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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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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
Feed the world
Can new farming methods, fairer trade and birth control provide for a future global population of 9 billion? Five new publications tackle the fragile food supply, each with theories about the problem’s sources and potential solutions
The End of Food
The Food Wars
The Constant Economy
The Environmental Food Crisis
The Feeding of the Nine Billion
