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Madoff – The Man who Stole $65 Billion by Erin Arvedlund

8. October 2009

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Madoff – The Man who Stole $65 Billion Backed by governments and global banks, Bernard Madoff defrauded billions from charities and individual investors. This book answers the crucial unsolved questions: why and when did Madoff turn his business into a massive fraud? How did he fool so many investors for so long? [...]

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Superfreakonomics – Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

8. October 2009

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Superfreakonomics Superfreakonomics – Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. Here at last is the long awaited sequel to the international bestselling phenomenon, Freakonomics. Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have been working hard, uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from charity [...]

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Your Career, Your Life by Annette Kinnear

8. October 2009

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Your Career, Your Life by Annette Kinnear Doors fly open and opportunities arrive on your doorstep once you start to understand the basic principles of career success. Your career, your life reveals these important foundations and shows that career growth is a process that starts inside you. Success is a direct product of [...]

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The Long Tail – Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More

29. July 2009

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The Long Tail – Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More In one of the most important business books since The Tipping Point, Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn’t in hits, or the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be [...]

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Outliers – The Story of Success by Bestselling Author Malcolm Gladwell

29. July 2009

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Outliers – The Story of Success Outliers – The Story of Success is a brilliant new book from the bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell of The Tipping Pointand Blink . Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. This book takes us on [...]

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Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell with Kay Scarpetta

29. July 2009

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Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when [...]

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The Story of Cirrus Flux from Matthew Skelton & Puffin Books

29. July 2009

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The Story of Cirrus Flux Orphan boy Cirrus Flux is being watched. Merciless rogues are conniving to steal the world’s most divine power, which they believe Cirrus has inherited. Now he faces a perilous journey through the dirty backstreets of London as a sinister mesmerist, a tiny man with an all-seeing eye, and [...]

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The Ascent of Money – The Financial History of the World

29. July 2009

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The Ascent of Money – The Financial History of the World The Ascent of Money was written by the bestselling author of Empire, Niall Ferguson. The book is published by renowned book publishers Penguin Books. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of [...]

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Playing the Enemy – Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

12. June 2009

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Playing the Enemy – Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation The heart-lifting spectacle of South Africa’s first free election in April 1994 was, for Nelson Mandela and his followers, a triumph unimaginably sweet, but perilously incomplete. Mandela was keenly aware that his party’s victory, secured by a landslide of [...]

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The Penguin book of South African sports trivia

12. June 2009

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The Penguin book of South African sports trivia The perfect beer, braai and half-time break companion. Sports masterminds David O’Sullivan and Kevin McCallum have been collecting sports trivia for years. Now they have pooled their resources and spent countless hours of deliberation and phone calls to friends and famous sportsmen and [...]

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