Inflation and interest rates are causing more and more Americans to go into debt. That’s why debt consolidation is rising in popularity. But how do you separate the reputable companies from the scams?

When a brutal military regime commits one of the worst genocides in history against its own people, a loyal soldier turns rebel to avenge the deaths of those innocent millions of his community. He makes a daredevil escape through own deployments, reaches the “other side” and trains the guns on the very killers he once swore to serve. After months of bloody war, the soldier and his fellow fighters win victory. Bangladesh is born. That soldier, an army captain, fulfills a debt to his people. He tells his story in A Soldier’s Debt. A Soldier’s Debt is an emotion packed personal account of atrocities and triumph seen through the eyes and soul of a man on the ground. It captures intense internal conflicts against a setting fully loaded with suspense, bravery and thrills. In 300 pages of in-your-face details, the soldier (author) walks the reader through an escape that changes one’s life and a conflict that changes the world. Reader will relive the period, as writer and reader become one.

Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn’t talk about high finance or managing money; instead, she goes far deeper to explore debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. By looking at how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day, from the stories we tell of revenge and sin to the way we order social relationships, Atwood argues that the idea of what we owe may well be built into the human imagination as one of its most dynamic metaphors. Her final lecture addresses the notion of a debt to nature and the need to find new ways of interacting with the natural world before it is too late.

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Examining the causes of the acute Latin American debt crisis that began in mid-1982, North American analysts have typically focused on deficiencies in the debtor countries’ economic policies and on shocks from the world economy. Much less emphasis has been placed on the role of the region’s principal creditors–private banks–in the development of the crisis. Robert Devlin rounds out the story of Latin America’s debt problem by demonstrating that the banks were an endogenous source of instability in the region’s debt cycle, as they overexpanded on the upside and overcontracted on the downside.

Originally published in 1993.

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