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Winner Take All
Winner Take All
Oct 10, 2024 3:26 PM

Author:Dambisa Moyo

Winner Take All

Our planet's resources are running out. The media bombards us with constant warnings of impending shortages of fossil fuels, minerals, arable land, and water and the political Armageddon that will result as insatiable global demand far outstrips supply. But how true is this picture?

In Winner Take All, Dambisa Moyo cuts through the misconceptions and noise surrounding resource scarcity with a penetrating analysis of what really is at stake. China, Moyo reveals, has embarked on one of the greatest commodity rushes in history. Tracing its breathtaking quest for resources - from Africa to Latin America, North America to Europe - she examines the impact it is having on us all, and its profound implications for our future.

Reviews

If Moyo's calculations are correct, we are in big trouble - which makes the central premise of her book all the more arresting...It's not hard to see why Moyo is such a hit as a public intellectual

—— Decca Aitkenhead , Guardian

Written to clarify important global questions, this book deserves a wide audience

—— Kirkus Reviews

With Winner Take All, Dambisa Moyo offers a timely and provocative answer to two crucial questions: How are China's leaders rushing to meet their country's exploding demand for energy, and what does this mean for the rest of us? It's a recipe for conflict-and at a crucial moment for the future of the global economy

—— Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of 'The End of the Free Market'

For anyone longing to make sense of tectonic, eco-political shifts occurring in the commodities market, Winner Takes All is a fascinating and important book. By focusing her razor-sharp mind on China's central role in the new commodities rush, Moyo sheds light on and makes sense of a profound and dramatic moment in our history. Her book is a must-read

—— Peter Munk, Chairman and Founder, Barrick Gold Corporation

[Praise for How The West Was Lost] Moyo is a very serious lady indeed

—— Dominic Lawson , The Times

Moyo's diagnosis of the recent disasters in financial markets is succinct and sophisticated...I applaud her brave alarum

—— Paul Collier , The Observer

These stories are wonderful. They make us realize that within every human being lie the pain and the beauty that make life worthwhile

—— Bernie S. Siegel

Dr Yalom is unusually honest, both with his patients and about himself

—— Anthony Storr

Yalom is a gifted storyteller, and from the sound of these tales, a no-less-gifted psychotherapist

—— Los Angeles Times

This is an impressive transformation of clinical experience into literature. Dr Yalom's case histories are more gripping than 98 percent of the fiction published today, and he has gone to amazing lengths of honesty to depict himself as a realistic flesh-and-blood character: funny, flawed, perverse, and, above all, understanding

—— Phillip Lopate

I loved Love's Executioner. Dr Yalom has learned something that fiction writers learned years ago - that people's mistakes are a lot more interesting than their triumphs

—— Joanne Greenberg

An informative history of the English relationship with trees

—— Arminta Wallace , Irish Times

Elegant and heartfelt… Part eco-memoir, part monograph, wholly engrossing

—— Daily Telegraph

Fantastic

—— Neil Denny, Little Atoms

A truly compelling book, savage and sparkling by turns

—— Kathryn Hughes , Mail on Sunday

Alan Root’s overflowing life as a dedicated, adventurous film-maker and naturalist is almost the story of wild East Africa itself in those glorious and tragic years surrounding the advent of political independence…a fresh, honest, often moving (and humorous) account, a terrific contribution to the literature

—— Peter Matthiessen

Required reading for anyone who wants to experience the joys and sorrows of conservation in today's Africa

—— Wilbur Smith

Root’s enthralling memoir…is the best true-life adventure story to come out of Africa for years

—— Sunday Telegraph

His is a funny, harrowing, beautifully written love letter to Africa

—— Christopher Hart , Sunday Times

In this captivating memoir [Root] documents his brushes in the bush and his passion for wildlife

—— Big Issue in the North

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Root has written the most extraordinary love letter to Africa – packed with drama and knowledge, tragedy and hope... A completely gripping and important study of this complex and disappearing natural environment

—— Sally Morris , Daily Mail

His is an extraordinary story laced with tragedy

—— Mail on Sunday

[Root's] life story, vividly related here, is crammed with incident and adventure. Curious, creative and fearless, he has diced with death on numerous occasions and been mauled several times in his efforts to capture the daily lives of everything from silver-back gorillas to leopards in the wild on film. A gripping account of a life well lived

—— Good Book Guide
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