Empire - A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon
Mitchell Pacelle
Back Cover: In this fast paced book, named one of the “top ten of 2001″ by By Business week, Mitchell Pacelle tells the gripping story of the ten-year struggle for control of American’s most famous skyscraper - a tale of greed and duplicity that consumed, and nearly destroyed some of the real estate worle’s most controversial tycoons.
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- The Little Book of Sientific Principles, Theories & Things
Surenddra Verma
Back Cover: The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories and Things explains 175 laws, principles, equations, theories and things that form the foundations of science. It features the great names in science, including Pythagoras, Galileo, Newton, Darwin and Einstein as well as more recent contributors such as Rachel Carson, James Lovelock ans Stephen Hawking.
I love this book. It really puts the world in perspective and explains everything you need to know to understand the principles etc.
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Jose Mourinho - Made in Portugal
Luis Lourenco
Back Cover: Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho, has made an immediate impact on English football, with his unmistakeable self-confidence, drive and ambition. His rise from relatively humble beginnings as assistant coach to Sir Bobby Robson to most sought-after club manager in Europe, is a fascinating and revealing story.
An interesting read for any football fans. It shows what goes on behind the scenes in fooball clubs and explains Mourinho’s approach to the game and coaching. Well worth a look if you are a football fan IMHO.
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Money Ball
Michael Lweis
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, MIchael Lews follows the low-budget Oakland A’s, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge - insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdome the edge over big money
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
Back Cover “Economic hit men,” JOhn Perkins writes, “are highly paid professionls who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but on htat has thaken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization”
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