The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now
9 best books like The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now (Alma Guillermoprieto): Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle, Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham: For Soprano, Boy Soprano, and Orchestra, What Do You Do with an Idea?, China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, How to Be Bored (The School of Life Book 4), Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
| Author | Eduardo Galeano |
| ISBN | 0853459916 |
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation...
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations...
Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham: For Soprano, Boy Soprano, and Orchestra
| Author | Robert Kapilow |
| ISBN | 0793551617 |
I bought Dr. Suess when my kids were young and hated reading them. They seemed too silly to me in my twenties. What a pompous ass I was at twenty! I read GEWH to my grandson and discovered the whimsy and fun of the lyrical words. I was a concrete kind of reader. I wanted my characters to be more recognizable....
What Do You Do with an Idea?
| Author | Kobi Yamada |
| ISBN | 1938298071 |
This is the story of one brilliant idea and the child who helps to bring it into the world. As the child's confidence grows, so does the idea itself. And then, one day, something amazing happens. This is a story for anyone, at any age, who's ever had an idea that seemed a little too big, too odd, too difficult....
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
| Author | Ted C. Fishman |
| ISBN | 0743257359 |
The updated edition of journalist Ted C. Fishman's bestselling explanation of how China is rapidly becoming a global industrial superpower and how the American economy is challenged by this new reality.
China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering...
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
| Author | Juan González |
| ISBN | 0140255397 |
The only reason it gets three instead of four or five stars is, while I like Gonzalez's intent to steer clear of composing a text written in what he terms the "safari approach" (meaning a text geared toward the Anglo -- i.e. non-Latino -- reader in which the writer guides the reader toward knowledge of the...
How to Be Bored (The School of Life Book 4)
Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hectic, hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Excessive busyness and overfilled schedules are the norm, as are their effects on our mental...
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
| Author | Daniel Klein |
| ISBN | 0143121936 |
One of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus travels to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books, seeking the best way to achieve a fulfilling old age. Daniel Klein journeys to the Greek island Hydra to discover the secrets of aging happily. Drawing on the lives of his Greek friends,...
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying] is an inestimable gift.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
A newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, The Tibetan...
