JACQUES PERETTI

"¿Ý si la forma en la que entendemos el mundo está equivocada? ¿Y si lo que condiciona nuestras vidas no son los políticos o determinados eventos conocidos, sino los pactos secretos hechos por gente

¿Y si la forma en la que entendemos el mundo está equivocada? ¿Y si lo que condiciona nuestras vidas no son los políticos o determinados eventos conocidos, sino los pactos secretos hechos por gente de la cual nunca has escuchado hablar?Este libro cuenta la historia de los principales pactos que han cambiado y cambiaran el mundo. Pactos que revolucionan nuestra forma de vivir, que modifican cuestiones como el dinero que utilizamos, las compras que hacemos, la comida que ingerimos o los medicamentos que tomamos. Estos pactos nunca han sido objeto de las noticias ya que se realizan a en salas de reuniones de grandes empresas, en campos de golf o en lujosos yates, todos sellados con un simple apreton de manos. Esta es la historia de esos tratos.

That nickname . . .''"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected."Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking they were the only one.'As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was one story, heard in scattered fragments throughout his childhood, that he never thought to investigate. The story of how his mother survived Auschwitz.

Jacques Peretti tells the story of the secret history of the deals that are changing our world

The book to readGQA revelatory bookJohn Lewis-StempelWhile the laws that guide our lives are written by the politicians we elect, much of the world around us - from the food we eat to the products we buy to the medications we take - is shaped by private negotiations and business deals few of us know about.For twenty years, Peretti has interviewed the people behind the decisions that have altered our world, from CEOs of multinational corporations to politicians, economists, and scientists. In The Deals that Made the World, Peretti draws on his vast knowledge to reveal a host of fascinating and startling connections, from how Wall Streets actions on food commodities helped spark the Arab Spring to the link between the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. He proves a sure guide, combining both eye-opening on-the-ground reporting and a narrative flair that makes esoteric financial and business concepts clear and understandable.Like Steven Levitt, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Brad Stone, Michael Lewis, and Malcolm Gladwell, Peretti takes the ordinary and turns it inside out to give us a compelling new perspective on our lives and our world.

One mans powerful account of his mothers extraordinary escape from Auschwitz - and what came after That nickname . . . "Little bird." It wasnt mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didnt mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking they were the only one.As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was one story, heard in scattered fragments throughout his childhood, that he never thought to investigate. The story of how his mother survived Auschwitz.In the few last months of the Second World War, thirteen-year-old Alina Peretti, along with her mother and sister, was one of thirteen thousand non-Jewish Poles sent to Auschwitz. Her experiences there cast a shadow over the rest of her life.Now ninety, Alina has been diagnosed with dementia. Together, mother and son begin a race against time to record her memories and preserve her familys story. Along the way, Jacques learns long-hidden secrets about his mothers family. He gains an understanding of his mother through retracing her past, learning more about the woman who would never let him call her Mum.