Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 338.761615092
RRP: £20.17
Price: £21.88
Review Robert Wood Johnson: The Gentleman Rebel / Lillian Press:
Publication date: 2006-10-03
Dewey code: 621.39092
Price: £18.35
Review iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Authors
- Matthew Symonds
- Larry Ellison
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 338.7610053
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.79
Review Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle / Simon & Schuster Australia:
Publication date: 2003-09-05
Dewey code: 338.766352
RRP: £16.95
Price: £2.20
Review American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's No.1 Bourbon / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2006-03
Dewey code: 338
Price: £10.05
Review Mr. China: A Memoir / HarperCollins Publishers:
Edition: 1st De Capo Press Ed
Publication date: 1993-04
Dewey code: 364.162092
Price: £7.99
Review I, Willie Sutton / Da Capo Press Inc:
Edition: 3
Publication date: 1990-05
Dewey code: 338
RRP: £35.99
Price: £16.15
Review How I Made One Million Dollars Last Year Trading Commodities / Windsor Books,U.S.:
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 338.8092
Price: £17.45
Review The Man Who Tried to Buy the World: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal / Portfolio:
Creator: Ray Porter
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2007-02
Dewey code: 332.1095492
RRP: £22.92
Price: £12.74
Review Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty / Blackstone Audiobooks:It began with a simple $27 loan. After witnessing the cycle of poverty that kept many poor women enslaved to high-interest loan sharks in Bangladesh, Dr. Muhammad Yunus lent money to 42 women so they could purchase bamboo to make and sell stools. In a short time, the women were able to repay the loans while continuing to support themselves and their families. With that initial eye-opening success, the seeds of the Grameen Bank, and the concept of microcredit, were planted. After earning a Ph. D. in economics at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Yunus returned to Bangladesh to settle into a life as a professor. But a famine in 1974 ravaged the country, leading Dr. [+]Yunus to alter his thinking and his life profoundly: "What good were all my complex theories when people were dying of starvation on the sidewalks and porches across from my lecture hall?. Nothing in the economic theories I taught reflected the life around me. " Armed with little more than a lofty dream to end the suffering around him, he started an experimental microcredit enterprise in 1977; by 1983 the Grameen Bank was officially formed. The idea behind the Grameen Bank is ingeniously simple: extend credit to poor people and they will help themselves. This concept strikes at the root of poverty by specifically targeting the poorest of the poor, providing small loans (usually less than $300) to those unable to obtain credit from traditional banks. At Grameen, loans are administered to groups of five people, with only two receiving their money up front. As soon as these two make a few regular payments, loans are gradually extended to the rest of the group. In this way, the program builds a sense of community as well as individual self-reliance. Most of the Grameen Bank's loans are to women, and since its inception, there has been an astonishing loan repayment rate of over 98 percent. Banker to the Poor is an inspiring memoir of the birth of microcredit, written in a conversational tone that makes it both moving and enjoyable to read. The Grameen Bank is now a $2. 5 billion banking enterprise in Bangladesh, while the microcredit model has spread to over 50 countries worldwide, from the U. S. to Papua New Guinea, Norway to Nepal. Ever optimistic, Yunus travels the globe spreading the belief that poverty can be eliminated: ". the poor, once economically empowered, are the most determined fighters in the battle to solve the population problem; end illiteracy; and live healthier, better lives. When policy makers finally realize that the poor are their partners, rather than bystanders or enemies, we will progress much faster that we do today. " Dr. Yunus's efforts prove that hope is a global currency. -Shawn Carkonen.
Publication date: 2004-09-24
Dewey code: 338.941092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.48
Review The Prudence of Mr. Gordon Brown / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 1997-11-04
Dewey code: 003.2
RRP: £23.99
Price: £17.90
Review The Fortune Sellers: The Big Business of Selling and Buying Predictions / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2004-05-24
Dewey code: 945.093092
RRP: £16.00
Price: £3.20
Review Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony / Verso Books:
Authors
- Harold Myra
- Marshall Shelley
Dewey code: 658.4092
Price: £14.99
Review The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham / Zondervan Publishing House:
Edition: Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2006-05-04
Dewey code: 332.092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.57
Review Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons / Basic Books:
Publication date: 2007-06-05
Dewey code: 337.73
Price: £16.90
Review The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption / Dutton Books:
Publication date: 2007-03-03
Dewey code: 323.092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £11.05
Review Make it Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out / PublicAffairs,U.S.:
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 338
RRP: £10.09
Price: £16.95
Review Citizen Coors: A Grand Family Saga of Business, Politics, and Beer / Harper Perennial:
Publication date: 2001-10-01
Dewey code: 745.44092
RRP: £20.00
Price: £45.26
Review Q and A: A Sort of Autobiography (Harpercollins illustrated) / HarperCollins Illustrated:
Authors
- John Duffy
- Mary S. Schaeffer
Dewey code: 332.62092
RRP: £15.95
Price: £2.30
Review Triumph Over Tragedy: September 11 and the Rebirth of a Business / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-11-02
Dewey code: 973
RRP: £22.99
Price: £15.17
Review Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors: Charles Merrill and Middle-class Investors / Cambridge University Press:
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Robert Wood Johnson: The Gentleman Rebel, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor, Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle, American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's No.1 Bourbon, Mr. China: A Memoir, I, Willie Sutton, How I Made One Million Dollars Last Year Trading Commodities, The Man Who Tried to Buy the World: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, The Prudence of Mr. Gordon Brown, The Fortune Sellers: The Big Business of Selling and Buying Predictions, Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony, The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham, Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons, The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption, Make it Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out, Citizen Coors: A Grand Family Saga of Business, Politics, and Beer, Q and A: A Sort of Autobiography (Harpercollins illustrated), Triumph Over Tragedy: September 11 and the Rebirth of a Business, Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors: Charles Merrill and Middle-class Investors |
