The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth

The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth
Author: Stephen Armstrong
Publisher: Constable
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1849014418

In 2000 No Logo described a vision of rapacious corporations building brands at the expense of impoverished third world employees and ripped-off first world consumers. Now, only eight years later, No Logo looks almost optimistic against the rise of a new and insidious club of global billionaires who are buying up once unfashionable industries like oil, steel, shipping and mining from distressed third-world nations and formerly Communist powers. Often backed by mafia money or dubious political connections, these oligarchs have no shareholders and no home nation - they are the sum total of their corporations. We are dependent on these men - they fuelled our recent boom. They come to us for our light taxation and our willingness to sell them class and influence via an Eton education for their kids and cheaply bought honours. These men are becoming ever richer as the rest of the world suffers credit crunch and recession. They deal in the commodities that the planet's economies need but which are becoming ever more scarce. There are no national governments that can control or legislate against them - they will simply move to another of their five or six palatial homes. In this recession, we are all acutely aware of our dwindling wealth and the spiralling prices of essentials. The fact that these are in fewer and nastier hands than ever before has rarely - if ever - been explained by the media. It's time for a book that points out the power of these individuals and how they are just the start of a deeply worrying trend. The buyers of Tescopoly and No Logo have long been aware of overly powerful corporations. The rise of men whose personal wealth and power far outranks most of the companies in these books should alarm these concerned citizens - and encourage them to find out more. This book will paint a vivid picture using interviews, first hand experience, expert comment and some futurology to give them the information they need.

Lula of Brazil

Lula of Brazil
Author: Richard Bourne
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2008-04-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520246632

Describes Lula's childhood hardships in an impoverished family, his days as a trade unionist, and the strike movement that brought down Brazil's military dictatorship. This book chronicles Lula's campaigns for the presidency of Brazil, his first term in office beginning in 2002, a corruption scandal,and his reelection in 2006.

Lula Does the Hula

Lula Does the Hula
Author: Samantha Mackintosh
Publisher: Egmont Books (UK)
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2011
Genre: Dating (Social customs)
ISBN: 9781405256537

Aloha! I'm Talullah Bird - or Tatty, or Lu. But mostly people call me Lula. So, my big news is... I've finally been kissed. Eeeee! I have an actual, factual boyfriend! At least, I thought I did. But things with the perfect boy aren't going to plan - thanks to his journo gal pal, Evil Jazz. And that's not all. Hoooo no.

A Death in Brazil

A Death in Brazil
Author: Peter Robb
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1408846276

Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. Even today, Brazil is a nation of almost unimaginable distance between its wealthy and its poor, a place of extraordinary levels of crime and violence. It is also one of the most beautiful and seductive places on earth. Using the art, food and the books of its great nineteenth-century writer, Machado de Assis, Robb takes us on a journey into a world like Conrad's Nostromo. A world so absurdly dramatic, like the current president Lula's fight for power, that it could have come from one of the country's immensely popular TV soap operas, a world where resolution is often only provided by death. Like all the best travel writing, A Death in Brazil immerses you deep into the heart of a fascinating country.

Struggling to Define a Nation

Struggling to Define a Nation
Author: Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2008-10-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520942825

Identifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, Struggling to Define a Nation captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. In an engaging blend of music analysis and cultural critique, Charles Hiroshi Garrett examines a dazzling array of genres—including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music—and numerous well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin. Garrett argues that rather than a single, unified vision, an exploration of the past century reveals a contested array of musical perspectives on the nation, each one advancing a different facet of American identity through sound.

His Perfect Bride?

His Perfect Bride?
Author: Louisa Heaton
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015
Genre: Brides
ISBN: 0373070365

Love where he least expects it ... GP Oliver James knows exactly what his "perfect bride" should be like-- and vibrant, unconventional new locum Lula Chance is the total opposite! Yet there's something about beautiful Lula and the heartbreak in her eyes that intrigues him ... Lula's determined not to be distracted by brooding bachelor Oliver ... no matter how gorgeous he is. She's arrived in Atlee Wold hoping to find her mother. But it's only a matter of time before she gives in to the inevitable ... Perhaps Lula might just be Oliver's perfect bride after all?