Kirjahaku

The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is the world's original 'fintech'. Its invention in 1967 changed our world. And it's doing it still. Yet, despite over half the world's population relying on the cash they dispense, they remain unnoticed and under-appreciated. We pass them nearly every day, not pausing to reflect on the crucial role they play in society, not just in facilitating access to our money, but in alleviating poverty and reducing disaster risk. By telling the story of how these humble but sophisticated machines came to be invented and how they have developed since, this book pays them the respect they deserve.

The Invention of Ethnic Cleansing From Bosnia to Rwanda, Myanmar to China, and Ethiopia to Israel, the hideous practice of 'ethnic cleansing remains a 'constant evil' in world history to this day. Yet, nobody really knows where the term came from or what it means. As a result, nobody has ever been held to account for their part in such barbarity.As a humanitarian affairs adviser to the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office in Former-Yugoslavia in 1992 and later as a UN official in places such as Burundi, Rwanda and Sudan, James Shepherd-Barron has seen, heard and smelled 'ethnic cleansing' up close and personal. This is his account of what happens when whole peoples turn against those they consider to be 'other' and describes how the term came to be 'invented'. The story has never been told before.