Around the world in 80 trades: Adventures in economics, from coffee to camels and back

Woodman, Conor

Macmillan

This title is to tie in with a major new Channel 4 series: a brilliant mixture of travel, cultural exchange and fair trade.Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right - trading Sudanese camels for Kenyan coffee, coffee for South African red wine and then off to China to buy porcelain with the proceeds - he'll return six months later with a lot of money, some new friends and a whole raft of brilliant tall tales.Conor believes that the principles of profit are universal wherever you go, whatever language you speak. Whether trading teak or bath taps, light bulbs or seafood he'll work out how to make money in every market he encounters along his route. He'll trade on his wits and instincts, going head to head with the best operators in the world's most hotly-contested markets. But will years of experience in corporate

Around the World in 80 Trades

Travel

Travel Writing

Non Basic Stock Line

Call to Kill (The Mace Mason Thrillers)

Literature & Fiction

Billingham, Billy

United States

Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

Sunday Times–Bestselling Author: If you’re a pirate looking for prey, best steer clear of Matt Mason’s daughter . . . “A wonderfully engaging protagonist.” ―Adam Hamdy, author of Black 13\nMatt “Mace” Mason is attempting to put the army behind him, building a life for himself training anti-poaching forces on a Kenyan game reserve. He’s looking forward to meeting up with his eldest child, Jo, who’s graduated naval college and taken a summer job working on a billionaire’s yacht in the Red Sea.\nBut then he receives a call informing him that Jo’s boat is missing, likely abducted by Somali pirates. Mason must call in favors from old contacts as he follows Jo’s trail. She isn’t the target of the abduction, so she won’t be worth keeping by the pirates for long. But she is still Matt Mason’s daughter, and she knows she needs to survive to fight . . .\nFrom a seventeen-year SAS veteran who operated in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other global hotspots, served as a bodyguard to major celebrities, and appears on the British series SAS: Who Dares Wins, this is an action-packed thriller starring a hero like no other.

Survive to Fight (The Mace Mason Thrillers)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

THE FIRST IN A BRAND NEW SERIES FROM SAS: WHO DARES WINS STAR.\nA country in turmoil.\nA rescue mission gone wrong.\nA hero unlike any other fighting to save a broken world.\nMatt 'Mace' Mason is deployed on a deniable SAS mission in war-torn Yemen, becoming embroiled in a hostage rescue that goes terribly wrong.\nPulling at the strings of the local political scene is not only the local warlord who is destined to become Mace's nemesis, General Ruak Shahlai, but hardbitten American arms dealer Erica Atkins, who controls a whole international network to her advantage.\nAs well as his own team, Mace has to work, initially unwillingly, with female CIA Agent (and Islamic scholar) Redford. Together they will need to prevent an attack that would spark a regional war and create the largest environmental disaster the world has ever seen.\nDON'T MISS THE FIRST IN THE NEW MATT MASON SERIES FROM AN AUTHOR WHO HAS BEEN THERE AND DONE IT ALL, BILLY BILLINGHAM.

Call to Kill: The first in a brand new high-octane SAS series

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Hodder&Stoughton

Meth Road: A life-and-death investigation following the world's most destructive narcotic to Australia

True Crime

Allen& Unwin

Why the world's poor continue to lose out in the global market -- and what can be done about it. How is it that our favourite brands can import billions of pounds' worth of goods from the developing world every year, and yet leave the people who produce them barely scraping a living? Is it that big business is incompatible with the eradication of poverty? And, if so, are charity and fair trade initiatives the only way forward? In Unfair Trade Conor Woodman traces a range of products back to their source to uncover who precisely is benefitting and who is losing out. He goes diving with lobster fishermen in Nicaragua who are dying in their hundreds to keep the restaurant tables of the US well stocked. He ventures into war-torn Congo to find out what the developed world's insatiable demand for tin means for local miners. And he risks falling foul of the authorities in Laos as he covertly visits the country's burgeoning rubber plantations, established to supply Chinese factories that in turn supply the West with consumer goods. In the process, he tests accepted economic wisdom on the best way to create a fairer world -- and suggests a simpler but potentially far more radical solution.

Unfair Trade: The Truth Behind Big Business, Politics and Fair Trade

Business & Money

Economics

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Why the world's poor continue to lose out in the global market -- and what can be done about it. How is it that our favourite brands can import billions of pounds' worth of goods from the developing world every year, and yet leave the people who produce them barely scraping a living? Is it that big business is incompatible with the eradication of poverty? And, if so, are charity and fair trade initiatives the only way forward? In Unfair TradeConor Woodman traces a range of products back to their source to uncover who precisely is benefitting and who is losing out. He goes diving with lobster fishermen in Nicaragua who are dying in their hundreds to keep the restaurant tables of the US well stocked. He ventures into war-torn Congo to find out what the developed world's insatiable demand for tin means for local miners. And he risks falling foul of the authorities in Laos as he covertly visits the country's burgeoning rubber plantations, established to supply Chinese factories that in turn supply the West with consumer goods. In the process, he tests accepted economic wisdom on the best way to create a fairer world -- and suggests a simpler but potentially far more radical solution.

Unfair Trade: The Shocking Truth Behind 'Ethical' Business

From the host of Hunting Nazi Treasure and Scam City comes a hair-raising investigation into the criminal underbelly of the world's greatest cities. 'I start asking questions. How do you do this? How do you get away with it? How much money do you make from it? Who supports you? Who resists you? And what happens to the people who resist you?' Conor Woodman goes undercover to meet the world's dodgiest dealers. Creeping through the lawless backstreets where the black market thrives, he intentionally falls for scam after scam, from back-alley dice games to counterfeit cash. Woodman's risky and occasionally reckless reporting exposes how crooks dupe their unsuspecting victims time and time again. A dark adventure through cities as diverse as Mumbai, Bogotá, New Orleans, Barcelona and London, The Scam Hunter is a shocking reminder of who really runs the world's biggest metropolises. A truly electrifying read.

The Scam Hunter: Investigating the Criminal Heart of the Global City

September Publishing (UK)

Korean edition of UNFAIR TRADE: The Truth Behind Big Business, Politics and Fair Trade by Conor Woodman. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Unfair Trade (English and Korean Edition)

Gaelion

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