Author: Rob Gifford
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
Keywords: road, china
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-05-16
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0786157909
ISBN-13: 9780786157907

National Public Radio’s Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world’s most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford’s twenty years of observing first-hand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China’s border with Kazakhstan. As he takes the reader on this journey, he will also take us through China’s past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation’s potential future.

Author: George Crile
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
Keywords: covert, operation, history, largest, story, wilson, war, extraordinary, charlie
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1433204134
ISBN-13: 9781433204135

A Blackstone Audie Award Winner Charlie Wilson’s War is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency’s history. In the early 1980s, after a Houston socialite turned Wilson’s attention to the ragged Afghan freedom fighters who continued to fight the Soviet invaders despite overwhelming odds, the congressman became passionate about thei

Author: Muhammad Yunus
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
Keywords: transform, lives, business, social, world, poverty, creating
Published: 2008-01-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1433208369
ISBN-13: 9781433208362

While free markets have swept the globe and brought positive change, nevertheless traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit. In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including spiritual, social, and altruistic.Welcome to the world of social business, where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today’s most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a World without Poverty tell

Author: George Friedman
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Keywords: binding, audiobook, library, century, forecast, years
Number of Pages: 8
Published: 2009-01-27
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1433215438
ISBN-13: 9781433215438

Drawing on a profound understanding of geopolitical patterns, George Friedman offers a compelling, eye-opening portrait of the future and the new historical cycle we are now entering.

Author: George Musser
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Keywords: complete, idiot’s, guides, theory, guide, string
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1433275589
ISBN-13: 9781433275586

The aim of this new revolution is to develop a theory of everythinga set of laws of physics that will explain all that can be explained, ranging from the tiniest subatomic particle to the universe as a whole. ourselves.

Authors:Thomas Sowell,  Robertson Dea,
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Keywords: library, bust, boom, housing
Number of Pages: 4
Published: 2009-05-14
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 1433294052
ISBN-13: 9781433294051

There was no single, dramatic event that set the current financial crisis off. A whole series of very questionable decisions by many people, in many places, over a period of years, built up the pressures that led to a sudden collapse of the housing market and of financial institutions that began to fall like dominoes as a result of investing in securities based on housing prices. This book is designed to unravel the tangled threads of that story. It also attempts to determine whether what is being done to deal with the problem is more likely to make things better or worse.

Authors:Randall Stross,  William Hughe,
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Keywords: plan, organize, everything, audacious, company’s, google, one, planet
Number of Pages: 1
Published: 2008-09-23
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1433255332
ISBN-13: 9781433255335

From the author of one of the most successful books about web 1.0 comes this expose’ about Google and the company’s audacious strategy to become the totally dominant controller of "all the world’s information."