Zimbabwe - hot center, gruesome face is the tale of a tense Decade of Hyperinflation and its debilitating outcomes for the folks of Zimbabwe.
It starts off with the authors arrival, within the past due 90's, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's moment biggest urban and as soon as the economic Heartland of the rustic - earlier than the violent takeover of the white-owned farms.

The writer takes the reader via a ten 12 months interval, from 2000 to 2009, characterized through centralised keep an eye on of all elements of lifestyles and of an economic climate in free-fall, in addition to the determined measures followed by way of traditional humans and by way of the company group to survive.

In a down-to-earth approach the booklet paints the day by day fight with long electrical energy and water cuts, empty grocery store cabinets and unsafe black-market buying and selling through sincere, law-abiding and resilient voters- simply to live on. Arrests, tragedy, demise, worry and intimidation have been a part of way of life in Zimbabwe in the course of those momentous years.

Bernardo Caprotti è l'imprenditore che ha portato all'eccellenza i supermercati in Italia. Ne ha fatto un caso di rinomanza internazionale, nel settore. A eighty one anni ha deciso di rompere il suo riserbo (niente interviste, niente fotografie, poche apparizioni pubbliche, tanto lavoro) e in questo libro-denuncia racconta ciò che ha dovuto subire in step with mano delle Coop. Dai primi contatti con il gigante "rosso" della grande distribuzione fino alle polemiche degli ultimi mesi, il fondatore di Esselunga ricostruisce un confronto pluridecennale scambiato fino a poco pace fa according to normale concorrenza. Invece, mettendo insieme con meticolosità le tessere del mosaico, a Caprotti è apparso un disegno preciso: a long way sparire l. a. sua azienda dal mercato.
In questo j'accuse l'imprenditore documenta, turn out alla mano, una serie di vicende che di primo acchito sembrano tentativi imprenditoriali andati a vuoto, nella realtà si rivelano parte di un censurabile piano strategico altrui. Giacché Esselunga non può essere los angeles sola vittima del "sistema". Dalla rigorosa esposizione dei fatti appare di tutta evidenza che molte iniziative di Esselunga sono country affossate dalla Legacoop, il gigante economico agli ordini del Pci-Pds-Ds, con l'indispensabile appoggio delle amministrazioni locali di sinistra. Reperti etruschi usati come grimaldello, licenze lasciate scadere (ma prontamente girate alle Coop), terreni pagati sei volte il valore di mercato, condizionamenti di sindaci e assessori, persino uno scippo ai danni di una signora sopravvissuta al campo di sterminio di Auschwitz in step with realizzare una Ipercoop gigantesca in una città "proibita" all'Esselunga. Tutto è servito in line with bloccare l'espansione dell'imprenditore lombardo, che chiede soltanto di "servire", di poter fare il mestiere imparato da Nelson Rockefeller, di cui fu socio all'inizio dell'attività.

Operazioni che avevano richiesto anni di preparazione e ingenti investimenti gli sono nation sottratte dalla concorrenza nel giro di poche ore. Fino a giungere alle pressioni di Romani Prodi su Caprotti perché l. a. sua azienda resti «in mani italiane»: cioè sia ceduta alle Coop. Una soluzione finale che aggiungerebbe los angeles beffa agli ingenti danni, morali e materiali, già subiti. l. a. galleria di fatti e personaggi (da Pierluigi Stefanini a Turiddo Campaini, da Mario Zucchelli a Bruno Cordazzo) è accompagnata da una documentazione inoppugnabile e inedita che Caprotti ha ora pazientemente ordinato. «Il mio braccio destro ripeteva che dietro certi episodi c'erano le Coop» - rievoca l'autore - «A lungo mi sono rifiutato di credergli. Oggi riconosco che aveva ragione».

In the times while Columbus sailed the sea and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger turned the richest guy in history.

Fugger lived in Germany on the flip of the 16th century, the grandson of a peasant. by the point he died, his fortune amounted to almost percentage of eu GDP. In an period whilst kings had limitless energy, Fugger dared to stare down heads of kingdom and ask them to pay again their loans—with curiosity. It was once this coolness and self-assurance, together with his inexhaustible ambition, that made him not just the richest guy ever, yet a strength of heritage in addition. ahead of Fugger got here alongside it used to be unlawful less than church legislations to cost curiosity on loans, yet he received the Pope to alter that. He additionally helped set off the Reformation and certain funded Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe. His production of a information provider gave him a data aspect over his competitors and consumers and earned Fugger a footnote within the heritage of journalism. And he took Austria’s Habsburg relatives from being second-tier sovereigns to rulers of the 1st empire the place the sunlight by no means set.

“Enjoyable…readable and fast paced” (The Wall road Journal), The Richest guy Who Ever Lived is greater than a story concerning the such a lot influential businessman of all time. it's a tale approximately palace intrigue, knights in conflict, relations tragedy and triumph, and a violent conflict among the only percentage and everyone else. “The story of Fugger’s aspiration, ruthlessness, and greed is riveting” (The Economist).

This is the tale, by no means advised earlier than, of ways Onkar Singh Kanwar equipped Apollo from scratch and took it to the area level. To do it, he needed to wrestle moves and union intimidation, the constraints of the Licence Raj, politically stimulated nationalisation, and close to bankruptcy.

As if that was once now not adequate, he additionally needed to undergo and live to tell the tale a disturbing falling-out with the daddy he so renowned. by no means ahead of has Onkar Kanwar spoken so overtly or movingly in regards to the father he nonetheless reveres and his regrets that existence must have been so diverse from what he could have loved it to be.

The guy in the back of the Wheel recounts those dramatic occasions in compelling aspect as Onkar Kanwar follows his steadfast imaginative and prescient to construct not only an organization, but additionally an commercial establishment. For the 1st time Onkar Kanwar’s closest pals and associates have spoken in regards to the triumphs and the setbacks that experience formed either his and the company’s existence and occasions. His spouse and relations percentage their own insights of the guy who's on the hub and middle in their global and the way his values as a Sikh, father, brother and husband have moulded him as an entrepreneur.

The guy at the back of the Wheel is the insightful and intriguing tale of a hugely profitable corporation and its author as he is taking us on a trip via his early days within the US of the Nineteen Sixties, uploading and exporting within the pre-boom heart East, to construction factories in Vadodara and Chennai, and additional enlargement to the Netherlands and Hungary with stop-offs in China and a hugely charged court docket conflict within the United States.

But tellingly, it's also the tale of fathers and sons and of relations dynasties and duties performed out opposed to the backdrop of India’s first seventy years in view that Independence.