The Sold Nation
The Sold Nation

Author: Daniel B. Solomon

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2021-06-16

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1982269928

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The Sold Nation is a fictional story based on the ongoing realty in the contemporary Ethiopia. The novel begins with the students at Addis Ababa university at their Social Science Compass and ends in the great hall of the national palace of the country. The Sold Nation exhibits the trying struggle of the students of the said university and some of their professors to help the country get rid of the “so-called” identity politics, which has messed up the texture of the country as a united sovereign nation. The characters along with their respective settings are well constructed. They represent the various colors and odors of the nation and the aspiration of its citizens for the period the identity-based politics have been ruling the nation. The various conflicts between and among the characters are very well constructed. The plot is so strong and tense. It is very involving. It could simply capture the attention of the readers and drive them all the way to the end at one sitting. The language is attractive and enchanting to the mind. It is full of figurative speeches, well written expressions. This novel is a must to read novel, if you would like to apprehend the suffrage that the said politics has wedged on the citizens of Ethiopia. It is a worth reading.

Sold
Sold

Author: Patricia McCormick

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2010-07-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1423141113

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The powerful, poignant, bestselling National Book Award Finalist gives voice to a young girl robbed of her childhood yet determined to find the strength to triumph Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution. An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt-then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave. Lakshmi's life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still, she lives by her mother's words-Simply to endure is to triumph-and gradually, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision-will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life? Written in spare and evocative vignettes by the co-author of I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition), this powerful novel renders a world that is as unimaginable as it is real, and a girl who not only survives but triumphs.

Commercial Nationalism
Commercial Nationalism

Author: Zala Volcic

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-03

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1137500999

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This book intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses.

Start-up Nation
Start-up Nation

Author: Dan Senor

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 2011-09-07

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1455503460

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What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success. Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel -- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK? With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine the lessons of the country's adversity-driven culture, which flattens hierarchy and elevates informality-- all backed up by government policies focused on innovation. In a world where economies as diverse as Ireland, Singapore and Dubai have tried to re-create the "Israel effect", there are entrepreneurial lessons well worth noting. As America reboots its own economy and can-do spirit, there's never been a better time to look at this remarkable and resilient nation for some impressive, surprising clues.

Ninja Selling
Ninja Selling

Author: Larry Kendall

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1626342857

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2018 Axiom Business Book Award Winner, Gold Medal Stop Selling! Start Solving! In Ninja Selling, author Larry Kendall transforms the way readers think about selling. He points out the problems with traditional selling methods and instead offers a science-based selling system that gives predictable results regardless of personality type. Ninja Selling teaches readers how to shift their approach from chasing clients to attracting clients. Readers will learn how to stop selling and start solving by asking the right questions and listening to their clients. ​Ninja Selling is an invaluable step-by-step guide that shows readers how to be more effective in their sales careers and increase their income-per-hour, so that they can lead full lives. Ninja Selling is both a sales platform and a path to personal mastery and life purpose. Followers of the Ninja Selling system say it not only improved their business and their client relationships; it also improved the quality of their lives.

The Measure of a Nation
The Measure of a Nation

Author: Howard Steven Friedman

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1616145692

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Compares the United States with other affluent democracies in such areas as health, crime and violence, education, democracy, and equality, and suggests ways the country might improve its standing in these areas.

For Sale —American Paradise
For Sale —American Paradise

Author: Willie Drye

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-10-20

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 149301899X

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Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Regional Nonfiction in the Southwest The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans’ 20th-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. The Fantasy of Florida hones in on the experiences of William Jennings Bryan and Edwin Menninger, the two men who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America’s paradise. The cast of characters also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, and Mark Twain. A tale of a colorful and tragicomic era during which the allure and illusion of the American Dream was on full display—a Jazz Age period when Americans started chasing what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the orgiastic future”—the book reveals how the recent economic collapse in Florida is eerily similar to events that happened there between 1925 and 1928. What sets the mid-1920s’ Florida land boom apart from more recent booms-and-busts, however, is that this was the first modern boom, the first time that emerging new technologies, mass communications and modern advertising techniques were used to sell the nation on the notion that prosperity and happiness are simply there for the taking. Florida’s image as a place where the rules of everyday life don’t apply and winners go to play was formed during this dawn of the age of consumerism when Americans wanted to have fun and make lots of money, and millions of them thought Florida was the perfect place to do that.