Tag: Tom Burgis
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{2015 New Releases} Week 13: Mar. 23-29
One Night in Mississippi by:Craig Shreve After fifty years of guilt over his brother’s brutal murder in Civil Rights–era Mississippi, Warren Williams decides to renews his fight to bring the men responsible to justice. His efforts put him face -to- face with one of the murderers, Earl Olsen, in a remote Ontario town, where a […]
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{Book Attraction} The Looting Machine : Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth by:Tom Burgis
From Nigera to Angola, and Hong Kong to Houston, an award-winning Financial Times journalist’s extraordinary expose on twenty-first century individuals and companies who have become obscenely rich from the resource trade in Africa. The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China […]
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