books by PublicAffairs     books:     PublicAffairs      Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism Muhammad Yunus PublicAffairs, 2008 "the missing piece of capitalism" "No one who cares about humanity," writes Muhammad Yunus, "is satisfied with a world in which a few hundred million people enjoy access to all the resources of the planet, while billions more struggle to survive." But that's our world. Yunus cites one study that ...             The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing Conor O'Clery PublicAffairs, 2007 A remarkable and inspiring biography I saw this book reviewed in The Economist and could scarcely believe what I was reading. I recommend this as a great read, a great book club or church group read, and a good book to give out to the board of directors of any organization, whether for profit or not! Here ...             Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence Robert Bryce PublicAffairs, 2008 Energy Independence Should Not be the Goal Gusher of Lies is dead on when it comes to the current state of not only the energy realities in the U.S. but the world as well. The global infrastructure was designed to run on fossil fuels and not on ethanol or alternative forms of energy. While the world's energy ...             Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation PublicAffairs, 2008 America, and how it stands out amongst Democracies Super book... a collaborative undertaking by a brilliant panel... not to offer policy... but to assign a condition to America in different areas... and then compare these areas to the European nations and other democracies. Basically all domestic areas are covered, ...             Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life Marc Freedman PublicAffairs, 2007 An encore performance for us all Tabloid-style headlines have infected even mainstream magazines and newspapers in recent years. Articles about the coming "Social Security Disaster" vie for attention next to those on industry's inability to overcome the "Loss Of Baby Boomer Talent" or even fears that ...             The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means George Soros PublicAffairs, 2008 Hits the nail squarely on the head There are three books that should be read in order to begin to understand where we stand financially in the world today. Second and third are Soros' present book and Morris''The Trillion Dollar Meltdown'. The first and most basic is the one that I reviewed last year: ...             The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash Charles R. Morris PublicAffairs, 2008 For those who really want to understand the past 25 years While I think Kevin Phillips BAD MONEY is a very important book and well worth reading, Morris' THE TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOW is, in some important respects, even better. Both are well qualified observers. Phillips as a brilliant, fiercely independent "tell it like it ...             Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty Muhammad Yunus PublicAffairs, 2008 economic micro-lending = macro social leverage Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940, the third of fourteen children, to an extremely devout Muslim family in Chittagong, the largest port city in Bangladesh. After studies at Chittagong University, and then University of Colorado and Vanderbilt (where he earned his PhD in ...             The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News Roger Mudd PublicAffairs, 2008 I Spent most of the day reading the new Roger Mudd book ... You need to move it up your priority list to MUST READ status. You'll understand the world of News and Media and appreciate what reporters and anchors of "Integrity" have to face to be "great" and to stay on the air!!!! I Never could figure out why he (Roger) ...             The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East Kishore Mahbubani PublicAffairs, 2008 Hail the March to Modernity! First I noticed the controversy about this book in Hard Talk on BBC, where the host and the author did some very unsatisfactory pirouettes around the contentious issues, which are related to the Western reservations about current Asian progress. Then I read an even ...             They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan Benson Deng, Alephonsian Deng, ... PublicAffairs, 2006 Awesome Book This was an incredible story written by three incredible boys. The entire time I ws reading it I had to keep reminding myself of how old they were. To think of what they went through at such a young age is remarkable. I highly recommend this book.             Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America Ezekiel Emanuel PublicAffairs, 2008 America spends more than any other developed nation on healthcare—$2.1 trillion in 2007 alone. But 47 million Americans remain uninsured, and of those Americans who are insured, many suffer from poor health. In his ground-breaking proposal, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel offers up a plan to comprehensively restructure the delivery and quality of our ...             The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror George Soros PublicAffairs, 2006 Compelling advocacy of [the] open society Most of the meat of this decidedly philosophic opus by one of the world's most successful financial wizards concerns the differences between the closed and open societies that govern us. The closed society is characterized by traditional modes of thought while the ...             The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence Martin Meredith PublicAffairs, 2006 Pessimistic yet fascinating and highly informative account of recent African history _The Fate of Africa_ by Martin Meredith is a impressively through (688 pages) and yet highly readable account of the history of Africa - all of Africa, including North Africa - since independence, beginning (after a good introductory chapter on general African history) ...             This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor Susan Wicklund, Sue Wicklund, ... PublicAffairs, 2007 Well-written, poignant memoir This book is simply excellent. No matter your feelings on the subject matter, the memoir is well-written, with a compelling story. Dr. Wicklund makes an excellent heroine for the 21st century--we see her plodding on with resolve, even in the face of seemingly ...          products you might be interested in search for books consequences, fallibility, independence, irresistible, micro-lending, understanding randomly chosen book: The Kennedys: Portrait of a Family