Alex Perry

Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa and a world at odds with its rise. Africa has long been misunderstood - and abused - by outsiders. Perry travelled the continent for most of a decade, meeting with entrepreneurs and warlords, professors and cocaine smugglers, presidents and jihadis, among many others.Opening with a devastating investigation into a largely unreported war crime in Somalia in 2011, he finds Africa at a moment of furious self-assertion. This is a remade continent, defiantly rising from centuries of oppression to become an economic and political titan: where cash is becoming a thing of the past, where astronomers are unlocking the origin of life and where, twenty-five years after Live Aid, Ethiopias first yuppies are traders on an electronic food exchange. Yet, as Africa finally wins the substance of its freedom, it must confront the three last false prophets of Islamists, dictators and aid workers, who would keep it in its bonds.

Charlottes Web meets My Sisters Keeper in this charming story told from the alternating perspectives of a boy with a fatal heart condition and the pig with the heart that could save his life. Jeremiahs heart skips a beat before his first soccer game, but its not nerves. Its the first sign of a heart attack. He knows he needs to go to the hospital, but hes determined to score a goal. Charging after the ball, he refuses to stopeven if his heart does. J6 is a pig and the only one of his five brothers who survived the research lab. Though hes never left his cell, he thinks of himself as a therapy pig, a scholar, and a bodyguard. But when the lab sends him to live with Jeremiahs family, theres one new title hes desperate to have: brother. At first, Jeremiah thinks his parents took in J6 to cheer him up. But before long, he begins to suspect theres more to his new curly-tailed companion than meets the eye. When the truth is revealed, Jeremiah and J6 must protect each other at all costseven if their lives depend on it.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. What if thats not the case? Alex Perry, award-winning foreign correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands of Afghanistan to the Sahara to see first-hand globalization at the sharp end -- and its not pretty. Whether its Shenzen, Chinas boom city where sweatshops pay under-age workers less than $4 a day, or Bombay, where the gap between rich and poor means million-dollar apartments overlook million-people slums, or on the high seas with the pirates of southeast Asia who prey on the worlds central trade artery, or South Africa, where Mandelas dream for a Rainbow Nation is being crushed by a new economic apartheid, Perry demonstrates, vividly and chillingly, that for every winner in our brave new world, there are hundreds of millions of losers. And be they Chinese army veterans, Indian Maoist rebels or the Somali branch of al Qaeda, they are all very, very angry. Falling Off the Edge is an adrenaline-charged journey through the developing world, which reveals with clarity that globalization starts wars. Far from living in a time of peace and prosperity, Perry suggests, the boom is about to go bang.

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NOW A MAJOR TV SERIESThe electrifying, untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias and how they risked everything to bring it down.The Calabrian Mafiaknown as the Ndranghetais one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world, with branches stretching from America to Australia. It controls seventy percent of the cocaine and heroin supply in Europe, manages billion-dollar extortion rackets, brokers illegal arms dealssupplying weapons to criminals and terroristsand plunders the treasuries of both Italy and the European Union.The Ndranghetas power derives from a macho mix of violence and silenceomerta. Yet it endures because of family ties: you are born into the syndicate, or you marry in. Loyalty is absolute. Bloodshed is revered. You go to prison or your grave and kill your own father, brother, sister, or mother in cold blood before you betray The Family. Accompanying the Ndranghetas reverence for tradition and history is a violent misogyny among its men. Women are viewed as chattel, bargaining chips for building and maintaining clan alliances and beatingsand worseare routine.In 2009, after one abused Ndrangheta wife was murdered for turning states evidence, prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti considered a tantalizing possibility: that the Ndranghetas sexism might be its greatest flawand her most effective weapon. Approaching two more mafia wives, Alessandra persuaded them to testify in return for a new future for themselves and their children.A feminist saga of true crime and justice, The Good Mothers is the riveting story of a high-stakes battle pitting a brilliant, driven woman fighting to save a nation against ruthless mafiosi fighting for their existence. Caught in the middle are three women fighting for their children and their lives. Not all will survive.The Ndrangheta Uncovered: Go inside one of the worlds richest and most ruthless crime syndicatesa secret society more powerful than the Sicilian Mafia that controls seventy percent of Europes cocaine supply. Women Against the Mafia: Discover how a culture of violent misogyny became the Ndranghetas greatest weakness when a handful of women, treated as property, decided to fight back for the sake of their children. A High-Stakes Battle for Justice: Follow courageous prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti as she risks everything on an audacious strategy: turning the mafias own sexism into the weapon that could bring the entire organization down. A True Story of Survival: Based on years of fearless reporting, this riveting account follows the harrowing journeys of three women who dared to break the code of silence. Not all of them will make it out alive.

"The Awakening" depicts Captain John Rileys death as a "quantum leap" into a surreal realm of impossible architecture and shimmering light. He becomes a spectral observer, grappling with his paradoxical existence alive yet dead, present but unseen. The alien city hums with energy, its inhabitants communicating through light and movement, a language incomprehensible to Riley. Initially despairing, a flicker of hope emerges as he seeks to understand this new reality. He observes the ethereal beings, their seamless integration with the living city, and the mystery deepens. In "The Paradox of Existence," Rileys frustration at his insubstantiality gives way to detached observation. He perceives patterns and begins to grasp the citys energy-based communication. His paradoxical state shifts from a curse to a unique perspective. "Whispers of Recognition" mark a turning point: fleeting encounters suggest others sense his presence, offering hope that he is not entirely isolated. These moments fuel his proactive quest for answers in "Seeking Answers." Riley explores the citys energy hotspots and hidden archives, meticulously studying the inhabitants and their reality, his spectral form now a tool for observation. At the end it concludes with Riley poised to unravel the mysteries of this quantum realm and his place within it, sustained by the faint but persistent hope of understanding.

You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omerta is how the Ndrangheta became the worlds most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers is the story of the women who broke the silence. We live in their buildings, work in their companies, shop in their stores, eat in their restaurants and elect politicians they fund. Founded more than 150 years ago by shepherding families in the toe of Italy, the Ndrangheta is today the worlds most powerful mafia, with a crushing presence in southern Italy, a market-moving size in global finance and a reach that extends to fifty countries around the world. And yet, remarkably, few of us have ever heard of it. The Ndranghetas power rests on a code of silence, omerta, enforced by a claustrophobic family hierarchy and murderous misogyny. Men and boys rule. Girls are married off as teenagers in arranged clan alliances. Beatings are routine. A woman who is unfaithful even to a dead husband can expect her sons, brothers or father to kill her to erase the family shame. In 2009, when abused wife Lea Garofalo disappears after giving evidence against her mafiosi husband, prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti realises the Ndranghetas bigotry may be its great flaw. The key to bringing down this criminal empire is to free its women and allow them to speak out and testify. When Alessandra finds two collaborators inside Italys biggest crime families, she must persuade them to cooperate, and save themselves and their children. The stakes could not be higher. Alessandra is fighting to save a nation. The mafiosi are fighting for their existence. The women are fighting for their lives. Not all will survive.

La historia de las mujeres que rompieron el silencio y se enfrentaron a la mafia calabresa.Fundada hace más de 150 años por pastores calabreses, la‘Ndrangheta está considerada la mafia más poderosa d

Una mirada vívida y provocativa a cómo el mundo no comprende África.La extraordinaria historia de cómo 1.000 millones de africanos están superando la caridad, a los déspotas y a los yihadistas para, finalmente, obtener su libertad. Desde hace mucho, los extranjeros han comprendido mal Africa y han abusado de ella. Alex Perry ha viajado por el continente durante mas de una decada, entrevistandose con empresarios, señores de la guerra, profesores, narcotraficantes, presidentes y yihadistas, entre otros. Con el Gran Valle del Rift (la grieta geologica que un dia acabara partiendo Africa en dos) como metafora central, Perry explora la division entre un Africa que resurge y un mundo que no sabe como reaccionar ante ello. ¿Como esta cambiando Africa? ¿Como desafia esta nueva Africa su antigua elite dirigente? Perry, que abre el libro con una devastadora investigacion sobre un crimen de guerra, en gran parte ignorado, que tuvo lugar en Somalia en 2011, halla un Africa inmersa en un momento de furiosa afirmacion. Es un continente rehecho, que se levanta desafiante sobre siglos de opresion para convertirse en un titan economico y politico. Un lugar en el que el dinero efectivo es cosa del pasado, en el que los astronomos estan desentrañando los origenes de la vida y en el que, veinticinco años despues de los concie...