This book describes and explains the remarkably large rural-urban divide in economic well-being that exists in China, tracing the root causes, present effects, and future implications for the increasingly marketized Chinese economy. It uses the rigorous analysis and empirical methodology of modern economics.

Are you well equipped for the struggle of a sudden divorce, and wealthy and worldly success? No one is. Derek, a young city asset manager, feels emotionally and physically crushed when he is informed by his beloved wife of five years that she wants an instant divorce. In his destitution, Derek meets Abdul, a Middle Eastern billionaire who takes tremendous interest in this devastated victim and tries to lure Derek into taking multimillions in funds in exchange for his soul. Derek is determined to get revenge on Amy and his boss Jake in order to gain his dignity back. He will do whatever it...

InsideClimate News won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for this four-part narrative and six follow-up reports into an oil spill most Americans have never heard of. More than 1 million gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River in July 2010, triggering the most expensive cleanup in U.S. history -- more than 3/4 of a billion dollars -- and after almost two years the cleanup still isn't finished. Why not? Because the underground pipeline that ruptured was carrying diluted bitumen, or dilbit, the dirtiest, stickiest oil used today. It's the same kind of oil that the...