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One in a Billion

Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
File Size : 11,7 Mb
Release Date : 2016-04-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Pages : 256
ISBN 10 : 9781451661323

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher chronicle the story of Nic Volker, the Wisconsin boy at the center of a daring breakthrough in medicine--a complete gene sequencing to discover the cure for an otherwise undiagnosable illness. At just two years old, Nic experienced a searing pain that signaled the awakening of a new and deadly disease. For years, through false starts and failed cures, Nic holds on to life, buoyed up by his mother's fierce drive to get him the care he needs. But when even the world's experts are stumped by Nic's illness, his doctors come up with a radical, long-shot plan: a step into the unknown. The next major scientific frontier, following the completion of the Human Genome Project, was to figure out how to use our new knowledge to save lives--to bring genomic or personalized medicine into reality. The quest is undertaken by researchers around the world, but it is only when geneticist Howard Jacob hears about young Nic that the finish line finally comes into sight: It's no longer a race to make history. It's a race to save this boy's life.--Adapted from dust jacket.

One in a Billion

Author : Nancy Pine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
File Size : 19,6 Mb
Release Date : 2020-12-09
Genre: History
Pages : 309
ISBN 10 : 9781538143414

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This heart-wrenching story immerses readers in the dramatic survival of one outspoken man who illuminates the souls of a billion ordinary Chinese citizens. An Wei—a stubborn, hardworking peasant who has lived by his values and stood up for his convictions—has succeeded against all odds in the authoritarian environment of China. Despite grinding poverty, hunger, reeducation campaigns, and attacks from jealous peers, An Wei continues to inspire with his daring achievements, such as launching a democratic congress in his own village. His compelling life provides a vivid backdrop for understanding the development of modern China from the unique perspective of an outspoken citizen. Through his audacious determination and survival skills forged in rural poverty, An Wei’s unstoppable drive to improve himself and rural China will captivate and enthrall readers. Her website can be found at https://nancypine.info/

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One Billion Americans

Author : Matthew Yglesias
Publisher : Penguin
File Size : 7,5 Mb
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Genre: Political Science
Pages : 288
ISBN 10 : 9780593190227

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it’s that America has lost the will and the means to lead. We can’t compete with the huge population clusters of the global marketplace by keeping our population static or letting it diminish, or with our crumbling transit and unaffordable housing. The winner in the future world is going to have more—more ideas, more ambition, more utilization of resources, more people. Exactly how many Americans do we need to win? According to Matthew Yglesias, one billion. From one of our foremost policy writers, One Billion Americans is the provocative yet logical argument that if we aren’t moving forward, we’re losing. Vox founder Yglesias invites us to think bigger, while taking the problems of decline seriously. What really contributes to national prosperity should not be controversial: supporting parents and children, welcoming immigrants and their contributions, and exploring creative policies that support growth—like more housing, better transportation, improved education, revitalized welfare, and climate change mitigation. Drawing on examples and solutions from around the world, Yglesias shows not only that we can do this, but why we must. Making the case for massive population growth with analytic rigor and imagination, One Billion Americans issues a radical but undeniable challenge: Why not do it all, and stay on top forever?

Score: 5

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Sun One in a Billion

Author : Stacy McAnulty
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
File Size : 13,9 Mb
Release Date : 2018-10-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages : 40
ISBN 10 : 9781250229915

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From the author of Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years comes a new picture book about space— this time starring our Sun! Meet Sun: He's a star! And not just any star—he's one in a billion. He lights up our solar system and makes life possible. With characteristic humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Sun in this next celestial "autobiography." Rich with kid-friendly facts and beautifully illustrated, Sun! One in a Billion is an equally charming and irresistible companion to Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years.

Score: 3.5

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One Billion Customers

Author : James McGregor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
File Size : 14,6 Mb
Release Date : 2007-09-04
Genre: Business & Economics
Pages : 354
ISBN 10 : 9780743258418

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From one of the most successful journalist/businessmen ever to do business inChina comes a blueprint for succeeding in the worlds fastest-growing consumermarket.

Score: 3.5

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One Billion Hungry

Author : Gordon Conway
Publisher : Cornell University Press
File Size : 18,6 Mb
Release Date : 2012-10-15
Genre: Social Science
Pages : 464
ISBN 10 : 9780801466106

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Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further challenges. In One Billion Hungry, Sir Gordon Conway, one of the world's foremost experts on global food needs, explains the many interrelated issues critical to our global food supply from the science of agricultural advances to the politics of food security. He expands the discussion begun in his influential The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century, emphasizing the essential combination of increased food production, environmental stability, and poverty reduction necessary to end endemic hunger on our planet. Conway addresses a series of urgent questions about global hunger: • How we will feed a growing global population in the face of a wide range of adverse factors, including climate change? • What contributions can the social and natural sciences make in finding solutions? • And how can we engage both government and the private sector to apply these solutions and achieve significant impact in the lives of the poor? Conway succeeds in sharing his informed optimism about our collective ability to address these fundamental challenges if we use technology paired with sustainable practices and strategic planning. Beginning with a definition of hunger and how it is calculated, and moving through issues topically both detailed and comprehensive, each chapter focuses on specific challenges and solutions, ranging in scope from the farmer's daily life to the global movement of food, money, and ideas. Drawing on the latest scientific research and the results of projects around the world, Conway addresses the concepts and realities of our global food n

One in a Billion

Author : Sandy Thompson
Publisher : Power House Books
File Size : 10,8 Mb
Release Date : 2006
Genre: History
Pages : 143
ISBN 10 : 1576872963

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China is a land of billions. A billion people, billions of dollars in spending power, and billions of hopes and dreams. Now, at the dawn of a new millennium, China is poised to be one of the greatest social and economic forces in world history. What few realize, though, is that over 95 percent of China's growth over the last two years has been generated by domestic demand. For brands to gain a foothold in this rapidly expanding economy, dollars are not enough. Nor is information, such as that gleaned from focus groups and traditional market research. To reach the 1.3 billion potential consumers in China, you need to understand: understand the people, their lives and motivations, ambitions and desires. And to move past knowledge to understanding, you need to Xplore.

A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Book

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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

Author : Kathryn Yusoff
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
File Size : 5,6 Mb
Release Date : 2018-11-02
Genre: Social Science
Pages : 130
ISBN 10 : 9781452961057

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Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. Yusoff initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between feminist black theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing the politics of the Anthropocene within the context of race, materiality, deep time, and the afterlives of geology. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Score: 3

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A Billion Years

Author : Mike Rinder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
File Size : 7,9 Mb
Release Date : 2022-09-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Pages : 336
ISBN 10 : 9781982185763

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Kill Six Billion Demons Book 1

Author : Tom Parkinson-Morgan
Publisher : Image Comics
File Size : 11,7 Mb
Release Date : 2016-09-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Pages : 1104
ISBN 10 : 9781534301078

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In this collection of the first story arc of the popular webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons, sorority sister Allison Ruth must travel to Throne, the ancient city at the center of the multiverse, in an epic bid to save her boyfriend from the clutches of the seven evil kings that rule creation. Includes excerpts from in-universe religious texts, stories, and more

A Billion to One

Author : John Herzog
Publisher : Unknown
File Size : 13,6 Mb
Release Date : 2017-05-01
Genre: Uncategoriezed
Pages : null
ISBN 10 : 0964263025

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Legendary Nasdaq market-maker John E. Herzog shares the story of his business in this unabashed tribute to his partners, family, and friends.Inspired by his father, Herzog's route to building a securities trading behemoth starts modestly, when his grandfather, walking the teeming streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side, begins trading currencies. His father, Robert, joins these walks and learns how to earn a modest "spread" changing notes and handling remittances for newly-arrived emigres. The Herzogs' stock in trade is fair dealing, and as the decades roll by, we see that never changes.Robert apprentices at a bank where his aptitude for figures and entrepreneurial yearnings lead him to abandon a dependable $50 monthly wage for his first partnership. Rapid changes make him a sole proprietor very quickly, beginning a struggle just to stay in business. The family firm has survived more than prospered in 1959, when John accepts his father's invitation to join the four others that comprise the staff of Herzog & Co. Opportunity is elusive as he struggles to find business and develop a specialty. On a typical day, the firm makes only four or five trades!John's most significant deal is convincing two similarly principled brothers to put their doughnut business on hold while developing their trading careers at Herzog & Co. The very talented Irwin and Buzzy Geduld work with John to build a company with the ability and culture ideally suited to an expanding national trading opportunity. With a long list of company shareholders, the exquisitely timed sale of Herzog, Heine, Geduld to Merrill Lynch provides the ultimate reward.This intimate memoir would be more believable had it not happened on Wall Street. It's an unconventional story for that place: it's about integrity, not greed, where wrongs are quickly righted and fairness is never mistaken for generosity. For Herzog, the reward is sharing success with all who made it possible, and his story tells us how that happened.

Score: 4

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13 Billion to One

Author : Randy Rush
Publisher : Unknown
File Size : 17,9 Mb
Release Date : 2020-06-24
Genre: Uncategoriezed
Pages : 290
ISBN 10 : 1999252403

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As a welfare kid who grew up in the streets, Randy Rush had to fight for everything he got and knew what it was like to struggle. So, when he was suddenly handed $50 million in tax-free money, he vowed to use his new-found wealth to help others. But what he didn't see coming was Jeremy Crawford. In his gripping, adrenaline-packed memoir, Rush takes readers on his rocket-fueled journey after a trip to the corner grocer to buy food for his beloved cat, Conway Kitty, leads to the discovery that he has won Canada's $50 million Lotto Max jackpot. Soaring on a seemingly endless endorphin high, Rush spends the months following his wintraveling, feeding his passion for rare sports cars, considering charitable causes, and splurging on friends -- paying off their debts and even giving them a free place to stay in million-dollar homes. But his world comes crashing down when he discovers that Dave Crawford, a man he loved like an older brother and had generously provided for, has served him up to his con artist son, Jeremy -- who scams Rush out of nearly $5 million. Reeling from Dave's betrayal and fueled by the discovery that the Crawfords are serial con artists who have devastated the lives of more than a hundred others, Rush embarks on a mission to take his adversaries down. But as his quest for justice drags on, his festering rage reaches a boiling point and he is faced with a choice: Let the Crawford's cons destroy him, or re-focus his attention on doing good in the world and enjoying the enormous gift he has been given.

Score: 5

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The Broken Ladder

Author : Anirudh Krishna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
File Size : 7,5 Mb
Release Date : 2017-08-07
Genre: Business & Economics
Pages : 315
ISBN 10 : 9781108415927

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This book explains the paradox of India's rapid growth and widespread poverty by looking at hundreds of life stories and the latest research.

Score: 3.5

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Billion Dollar Whale

Author : Tom Wright
Publisher : Hachette Books
File Size : 20,7 Mb
Release Date : 2018-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
Pages : 400
ISBN 10 : 9780316436489

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Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, BILLION DOLLAR WHALE is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street. By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation. BILLION DOLLAR WHALE has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.

Score: 4

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The Billion Dollar Molecule

Author : Barry Werth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
File Size : 20,6 Mb
Release Date : 2013-08-20
Genre: Business & Economics
Pages : 464
ISBN 10 : 9781439126813

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Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research. Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing -- atom by atom -- both a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug, and a drug to combat the virus that causes AIDS. You will be hooked from start to finish, as you go from the labs, where obsessive, fiercely competitive scientists struggle for a breakthrough, to Wall Street, where the wheeling and dealing takes on a life of its own, as Boger courts investors and finally decides to take Vertex public. Here is a fascinating no-holds-barred account of the business of science, which includes an updated epilogue about the most recent developments in the quest for a drug to cure AIDS.