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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loos) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Friedman posits that we should purposely "be late" -- we should...
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Scribner
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[2021]
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First Scribner Hardcover edition.
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English
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"Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a "fresh way of looking at maps" (The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed, but the world has. Now, in this revelatory new book, Marshall takes us into ten regions that are set to shape global politics and power. Find out why the Earth's atmosphere is the world's...
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We've found ourselves pitted against one another like never before.
Why has the world suddenly, become so polarized?
Our beliefs about current events have us fighting against each other.
The anonymous intelligence insider known as "Q" says politicians and the media have created a false narrative about current events that conceal corruption from the public. Some choose to trust the media. Others choose not to. And, therein lies the root of our struggle.
In...
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Are we living under a two-tiered system of justice?
Why do the wealthy and powerful escape prosecution for their crimes?
Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?
Is anything being done about it?
Using a combination of wit, wisdom, and gravity, an unknown intelligence insider-identified simply as "Q" has been, communicating with anonymous citizens (anons) through internet message forums since 2017. These online exchanges bear no resemblance...
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A thrilling insight into international geopolitics by one of the world's leading experts, examining the past, future, and present meaning of borders from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, Palestine to Pakistan, North Korea to Trump's Wall, and beyond What do the world's best-known, most dangerous, and most unexpected border conflicts mean for our changing international relationships? In The New Border Wars, border expert Klaus Dodds journeys into...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders. The liberalization and integration of markets, the creation of vast free-trade zones, the birth of a new political and monetary union in Europe-all seemed to point in that direction. Only thirty years later, the tendency appears to be quite the opposite. Talk of a wall with Mexico is only one sign among many...
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En 2018, le journaliste allemand Emran Feroz a mené une série d'entretiens avec Noam Chomsky à l'université d'Arizona, près de la frontière avec le Mexique. Ce grand analyste de notre époque y discute notamment de ce qu'on a appelle à tort la «crise des migrants» et de l'impérialisme, du réchauffement planétaire et de la menace nucléaire, de la présidence de Donald Trump, de la responsabilité des intellectuels, des religions et de...
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Our national and global affairs are in perilous disarray, to the point where extremely sober observers are saying that we have brought imminent catastrophe upon ourselves and that it is just too late to escape. While candidly admitting the difficulty and the danger, Of Thee I Sing nonetheless insists that something enormously significant and wonderful is actually coming to pass on this planetthat like a chick (out of food and space) pecking its way...
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Le secteur minier apparaît depuis quelques années comme un élément central et fondamental dans le processus de développement de bien des pays, dont ceux de l'Asie du Sud-Est. En effet, il s'impose de plus en plus comme un atout stratégique pour les pays de la région. Sources de richesses et de rivalités, les ressources minières sont ainsi intégrées dans les politiques nationales de développement.
Cet ouvrage traite du développement du...
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Son muy variados los cambios que la covid-19 traerá en la pospandemia, la cual será una dura etapa de recuperación de los profundos estragos que deja el coronavirus y se dependerá de las decisiones que tome la humanidad, si serán mayoritariamente favorables con la construcción de un entorno más cooperativo y solidario o si se agrandarán aún más las diferencias entre países desarrollados y en desarrollo y entre estratos sociales. Un ajuste...
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El presente libro está compuesto de ocho capítulos que discuten los temas más urgentes que afectan a nuestra región. En este duodécimo tomo de la colección Gridale, los investigadores dieron continuidad a la misión del grupo y realizaron análisis que van desde cuestiones prácticas como las fronteras, la educación superior, la crisis venezolana, la migración y los impactos de la pandemia de covid-19, hasta cuestiones normativas sobre la...
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Europe is in transition between independent nation states and a unified Europe. The EU's crises-financial, migrant, Brexit-are threatening the European idea. In addition to the idea of Europe as a peace project, we need more meaningful narratives to create a Europe-wide feeling of togetherness that is emotionally underpinned.
The question is this: how can we create European unity out of national diversity? European unity seems to be more important...
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Robert Kaplan visitó Rumanía en los años setenta, cuando el país languidecía bajo una férrea dictadura comunista. Era un tenebroso rincón de Europa que apenas despertaba interés en Occidente: sus infortunios no afectaban a casi nadie. Para él, sin embargo, se convirtió en una obsesión inagotable y en una atalaya que le permitía examinar temas tan cruciales como el Holocausto, la Guerra Fría, los vaivenes del imperialismo, las calamidades...
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Dennis Bark offers an in-depth examination of the deteriorating relationship between America and Europe: our differences and similarities, the reasons behind our conflicts, and the future of our alliance. He shows that, by learning what our essential difference teaches us about ourselves and drawing on our shared affinities, we might repair our fading relationship.
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Este libro tiene por objetivo analizar el rol del Mercosur como vector de la integración latinoamericana. Para ello, se analizan las relaciones comerciales y de cooperación del bloque regional sudamericano con otros bloques, como la Asociación de Naciones del Sudeste Asiático (asean), la Unión Europea (ue) y la Alianza del Pacífico (ap). Se estudian los esfuerzos de liberalización del comercio electrónico en los procesos de integración de...
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Lost in Democracy is an exposé on Africa's difficulty with democracy. It examines the indigenous systems of government that existed in different parts of the continent prior to the arrival of explorers and colonial adventurers in the continent as well as the introduction of the western sociopolitical systems. It compares African leadership with leaderships in other parts of the world with similar colonial experiences and identifies the problems posed...
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Why have there been so many violent conflicts in 2014? Aftermath offers an insider's view of how each conflict started, what it means, and the common thread driving increased warfare around the world. By giving voice to the experiences of a new generation of veterans Aftermath provides a novel framework for managing global affairs. Aftermath addresses the recent conflicts which have dominated the world stage: civil war in Ukraine, ISIS in Syria and...
18) The Secret Ants Society and the Government Cover-Up: The Film Animation Story: Part 1 and Part 2
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The secret ants society and the government cover-up. The film animation story is about life and hardship in the UK and the struggles for people to pay there bills and feed their families, and being out of work claiming money from the state to pay bills and keep a roof over their heads. One man determination to stand up and fight for the good of the British people to write a book to expose the government leaders that is making life hard for the people...
19) Pertinencia y convergencia de la integración latinoamericana en un contexto de cambios mundiales
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Salir del estancamiento y la disgregación en que se encuentra la integración de América Latina supone una voluntad política, real y efectiva, de los Gobiernos, fruto de una acción concertada entre estos, organismos internacionales, instituciones responsables del proceso de integración y los diferentes actores interesados en el proceso, dentro de los cuales se encuentran la sociedad civil y la academia, este último actor fundamental. Para ello,...
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Este libro plantea algunas concepciones alternativas presentes en los debates en torno a la integración latinoamericana, a partir de conceptos clásicos sobre el desarrollo, el liderazgo, la soberanía, el Estado y la diplomacia. Estos conceptos han replanteado y orientado las discusiones y reflexiones planteadas en el presente tomo a partir de enfoques alternativos como el ecologismo, la integración energética, la relación desarrollo-autonomía...
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