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• The unchanging East
• A silver spoon
• Fokoli
• Razing Caesarea
• Eclipse of the Qajars
• Isolation
• The tragedy of Khadijeh
• The prize
• Victory or death
• Mossadeghism
• Winning America
• Rising Satan's donkey
• A coup of his own
• Mussy duck shoot
• Unperson.

The Chinese and U.S. economies have been locked in an uncomfortable embrace since the late 1970s. Although the relationship initially arose out of mutual benefits, in recent years it has taken on the trappings of an unstable codependence, with the two largest economies in the world losing their sense of self, increasing the risk of their turning on one another in a destructive fashion. In Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China Stephen Roach, senior fellow at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, lays bare the pitfalls of the current China-U.S. economic relationship. He highlights the conflicts at the center of current tensions, including disputes over trade policies and intellectual property rights, sharp contrasts in leadership styles, the role of the Internet, the recent dispute over cyberhacking, and more. A firsthand witness to the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Roach likely knows more about the U.S.-China economic relationship than any other Westerner. Here he discusses: * Why America saving too little and China saving too much creates mounting problems for both* How China is planning to re-boot its economic growth model by moving from an external export-led model to one of internal consumerism with a new focus on service industries* How America, shows a disturbing lack of strategy, preferring a short-term reactive approach over a more coherent Chinese-style planning framework* The way out: what America could do to turn its own economic fate around and position itself for a healthy economic and political relationship with China In the wake of the 2008 crisis, both unbalanced economies face urgent and mutually beneficial rebalancings. Unbalanced concludes with a recipe for resolving the escalating tensions of codependence. Roach argues that the Next China offers much for the Next America-and vice versa.
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This theoretical and practical guide to using corpus linguistic techniques in stylistic analysis focuses on how to use off-the-shelf corpus software, such as AntConc, Wmatrix, and the Brigham Young University (BYU) corpus interface.
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• Introduction: The closing of the frontier
• The Four Horsemen. Stagnation ; Sterility ; Sclerosis ; Repetition
• Sustainable decadence. Comfortably numb ; A kindly despotism ; Waiting for the barbarians ; Giving decadence its due
• The deaths of decadence. Catastrophe ; Renaissance ; Providence

A powerful portrait of how our turbulent age is defined by dark forces seemingly beyond our control from the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion. The Decadent Society explains what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases advancing-how the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemates, cultural exhaustion, and demographic decline creates a strange kind of "sustainable decadence, " a civilizational malaise that could endure for longer than we think. Ranging from the chaos of Trump-era Washington to the gridlock of the European Union; from our empty cradles to our lonely pathways through middle and old age; from the lost promise of the Space Age and early internet to today's earthbound surveillance state; from the recycling of Baby Boomer pop culture to the Brave New World we're making with drugs and virtual reality escapes, Douthat provides an enlightening diagnosis of the modern condition - how we got here, how long our malaise might last, and how, whether in renaissance or catastrophe, our decadence might ultimately end.
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• 1. Understanding War
• 2. Force Ratios
• 3. Attacker versus Defender
• 4. Human Factors
• 5. Measuring Human Factors in Combat : Italy, 1943-1944
• 6. Measuring Human Factors in Combat : Ardennes and Kursk, July 1943
• 7. Measuring Human Factors in Combat : Modern Wars
• 8. Outcome of Battles
• 9. Exchange Ratios
• 10. The Combat Value of Superior Situational Awareness
• 11. The Combat Value of Surprise
• 12. The Nature of Lower Levels of Combat
• 13. The Effects of Dispersion on Combat
• 14. Advance Rates
• 15. Casualties
• 16. Urban Legends
• 17. The Use of Case Studies
• 18. Modeling Warfare
• 19. Validation of the TNDM
• 20. Conclusions
• Appendix 1: Dupuy's Timeless Verities of Combat
• Appendix 2: Dupuy's Combat Advance Rate Verities
• Appendix 3: Dupuy's Combat Attrition Verities.

War by Numbers assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By demonstrating the impact a variety of factors have on combat he moves such analysis beyond the work of Carl von Clausewitz and into modern data and interpretation. Using vast data sets, Lawrence examines force ratios, the human factor in case studies from World War II and beyond, the combat value of superior situational awareness, and the effects of dispersion, among other elements. Lawrence challenges existing interpretations of conventional warfare and shows how such combat should be conducted in the future, simultaneously broadening our understanding of what it means to fight wars by the numbers.
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• Part one. Born in the USSR
• Born in 1984
• Life, examined
• Privilege
• Homo sovieticus
• Part two. Revolution
• Swan Lake
• The execution of the White House
• Everyone wants to be a millionaire
• Part three. Unraveling
• Grief, arrested
• Old songs
• It's all over all over again
• Part four. Resurrection
• Life after death
• The orange menace
• All in the family
• Part five. Protest
• The future is history
• Budushchego net
• White ribbons
• Masha: May 6, 2012
• Part six. Crackdown
• Seryozha: July 18, 2013
• Lyosha: June 11, 2013
• A nation divided
• Zhanna: February 27, 2015
• Forever war.

Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" (The Wall Street Journal), award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 drastically altered life in Cuba. Theatre artists were faced with new economic and social realities that changed their day-to-day experiences and ways of looking at the world beyond the island. The Cuban Revolution's resistance to and intersections with globalization, modernity, emigration and privilege are central to the performances examined in this study.The first book-length study in English of Cuban and Cuban American plays, Cuba Inside Out provides a framework for understanding texts and performances that support, challenge, and transgress boundaries of exile and nationalism. Prizant reveals the intricacies of how revolution is staged theatrically, socially, and politically on the island and in the Cuban diaspora. This close examination of seven plays written since 1985 seeks to alter how U.S. audiences perceive Cuba, its circumstances, and its theatre.
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• Part I. Drivers of demand. The hunter ; Her sister's pangolin scale guy ; Rhino horn in the cookie tin ; The holy grail of herpetology ; White gold
• Part II. Inside the trade. The $50,000,000 bonfire ; The CITES circus ; Of prostitutes, poachers, and politicans ; The front line
• Part III. The saving game. A park reborn ; If rhinos could choose ; My tiger wine is corked ; Rising moon bears ; Order ahead for pangolin.

An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against it Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. Our insatiable demand for animals--for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur--is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Illegal wildlife trade now ranks among the largest contraband industries in the world, yet compared to drug, arms, or human trafficking, the wildlife crisis has received scant attention and support, leaving it up to passionate individuals fighting on the ground to try to ensure that elephants, tigers, rhinos, and more are still around for future generations. As Reefer Madness (Schlosser) took us into the drug market, or Susan Orlean descended into the swampy obsessions of The Orchid Thief, Nuwer--an award-winning science journalist with a background in ecology--takes readers on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to ten countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving demand for animals and their parts; the toll that demand is extracting on species across the planet; and the conservationists, rangers, and activists who believe it is not too late to stop the impending extinctions. More than a depressing list of statistics, Poached is the story of the people who believe this is a battle that can be won, that our animals are not beyond salvation.
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"A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.Digital Gold is New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper's brilliant and engrossing history of Bitcoin, the landmark digital money and financial technology that has spawned a global social movement.The notion of a new currency, maintained by the computers of users around the world, has been the butt of many jokes, but that has not stopped it from growing into a technology worth billions of dollars, supported by the hordes of followers who have come to view it as the most important new idea since the creation of the Internet. Believers from Beijing to Buenos Aires see the potential for a financial system free from banks and governments. More than just a tech industry fad, Bitcoin has threatened to decentralize some of society's most basic institutions.An unusual tale of group invention, Digital Gold charts the rise of the Bitcoin technology through the eyes of the movement's colorful central characters, including a British anarchist, an Argentinian millionaire, a Chinese entrepreneur, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and Bitcoin's elusive creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Already, Bitcoin has led to untold riches for some, and prison terms for others.Digital Gold includes 16 pages of black-and-white photos"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface xi Introduction: Tocqueville: Democracy and Crisis 1
• Chapter 1
• 1918: False Dawn 35
• Chapter 2
• 1933: Fear Itself 76
• Chapter 3
• 1947: Trying Again 111
• Chapter 4
• 1962: On the Brink 145
• Chapter 5
• 1974: Crisis of Confidence 184
• Chapter 6
• 1989: The End of History 225
• Chapter 7
• 2008: Back to the Future 263 Epilogue The Confidence Trap 293 Acknowledgments 327 Notes 329 Bibliography 345 Index 369.
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Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from the First World War to the economic crash of 2008. A global history with a special focus on the United States, The Confidence Trap examines how democracy survived threats ranging from the Great Depression to the Cuban missile crisis, and from Watergate to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It also looks at the confusion and uncertainty created by unexpected victories, from the defeat of German autocracy in 1918 to the defeat of communism in 1989. Throughout, the book pays close attention to the politicians and thinkers who grappled with these crises: from Woodrow Wilson, Nehru, and Adenauer to Fukuyama and Obama. The Confidence Trap shows that democracies are good at recovering from emergencies but bad at avoiding them. The lesson democracies tend to learn from their mistakes is that they can survive them--and that no crisis is as bad as it seems. Breeding complacency rather than wisdom, crises lead to the dangerous belief that democracies can muddle through anything--a confidence trap that may lead to a crisis that is just too big to escape, if it hasn't already. The most serious challenges confronting democracy today are debt, the war on terror, the rise of China, and climate change. If democracy is to survive them, it must figure out a way to break the confidence trap.
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• Part one. Homo sovieticus
• A warm heart, a cool head and clean hands
• The devoted officer of a dying empire
• Democracy faces a hungry winter
• Part two. The spies come in from the cold
• Mismanaged democracy
• An unexpected path to power
• Swimming in the same river twice
• Kompromat
• In the outhouse
• Part three. Becoming Portugal
• Putin's soul
• The gods slept on their heads
• Annus horribilis
• The orange contagion
• Kremlin, inc.
• Poison
• The 2008 problem
• Part four. The regency
• Action man
• The return
• Part five. The restoration
• Alone on Olympus
• Putingrad
• Our Russia.

"The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history. Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating man with enormous ambition and few scruples. We see Putin, a former KGB agent, come to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes, expanding property rights, bringing a measure of order and eventual prosperity to millions whose only experience of democracy in the early years following the Soviet collapse was instability, poverty, and criminality. But Myers makes clear how Putin then orchestrated a new authoritarianism, consolidating power, reasserting the country's might, brutally crushing revolts, and swiftly dispatching dissenters, even as he retained--and continues to retain--the support of many. As the world struggles to confront a newly assertive Russia, the importance of understanding Putin has never been greater. This keenly insightful, riveting book provides an essential key to that understanding"-- Provided by publisher.

• The man
• The ideology
• M.L.K.'s Atlanta
• Family circle
• Morehouse
• Golden day
• Coretta
• Decision at Montgomery
• Hero at Montgomery
• The good press, and the bad
• Pilgrimage
• Of men and evil
• How this book was written.

• Préface : Une année dans l'Histoire / Jean-Noël Jeanneney
• Le printemps arabe dans la longue durée / Henry Laurens
• La Chine : de la honte à l'arrogance / Jean-Luc Domenach
• Séisme, tsunami, Fukushima : les Japonais, la nature et la crise / Pierre-François Souyri
• La mort de Ben Laden : les "minorités assassines" dans l'Islam / Gabriel Martinez-Gros
• L'affaire DSK, ou les périls de la mondialisation / Robert Muchembled
• Les dettes souveraines : une crise de mondialisation / Olivier Feiertag
• Karachi : les marchands d'armes, mythologie et réalités / Maurice Vaïsse
• Le Sénat passe à gauche : la fin d'une fausse fatalité / Serge et Gisèle Berstein
• Les campagnes électorales à Athènes et à Rome / Maurice Sartre
• L'élection d'un président : absolument française ? / Michel Winock.

"Cet ouvrage est proposé par les Rendez-vous de l'Histoire de Blois, le grand festival annuel des amoureux de l'Histoire. Il offre un éclairage inédit sur l'actualité grâce au regard d'historiens de premier plan réunis par Jean-Noël Jeanneney, président du Conseil scientifique des RVH. Serge et Gisèle Berstein, Jean-Luc Domenach, Olivier Feiertag, Henrv Laurens, Gabriel Martinez-Gros, Robert Muchetnbled, Maurice Sartre, Pierre-François Souyri, Maurice Vaïsse et Michel Winock ont répondu à l'appel de Jean-Noël Jeanneney pour donner à réfléchir sur dix grands moments de l'année écoulée. En 2011 et 2012, des événements marquants, dramatiques ou scandaleux, se sont succédé à un rythme soutenu : le printemps arabe, Fukushima au Japon, la mort de Ben Laden, l'affaire DSK, jusqu'à la présidentielle française de mai 2012 qui a vu l'élection de François Hollande. Les journaux s'en sont fait l'écho à chaud. Mais seule l'Histoire peur leur donner leur pleine portée, en les resituant rupture ou continuité ? dans la profondeur du temps."--P. [4] of cover.