Author: Christopher Reich
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: billion, first
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2003-07-29
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0440234697
ISBN-13: 9780440234692
Christopher Reich electrified readers with Numbered Account and The Runner, his first two international thrillers. Now the New York Times bestselling author whose work has been called gripping (Chicago Tribune), chilling (The Denver Post), wonderful (The New York Times Book Review), ratchets up the stakes in an ingeniously plotted story of nerve-jangling intrigue and hot-wired suspense. Using todays cutthroat global economy as a backdrop, The First Billion explodes into a breakneck tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption...John Jett Gavallan is a former fighter pilot, now the high-f
Author: Dr. Muhammad Saleem
Publisher: Xlibris Corporatio
Keywords: deception, billion, banking, islamic
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2006-01-31
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 1599268698
ISBN-13: 9781599268699
Islamic banks currently control about $300 billion in assets. This book assesses the underlying rationale of Islamic banking, that the Quran prohibits all forms of interest. The author maintains that, first, a correct interpretation of the Quran, keeping in mind the context, would indicate that what the Quran prohibits is usury -exorbitant interest. Second, Islamic banks do not practice what they preach; they all charge interest, but disguised in Islamic garb. Thus they engage in deceptive and dishonest banking practices. The author also offers some policy recommendations, including the need f
Author: Om Malik
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: heist, telecom, billion, inside, broadbandits
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-05-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0471434051
ISBN-13: 9780471434054
Praise for Broadbandits "Om Malik’s spread of blame for the Internet bubble shows there’s plenty to go around. For my part, I am sorry and promise almost never to do it again. Malik holds a special place in hell for Salomon stock promoter Jack Grubman. But then Wall Street should have weeded him out way back when they caught him lying about going to MIT." -Bob Metcalfe, MIT graduate, Ethernet inventor, 3Com founder, InfoWorld pundit, and Polaris partner "Broadbandits weaves together a story of greed, money, power, and crime to reveal to the millions of people who lost their invest
Author: Mary Rodgers
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: friday, freaky, boris, billion
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1976-04-14
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 006051230X
ISBN-13: 9780060512309
Things are back to normal for Annabel Andrews since that freaky Friday when she switched bodies with her mother. She is still in love with Boris, her cute friend from upstairs, and she is still annoyed by her pesky little brother, Ape Face. But normal doesn’t last long in the Andrews household!When Ape Face fixes a broken-down television set Boris sold to him, something unusual happens. Instead of regularly scheduled programs, this TV shows the future -- one day in advance! They get tomorrow’s shows, tomorrow’s movies, and tomorrow’s news. Annabel thinks they should use
Author: Hy Freedman
Publisher: M Evans & Co
Keywords: urge, animals, year, billion, link, three, sex
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 1977-09
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0871312425
ISBN-13: 9780871312426
Author: Paul Collier
Publisher: Oxford University Pre
Keywords: failing, countries, poorest, billion
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-04-27
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0195311450
ISBN-13: 9780195311457
Global poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion, Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines a much needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world
Author: Bjorn Lomborg
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: place, world, billion, spend
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-06-12
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0521685710
ISBN-13: 9780521685719
Edited by Bjrn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious yet accessible springboard for debate and discussion on the world’s most serious problems, and what we can do to solve them. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good with our money. This unique book provides a rich set of dialogs examining ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, the spread of communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, access to education, financi
