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Today Robert P Smith is a legend in the world of finance Part adventurer and part economic warrior this Indiana Jones of the financial world was an advance man for the forces of globalization having spent more than thirty years traveling through five continents buying and selling high risk securities in the worlds most downtrodden economies So tenuous was his operation and so covert the transactions that an overnight fluctuation in a countrys currency rate could mean the difference between a spectacular profit or a devastating loss Today the trade in emerging market debt is worth more than five billion dollars a day but it was virtually nonexistent when Smith a onetime collections lawyer pioneered the business in the late 1970s Riches Among the Ruins is the extraordinary story of Robert Smiths search to make money doing the riskiest kind of business We are at his side as he travels through the treacherous and exhilarating world of the debt trader dodging bullets and roadside bombs in postSaddam Iraq and risking his life on the chaotic streets of Nigeria As he engages in a battle of wills with businessmen in Istanbul and loses millions overnight in the ruins of the postSoviet Russian economy we experience all of the thrill and terror that accompanies making big money in emerging markets At once adrenalinefueled and utterly compelling this is the gripping story of one mans quest for fortune where others fear to tread
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The Cold War was the war that never happened Nonetheless it spurred the most significant buildup of military contingency this country has ever known from the bunkers of Greenbrier West Virginia to the proving grounds of Nevada where entire cities were built only to be vaporized The Cold War was waged on a territory that knew no boundaries but left few traces In this fascinatingand at turns frightening and comicaltravelogue to the hidden battlefields of the Cold War Tom Vanderbilt travels the Interstate itself a product of the Cold War to uncover the sites of Cold War architecture and reflect on their lasting heritage In the process Vanderbilt shows us what the Cold War landscape looked like how architecture tried to adapt to the threat of mass destruction how cities coped with the knowledge that they were nuclear targets and finally what remains of the Cold War theater today both its visible and invisible legacies Ultimately Vanderbilt gives us a deep look into our cultural soul the dreams and fears that drove us for the last half of the 20th century
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From an astonishingly original and entertaining writer Michael Dirda The Washington Post and our greatest guide to London The Spectator an extraordinary book about a disappearing cityThe Olympics the story goes have transformed London into a gleaming wholly modern city And East LondonOlympic headquartersis the citys new jewel provider of unlimited opportunities and better tomorrows The grime and poverty have been scrubbed away and huge stadiums and grand public sculptures have taken their placeThe writer Iain Sinclair has lived in East London for four decades and in Ghost Milk he tells a very different story about his home that of a neighborhood turned upside down of stolen history Longbeloved parks have vanished police raids can occur at any time and highsecurity exclusion zonesenforced by armed guards and hidden camerashave steamrolled East Londons open streets and public spaces To prepare for the most public of events everything has been privatizedA call to arms against the politicians and public figures who have so doggedly preached the gospel of the Olympics Ghost Milk is also a brilliant reflection on a changing landscapeand Sinclairs most personal book yet In an attempt to understand what has happened to his beloved city Sinclair travels farther afield he walks along the Thames from the North Sea to Oxford he rides the bus across northern England he visits Athens and Berlin Olympic sites of the recent and distant pastElegiac intimate and audacious Ghost Milk is at once a powerful chronicle of memory and loss in the tradition of W G Sebald and Roberto Bolaño and a passionate interrogation of our embrace of progress at any cost
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A century ago Treadwell Alaska was a featured stop on steamship cruises a rich uptodate town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska Its wealth however was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island and when those caved in and flooded in the early decades of the twentieth century Treadwell sank into relative obscuritynbspTreadwell Gold presents firstperson accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners machinists hoist operators and superintendents who together dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich Alongside these stories are vintage photos that capture both the industrial vigor of the mines and the daily lives that made up Treadwell society The book will fascinate anyone interested in Alaskan history or the romance of gold minings past
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A century ago Treadwell Alaska was a featured stop on steamship cruises a rich uptodate town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska Its wealth however was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island and when those caved in and flooded in the early decades of the twentieth century Treadwell sank into relative obscuritynbspTreadwell Gold presents firstperson accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners machinists hoist operators and superintendents who together dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich Alongside these stories are vintage photos that capture both the industrial vigor of the mines and the daily lives that made up Treadwell society The book will fascinate anyone interested in Alaskan history or the romance of gold minings past
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THE YEAR IS 2311 It is a year of infamy a year that later generations will remember as one that altered the course of history at the cost of thousands of lives It is the year of the Tomed Incident and its tale can at last be told In the midst of escalating political tensions among the Klingons the Romulans and the Federation Starfleet goes forward with the inaugural flight of Universe a prototype starship that promises to revolutionize space exploration But the Universe experiment results in disaster ravaging a region of space dangerously close to the Romulan Star Empire apparently confirming suspicions that the Federation has begun testing a weapon of mass destruction As the military buildup accelerates on both sides of the Neutral Zone Captain John Harriman of the Federation flagship USS Enterprise NCC1701B is fated for a final confrontation with his oldest enemy at a flashpoint in history with the Beta Quadrant one wrong move from the outbreak of total war
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