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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. R4 - A reprint hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Muhammad Yunus to previous owner on the dedication page in very good condition in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, scattered scratches, wrinkling, rubbing and scuffing, dog-eared on the front flap, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and light cover edgewear, wrinkling on the spine edges, some scattered light smudges/stains and scuffing on the page edges, previous owner's name written on the half-title page, lightly moisture soiled, light discoloration and shelf wear. Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. 9.5"x6.5", 313 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.[1] These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus and the Grameen Bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below". The Norwegian Nobel Committee said that "lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty" and that "across cultures and civilizations, Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development". Yunus has received several other national and international honours. He received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010. In February 2011, Yunus together with Saskia Bruysten, Sophie Eisenmann and Hans Reitz co-founded Yunus Social Business - Global Initiatives (YSB). YSB creates and empowers social businesses to address and solve social problems around the world. As the international implementation arm for Yunus' vision of a new, humane capitalism, YSB manages incubator funds for social businesses in developing countries and provides advisory services to companies, governments, foundations and NGOs. In 2012, he became Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, a position he held until 2018. Previously, he was a professor of economics at Chittagong University in Bangladesh. He published several books related to his finance work. He is a founding board member of Grameen America and Grameen Foundation, which support microcredit. Yunus also served on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to support UN causes, from 1998 to 2021. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint of the First South Asian Edition. Book itself has a pastedown on the front cover with a picture of Muhammad Yunus and a pastedown on on the back cover telling about other books from this press. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. Book itself, and the dust jacket, have a little edge wear at the bottom. 301 pages. No apparent underlining, no highlighting, no owner names, no bookplates, no dog-eared pages, no remainder marks, no markings, not ex-library. A nice copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Pete Garceau (Cover Design); Tim Campbell (Author Photo) (illustrator). 289 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. Muhammad Yunus set up the Grameen Bank in Bangledesh to lend tiny sums to the poorest of the poor, who were shunned by ordinary banks. The money would enable them to set up the smallest village enterprises and pull themselves out of poverty. Today, Yunus's system of 'micro-credit' is practised in some sixty countries, and his Grameen Bank is a billion-pound business acknowledged by world leaders and the World Bank as a fundamental weapon in the fight against poverty. This book is Yunus's own enthralling story: of how Bangladesh's terrible 1974 famine underlined the need to enable its victims to grow more food; of overcoming scepticism in many governments and in traditional economic thinking; and of how micro-credit was extended into credit unions in the West. Illustrated. 313 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

1st p/b ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 313 pp. Autobiography of the Bangladeshi economist who founded the Grameen Bank to provide small affordable loans (microfinance) to assist business development, particularly for women, in his poor country.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Owner's address lable to the first blank, a decent copy otherwise; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over turquoise boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (1.1 kg); pp (xviii) 313; Index; Includes: Black & White photos on individual leaves; Tables; Appendices (3); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #204723 ||.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. 3rd Printing. SIGNED - Octavo. Ochre colored boards quarterbound in a blue backstrip with shiny gilt lettering and trim on the spine. Book has very light bumping at the tail of the spine. White endpapers. Bookplate on the upper edge of the free front endpaper reads "Compliments of Unitus / Thank you for your interest! / To get involved in the fight against / poverty and economic suffering / visit our website at ------------- / or give us a call at --- --- ----." Signed by the author and dated (20 March 2001) on the free front endpaper in blue pen. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 258 pages. Illustrated with a section of photographs in the center. Dust Jacket - has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the tail of the spine - jacket otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. A lovely copy, unique with the author's signature. Signed by the Author.