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American Dreamer
My Life in Fashion & Business
2022 || Hardcover || Tommy Hilfiger e.a. || Random House
Few designers have stayed on top of changing trends the way Tommy Hilfiger has. Fewer still have left such an indelible mark on global culture. Since designing his first collection of classics with a twist three decades ago, Tommy Hilfiger has been synonymous with all-American style but his destiny wasn t always so clear. Growing up one of nine children in a working-class family in Elmira, New York, Tommy suffered from dyslexia, flunked sophomore year of high school, and found himself constan...
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The World for Sale (Heruitgave)
money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
2022 || Paperback || Javier Blas e.a. || Random House
Shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year
Meet the billionaire traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food.
You've probably never heard of them.
They wield unimaginable political and economic power.
And, like it or not, you're one of their customers.
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'Shows how much money and global influence is concentrated in the hands of a tiny group . . . Remarkable . . . As the authors roam from oilfield to w...
This Is My America
2022 || Paperback || Kim Johnson || Random House
Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what rea...