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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A thirteen-year-old girl in Apartheid South Africa wrote a letter to the Vice President of McDonald's International.The reply came months later, on real letterhead: not now.She kept the letter. She kept walking. Twenty years later, she owned three McDonald's franchises.Start Where the Door Opens is the story of that girl, and the four decades of work, service, and quiet defiance that followed. It is also an argument. In a country that has been told there is no work, that the pie is fixed, and that AI will take every job, Mimi Masala tells a different story - one drawn from her own life, from the lives of her mother and grandmother, and from the trays, counters, kitchens, and doorways she has walked through since 1985.In this book, you will meet: A grandmother who could not read English but taught her granddaughter to writeA mother named Edith Makgokolotso who drove her daughter past houses they were not permitted to enter under Apartheid, and told her one day she would live in themA young graduate hiking to work before sunrise, standing on a road, refusing to stay homeA corporate executive who rose through McDonald's, bought her own franchises, and returned to build one of the most quietly effective housing programmes in South AfricaAnd you will encounter a set of tools you can use in your own life: The multiplication plan - how one tray of scones becomes five businessesThe two arenas of Need and Desire, and how to walk from one to the otherWhy hiring managers prefer the employed, and how to escape the trapHow AI has dismantled the gatekeepers, and what this means for anyone with a smartphone and a willingness to beginThe sentence that changes an unemployed person into a working one: I am currently working on.Start Where the Door Opens is for the young person who has been told the door is closed. For the parent who does not know what to say to their son on the couch. For the executive who has been dismissed in her own meeting rooms and returned with sharper ideas. For anyone at any stage of any life who has been carrying the sentence the world is against me, and is ready to put it down.The door is not closed. It has never been closed.Walk to it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. What happens when someone finally speaks - but still leaves the most important things unsaid?On July 16, 2025, a Coldplay concert camera found two people swaying in a stadium embrace. Fifteen seconds. Three hundred billion views. Two resignations. And a story that the world decided it already understood - before anyone had told it the truth.The Cold Play is not a book about a viral moment. It is a book about what viral moments reveal: about how we assign blame, distribute sympathy, and confuse pain with innocence. About the woman who spoke - at length, on Oprah, on a speaking circuit - and the woman who never did. About the man who said nothing. And about the accountability that none of them provided to the person who needed it most.Written with the precision of investigative journalism and the emotional intelligence of lived experience, The Cold Play asks the questions no interview answered: Why does managed accountability feel like truth when it isn't? Why did women respond to fifteen seconds of footage with decades of recognition? What does genuine remorse actually look like - and why wasn't it offered? And who, in the end, carries the deepest cost of a story told without them?At its centre is a woman who changed her name on Facebook, deleted her account, and went to Maine. Who found out on a jumbotron. Who has said nothing. And who deserved better than the silence she was given by everyone with the power to break it."Not everything brought into the light is injustice. Some things are revealed so that truth can finally take its place."Essential reading for anyone who has watched a public scandal and felt - beneath all the noise - that the real story was somewhere else entirely. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A thirteen-year-old girl in Apartheid South Africa wrote a letter to the Vice President of McDonald's International.The reply came months later, on real letterhead: not now.She kept the letter. She kept walking. Twenty years later, she owned three McDonald's franchises.Start Where the Door Opens is the story of that girl, and the four decades of work, service, and quiet defiance that followed. It is also an argument. In a country that has been told there is no work, that the pie is fixed, and that AI will take every job, Mimi Masala tells a different story - one drawn from her own life, from the lives of her mother and grandmother, and from the trays, counters, kitchens, and doorways she has walked through since 1985.In this book, you will meet: A grandmother who could not read English but taught her granddaughter to writeA mother named Edith Makgokolotso who drove her daughter past houses they were not permitted to enter under Apartheid, and told her one day she would live in themA young graduate hiking to work before sunrise, standing on a road, refusing to stay homeA corporate executive who rose through McDonald's, bought her own franchises, and returned to build one of the most quietly effective housing programmes in South AfricaAnd you will encounter a set of tools you can use in your own life: The multiplication plan - how one tray of scones becomes five businessesThe two arenas of Need and Desire, and how to walk from one to the otherWhy hiring managers prefer the employed, and how to escape the trapHow AI has dismantled the gatekeepers, and what this means for anyone with a smartphone and a willingness to beginThe sentence that changes an unemployed person into a working one: I am currently working on.Start Where the Door Opens is for the young person who has been told the door is closed. For the parent who does not know what to say to their son on the couch. For the executive who has been dismissed in her own meeting rooms and returned with sharper ideas. For anyone at any stage of any life who has been carrying the sentence the world is against me, and is ready to put it down.The door is not closed. It has never been closed.Walk to it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. What happens when someone finally speaks - but still leaves the most important things unsaid?On July 16, 2025, a Coldplay concert camera found two people swaying in a stadium embrace. Fifteen seconds. Three hundred billion views. Two resignations. And a story that the world decided it already understood - before anyone had told it the truth.The Cold Play is not a book about a viral moment. It is a book about what viral moments reveal: about how we assign blame, distribute sympathy, and confuse pain with innocence. About the woman who spoke - at length, on Oprah, on a speaking circuit - and the woman who never did. About the man who said nothing. And about the accountability that none of them provided to the person who needed it most.Written with the precision of investigative journalism and the emotional intelligence of lived experience, The Cold Play asks the questions no interview answered: Why does managed accountability feel like truth when it isn't? Why did women respond to fifteen seconds of footage with decades of recognition? What does genuine remorse actually look like - and why wasn't it offered? And who, in the end, carries the deepest cost of a story told without them?At its centre is a woman who changed her name on Facebook, deleted her account, and went to Maine. Who found out on a jumbotron. Who has said nothing. And who deserved better than the silence she was given by everyone with the power to break it."Not everything brought into the light is injustice. Some things are revealed so that truth can finally take its place."Essential reading for anyone who has watched a public scandal and felt - beneath all the noise - that the real story was somewhere else entirely. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…