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10 Years That Shook the World: A Timeline of Events from 2001 by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: History
From 9/11 to the launch of the iPod, from the creation of 'Gmail' to the 2004 tsunami, from the Enron bankruptcy to the killing of Osama bin Laden, 10 Years That Shook the World is the story of an extraordinary decade. For each year, Loretta Napoleoni presents events not as a chronology but as dispatche ...Show more
Isis: The Terror Nation by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: History
An updated, revised and expanded edition of Loretta Napoleoni's bestselling book on ISIS, The Islamist Phoenix (Seven Stories, 2014). In ISIS: The Terror Nation, world-renowned terrorism expert Loretta Napoleoni takes us beyond the headlines, demonstrating that while Western media portrays the Islamic S ...Show more
Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: Business
The end of the Cold War was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over communism. In Maonomics, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of communism with a profit motive. Maonomics charts the prodigio ...Show more
Merchants of Men: Inside the Billion-Dollar Business of Kidnapping and International Human Trafficking by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: History
Every day, a powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. A new breed of criminals, risen from the political chaos of post-9/11 Western foreign policy and the fiasco of the Arab Spring, controls it. In the early 2000s these merc ...Show more
North Korea: The Country We Love to Hate by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: History
In her characteristically direct approach, political analyst Loretta Napoleoni takes on the vexing story and threat of North Korea for those in the West who remain blinded by its myths and bigotry. Like China's Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung-North Korea's leader from its founding in 1948 until his death in 199 ...Show more
Rogue Economics by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: Business
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China's fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second ...Show more
Rogue Economics by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: Business
Respected economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni shows how the world is being reshaped by dark economic forces.Rogue economics is creating victims out of millions of ordinary people whose lives have become trapped inside a fantasy bubble of consumerism. Around the globe private and public ...Show more
Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: Politics
At the dawn of the digital revolution, the internet was going to be the great equalizer, a global democratic force. Instead, with the money printed electronically to bail out banks, Wall Street ended up funding a new breed of serial capitalists, the Techtitans, who embraced rapid, transformational chang ...Show more
Terror Inc : Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: History
Terror Inc. propels you into the centre of illegal organizations, and explains how they fund their activities, having moved from the state-sponsored terrorism of the Cold War, to running their own illegal and legal businesses. Investigating groups across the world - from Islamist terror organisations su ...Show more
Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks [Not Available] by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: History
"Napoleoni has accomplished an extraordinary task of research in tracking, finding and graphically describing the financiers and the institutions supporting global terrorism, including al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden."-John K. Cooley, author of Unholy Wars "A masterpiece . . . This book should be requi ...Show more
Terrorism and the Economy: How the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: History
Economist and bestselling author Loretta Napoleoni traces the link between the finances of the War on Terror and the global economic crisis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that politicians and the media have, at best, ignored. Consumers and tax payers, spurred by propaganda fears, ...Show more
The Islamist Phoenix - The islamic State and the Redrawing of the Middle East by Loretta Napoleoni
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A timely, piercing study of the Islamic State, as its rise to prominence and domination of Middle Eastern politics, is explained in revealing detail by economist and bestselling author Loretta Napoleoni. Napoleoni illuminates the singularity of IS and how it differs from other jihadist organisations, pa ...Show more