America’s most iconic corporation General Electric suffered a swift and sudden fall from grace for top managers. GE’s reputation with investors rested on the preternaturally smooth earnings growth, buttressed by the financial operations of GE Capital, which Welch had expanded. Welch’s tough managerial approach, including ruthless pruning of underperformers earned him the nickname he hated…
Thomas Rid, a German born political scientist who is now professor at the John Hopkins, a renowned expert on technology and national security traces the revelatory and dramatic history of misinformation, reveals the rise of secret deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms. “We live in a age of disinformation –…
Vitoria Mario set up an online fundraising page showing how she has lived in the UK for four years after moving from Portugal. She is not eligible for maintenance loans or grants. Singer Taylor Swift has donated £23, 000 to Vitoria who was struggling to raise funds to take up a maths course at the…
In May Octogenarian Rawandan businessman Felicien Kabuga was arrested in Paris after 25-year of manhunt, he is finally in custody accused of bankrolling the worsyty atrocities since the Khmer Rouge: the Rwandan genocide. Melvern as a journalist encountered several leading genocides in Rwanda in the terrible summer of 1994 when 800, 000 people were slaughtered…
Matt Ridley, reveals the vital ingredients for success by chronicling the history of innovation and how we need to change our thinking. We experience dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society From Britain to Brazil, world economy is choking in first gear as we indefinitely await a vaccine, having…
Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged form America’s encounters with the world: the importance of North America, the special roles trading, transnational and technological relation play in defining ties with others, changing attitudes toward alliances and ways of ordering connections among states the need for public support, especially through Congress and the belief that…
Real life is a deeply affecting tale about the emotional cost of reckoning with the desire and overcoming pain including nuanced, precise account of micro-aggressions, abuse, racism, homophobia, trauma, grief and alienation. Taylor wielding a scalpel-like prose, explaining human behaviours along with Wallace’s petri-dish worms under the microscope. There is a precision in the details…
A tale of two Texas sisters whose destinies could not be more dissimilar, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Twin sisters Yvette and Yvonne Crawford born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Although an untold fortune of oil lies…
Pulitzer winning The New York Times reporter Isabel Wilkerson reveals the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. She displays how stories of real people and its insidioys undertow emerges everyday and records its surprising health…
Free-spirited young British writer’s The Liar’s Dictionary, gives a lexicographical insight, with rich language and her characters rounded enough to be sympathetic but clever and funny, intoxicated with joy and as vivid as Dickens. Eley Williams explores themes of trust and creativity. The novel also interleaves two stories, set in 1899 and the present day…