Emerging market investment advice from a seasoned pro Mark Mobius, the man the "Wall Street Journal" has proclaimed "the King of the Emerging Market Funds", spends eight months of the year traveling the globe in search of hidden market bargains overseas and in "Passport to Profits: Why the Next Investment Windfalls Will be Found Abroad and How to Grab Your Share, Revised Editio...(展开全部)

"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later." Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed. His parents' arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening...(展开全部)

Narrow escapes and new starts, tearful departures and hopeful arrivals, unwanted scrutiny in the backrooms of officialdom: some of our most memorable experiences involve a passport. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby examines the passports of artists and intellectuals, ancient messengers and modern migrants to reveal how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger ...(展开全部)

This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will: ...(展开全部)

With nerves of steel and a cool head, mutual-fund manager Mark Mobius travels the globe in search of good, undiscovered companies in risky, emerging markets. In Passport to Profits, he takes you on a enlightening international tour, from Estonia to Russia to Nigeria. He shows you how he's established a winning long-term record at Franklin Templeton funds, up an average 20 perce...(展开全部)

This book is written and published for celebrating the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation.

Discover Canada Mosey past moose on the Cabot Trail through to the vast Cape Breton Highlands National Park Quench your thirst for high-mountain adventure amidst the jaw-dropping scenery of the wild Rockies Go easy on the maple syrup while sampling the nouvelle cuisine of Montreal and Canada's other foodie havens Spot caribou and arctic wolves while hiking through 'the land t...(展开全部)

Discover Canada Mosey past moose on the Cabot Trail through to the vast Cape Breton Highlands National Park Quench your thirst for high-mountain adventure amidst the jaw-dropping scenery of the wild Rockies Go easy on the maple syrup while sampling the nouvelle cuisine of Montreal and Canada's other foodie havens Spot caribou and arctic wolves while hiking through 'the land t...(展开全部)