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  • How Asia Works

    Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region

    de Joe Studwell ...
    "A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed." —Bill Gates, "Top 5 Books of the Year"An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said "should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business."In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills his extensive research ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How Africa Works

    Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier

    de Joe Studwell ...
    “[O]ne of the most original and important books on Africa in years.”—Financial Times“Challenges outdated narratives and makes a compelling case for the continent's economic potential.”—Bill GatesThe acclaimed author of How Asia Works brings his “pithy, well-written and intellectually vigorous” (Financial Times) reporting to Africa, revealing essential, promising lessons about the engines of ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • Asian Godfathers

    Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia

    de Joe Studwell ...
    The author of How Asia Works follows the money. "Alarming . . . enlightening . . . Joe Studwell should be named chief myth buster for Asian business" ( Financial Times).Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only fifty families whose interests range from banking to real estate, shipping to sugar, gambling to lumber. At their peak, ... Leer más

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  • The China Dream

    The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth

    de Joe Studwell ...
    "An entertaining, if cautionary, tale of Western business woes in China, stretching back seven hundred years" ( The Wall Street Journal ).In The China Dream, acclaimed business journalist Joe Studwell challenges the predictions that China will become an economic juggernaut on the world stage in the twenty-first century—and instead foresees an economic crisis. Tracing the most recent developments ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    How Asia Works

    Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

    de Joe Studwell ...
    Narrado por Nigel Patterson ...

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    11 hora 46 minutos

    In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise. In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills extensive research into the economics of nine countries—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    How Africa Works

    Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier

    de Joe Studwell ...
    Narrado por Jennifer M. Dixon ...

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    15 hora 7 minutos

    In the 1980s, countries across Asia stunned the world with meteoric economic growth—but when eyes turn to Africa today, it is often to lament corruption, violence, and poverty rather than to scout the next developmental frontrunners. Yet some African nations, even in the face of challenging geography and the crippling legacies of colonialism, have found remarkable success. In How Africa Works, Joe ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    Under a Wild Sky

    John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America

    Narrado por Stephen R. Thorne ...

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    14 hora 52 minutos

    In this Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, the author of Mad at the World examines the little-known life of the man behind the well-known bird survey.John James Audubon is renowned for his masterpiece of natural history and art, The Birds of America, the first nearly comprehensive survey of the continent's birdlife. And yet few people understand, and many assume incorrectly, what sort of man he ... Leer más

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    The Fall of the Ottomans

    The Great War in the Middle East

    de Eugene Rogan ...
    Narrado por Derek Perkins ...

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    17 hora 26 minutos

    In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Bolstered by German money, arms, and military advisors, the Ottomans took on the Russian, British, and French forces and tried to provoke jihad against the Allies ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The War on Science

    Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It

    de Shawn Otto ...
    **An "insightful" and in-depth look at anti-science politics and its deadly results (Maria Konnikova, New York Times–bestselling author of The Biggest Bluff).Thomas Jefferson said, "Wherever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they aren't?From climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense, we are ... Leer más

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  • Bourgeois Equality

    How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

    How standards of living have skyrocketed since 1800, and the political philosophy that made it possible: "Persuasive…richly detailed and erudite."— Financial TimesThere's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the ... Leer más

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  • Democracy's Beginning

    The Athenian Story

    A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later.The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how ... Leer más

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  • The Fall of the Ottomans

    The Great War in the Middle East

    de Eugene Rogan ...
    **An International Bestseller * An Economist Best Book of the YearThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East.“A page-turner as well as an accurate and comprehensive history of the Ottoman struggle for survival…. Remarkable.” —Wall Street Journal**By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of ... Leer más

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