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The Age of Unpeace

How Connectivity Causes Conflict

by Mark Leonard ...

A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical self-help' - Adam Tooze'Full of fresh - and often surprising - ideas' - Niall Ferguson'Extraordinary... One of those rare books that defines the terms of our conversation about our times' - Michael IgnatieffWe thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Inste... ... Read more

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A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical self-help' - Adam Tooze'Full of fresh - and often surprising - ideas' - Niall Ferguson'Extraordinary... One of those rare books that defines the terms of our conversation about our times' - Michael IgnatieffWe thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Inste...
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Surviving Chaos

Geopolitics When the Rules Fail

by Mark Leonard ...

We live in an explosive world. Trump is blowing up political order. Xi Jinping is scrambling the economy. And Putin is redrawing the map of Europe. At a time when every crisis bleeds into the next – from pandemics and wars to climate shocks and AI revolutions – the old rules of global order are collapsing.Mark Leonard reveals how geopolitics is being rewritten in an age of 'Un-Order', where no one ... Read more

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We live in an explosive world. Trump is blowing up political order. Xi Jinping is scrambling the economy. And Putin is redrawing the map of Europe. At a time when every crisis bleeds into the next – from pandemics and wars to climate shocks and AI revolutions – the old rules of global order are collapsing.Mark Leonard reveals how geopolitics is being rewritten in an age of 'Un-Order', where no one
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A Wild Democracy (Vol. 1 of 3)

The Struggle for the Soul of Churches of Christ, 1889-1939

Edited by C. Leonard Allen, John Mark Hicks ...

Series Book 1 - Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century
A fresh, provocative new interpretation of the story of Churches of Christ as they fashioned a new identity in the opening decades of the twentieth century.A Wild Democracy begins with the separation from the Disciples of Christ/Christian Church, viewing the division from the perspective of four leaders in Churches of Christ: Daniel Sommer, David Lipscomb, Samuel W. Womack, and T. B. Larimore.The ... Read more

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A fresh, provocative new interpretation of the story of Churches of Christ as they fashioned a new identity in the opening decades of the twentieth century.A Wild Democracy begins with the separation from the Disciples of Christ/Christian Church, viewing the division from the perspective of four leaders in Churches of Christ: Daniel Sommer, David Lipscomb, Samuel W. Womack, and T. B. Larimore.The
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What Does China Think?

by Mark Leonard ...

An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our assumptions about China.We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai ... Read more

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An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our assumptions about China.We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai
... Read more
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

by Mark Leonard ...

Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets out a vision for a century in which Europe will dominate, not America. This is the book that will make your mind up about Europe.Those who believe Europe is weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Mark Leonard, one of the ... Read more

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Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets out a vision for a century in which Europe will dominate, not America. This is the book that will make your mind up about Europe.Those who believe Europe is weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Mark Leonard, one of the
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The Age of Unpeace

How Connectivity Causes Conflict

by Mark Leonard ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead, it is driving us apart.In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope that it would make war impossible. In doing so, they have unwittingly created a formidable arsenal of weapons ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead, it is driving us apart.In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope that it would make war impossible. In doing so, they have unwittingly created a formidable arsenal of weapons
... Read more

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What Does China Think?

by Mark Leonard ...

We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just thirty years, and that its impact on the global economy is growing at unprecedented speed. We have an image of China as a dictatorship; a nationalist ... Read more

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We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just thirty years, and that its impact on the global economy is growing at unprecedented speed. We have an image of China as a dictatorship; a nationalist
... Read more
Let There Be Light

by Mark Leonard ...

Let There Be Light accompanies Bill Abrams on a time-traveling journey through history. Harnessing the energy of the suns ultraviolet light, his Light Assimilator enables him to travel on a voyage to discover the truth. His adventure takes him to the moments in time in which he discovers how the Ice Age fits into the Bible, the fate of the dinosaurs, the reasons why people lived to be hundreds of ... Read more

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Let There Be Light accompanies Bill Abrams on a time-traveling journey through history. Harnessing the energy of the suns ultraviolet light, his Light Assimilator enables him to travel on a voyage to discover the truth. His adventure takes him to the moments in time in which he discovers how the Ice Age fits into the Bible, the fate of the dinosaurs, the reasons why people lived to be hundreds of
... Read more
Learn Russian with Bilingual Books

(English - Russian)

by Anton Chekhov, Aleksandr Kuprin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Garshin Vsevolod, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grimm Brothers, Charles Dickens, Charles Perrault, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Rider Haggard, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Leonard Arthur Magnus, Octave Mirbeau ...

Translated by Aleksandra Anenskaya, Alexandra Lindgren, Andrey Kroneberg, Anna Ganzen, Avrahm Yarmolinsky, Maude Aylmer, Charles James Hogarth, Charles Welsh, Claud Field, Constance Garnett, Dmitry Mikhailovsky, Ekaterina Beketova, Bernard Guilbert Guerney, Paull Henry Hugh Beams, Isabel Florence Hapgood ...

Sometimes you want to read in Russian. Sometimes you want to read in English.There’s a great option: bilingual books!Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the Russian books to enjoy since you can practice your Russian without being in over your head.Plus, there are plenty of different types of ... Read more

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Sometimes you want to read in Russian. Sometimes you want to read in English.There’s a great option: bilingual books!Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the Russian books to enjoy since you can practice your Russian without being in over your head.Plus, there are plenty of different types of
... Read more
Occupy!

Scenes from Occupied America

Edited by Carla Blumenkranz, Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Resnick ...

In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections, featuring the editors and writers of the ... Read more

$9.99 USD

In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections, featuring the editors and writers of the
... Read more
Guitar All-in-One For Dummies

Book + Online Video and Audio Instruction

by Hal Leonard Corporation, Mark Phillips, Jon Chappell, Desi Serna ...

A one-stop resource to the essentials of owning and playing the guitarIf you’ve just bought a guitar, or you’ve had one for a while, you probably know it takes some time and effort to learn how to play the popular instrument. There’s so much to know about owning, maintaining, and playing a guitar. Where do you even begin?In Guitar All-in-One For Dummies, a team of expert guitarists and music ... Read more

$22.00 USD

A one-stop resource to the essentials of owning and playing the guitarIf you’ve just bought a guitar, or you’ve had one for a while, you probably know it takes some time and effort to learn how to play the popular instrument. There’s so much to know about owning, maintaining, and playing a guitar. Where do you even begin?In Guitar All-in-One For Dummies, a team of expert guitarists and music
... Read more
Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

Edited by Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, Laurence Totelin ...

From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought.Comprising 24 chapters across seven key themes—language, gender, eroticism, nutrition, dissolution, death, and afterlife—this volume investigates ... Read more

$54.99 USD

From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought.Comprising 24 chapters across seven key themes—language, gender, eroticism, nutrition, dissolution, death, and afterlife—this volume investigates
... Read more

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