Few groups are more secretive than the Asian godfathers, the tiny group of obscenely wealthy businessmen who control the economic fates of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. Mysterious, shrewd, and ruthless, these tycoons represented eight …
Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence, this text makes clear the economic and psychological degradation inflicted by imperialism. It shows how the fight for freedom must be combined with building a national culture.
A Layman's guide to psychiatry and psychoanalysis
by Berne, Eric
fromAn evergreen black cat book
In another place, not here
A Caribbean immigrant in Toronto returns to her island, where she meets a woman hoping to escape into a better life.
"From best-selling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the 21st century's definitive book on world hunger. Driven by the question, 'Why hunger despite an abundance of food?' Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing the root causes of hu…