It is tempting to treat poor Mr Levin's book on sex addiction as a spoof.
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It is a pity that Mr Siegelbaum's book has such poor photographs: for those who never experienced the true horrors of Soviet-era motoring, words are not enough.
In the book he argued that poor countries stayed poor not because of capitalism, but for lack of properly developed capitalism.
As the book Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit, edited by Alvaro Vargas Llosa notes, regulations can contribute to worldwide poverty.
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Despite this, the book does work as a poor man's version of "Weaver on Strategy, " Earl Weaver and Terry Pluto's 1984 classic on the art of managing a ballclub.
Of course perennially land-rich and cash-poor Chesapeake was seeking to talk up its book at the time it was negotiating joint ventures, but that vast discrepancy between the values that the company was touting to shareholders in its presentations compared with ultimate deal realizations should just reiterate how little credibility McClendon has with investors.
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This echoes two interesting background motifs of the book: that lawlessness and anarchy hurt the poor and weak most of all, and that the greed of corrupt clerics is particularly odious.
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Mr Brands's challenge is greater here, for Jackson is an ambiguous figure and the book's muscular and enthusiastic tone is sometimes a poor fit with its subject.
Jane Jacobs envisioned this transformative churning in her landmark book The Economy of Cities--a process in which the poor, making the best of their circumstances, create substitutes for expensive imports and eventually develop superior products for export.
The book correctly identifies some of the reasons why this does not happen in poor countries, where companies often fail to understand their customers and lack knowledge of their relative position in an industry.
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