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2009 FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK AWARD
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Liaquat Ahamed’s ‘Lords of Finance’ swept away a strong field of finalists for the 2009 prize
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On the side of the angels
Four new books show the startling extent to which images of the next world still both reflect and shape life in this one
Heaven and the Afterlife
Pocket Guide to the Afterlife
Who Goes There?
The Garden and the Fire
The final meltdown
Four weighty books lament the impending death of the old Arctic and fearfully welcome the taming of this icy wasteland, writes Simon Kuper
After the Ice
Final Voyage
The Magnetic
North Arctic Labyrinth
And the wall came tumbling down ...
John Lloyd reviews a flood of new books that marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin wall. Each one, in varying degrees of detail, considers the logic of the wall, both before and after it was built
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Behind the Berlin Wall
The Year that Changed the World
1989
The Berlin Wall
Grime and punishment
Four new literary stars expose the corruption and sleaze of modern-day life, and prove that it is often the times of greatest upheaval that throw up the works of most lasting value as generations of brilliant Russian writers have illustrated in the past
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
The Good Angel of Death
One More Year
She Lover of Death
From Marx to Mohammed
Central Asia is now the focus of a new ‘Great Game’ as Russia, China and the US vie for a strategic foothold. David Pilling discusses four volumes that bring to the fore a region that deserves to be better known and convey themes too pressing to ignore
Out of Steppe
Inside Central Asia
In the Bloody Footsteps of Ghengis Khan
Xanadu
