Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: billions, brink, millennium, death, life, amp, thoughts
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-05-12
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0345379187
ISBN-13: 9780345379184

In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming century? Here, too, is a rare, private glimpse of Sagan’s thoughts about love, death, and God as he struggled with fatal disease. Ever forward-looking and vibrant

Author: Tom Doctoroff
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: consumer, chinese, new, selling, billions
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-01-23
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1403976635
ISBN-13: 9781403976635

This book cracks the code of marketing to the New Chinese Consumer--all 1.3 billion of them. Marketers of some of the world’s leading brands come to China without any clear understanding of  their new audience. But the same rules do not apply in China. Doctoroff delves into the psychology of contemporary Chinese consumers to explain the importance of culture in shaping buying decisions. He provides insight into consumers’ fundamental motivations and reveals mistakes which many multinational competitors make. Anyone who plans to do business in China--especially those preparing for

Author: Tarun Khanna
Publisher: Harvard Business School Pre
Keywords: futures, yours, reshaping, india, entrepreneurs, china, billions
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-01-21
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1422103838
ISBN-13: 9781422103838

Called well worth reading by The Economist and earnest and entertaining by the Financial Times, Tarun Khanna s Billions of Entrepreneurs is an elegantly written book that mixes on-the-ground stories with thorough research to show how Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs are creating change through new business models and bringing hope to countless people across the globe. Khanna juxtaposes, on a variety of levels, China and India; explores how the future depends on understanding the yin and yang of these two nations; and emphasizes the increasingly important links between China, India, and the Wes

Author: Donald DeYoung
Publisher: Master Books
Keywords: questioning, earth, evolution, icon, billions, challenging, thousands
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2005-09-20
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0890514410
ISBN-13: 9780890514412

• Destroys one of the major barriers for faith seekers: alleged long ages for the earth • Provides scientifi c evidences that correlate to biblical history and time-lines • Can be used as an apologetic; many shun the faith because of alleged scientifi c “facts” • A sensational answer to “old earth” critics • A powerful book written in plain language This long-awaited book shatters the famed dating methods employed by evolutionists to cast doubt on the veracity of the Bible and its chronology of earth history. Radiometric dating is one of the linchpins of evolution

Authors:Joanne Sujansky, Jan Ferri-Reed,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: turnover, generation, billions, losing, millennials, companies, keeping
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0470438517
ISBN-13: 9780470438510

"This is a great book and a must-read for anyone who wants tounderstand the young people who are now or will soon join the workforce. It’sone of the most useful value-added books about the Millennial generation."—Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Management, University of Southern California,and author of On Becoming a Leader "Are you confused trying to understand the younger generation? Keeping the Millennials explores this fascinating generation raised withtechnology and the challenges they bring to the workplace. Read this great book andlearn how to attract, hire, and r

Author: T. Christian Miller
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: corporate, greed, iraq, lives, lost, money, wasted, billions, blood
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-08-29
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0316166278
ISBN-13: 9780316166270

An explosive indictment of how the Bush Administration wasted billions in Iraq--through sweetheart deals to G.O.P. supporters, outrageous contracts to corrupt companies, and absurdly naïve assumptions. It was supposed to be quick and easy. The Bush Administration even promised that it wouldn’t cost American taxpayers a thing--Iraqi oil revenues would pay for it all. But billions and billions of dollars and thousands of lives later, the Iraqi reconstruction is an undeniable failure. Iraq pumps out less oil now than it did under Saddam. At best, Iraqis average all of 12 hours a day of el

Author: Gillian Tett
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: financial, world, made, billions, japan’s, shook, sun, wall, street, mavericks, saving
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0060554258
ISBN-13: 9780060554255

Saving the Sun tells the story of the world’s largest private equity deal where American investors made billions of dollars rehabilitating Shinsei, a failed Japanese bank. Within that business saga is the dramatic tale of Japan’s brightest financial minds, the men who made the Japanese economic miracle come to life, and their struggle against the economic failure in the 1990s. Into this climate of despair, where Japan seemed incapable of reviving prosperity, came a group of wily and determined Americans who would discover just how different the Japanese really are.