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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Google Books. The Shock Doctrine. In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically.

The Shock Doctrine

Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater….

After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts.... New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. Who Runs Britain?: and Who's to Blame for the Economic Mess We're in: Amazon.co.uk: Robert Peston. Brain Rules for Baby. About Brain Rules for Baby What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy?

Brain Rules for Baby

How much TV is OK for a baby? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know. In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr.