Project management has never been more fun. This entertaining book, co-written by an academic at Oxford University and a journalist, asks why ambitious schemes so consistently miss deadlines and budgets, and what can be done about it. Pan Macmillan £22 A technology-and-business guru from MIT explains how the mindset that inspires Silicon Valley could be usefully applied in life and in other fields of business, with a focus on teamwork, producing prototypes quickly and avoiding bureaucracy through individual accountability. Not for the faint-hearted, this book is provocative to economists and well timed for an age of big deficits and high inflation. Princeton University Press 584 pages $99.95 and £84Īn economics professor at Stanford University builds a new(ish) theory for how government debt, not interest rates, ultimately determines prices. Others can be solved “at low cost, with remarkable outcomes". “Some things are difficult to fix, cost a lot and help little," the author writes. Copenhagen Consensus Centre 314 pages £16.99Ī forceful argument to replace the UN’s sprawling and vague Sustainable Development Goals with 12 cost-effective policies to help the world’s poor. Exhaustive reporting by the author makes this a riveting and welcome addition to the canon on super-swindlers.īest Things First. Ghana’s John Ackah Blay-Miezah bilked investors on several continents by promising he knew the location of lost gold. This is the story of one of the world’s greatest, but least famous, con artists. A rare insight into the extraordinary risks that some Chinese take to illuminate the darkest corners of communism.Īnansi’s Gold. Allen Lane £25Ī Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist describes the valiant efforts of China’s “underground historians", a motley and persistent group of academics, artists, film-makers and journalists attempting to correct the sanitised official record and provide truthful accounts of history. Oxford University Press 400 pages $27.95. It is also a story of lost innocence, as she learns that most people in the Philippines backed their president’s lawless war on drugs, in which some 27,000 people were killed extra-judicially. Grove Press £20Ī rigorously reported look at Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against illegal drugs from a Filipina journalist. Its author, a staff writer for the Atlantic, grows angry and heartbroken as he watches the religious community in which he was raised hijacked by power-hungry hucksters and right-wing nationalists. This chronicle of the modern evangelical movement in America is a horror story told from the inside. In describing how Korean women are treated as cooks, cleaners and “baby-making machines", this spirited book illuminates a country grappling with a rapid and uneven ascent to wealth and modernity. BenBella Books 304 pages $18.95 and £15.99Ī brilliant examination of South Korean feminists’ struggle for gender equality that has global resonance. By focusing on one mother’s extraordinary story, the author evokes the cartels’ painful toll.įlowers of Fire. A former bureau chief for the New York Times in Mexico tracks Miriam, whose youngest daughter is kidnapped and then killed by the Zeta gang. Since the early 2000s the number of Mexicans who have disappeared has rocketed to more than 100,000. His brave and vital book follows eight subjects, including a doctor at a small hospital, an unlicensed driver of a motorcycle taxi, and a citizen journalist whose daring efforts resulted in a prison sentence.įear Is Just a Word. In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, a celebrated Chinese writer interviewed people in Wuhan, China, about their experiences during lockdown.
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