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From the award-winning author of "Diamond" A blazing exploration of
the human love affair with gold that "combines the engaging style
of a travel narrative with sharp-eyed journalistic expose"
("Publishers Weekly," starred review).
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold
skyrocketed--in three years more than doubling from $800 an ounce
to $1900. This massive spike drove an unprecedented global
gold-mining and exploration boom, much bigger than the gold rush of
the 1800s. In "Gold," acclaimed author Matthew Hart takes you on an
unforgettable journey around the world and through history to tell
the extraordinary story of how gold became the world's most
precious commodity.
Beginning with a page-turning report from the crime-ridden inferno
of the world's deepest mine, Hart traveled around the world to the
sites of the hottest action in gold today, from the biggest new
mine in China, to the highly secretive London gold exchange, and
the lair of the world's most powerful gold trader in Geneva,
Switzerland. He profiles the leaders of the gold market today, the
nature of the current boom, and the likely prospects for the
future. From the earliest civilizations, when gold was an icon of
sacred and kingly power, Hart tracks its evolution, through
conquest, murder, and international mayhem, into the speculative
casino-chip that the metal has become. He ends by telling the story
of the massive flows of gold that have occurred in the wake of the
financial crisis and what the world's leading experts are saying
about the profound changes underway in the gold market and the
prospects for the future.
"Compelling, stylish, and impressively researched" ("The Boston
Globe"), "Gold" is a wonderful historical odyssey with important
implications for today's global economy.
The future of fiction is neither global nor national. Instead,
Matthew Hart argues, it is trending extraterritorial.
Extraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but
enhance state power. They cut across geography and history but do
not point the way to a borderless new world. They range from the
United Nations headquarters and international waters to CIA black
sites and the departure zones at international airports. The
political geography of the present, Hart shows, has come to
resemble a patchwork of such spaces. Hart reveals
extraterritoriality's centrality to twenty-first-century art and
fiction. He shows how extraterritorial fictions expose the way
states construct "global" space in their own interests.
Extraterritorial novels teach us not to mistake cracks or
gradations in political geography for a crisis of the state. Hart
demonstrates how the unstable character of many
twenty-first-century aesthetic forms can be traced to the
increasingly extraterritorial nature of contemporary political
geography. Discussing writers such as Margaret Atwood, J. G.
Ballard, Amitav Ghosh, Chang-rae Lee, Hilary Mantel, and China
Mieville, as well as artists like Hito Steyerl and Mark Wallinger,
Hart combines lively critical readings of contemporary novels with
historical and theoretical discussions about sovereignty,
globalization, cosmopolitanism, and postcolonialism.
Extraterritorial presents a new theory of literature that explains
what happens when dreams of an open, connected world confront the
reality of mobile, elastic, and tenacious borders.
The Baseball Stadium Tour is Re-loaded We've added two chapters
including a trip to New York to visit the new Yankee Stadium that
featured a major moment in baseball history. With a newly designed
cover, come join Todd, Matthew and Nick on their journey to 30+
baseball stadiums Excerpt: The sun had set and it was pitch black
in central Illinois farm country as I fumbled for my phone to call
my two best friends - two of the biggest baseball fans I know,
Matthew Hart and Sofoklis Nikiforos. No less than 10 minutes later
I had both of them convinced that starting next spring, the three
of us were headed on a three-man, no holds-barred, Baseball Stadium
Tour.
The future of fiction is neither global nor national. Instead,
Matthew Hart argues, it is trending extraterritorial.
Extraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but
enhance state power. They cut across geography and history but do
not point the way to a borderless new world. They range from the
United Nations headquarters and international waters to CIA black
sites and the departure zones at international airports. The
political geography of the present, Hart shows, has come to
resemble a patchwork of such spaces. Hart reveals
extraterritoriality's centrality to twenty-first-century art and
fiction. He shows how extraterritorial fictions expose the way
states construct "global" space in their own interests.
Extraterritorial novels teach us not to mistake cracks or
gradations in political geography for a crisis of the state. Hart
demonstrates how the unstable character of many
twenty-first-century aesthetic forms can be traced to the
increasingly extraterritorial nature of contemporary political
geography. Discussing writers such as Margaret Atwood, J. G.
Ballard, Amitav Ghosh, Chang-rae Lee, Hilary Mantel, and China
Mieville, as well as artists like Hito Steyerl and Mark Wallinger,
Hart combines lively critical readings of contemporary novels with
historical and theoretical discussions about sovereignty,
globalization, cosmopolitanism, and postcolonialism.
Extraterritorial presents a new theory of literature that explains
what happens when dreams of an open, connected world confront the
reality of mobile, elastic, and tenacious borders.
Whether you know it or not, you become a chemist any time you step
into a kitchen. As you cook, you oversee intricate chemical
transformations that would test even the most hardened of
professional chemists. Focussing on how and why we cook different
dishes the way we do, this book introduces basic chemistry through
everyday foods and meal preparations. Through its unique
meal-by-meal organisation, the book playfully explores the
chemistry that turns our food into meals. Topics covered range from
roasting coffee beans to scrambling eggs and gluten development in
breads. The book features many experiments that you can try in your
own kitchen, such as exploring the melting properties of cheese,
retaining flavour when cooking and pairing wines with foods.
Through molecular chemistry, biology, neuroscience, physics and
agriculture, the author discusses various aspects of cooking and
food preparation. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested
in the science behind cooking.
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Leah (Paperback)
W Matthew Hart
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R492
Discovery Miles 4 920
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Stop Hating the Middle, and Embrace What It's Secretly Doing for
Your Company Let's be honest: There's nothing we like more than
beating up on middle managers. They have a reputation for being
useless at best, and at worst, the resource-sucking noise that
cripples a company. But recent studies have found that there's a
secret sauce to great companies who get great results, and its not
just great workers or great leaders. Instead, it's great middle
management that is holding complicated, messy, sophisticated
endeavors on track. From the characteristics of great middle
managers to the work they must do to ensure successful results,
Matthew Hart covers what it takes to be truly great at the
Middlework.
SECOND HARVEST is the second book in a series called "The Last
Iteration" that takes the reader on an exciting adventure. The
series explores the intersection of different technologies and how
they evolve subject to one another, and the intersection of science
and faith.There are implicit thematic elements of Smart Cities,
Internet of Things and a Connected World of Everything as well as
biotechnology that are integrated from a point of view on
sustainability. Blurb: Faced with the cold brutality of Ashion the
Dark and his thugs, Dexter Maxwell did something no time shifter
had ever done before: he traveled back in time permanently. Now he
must live the same thirty days again. But with Ashion and the local
warlord hunting him, will there be enough time to save his new-and
old- friends? On Venus, Ashion can't stop the subterranean
resistance led by the man they call Fuel. But to keep his tenuous
position as Security Lead, he must keep Dexter Maxwell's true
identity hidden. That puts his daring plot to escape the grip of
the Ruling Families in jeopardy-and is making it even harder to
protect the last two people on Venus he needs alive: the mysterious
Prisoner Six and the young girl Kat. The clock is ticking: the
Ruling Families of Venus have set the Second Harvest in motion. As
their chilling plan unfolds, four hundred years of betrayals put
Dexter and Ashion on a deadly collision course ... and unlock an
ancient threat to civilization.
The Last Iteration Of Dexter Maxwell is the first book in a series
that takes the reader on an exciting journey to find out who Dexter
Maxwell really is. The novel explores the intersection of different
technologies and how they evolve subject to one another, and the
intersection of science and faith. There are implicit thematic
elements of sustainability and balance, and on the influence of
information technology. -- Dex knows first-hand how tough it is
living on the edge of a thoroughly technologized civilization in
Grenver, Colorado. But it also has its perks. With his small league
of street-smart outcasts, he's snarled the system with some of the
most brazen stunts of the 22nd century. Not bad for an orphaned
sewer rat that can't remember his childhood and will most likely
end up iced for ages like any other criminal. No past, no future:
no problem. As long as Dex has his friends and his mischief, he'll
be alright. But after a botched stunt, Dex wakes up a foreigner in
a brutal, bizarre underground city controlled by more than one
shameless force-blind, a sword strapped to his back, and an old man
telling him he's the vital component of the coming revolution. Dex
can barely take in the reality of a new time before he's on the
run, hunted by vicious assassins, and mixed up in a deadly plot a
millennium in the making-and with the fate of two worlds at stake.
-- Start an action-packed journey with THE LAST ITERATION OF DEXTER
MAXWELL to find out who Dexter Maxwell really is. ADVENTUROUS
SCIENCE FICTION SEASONED WITH SUSTAINABILITY.
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