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Welcome to Nowhere
Twelve-year-old Omar and his brothers and sisters were born and raised in the beautiful and bustling city of Bosra, Syria. Omar doesn't care about politics - all he wants is to grow up to become a successful businessman who will take the world by storm. But when his clever older brother, Musa, gets mixed up with some young political activists, everything changes . . . Before long, bombs are falling, people are dying, and Omar and his family have no choice but to flee their home with only what they can carry. Yet no matter how far they run, the shadow of war follows them - until they have no other choice than to attempt the dangerous journey to escape their homeland altogether. But where do you go when you can't go home?
Necessary Evil
Author: David Kinley
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2018-02-01
Finance is the evil we cannot live without. It governs almost every aspect of our lives and has the power to liberate as well as enslave. With the world's total financial assets--valued at a staggering $300 trillion--being four times larger than the combined output of all the world's economies, there is, apparently, plenty to go around. Yet, while proponents of finance-driven capitalism point to the trickle-down effect as its contribution to wealth redistribution, there are still nearly a billion people across the globe existing on less than $2 a day; 14 percent of Americans are living below the official poverty line; and disparities in wealth equality everywhere have reached unprecedented levels. Evidently a trickle is not enough. How can this be when so much wealth abounds, and when finance is supposedly chastened and reformed after its latest global crisis? How, especially, can it be in an age when human rights are more loudly proclaimed than ever before? Can the financial sector be made to shoulder more of the burden of spreading wealth, reducing poverty, and protecting rights? And if so, what role can human rights play in making it happen? In answering these questions, David Kinley draws on a vast array of material from bankers, economists, lawyers, and politicians, as well as human rights activists, philosophers, historians and anthropologists, alongside his own experiences working in the field. Necessary Evil shows how finance can shed its conceit, return to its role as the economy's servant not its master, and regain the public trust and credibility it has so spectacularly lost over the past decade--all by helping human rights, not harming them.
The Glacier Clock
2042: Antarctica guards a secret buried deep within its icy heart. Dr. Mia Hart, a paleoclimatologist haunted by visions of a dying Earth, leads a desperate expedition to the remote Ellsworth Mountains. She's not just searching for clues to the past; she's seeking a lifeline for the future. What she finds is the Glacier Clock, a crystalline structure pulsating with an otherworldly light – a timepiece ticking down to humanity’s extinction. Etched within the Clock’s icy latticework are chillingly accurate prophecies of impending environmental disasters: the Amazon withering to dust, the North Atlantic Current grinding to a halt, coastal cities swallowed by rising seas. But the Clock offers more than just warnings; it holds a complex algorithm, a blueprint for our survival. The discovery ignites a global firestorm. Ruthless corporations, led by the seductive and sinister Carmen McCormick of Helios Energy, see profit in the planet's demise. Governments, driven by self-preservation, descend upon Antarctica, transforming the scientific sanctuary into a geopolitical battleground. Trapped between corporate greed and nationalistic fervor, Mia’s team must choose: safeguard the Clock’s knowledge or risk unleashing it upon a fractured world. As the Antarctic winter closes in, and the Clock itself begins to fracture, Mia devises a daring plan – a global transmission, bypassing the powers vying for control, placing the planet's fate in the hands of its people. But time is running out. The final prophecy, a catastrophic methane release from thawing permafrost, looms large. Can Mia and her team ignite a global awakening and avert the final catastrophe before the ice – and time – runs out?