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The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against “failed states” around the globe. In this much-anticipated follow-up to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, showing how the United States itself shares features with other failed states—suffering from a severe “democratic deficit,” eschewing domestic and international law, and adopting policies that increasingly endanger its own citizens and the world. Exploring the latest developments in U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Chomsky reveals Washington’s plans to further militarize the planet, greatly increasing the risks of nuclear war. He also assesses the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; documents Washington’s self-exemption from international norms, including the Geneva conventions and the Kyoto Protocol; and examines how the U.S. electoral system is designed to eliminate genuine political alternatives, impeding any meaningful democracy. Forceful
During an impassioned address to the UN'S General Assembly,the Soviet Premier Khrushchev,irritatred by the in difference of his audience,astounded his peers by taking off his shoe and pounding it vigor-ously on his desk.His indelible gesture not only captured the attention of the audience,but it also transformed their lack of interest into outrage. In Khnushchev's Shoe,Roy Underhill recounts this incident and offers dozens of other stories to illus-trate how our efforts to engage an audience can make or break a presentation.It draws on lessons from some of today's greatest communicators such as Garrison Keillor,and Larry King,Jr.,Mark Twain,and Francis Bacon,to show Readers how to enter-tain,inform or persuade a group of any size. 作者简介： Roy Underhill has been host of the popular PBS series The Woodwright's Shop for twenty years.He is the author of five previous books.In addition,Underhill works as a communications consultant and conducts workshops and seminars throughour the country.
The car, and the range of social and political institutionswhich sustain its dominance, play an important role in many of theenvironmental problems faced by contemporary society. But in orderto understand the possibilities for moving towards sustainabilityand 'greening cars', it is first necessary to understand thepolitical forces that have made cars so dominant. This bookidentifies these forces as a combination of political economy andcultural politics. From the early twentieth century, the car becamecentral to the organization of capitalism and deeply embedded inindividual identities, providing people with a source of value andmeaning but in a way which was broadly consistent with socialimperatives for mobility. Projects for sustainability to reduce theenvironmental impacts of cars are therefore constrained by theseforces but must deal with them in order to shape and achieve theirgoals.
King,a former courier of top-secret information,delivers a tightly wound debut thriller centered around a complex and sometimes cloudy conspiracy theory.While working as the deputy legal attache for the U.S.Embassy in Warsaw,down-to-earth FBI agent Stan Penskie witnesses the assassination of his sister's fiance,a CIA agent who'd posited a shocking conspiracy theory.The event throws Stan's life into a tailspin and leads him on a frenzied chase after a group called the Fifth Internationale,"an elusive organization of unthinkable resources and proportions" that may be bent on destabilizing world power structures and financial markets.Through his quest,Stan meets people from various government agencies,but he has no idea who to trust or even where his investigation is leading.Readers will empathize with Stan's bewilderment as they try to untangle the story's many threads"a task that will challenge even the most diligent reader.Intelligent dialogue,relentless pacing and well-rounded characters(including a haunting
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, onwhich its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What'sWrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaumanalyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution ininformation technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and itspattern of energy consumption - and spell out what needs to be donenow to rediscover America's power and prowess. They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation tothe need to address these issues seriously. They show how America'shistory, when properly understood, provides the key to copingsuccessfully and explain how the paralysis of the US politicalsystem and the erosion of key American values have made itimpossible to carry out the policies the country needs. What'sWrong with America? is both a searching exploration of the Americancondition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.
Moscow,1988.It is the twilight of the Cold War.and the KGB is at its most ruthless.In the Last three years,ten CIA operatives have been executed or neutralized.Langley has no idea how the KGB seems to be able to predict the CLA's every move,but some believe they are using an invisible electromagnetic powder that allows them to keep tabs on anyone who touches it:spy dust. 作者简介：ANTONIO MENDEZ is the former chief of disguise for the Cla recipient of the CLA's Intelligence Star of Valor and the Trailblaz Award,he is the author of a previous nonfiction work,The Mast of Disguise.JONNA MENDEZ is a twenty-seven-year veteran the CLA who served as a technical operations officer and chief The Agency,and helped design the international Spy Museum downtown Washington,D.C.,where they are founding boamembers.They live in Maryland withe their son,Jesse.Visit tlauthors at their Web site:www.themasterofdisguise,com.
The book explores life in America during that brief promisingmoment in the early six-ties when John F. Kennedy was president.Kennedy's Cold War frustrations in Cuba and Vietnam worriedAmericans. The 1962 missile crisis na~rrowly avoided a nucleardisaster. The civil rights movement gained momentum with studentsit-ins, Freedom Rides, and crises in Mississippi and Alabama.Martin Luther King, Jr.. emerged as a spokesman for nonviolentsocial change. The American family was undergoing rapid change.Betty Friedan began to launch the Women's IVIovement. The Beatauthors Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg gained respectability. JoanBaez and Bob Dylan revived folk music. Roy Lichtenstein and AndyWarhol produced Pop Art. Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley, Tim-othy Leary,and Ken Kesey began to promote psychedelic drugs. The early sixtieswas a period of marked political, social, and cultural change. Theold was swept away, and the United States began to become thecountry that it is today.
GOVERNOR HOWARD DEAN'S GRASSROOTS BID FOR THE PRESIDENCY IS GENERATING EXCITEMENT IN EVERY CORNER OF AMERICA. In Winning Back America, Governor Dean writes for the first time about his life and the people and events that have shaped him, beginning with his upbringing in New York and taking us through his medical career, eleven and a half years as governor of Vermont, and finally into his presidential campaign. Howard Dean writes about: The years at college that changed the way he looks at America His decision to attend medical school and the origins of his commitment to children and to universal health care Meeting his wife, Judith Steinberg, and bringing up a family in Vermont One dramatic day that he began as an internist and ended as governor The successes of his governorship His decision to run for president of the United States His vision for the country Winning Back America is Howard Dean in his own words. Dean tells h
The thesis of this provocative and potentially important book is the increasing threat of violence arising from renewed conflicts between countries and cultures that base their traditions on religious faith and dogma. This argument moves past the notion of ethnicity to examine the growing influence of a handful of major cultures--Western, Eastern Orthodox, Latin American, Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hindu, and African--in current struggles across the globe. Samuel P. Huntington, a political scientist at Harvard University and foreign policy aide to President Clinton, argues that policymakers should be mindful of this development when they interfere in other nations' affairs. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled George W. Bush and his aides to get so far off track, and traces the genesis and evolution of these ideas from the era of Nixon through Reagan to the present day.
75个社会趋势的揭示，加上作者独到的深入分析，每篇都充满了可以造就新行业的商机！ From "Soccer Moms," the legendary swing voters of the mid-1990s, to "Late-Breaking Gays" such as former Gov. Games McGreevey (out at age 47), Burson-Marsteller CEO (and campaign adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton) Penn delves into the ever-splintering societal subsets with which Americans are increasingly identifying, and what they mean. For instance, because of "Extreme Commuters," people who travel more than 90 minutes each way to work, carmakers must come up with ever more luxury seat features, and "fast food restaurants are coming out with whole meals that fit in cup holders." In a chapter titled "Archery Moms?", Penn reports on the "Niching of Sports": much to the consternation of Major League Baseball, "we don't like sports less, we just like little sports more." The net result of all this "niching" is "greater individual satisfaction"; as Penn notes, "not one of the fastest-growing sports
“For political scientists,politics and Volunteering in japanijs and im por tant challenge to most theorizing about civil society in contemporary japanese society,it is the most interesting account of volunteerism ihave seen,and is throws a lot of light on how cmmunities work ,a fine book for students in terns of theory ,andalysis ,and dewcription” ——JOHN CREIGHTON CAMPBELL,University of michigan Politics and Volunteering begins by painting a portrait of volunteering in Japan, and demonstrates that our current understandings of civil society have been based implicitly on a U.S. model that does not adequately consider participation patterns found in other parts of the world. The book develops a theory of civic participation that, incorporates citizen attitudes about governmental and individual responsibility, with societal and governmental practices that support (or hinder) volunteer participation. This theory is tested using cross-national and sub-national statistic
In this major contribution to Ideas in Context Anne McLarenexplores the consequences for English political culture when, withthe accession of Elizabeth I, imperial 'kingship' came to beinvested in the person of a female ruler. She looks at howElizabeth managed to be queen, in the face of considerable maleopposition, and demonstrates how that opposition was enacted. DrMcLaren argues that during Elizabeth's reign men were able toaccept the rule of a woman partly by inventing a new definition of'citizen', one that made it an exclusively male identity, and sheemphasizes the continuities between Elizabeth's reign and theoutbreak of the English civil wars in the seventeenth century. Asignificant work of cultural history informed by political thought,Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I offers a wholesalereinterpretation of the political dynamics of the reign of QueenElizabeth.
No public figure in contemporary life has elicited more polarized reactions than Hillary Rodhan Clinton.The first presidential spouse who pursued a major policy-making role,the belea-guered first lady has been a heroine and role model to her feminist allies—and,to her conservative foes,a malevolent ,power-mad shrew.Is she Bill Clinton's greatest asset,or his greatest liability? Now David Brock ,America's most controver-sial journalist,has taken on the most controversial first lady in history,producing a boldly incisive yet surprisingly sensitive portrait.The Hillary Rodham who emerges from these pages is not just a fasci-nating and unofficial leader of an activist lib-eral cohortthat was born in the social and civil unrest of the1960s and has risen tothe highest lev-els of Americna goernment .A political biography of the highet order,the Seducion of Hillary Rodham is the story of one strong-willed wonan's struggle tomaintain her personal and political intergrity in the face ofpowerfuly seductive forces
This important book explores alternative strategies in agricultural and rural development to address the impacts of globalization processes on smallholder agriculturalists and marginalized rural people. Its goal is twofold: (1) to identify and assess the key processes by which globalization is affecting the smallholder agricultural and rural sectors; and (2) to identify and propose both micro- and macro-level policies and other strategies to deal with the problems that arise. This volume presents writings of leading scholars and practitioners working in the private and public sectors. Their work focuses on major crosscutting issues in the developing world and on country-specific case studies.
Entering the world of conspiracy theories and secret societies is like stepping into a distant， parallel universe where the laws of physics have completely changed： black means white， up is down， and if you want to understand what’s really going on， you need a good reference book。 That’s where Conspiracy Theories & Secret Societies For Dummies comes in。 Whether you’re a skeptic or a true believer， this fascinating guide， packed with the latest information， walks you through some of the most infamous conspiracy theories — such as Area 51 and the assassination of JFK — and introduces you to such mysterious organizations as the Freemasons， the Ninjas， the Mafia， and Rosicrucians。 This behind-the-curtain guide helps you separate fact from fiction and helps you the global impact of these mysterious events and groups on our modern world。 Discover how to： Test a conspiracy theory Spot a sinister secret society Assess the Internet’s role in fueling conspirac
Burke's seminal work was written during the early months ofthe French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy manyof its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathingattack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions,property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholdinginherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemealreform rather than revolutionary change - and deplores theinfluence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain."Reflections on the Revolution in France" is now widely regarded asa classic statement of conservative political thought, and is oneof the eighteenth century's great works of political rhetoric.
The Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party. It will help both students making their first approach to Marx's thought and those ready to study the Manifesto in more depth. For beginning students, this edition provides a carefully anno-tated text of the Manifesto, a useful historical and philosophical introduction by Frederic Bender, and a chronology of events sur-rounding publication of the Manifesto. More experienced students will benefit from sections on the sources of Marx's thought, the sig-nificance of the Manifesto in the history of Marxism, and recent interpretations of the work. THE EDITOR: FREDERIC L. BENDER is professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of The Betrayal of Marw and editor of Karl Marx: The Essential Writings.
From Publishers Weekly The language of clinical psychology can convey detachment—or, as in this starstruck study of the 42nd president, gushing admiration. Deploying his trademark diagnosis, Johns Hopkins psychologist Gartner (The Hypomanic Edge) pegs Clinton as a hypomanic personality with boundless energy and charisma, but prone to impulsive appetites and lapses in judgment. The author attributes much of Clinton's psyche to genes (many inherited, he argues, from an illegitimate father he tentatively identifies), but he also embraces Freudian notions: Clinton's relationships with women, Gartner contends, follow a pattern established in childhood when he felt torn between his bossy, Hillaryesque grandmother and his lushly erotic, Monica-like mother. Gartner sometimes overreaches—We can almost see Clinton going through the stages of his relationship with [stepfather] Roger in his approach to Bosnia—but his analysis of Clinton's political talents, right down to his mesmerizing facial expressions whi
Secret societies, assassination plots, cover-ups, and covert actions - these are the theories and shadows that influence politics, business, and even our daily lives. The truth is always out there, but what truth you believe depends on what you already know. Categorized into specific areas of interest, Conspiracy Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the many and varied theories that question the status quo and redefine the official version or events past. Presenting the case for and against a number of well-known theories - as well as more obscure and bizarre ones - this encyclopedia is dedicated to casting a skeptical eye on not only the world around us but the conspiracies as well. With detailed entries to help answer all the right questions, Conspiracy Encyclopedia also includes numerous alternate perspectives covering wars and state legislation, as well as biographies of the key figures of conspiracy theory.
Perhaps the best-known American diplomatist og the twentidth century .Henry Kissinger is a major figure in world history. winner of the Nobel Peace Prize,and arguably one of the most brilliant minds ver placed at the service og American foreign policy .as well as ine of the shrewdest ,best -informed,and most articulate men ever to occupy a position of power in Washington. The eagerly awaited third and final volume of his memoirs completes a mljor work of comtemporary history .It is at ince an important historical document and a brilliantly gold narrative of almost Shadespearean intensity,full of startling insights,umusual (and often unsparing)candor,and a sweeping sense of history.Years of Renewal is the triumphant comclusion of a major achievenent and a book that will stand the test of time as a histori-cal document of the first rank. 作者简介: HENRY A.KISSNGER was the fifty-sixth Secretary of State. Born in Ger-many,Dr.Kissinger camme to the United States in 1983 and was naturalizde Unitded atate
Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of Hamideh Sedghi's original and unprecedented contribution to politics and Middle Eastern studies. Using primary and secondary sources, Sedghi offers new knowledge on women's agency in relation to state power. In this rigorous analysis she places contention over women at the centre of the political struggle between secular and religious forces and demonstrates that control over women's identities, sexuality, and labor has been central to the consolidation of state power. Sedghi links politics and culture with economics to present an integrated analysis of the private and public lives of different classes of women and their modes of resistance to state power.
Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm thatswept the world remains the definitive history of the Second WorldWar. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep andfor its sense of personal involvement, it is universallyacknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring,compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize forliterature. The Grand Alliance recounts the momentous events of1941 surrounding America's entry into the War and Hitler's march onRussia the continuing onslaught on British civilians during theBlitz, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the alliance betweenBritain and America that shaped the outcome of the War.
