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Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline

by Lisa Margonelli.

 

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Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry, the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.

 

Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought.

Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelli’s Desire to learn took her on a one hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away.

In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchange’s crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one day battle.

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The End of Poverty by Jeffery Sachs.

 

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The End of Poverty:

How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime argues that extreme poverty could be eliminated within a 20-year period through carefully planned development aid.

It says that very poor countries need help to reach the ‘bottom rung’ in economic development but once they reach this point, the need for aid will be greatly reduced, as the countries will be able to support themselves.

 

Author Jeffery Sachs draws on his own experiences to offer an insight into why poverty still exists today, despite a huge amount of wealth in the world, and offers a unique perspective through his own stories of working in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China and Africa.

The anecdotes allow readers to fully understand the diverse problems and challenges each country faces.

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Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos, by Brett Dakin

 

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Brett Dakin spent two years working in Laos and returned to the States a changed man.

In Another Quiet American, he takes you through the corridors of power and the living rooms of the poor in Laos.

You'll meet his boss, a wealthy general whose power and reputation scares his countrymen, a prince with connections to the French colonial past; an American pilot who left home for Indochina during the war and never returned and, rich Lao twenty somethings who have all the money they could want, but no happiness.

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A Crime So Monstrous

A Shocking Exposé of Modern-Day Sex Slavery, Human Trafficking and Urban Child Markets, E. Benjamin Skinner..

 

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Two hundred years after Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, over 27 million people worldwide languish in slavery, forced to work, under threat of violence, for no pay.

In Africa, hundreds of thousands are considered chattel, while on the Indian subcontinent millions languish in generational debt bondage.

Across the globe, women and children, sold for sex and labour, are already the second most lucrative commodity for organised crime.

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Underbelly - RazorTilly Devine, Kate Leigh and the Razor Gangs, by Larry Writer..

 

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In the 1920's and 30's in inner Sydney, some of the most terrifying criminals in Australia's history waged war with razor and gun.

As gang fought gang, the streets echoed with the sound of violence and ran with blood.

 

Razor chronicles in compelling detail the nether word ruled by fabled vice Queens Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh, and financed by the spoils of illegal drugs and alcohol, prostitution, gambling and extortion.

Gangsters such as Guido Calletti, Big Jim Devine and Frank 'the Little Gunman' Green killed, robbed and slashed with impunity.

Facing them were the police, some corrupt, some honest, and a few as tough and feared as the razor gangs they fought.

 

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The Horns of the Buffalo (Simon Fonthill #1)

by John Wilcox.

 

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In 1879 the redcoats of the British Army are universally regarded as the finest fighting force in the world.

Among them is Lieutenant Simon Fonthill, dispatched to South Africa with much to prove: for Colonel Covington, his former Commanding Officer, has slanderously branded him a coward.

 

In the Cape, tension is high.

The Zulus, an independent nation of magnificently militant tribesmen, threaten the colonial government's vision of a united South Africa.

And Simon has been chosen for a particularly dangerous mission: to travel deep into Zululand to discover the intentions of the king.

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Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World, by Nicholas Guyatt.

 

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In Have a Nice Doomsday, Nicholas Guyatt searches for the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans have come to believe that the apocalypse will take place in their lifetime.

They're convinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his followers and spirit them to heaven.

The rest of us will be left behind to endure massive earthquakes, devastating wars, and the terrifying rise of the Antichrist.

But true believers aren't sitting around waiting for the Rapture. They're getting involved in debates over abortion, gay rights, and even foreign policy.

Are they devout or deranged? Does their influence stretch beyond America's religious heartland, perhaps even to the White House?

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The Mermaid and the Drunks by Ben Richards

 

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Fresia Castillo's father left Chile smuggled in the boot of a car, her mother crossed the Andes by bus with two small children. Fresia, a photographer, has lived all of her life in Britain, but following the death of her father, she has decided it is time to return.

Despite one previous visit when she felt at odds with her Chilean relatives, she is drawn to a land so rich in landscapes and extremes.

It is also, of course, a place of political extremes, and the aftershocks of Pinochet's regime are still reverberating.

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In His Majesty's Footsteps: A Personal Memoir

by Vasit Dejkunjorn.

 

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In His Majesty’s Footsteps, A Personal Memoir offers an intimate, powerful portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the Thai royal family.

 

This is the first personal chronicle in the English language detailing the life and work of the revered Thai monarch during the politically turbulent period of the late 1960's and 70's.

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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee

 

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Though touted as perhaps the best in the world, the American medical system is filled with hypocrisies.

Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance.

We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors.

In this gripping, eye opening book, award winning journalist Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American medicine.

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The Spyder's Web: Is This What They Call Intelligence? by Ian Mayo-Smith.

 

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A tongue in the cheek spy novel with the action taking place in a fictional South East Asian country.

Although all the persons and places in the story are entirely fictitious, some of the events described in it are loosely based on the author's experience in British military intelligence as a young man during World War II and the post war years.

But the actions in the book reflect the world we live in today in which acts of terrorism are in the news with frightening frequency.

The book will make you laugh but the plot will keep your attention as the suspense grows until the final denouncement.

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In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale

by Amitav Ghosh.

 

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Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East.

The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth century desires and discontents.

But even as Ghosh sought to re create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors.

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Lady Boy show

 

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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

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In just the last few years, traditional collaboration, in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center, has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale.
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. 
While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. 
Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.

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The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson.

 

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The cult classic novel of growing up in 1950's England from the writer of Withnail and I....

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Extreme Fishing by Robson Green.

 

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Actor and passionate fisherman Robson Green is on a mission to discover the weird, the wonderful and the way off limits that the angling world has to offer.

 

Working alongside some of the finest in their field, his exhilarating adventure series Extreme Fishing with Robson Green takes him to the greatest fishing destinations ever seen; chasing the most elusive and terrifying creatures on the planet, learning new tricks, hearing old stories and eating pretty much everything he catches.

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THAI LAW FOR FOREIGNERS: กฏหมายไทยสำหรับชาวต่างชาติ

BECKER & THONGKAEW.

 

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Written in both Thai and English, this book introduces the history and development of Thai law, the structure of Thai government, the Thai court system, and legal procedures for both criminal and civil matters.

It answers questions on family and personal matters such as citizenship, marriage, making a will, and divorce procedures.

 

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Even Thai Girls Cry by J.F. Gump.

 

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"Tippawan Bangkok is a young Thai woman on the run.

Life as she knew it, ended the night she caught her fiance with his lover.

Her world collapsed the day she lost her job.

 

Desperate to find work, Tippawan escapes to the resort city of Pattaya hoping that things will change and her bad luck will end.

When she meets the farang, a foreigner named Mike, her world does change, but in ways she could have never imagined.

Her search for happiness is a haunting adventure not easily forgotten.

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Occupational Hazards by Rory Stewart.

 

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By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun.

Rory Stewart, a young British diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority's deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region.

There, he and his colleagues confronted gangsters, Iranian-linked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist insurgency.

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Zorro by Isabel Allende

 

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A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds.

His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior.

At the age of sixteen, Diego is sent to Spain, a country chafing under the corruption of Napoleonic rule.

He soon joins La Justicia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor.

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Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own Prisoners of War in Vietnam, by William & Monika Stevenson.

 

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For many Americans, the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan bring back painful memories of one issue in particular: American policy on the rescue of and negotiation for American prisoners.

One current American POW of the Taliban, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, stands as their symbol.

Thousands of Vietnam veteran POW activists worry that Bergdahl will suffer the fate of so many of their POW/MIA comrades, abandonment once the US leaves that theater of war.

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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick.

 

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Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population.

 

Taking us into a landscape most of us have never before seen, journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today, an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, and where displays of affection are punished; a police state where informants are rewarded and where an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life.

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Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell.

 

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In Blow Fly, Kay Scarpetta stands at the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to a jarring end.

At the close of The Last Precinct, she knew she would have to leave Richmond if she were to find any peace.

She feared that she was about to be fired by the governor. More alarming, she was hounded in the media and in the courtroom, for what some claimed was her involvement in the murder of a deputy police chief.

So Scarpetta packed up her belongings and set out for the warmth and solace of the Florida sun.

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Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton

 

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She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1.

The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on.

The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed.

After months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved.

 

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The Chimera Secret by Dean Crawford..

 

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Some monsters only exist in nightmares, others exist for real ...While hunting in the Nez Pearce National Forest, Idaho, two men are just about to take a prize-winning shot when their prey unexpectedly bolts.

From the forest behind them lunges a huge, horrific creature that crushes one man and tears after the other in a loping mass of rage.

Just as he has embarked on a search to find his missing fiancee, Ethan Warner and his partner, Nicola Lopez, are summoned to a meeting with Doug Jarvis of the Defense Intelligence Agency at a research laboratory outside the city.