Benjamin Mee Books

The Colombians had Pablo Escobar, the Cubans had Scarface, the Italians had John Gotti, and the brothas had Bumpy Johnson. . . but what about the sistas? After tragedy strikes her home, Heavenly Jacobs must rely on her beauty and street smarts to survive on her own. Her choice to ride for the wrong man ultimately lands her in prison where, she decides to re-strategize her game plan for when she is released. Eartha Davis was exposed to much more than she should have been from a very young age. Between her mother, a bonafide gangster with a sexual preference for women, and the influence of the streets, it was just about impossible for Eartha not to embrace all that was going on around her. Her love for the streets, violence, and females all contribute to her imprisonment in Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, New Jersey. As fate would have it, Eartha and Heavenly are thrown together and form an unbreakable bond, which spills over into the streets. Seeing how everyone got fat while they were starving behind the prison wall, they decide to put together a team of female hustlers that have the men in the game on edge. Jealousy, envy, ego, and pride all come into play as a beef between the opposite sex emerges. Will the brothas maintain their edge, or will they succumb to the wrath of Heaven and Earth?

"What does it take to care for a stranger? Really care. The Case for Love is a reflection on a career treating patients with brain trauma people whose thoughts and feelings are largely unknowable and how and why those treatments failed. It is a reconstruction of three haunting cases in which the patients were tragically misunderstood and an attempt through the power of the imagination to understand and make amends. It describes the author's abandonment of his career and his tumultuous quest for healing and redemption. It is also a story of intimate relationships, pets, fatherhood and heartbreak, culminating in a moment of psychedelic transcendence and rebirth. It is about the overpowering need for connection and how, increasingly, we are trapped in ourselves. It is a meditation on empathy and an act of atonement. It is a unique, hybrid work of clinical case study and pure invention that destroys the boundary between fact and fiction in order to bring us face-to-face with the shocking, liberating truth"--Publisher's description

Have economists neglected trust? The economy is fundamentally a network of relationships built on mutual expectations. More than that, trust is the glue that holds civilization together. Every time we interact with another person―to make a purchase, work on a project, or share a living space―we rely on trust. Institutions and relationships function because people place confidence in them. Retailers seek to become trusted brands; employers put their trust in their employees; and democracy works only when we trust our government.Benjamin Ho reveals the surprising importance of trust to how we understand our day-to-day economic lives. Starting with the earliest societies and proceeding through the evolution of the modern economy, he explores its role across an astonishing range of institutions and practices. From contracts and banking to blockchain and the sharing economy to health care and climate change, Ho shows how trust shapes the workings of the world. He provides an accessible account of how economists have applied the mathematical tools of game theory and the experimental methods of behavioral economics to bring rigor to understanding trust. Bringing together insights from decades of research in an approachable format, Why Trust Matters shows how a concept that we rarely associate with the discipline of economics is central to the social systems that govern our lives.

When Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home—a dilapidated zoo where more than 200 exotic animals would be their new neighbors—his friends and colleagues thought he was crazy. Mee’s dream was to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business. The grand reopening was scheduled for spring, but there was much work to be done and none of it easy for the novice zookeepers. Tigers broke loose, money was tight, the staff grew skeptical, and family tensions reached a boiling point. Then tragedy struck. Katherine, Ben’s wife, had a recurrence of a brain tumor, forcing Benjamin and his two young children to face the heartbreak of illness and the devastating loss of a wife and mother. But inspired by the memory of Katherine and the healing power of the incredible family of animals they had grown to love; Benjamin and his kids resolved to move forward, and today the zoo is a thriving success.

Het was een droom die uitkwam, maar de realiteit was wilder, spannender en ingrijpender dan de nieuwe directeur van de dierentuin ooit had kunnen vermoeden… Benjamin Mee verhuisde met zijn familie naar een onwaarschijnlijk nieuw thuis: een vervallen dierentuin in een uithoek van Engeland met meer dan 200 exotische dieren, waaronder vier reusachtige tijgers, leeuwen, poema's, drie enorme beren, een tapir en een roedel wolven. Hij wilde de dierentuin renoveren en als familiebedrijf runnen, maar echt gemakkelijk ging het niet: de tijgers braken los, het geld raakte sneller op dan voorzien, het personeel was sceptisch, en er ontstonden spanningen binnen het gezin. Tot overmaat van ramp sloeg het noodlot toe: de hersentumor van zijn vrouw Katherine was terug. Benjamins verhaal is zowel ontroerend als buitengewoon. Onze dierentuin! vertelt over de aanloop naar de officiële heropening van de dierentuin, maar ook over het ziekbed van Katherine, haar laatste dagen en over hoe Benjamin en zijn twee jonge kinderen de draad daarna weer oppakten.