayman – ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • The Land Grabbers

    The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth

    by Fred Pearce ...
    How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Aid Trap

    Hard Truths About Ending Poverty

    by R. Glenn Hubbard, William Duggan, , Ph.D. ...
    Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector-the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor regions the business sector is weak, but foreign aid continues to fund government and NGOs. Switching aid to the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • False Economy

    A Surprising Economic History of the World

    by Alan Beattie ...
    A "provocative...persuasive" (The New York Times) book that examines countries' economic destinies.In False Economy, Alan Beattie weaves together the economic choices, political choices, economic history, and human stories, that determine whether governments and countries remain rich or poor.He also addresses larger questions about why they make the choices they do, and what those mean for the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD