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The New Confessions of an Economic Hi...
Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages.
New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins’s classic bestseller brings the story of economic hit men (EHMs) up to date and, chillingly, home to the US.
Over40 percent of the book is new, including chapters identifying today’s EHMs and a detailed chronology extensively documenting EHM activity since the first edition was published in 2004.
Former economic hit man John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else—to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Finally, he gives an insider view of what we each can do to change it.
Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. If the EHMs can’t maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. The heart of this book is a completely new section, over 100 pages long, that exposes the fact that all the EHM and jackal tools—false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power—are used around the world today exponentially more than during the era Perkins exposed over a decade ago.
The material in this new section ranges from the Seychelles, Honduras, Ecuador, and Libya to Turkey, Western Europe, Vietnam, China, and, in perhaps the most unexpected and sinister development, the United States, where the new EHMs—bankers, lobbyists, corporate executives, and others—"con governments and the public into submitting to policies that make the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
But as dark as the story gets, this reformed EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers a detailed list of specific actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable abundance for all.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love.
Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze—the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor—had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.Years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America.
But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion—for their homeland and for each other—they will face the toughest decisions of their lives.Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today’s globalized world: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s most powerful and astonishing novel yet.
Good to Great by Jim Collins
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA?
How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years.
How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great.
What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness — why some companies make the leap and others don't.
The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.
The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.
The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. "Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.”
Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings? "Some of the key concepts discerned in the study," comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people." Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?"
Making The Cut: The Autobiography of ...
"Indeed, it was a bullet! The patient remembered that he had been shot by colonial forces at the start of the MAU MAU war in 1952. He had survived the shot and literally forgot about it until the present moment, 36 years later, when I asked if he had ever been shot in the past. The patient was of course, after all, the freedom fighter par excellence, Waruhiu Itote, better known as 'General China.'"
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In this unflinching memoir, Kenya’s first thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon, Prof. Peter Amollo Odhiambo, reflects on a life shaped by bold decisions, quiet sacrifices, and a relentless drive to serve.
As a young man, he left home on a scholarship to study in India, joining elite medical institutions at a time when few Africans had such access. Though he had every opportunity to remain abroad, he chose instead to return and help shape Kenya’s medical future. This decision would soon lead him to a pivotal moment early in his career, when he performed a delicate surgery to remove a colonial bullet from the chest of Mau Mau freedom fighter General China.
Prof. Odhiambo would go on to train generations of doctors at the University of Nairobi, where his influence can still be felt in hospitals across the country. But his impact reached far beyond the classroom or the theatre. In the 1990s and 2000s, Prof. Odhiambo became a national advocate for tobacco control, confronting powerful multinationals and helping draft legislation that still protects Kenyans from the deadly effects of secondhand smoke.
Told in his own words, 'Making the Cut' is more than a record of medical firsts. It is a personal and historical journey through post-independence Kenya, seen through the eyes of a man who has never stopped believing in excellence, justice, and the power of public service.
HALFWAY TO DAMASCUS
Warriors. Wilderness. Blood and confusion. A son in a land of violence, a father who could
not understand why. When did you become your own person? How far did you have to
travel to find what was always inside? If you know what it is like to overcome a desolate
land, and attempt to make a life, journey with Franz Owano to Ol Moran and watch science,
compassion and writing open your eyes.
THE ROAD TO US by MABEL MBAKA
This candid and fearless memoir, The Road to Us, takes you inside the life of a young girl navigating a world that’s suddenly much larger—and scarier—than she thought. It’s a tale of determination, reinvention, and that quiet, stubborn hope that pushes you forward even when you can’t see the finish line.
Without sugarcoating the struggles, and with a voice that’s as sharp as it is real, this memoir shows that some detours are more about survival than success, but they all shape the person one becomes, as is the story of the author.
The Matatu Slasher by Keith Kinambuga
A new urban crime horror novel from award-winning writer, Keith Kinambuga:
Meet Ireri Njau, a hard working makanga moonlighting as a social media news correspondent.
When a passenger on his matatu is brutally attacked and killed by a masked, panga-wielding jua kali welder, Ireri’s instincts push him to report the crime online. But his need for social media attention attracts the killer, and puts him in conflict with his boss and the matatu stage skwodi, who want business to return to normal.
As the danger mounts, Ireri’s pregnant wife, Wamuyu, senses the threat closing in. With her lupus symptoms flaring up and a baby on the way, Ireri is torn between protecting his family and feeding the online frenzy. His decision to pursue both leads to enemies on all sides—his family, the police, his matatu colleagues and the ruthless killer now known as The Matatu Slasher.
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Thrivease Anti-Stress Colouring Book
The Thrivease Anti-Stress Coloring Book offers 52 beautifully designed illustrations that promote mindfulness and relaxation. Perfect for teens and adults, this coloring book helps relieve stress while encouraging moments of digital detox, creativity and emotional well-being. Each purchase comes with a dozen colored pencils, making it an ideal tool for daily self-care and mental wellness.
Adventures of the Sky Voyager and Oth...
A Short History of Desperation by Dom...
Title of Book: A short History of Desperation
Author: Dominic Walubengo
Publisher: Dominic Walubengo
Genre: Fiction
Year of Publication: 2023
Town and Country: Nairobi, Kenya
ISBN: 978-9914-49-643-7
Number of pages: 115
Illustrations: Pencil
Covers: Paperback
In this book, everyone has something that makes him or her desperate. The book offers the reader a short history of desperation. It invites the reader to think deeply about what it means to be desperate and how a person becomes desperate. Desperation is the feeling that arises when one is in a bad situation and is willing to try anything to change it. This feeling is characterized by impetuosity, recklessness, torture, and unhappiness.
The Surprise Puppies by Ryan Kiamba
The Surprise Puppies by Ryan Kiamba
A heartwarming tale unfolds in The Surprise Puppies as Ryan, his brother and friends, unexpectedly discover a litter of newborn puppies. The group embarks on
a shared mission to protect and nurture the newfound lives, and in the process encounter both exciting and difficult experiences. The children learn how to show
compassion and care for animals, as well as the values on responsibility and determination.
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Unc...
In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?
Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.” She details her most valuable practices, like “starting kind,” “going high,” and assembling a “kitchen table” of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness.
Herding the Zebra by Peter Otieno
When Peter Otieno finally left formal employment to focus on his enterprises, he did not anticipate a world of politics and backstabbing the private sector. Leaving an illustrious career in a multinational organization that had systems firmly in place, Peter joins murky world of partnerships and weak governance structures.
The book gives a candid account of the behind the scenes shenanigans of partnership that we rarely glimpse in the private enterprises. Herding The Zebra is a unique corporate memoir; told with honesty that there is no room for sanitizing any elements of the drama that ensues once the idea of barcoding Kenya took root.
The ability to make bold decisions, often against the grain and embracing change, however uncomfortable, proves to be the key to success of GSI in East Africa.
Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love.
So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.
It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored...
After Checkout By Evalyn Oloo
A woman can survive a lonely marriage, an empty bed, a bitter divorce, a boardroom that keeps stealing her work, a family that calls pressure love, and a city that knows how to watch her without appearing to stare.
But what happens when the one person who finally sees her has been watching too closely and lived inside her life literally for months.
Across Cairo, Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam, seven accomplished women are holding their lives together with elegance, discipline and just enough private denial to get through the day.
Nadia has mastered the performance of a beautiful Cairo marriage that no longer touches her. Zara runs a major bank in Accra and returns each night to a house with one untouched side of the bed. Blessing is fighting to keep the technology company she built from being rewritten as her exhusband’s achievement. Dr Seun is newly divorced in Nairobi, funny, brilliant and pretending her freedom does not frighten her. Kefilwe has turned discipline into armour in Johannesburg. Tigist has mistaken endurance for faith in Addis Ababa. Zawadi, in Dar es Salaam, is still waiting to be chosen without being diminished.
Then the men arrive.
They listen, remember, and notice the exact wound each woman has spent years hiding in plain sight. They share songs, asks the right question, brings calm into a legal fight, knows when to wait, speaks the language of faith, family, work, grief and desire so fluently that it feels like love.
For a while, it is almost beautiful.
Until the wrong sentence appears in the wrong hands.
Until a private message becomes public.
Until money moves.
Until a vanished profile leaves behind a trail the world was not supposed to find.
Until one woman realises that being seen by the wrong person can be more dangerous than being ignored.
Where The Snake Drinks First by Dan O...
Kalenjin: the descendant of Ancient E...
ELIMINATING PROJECT DELAYS & COS...
Do you want to finish your projects on time and within budget?
Do you want to eliminate time and cost overruns in your projects?
Do you want your projects to be successful? More successful than you have ever imagined?
This book is primarily about how to achieve this. There is no conjecture, no gambits, just unvarnished truth about what it takes today to finish a project on time and within budget.
Dance With My Money Book by George Oyuga
Dance With My Money by George Oyuga, is a personal financial management handbook. The Author has condensed his thoughts, approaches, and insights to allow readers like you to take the challenge and change your money dance to improve the quality of your journey towards financial freedom. He tactfully weaves through the interconnection between Relationships and how relationships give a springboard to Earnings which in turn create opportunities for Savings. Savings breed Investments which then spur Wealth.
"When people are happy, they enjoy the music, but when they are sad, they understand the lyrics" - unknown
This is the book that will deconstruct your money cognitions and challenge the patterns of your financial dances. It has sections that will usher you into personal financial therapy and personal reflections as you audit your money dance across different spaces.
Feel free to take your seat in the Author's mind as you get your copy.