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Book detailing corruption allegations against Malaysian ruler moves forward
2014-11-05 02:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A book alleging massive corruption by Sarawak's long-time ruler, Abdul Taib bin Mahmud, is being released despite apparent legal threats against the book's publisher and author. Money Logging, written by the Bruno Manser Fund's executive director Lukas Straumann, argues that Taib and his associates made billions of dollars by auctioning off Sarawak's rainforests to loggers and palm oil companies since the early 1980s. The allegations aren't new, but the book provides new details on Taib's dealings...
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Book Talk: E. O. Wilson's Bold Vision for Saving the World
2014-11-02 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Edward O. Wilson has been called the heir of Darwin. His relationship to National Geographic stretches back to 1939, when, as a ten-year-old boy, he read about insects in the magazine and made up his mind to be an entomologist. Last year, at the age of 84, he was awarded the National Geographic Society's highest award, the Hubbard Medal. In his new book, The Meaning of Human Existence, he ranges far and wide across biology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. Speaking from his home near Boston,...
Derry 'dragon' Peter launches book
2014-10-29 01:28:49| Steel - Topix.net
Peter Casey at the launch of his book Tata: The World s Greatest Company in Dubray Books, Grafton Street. The book is published by Ballpoint Press in Ireland and Penguin in India.
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Book review: 'The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food' by Ted Genoways
2014-10-27 10:05:53| Food - Topix.net
When the recession took hold six years ago and consumers stopped eating high on the hog, the giant meatpacker Hormel Foods began ratcheting up production to meet a surge in demand for Spam, its low-cost pro-cessed pork product in the familiar blue tins. Taking a leaf from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," the century-old expose of the meatpacking industry, author Ted Genoways details the impact of the production speedup on workers at the company's Midwest plants, the damage to water and soil, and the immigration-related conflicts that have arisen in towns where the industry holds sway.
Book Review: The Little Book Of Venture Capital Investing
2014-10-26 14:49:58| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Like most books in "The Little Book" series, The Little Book of Venture Capital Investing: Empowering Economic Growth and Investment Portfolios packs extensive information and stories, with lucid exposition, into a modest number of pages. Louis C. Gerken, founder of alternative asset manager Gerken Capital Associates, recounts the venture capital industry's evolution and describes its internal processes, from initial screening to due diligence to the signing of agreements.
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