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Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours

17 reviews
Tarun Khanna

Harvard Business School Press, 2008

Solid Introduction to China and India for Those Who Want to Do Business There
Professor Tarun Khanna describes and explains the social histories, lay cultures, religions, politics, infrastructures, resources, regional differences, and business successes and flops in China and India using personal observations, anecdotes, case histories, and statistics to help readers understand opportunities in Asia to access resources and enter markets there. His style makes the book ...

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

60 reviews
Neil Shubin

Pantheon, 2008

Evolution for the Nonscientist
I was required to read this book for a class I was taking but oddly enough I found it to be thoroughly enjoyable. Shubin guides the reader through his career and his discoveries and how they came to shape his knowledge and impressions of evolution. The way that Shubin presents his knowledge to the reader is very organic. He flows from one point to another as he builds upon his evidence and ...

Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think

18 reviews
John L. Esposito, Dalia Mogahed

Gallup Press, 2008

Finally giving the Muslim majority a voice
Well, this isn't a book for hate-mongers or fear-mongers. It is, however, a book that gives a voice to the Muslim majority, which is usually not consulted by the likes of Bill O'Reilly or Michael Savage or even moderate American media. Mostly, it's a summary of the huge, lengthy Gallup survey of Muslims in various countries. There are always flaws in surveys -- for example, if someone asked you ...

The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2009: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes (Ultimate ...
Gen Tanabe, Kelly Tanabe

Supercollege, Llc, 2008

Information on thousands of scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in this comprehensive directory that features awards indexed by career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics, religion, ethnicity, and more. Each listing contains detailed information so students and parents have everything they need to apply, including eligibility requirements, how to obtain an application, how to get more information about ...

Kaplan Scholarships 2009 Edition: Billions of Dollars in Free Money for College (Kaplan Scholarships)
Kaplan

Kaplan Publishing, 2008

Kaplan Scholarships, 2009 Edition features information on programs that offer significant and unrestricted scholarships combined with tips and advice on how to get them. The guide includes: *A list of scholarships--each worth at least $1,000--that do not restrict to any one school, and do not require repayment of any kind. *Detailed summaries on each scholarship's financial data, duration of scholarship, eligibility requirements, and ...

Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth

31 reviews
David G. Thomson

Wiley, 2005

As an Executive Who Has Been There
As an executive who has been part of the climb from obscurity to a billion-plus in revenues, I can tell you that David Thomson gets it right. Better, he uses hard data to track the trajectory any business manager can expect, from the tough sledding that greets every start-up to the bloody battle for market share durning the growth years, to the heights of conceit and hubris that can imperil the ...

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

41 reviews
Paul Collier

Oxford University Press, 2007

Excellent Book Should Be Read By Everyone Concerned with Poverty
Collier is a serious scholar in the world of development and here he has written a very important book. Here is the basic argument - while it sucks to be poor in countries like India, India is heading for relative prosperity. Where is really, really sucks to be poor is in a number of countries, concentrated in Africa where there is little hope of breaking out of a cycle of severe poverty. Collier ...

The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future
T. Boone Pickens

Crown Business, 2008

With a Plan for Reducing U.S. Oil Dependency It’s never too late to top your personal best. Now eighty years old, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure in the business world. Known as the “Oracle of Oil” because of his uncanny ability to predict the direction of fuel prices, he built Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest independent oil companies in the United States, from a $2,500 investment. In the 1980s, Pickens became a ...

How Much Is a Million? 20th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Book)

13 reviews
David M. Schwartz

HarperTrophy, 1993

Really Fun Book!
Kids will love this book which helps kids and adults picture the amount a million something might look like. How big would your goldfish bowl have to be if you had a million goldfish, or a million kids in a stadium? Kids will be in awe of this book.

One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China

44 reviews
James McGregor

Free Press, 2007

Must Read
A must read for anybody interested in the last 25 years of economic development in China.

The First Billion

34 reviews
Christopher Reich

Dell, 2003

The First Billion author Christopher Reich
Christopher Reich always writes a page-turner in my opinion. In this book he keeps the reader on the edge of his seat to the end! His novels center around international intrigue and his plots inform his readers about the many facets of "money-laundering", espionage and terrorism. He never leaves me disappointed. Bea G.

The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

22 reviews
Barry Werth

Simon & Schuster, 1995

difficult, fascinating, and compelling birth of a company
This is the story of the first few years of Vertex, a bioventure that sought to create drugs that were constructed molecule by molecule - it is supposed to be "rational drug design". In exchange for allowing the company to check his work for accuracy and proprietary disclosures, Werth was admitted into the inner circle of the company, with both executives and scientists, for four years. ...

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)

26 reviews
Andrew H. Knoll

Princeton University Press, 2004

Tremendous fun
A lively account of the first three billion years of life, starting from the first chemical traces of biological activity and ending with the Cambrian explosion of fossil forms. Knoll introduces each key geological period with an account of a visit to a site with relevant exposed strata, followed by a careful description of the geological and chemical analysis of the strata and the biological ...

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

24 reviews
Neil Degrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith

W. W. Norton, 2005

Origins Review
Highly recommend. Prof. Tyson is good teacher, and despite his position and impressive curriculum vitae, personally responded to some questions that arose from reading the book. Inspirational topic and author.

Billions of Missing Links: A Rational Look at the Mysteries Evolution Can't Explain

18 reviews
Geoffrey Simmons

Harvest House Publishers, 2007

interesting book with lots of fun facts
I'd put this book at about the middle of the pack of the ID books I have read. It's certainly not groundbreaking like "Black Box" or "Icons" or some of the others, but at the same time it is well written and entertaining. If you have a gram of objectivity, and most of you don't as will be evidenced by how many negative votes this review will get from people who never even read it, you have to ...

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

71 reviews
Carl Sagan

Ballantine Books, 1998

At the end of a remarkable life
As he knowingly faced the end, Sagan bravely shared his views on a number of subjects: science, politics, philosophy, and the environment. Here are the departing words from a man who spent his life in search of knowledge about nature, not in pursuit of wealth. His admonitions come across as genuine, and his motivations are altruistic. He suggests that some of mankind's present course is noble, ...

Thousands not Billions: Challenging the Icon of Evolution, Questioning the Age of the Earth

9 reviews
Donald DeYoung

Master Books, 2005

These scientists provide evidence in real test results
I've read thousands of books to try to keep up to date - and this book has got to be one of my favorite books of all. The book summarizes eight years of research by a team of scientists. Not only does the book provide the results of radioisotope dating tests, but it explains the process as well as what the results mean. This book found the perfect balance to being readable yet precise and ...

A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and The Business Solution for Ending Poverty

14 reviews
Philip Smith, Eric Thurman

McGraw-Hill, 2007

Good introduction to microfinance.
This book provides a good introduction to Microfinance. The authors are genuinely enthusiastic about microfinance and want to spread their excitement to others through this book. Though I am familiar with non-profits, I learned that through microfinance, the same money can serve multiple people in say a 10 year period (as one six-month loan gets repaid, it is plowed into a new loan, and the ...

Managing the Dragon: How I'm Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China

11 reviews
Jack Perkowski

Crown Business, 2008

Showcases lessons about entrepreneurialism learned during the author's adventure of running a huge company he built in China.
I liked this book. It's another one of those books where the author was a successful W-2 worker for a large US company whom decided to go out on his own and try to build a large company that he could own and run. Last October (2007) I read and reviewed on Amazon Maxine Clark's story that she told in "The Bear Necessities of Business" (ISBN: 0470139056). The instant book being reviewed has a ...

Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A Urban New World

10 reviews
Robert Neuwirth

Routledge, 2006

Myths are dispelled and realities outlined
SHADOW CITIES: A BILLION SQUATTERS, A NEW URBAN WORLD confronts the issue of nations of squatters. Cities are home to a billion such squatters and that number is projected to double in a generation, so any college-level student of urban planning needs to understand the experiences, issues and results herein. Reporter Robert Neuwirth spent two years living in squatter neighborhoods on four ...

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