WANTED: Smasher by Keith Raffel

Synopsis (taken from here):

As Accelenet CEO Ian Michaels battles a ruthless Silicon Valley billionaire for control of his company, his wife, deputy D.A. Rowena Goldberg, is targeted for death by an unknown assassin. Michaels must use his brains and business acumen to navigate a deadly trail of corporate and academic hostility, greed, and revenge as he races to find the assailant.

Smasher by Keith Raffel

Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.

9780738718743

10/2009

312 pages

$14.95 US

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Who Owns The World by Kevin Cahill and Rob McMahon

Interesting bits that can be learned from this book:

--Only 15% of the world's population lays claim to landownership, and that landownership in too few hands is probably the single greatest cause of poverty.
--Queen Elizabeth II owns 1/6 of the entire land surface on earth (nearly 3 times the size of the U.S.).
--The Lichtenstein royal family is wealthier than the Grimaldis of Monaco.
--80% of the American population is crammed in urban areas.
--The least crowded state is Alaska, with 670 acres per person. The most crowded is New Jersey, with .7 acres per person. --60% of America's population are property owners. That's behind the UK (69% homeownership)

These numbers are unbelievable! I had never really given much thought to this subject but now that I see the numbers, it's astonishing. This book can be a bit dry in places but overall it is an interesting piece of information.



Book Information:
Who Owns The World by Kevin Cahill and Rob McMahon
Grand Central Publishing
9780446581219
1/29/2010
384 pages
$15.99/$19.99

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