From Dirt Roads to Black Gold is an inspiring true story of a self-made entrepreneur, Younas Chaudhary. Raised in a remote village in Pakistan, Younas built several successful businesses in the USA and Canada using a mix of common sense, hard work, consistency and determination. Younas had only $30 in his pocket when he first landed in Edmonton in 1973. He did backbreaking hard work, encountered frequent challenges and religious persecution. Later in life, tragedy struck when his wife was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Despite the odds, Younas established himself as a visionary businessman with foresight in a highly volatile oil & gas industry. This book is for anyone who has ever doubted themselves or their abilities. The message is simple: perseverance, consistency and self-belief can pave your way to success. His secret to success is simple: work hard, be positive, be consistent, and never give up. From Dirt Roads to Black Gold shows us how one man took on the world with just a few dollars, a dream, and never looked back. The proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit the Younas and Bushra Chaudhary Foundation, a nonprofit charity. Learn more at: http: //ybcfoundation.com.YBC Foundation email address is: [email protected].

From Dirt Roads to Black Gold is an inspiring true story of self-made entrepreneur, Younas Chaudhary. Raised in a remote village in Pakistan, Younas built several successful businesses in the USA and Canada using a mix of common sense, hard work, consistency and determination. Younas had only $30 in his pocket when he first landed in Edmonton in 1973. He did backbreaking hard work, encountered frequent challenges and religious persecution. Later in life, tragedy struck when his wife was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Despite the odds, Younas established himself as a visionary businessman with foresight in a highly volatile oil & gas industry. This book is for anyone who has ever doubted themselves or their abilities. The message is simple: perseverance, consistency and self-belief can pave your way to success. His secret to success is simple: work hard, be positive, be consistent, and never give up. From Dirt Roads to Black Gold shows us how one man took on the world with just a few dollars, a dream, and never looked back. The proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit the Younas and Bushra Chaudhary Foundation, a nonprofit charity. Learn more at: http: //ybcfoundation.com. YBC Foundation email address is: [email protected].

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A medical mission takes a deadly turn ... Dr. Lillian Whyte is swept into a dangerous world when the camp of her Kenya mission clinic is destroyed by war profiteers. After a decade of trudging through the hectic emergency room, the luster and idealism of being a physician has left Lillian disillusioned. Concerned about her swelling cynicism about her job, her supervisor volunteers her to lead a group of residents on a medical mission to Kenya. An ocean away from her troubled, she finds comfort in aiding local inhabitants. The tranquility turns to chaos when her clinic is ambushed by militant thieves led by a conniving oil profiteer. Faced with the prospect of permanent captivity and/or probable death, Lillian must find the resolve to outwit her captors and escape. A slow-burn intellectual thriller from award-winning author CB Samet. Black Gold is book one in the Lillian Whyte adventure series. This series contains some violence and language. *** "Black Gold by C.B. Samet shows a tremendous amount of heart wrapped around a riveting story populated by sympathetic characters who will captivate readers." --Judge, 24th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards (Nov 2017)

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite. An acclaimed author and historian, Brinkley has drawn upon recently disclosed letters, diaries, and other artifacts at the recently opened Cronkite Archive to bring detail and depth to this deeply personal portrait. He also interviewed nearly two hundred of Cronkite’s closest friends and colleagues, including Andy Rooney, Leslie Stahl, Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, Brian Williams, Les Moonves, Christiane Amanpour, Katie Couric, Bob Schieffer, Ted Turner, Jimmy Buffett, and Morley Safer, using their voices to instill dignity and humanity in this study of one of America’s most beloved and trusted public figures.

“This fine social history of the city of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, traces a century of political upheaval.” —John Waterbury, Foreign Affairs Kirkuk is Iraq’s most multilingual city, for millennia home to a diverse population. It was also where, in 1927, a foreign company first struck oil in Iraq. Over the following decades, Kirkuk became the heart of Iraq’s booming petroleum industry. City of Black Gold tells a story of oil, urbanization, and colonialism in Kirkuk—and how these factors shaped the identities of Kirkuk’s citizens, forming the foundation of an ethnic conflict. Arbella Bet-Shlimon reconstructs the twentieth-century history of Kirkuk to question the assumptions about the past underpinning today’s ethnic divisions. In the early 1920s, when the Iraqi state was formed under British administration, group identities in Kirkuk were fluid. But as the oil industry fostered colonial power and Baghdad’s influence over Kirkuk, intercommunal violence and competing claims to the city’s history took hold. The ethnicities of Kurds, Turkmens, and Arabs in Kirkuk were formed throughout a century of urban development, interactions between communities, and political mobilization. Ultimately, this book shows how contentious politics in disputed areas are not primordial traits of those regions, but are a modern phenomenon tightly bound to the society and economics of urban life. Praise for City of Black Gold “Blending smooth storytelling and sharp analysis, Arbella Bet-Shlimon challenges readers to rethink much of what passes as conventional wisdom about Iraq, and about power, oil, and ethnicity in the twentieth century. A wonderful book, richly documented, accessible, and creative.” —Toby C. Jones, Rutgers University “City of Black Gold is essential for anyone interested in the modern history of Iraq and the roots of the standoff between the government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan regional government. Written with care and sensitivity, Arbella Bet-Shlimon’s history of Kirkuk is a delight to read.” —Joost Hiltermann, Middle East and North Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group “This remarkable study of Kirkuk uncovers the ways in which the city became—and did not become—part of the Iraqi state. Arbella Bet-Shlimon bravely covers silenced histories, as she encourages us to look at Iraqi history through its northern urban peripheries. A fascinating urban history.” —Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago

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