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China
Inc
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2006
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Looks at the rapid growth China has experienced, and how they are now competitively
challenging the world economy.
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Fishman, Ted C.
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Scribner
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China Road: a Journey
Into the Future of a Rising Power
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2007
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This book is written from the author's personal perspective on his travels throughout
China, and shows the nature of the fast changing economy and how it personally impacts
the rural Chinese citizens
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Gifford, Rob
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Random House
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Crash Proof
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2007
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This book is a useful outline of the dangers the author percieves face individual
investors in the current economic environment, and makes plausible suggestions to
deal with those dangers
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Schiff, Peter D.
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
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Lights Out: The Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy, and What It Means To You
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2007
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This book examines our 'third-world' transmission grid and how current electricity
resources desparately need upgrading.
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Makansi, Jason
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John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd
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Making Globalization Work
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2006
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A practical vision for a successful and equitable world that draws on equally from
the author's academic expertise and his time spent on the ground in dozens of countries
around the world
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Stiqlitz, Joseph
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WW Norton
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New Ideas From Dead Economists
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2007
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A lively and intelligible introduction to the key ideas of economics through the
study of the great economists who have shaped the discipline
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Bucholtz, Todd
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Plume
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The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy,
the Balance of Power, and Your Job
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2006
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The author shows why China’s accelerating growth differs radically from predecessors,
such as Japan and South Korea, and how it will lead to a radical restructuring of
the global business system. According to Shenkar, the U.S. is most vulnerable to
China's ascent.
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Shenkar, Oded
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Wharton School Publishing
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The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity
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2007
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The author highlights major "clean tech" sectors —solar energy, wind power , biofuels
and biomaterials, green buildings, personal transportation, the smart grid, mobile
applications, and water filtration— and shows how investors and entrepreneurs can
profit from these new environmentally friendly innovations. innovation
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Pernick, Clint
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HarperCollins Canada / Collins Business
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The End of Poverty
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2006
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The author has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. He
focuses on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in
a poverty trap of disease, and proposes nine specific steps to alleviate this poverty
which he explains in great detail
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Sachs, Jeffrey
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Penguin Paperbacks
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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2006
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Analyzes the progress of globalization, paying particular emphasis on the 21st century.
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Friedman, Thomas L.
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Douglas & McIntyre
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