Beyond the Balance of Power: France and the Politics of National Security in the Era of the First World War

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Decisions Over Decimals - Striking the Balance between Intuition and Information John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Agile decision making is imperative as you lead in a data-driven world. Amid streams of data and countless meetings, we make hasty decisions, slow decisions, and often no decisions. Uniquely bridging theory and practice, Decision over Decimals breaks this pattern by uniting data intelligence with human judgment to get to action - a sharp approach the authors refer to as Quantitative Intuition (QI). QI raises the power of thinking beyond big data without neglecting it and chasing the perfect decision while appreciating that such a thing can never really exist.Successful decision-makers are fierce interrogators. They square critical thinking with open-mindedness by blending information, intuition, and experience. Balancing these elements is at the heart of Decisions Over Decimals.This book is not only designed to be read - but frequently referenced - as you face innumerable decision moments. It is the hands-on manual for confident, accurate decision-making you've been looking for; the rare resource that provides a set of pragmatic leadership tools to accelerate:* Effectively framing the problem for stakeholders* Synthesizing intelligence from incomplete information* Delivering decisions that stick

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Empire If You Can Keep In Power & Principle in American F CQ Press

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A truly compelling, thought provoking, and relevant text for students of American foreign policy Drawing on the Bush administration's foreign policy maneuvering and the realities of a post-9/11 world, Thomas M. Magstadt goes beyond a mere recitation of events in U.S. diplomatic history. He instead paints a vivid portrayal of the tension between the pursuit of power and the adherence to principle deeply embedded in America's political culture. Magstadt traces the country's move from vulnerable upstart in 1789, to great power by 1898, to unrivaled dominance at the turn of the twenty-first century, when considerations of security and self-interest compete head-to-head with the moral imperative for global leadership and the promotion of democratic ideals. The dynamics of process also matter in this struggle. The book illuminates the complexities of both policy- and decision-making in a way that balances coverage more compactly and more analytically than core texts do, thereby improving readability and student critical thinking. And, by placing recent foreign policy developments in the context of America's historic sense of purpose, Magstadt stresses the need for a new consensus and a new balance between power and principle, between hard and soft power.

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After Victory Princeton University Press

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The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the World Wars in 1919 and 1945. Here, John Ikenberry asks the question, what do states that win wars do with their newfound power and how do they use it to build order? In examining the postwar settlements in modern history, he argues that powerful countries do seek to build stable and cooperative relations, but the type of order that emerges hinges on their ability to make commitments and restrain power.The author explains that only with the spread of democracy in the twentieth century and the innovative use of international institutions - both linked to the emergence of the United States as a world power - has order been created that goes beyond balance of power politics to exhibit "constitutional" characteristics. The open character of the American polity and a web of multilateral institutions allow the United States to exercise strategic restraint and establish stable relations among the industrial democracies despite rapid shifts and extreme disparities in power.Blending comparative politics with international relations, and history with theory, "After Victory" will be of interest to anyone concerned with the organization of world order, the role of institutions in world politics, and the lessons of past postwar settlements for today. It also speaks to today's debate over the ability of the United States to lead in an era of unipolar power.

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Contrarian Penguin LCC US

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A New York Times Notable Book A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics  Max Chafkin s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important investor in tech and a key supporter of the Donald Trump presidency. It s also a disturbing history of Silicon Valley that will make you reconsider the ideological foundations of America s relentless engine of creative destruction. Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and Amazon UnboundSince the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of our contemporary way of life, from the technologies we use every day to the delicate power balance between Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Washington. But despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects, no public figure is quite so mysterious.In the first major biography of Thiel, Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of the innovator's singular life and worldview, from his upbringing as the child of immigrant parents and years at Stanford as a burgeoning conservative thought leader to his founding of PayPal and Palantir, early investment in Facebook and SpaceX, and relationships with fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Eric Schmidt. The Contrarian illuminates the extent to which Thiel has sought to export his values to the corridors of power beyond Silicon Valley, including funding the lawsuit that destroyed the blog Gawker and strenuously backing far-right political candidates, notably Donald Trump for president in 2016. Eye-opening and deeply reported, The Contrarian is a revelatory biography of a one-of-a-kind leader and an incisive portrait of a tech industry whose explosive growth and power is both thrilling and fraught with controversy.

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Storm of Swords Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc

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Rarely has there been a tale as gripping, or one as likely to seize the minds and hearts of a generation, as George R. R. Martin's epic high fantasy series. In A Game of Thrones, an ancient kingdom was torn by the ambitions of ruthless men and women; in A Clash of Kings, war, sorcery, and madness swept over the kingdom like a voracious beast of prey. Now, as the brutal struggle for power nears its tumultuous climax, the battered and divided kingdom faces its most terrifying invasion--one that is being spearheaded from beyond the grave.... A Storm Of Swords Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King's Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. Filled with the stench of death and decay from the destructive dynastic war, Daenerys is gathering allies and strength for an assault on King's Landing, hoping to win back the crown she believes is rightfully hers. But as opposing forces maneuver for the final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings bent on overwhelming the Seven Kingdoms arrives from the outermost lineof civilization. In their vanguard is a horde of mythical Others--a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. And as the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest in the quest for victory until the Seven Kingdoms have expl

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Reaper at the Gates Penguin LCC US

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The highly anticipated third book in Sabaa Tahir's New York Times bestselling EMBER QUARTET.Beyond the Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger.The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable, while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power. As Helene searches for a way to hold back the approaching darkness, her sister's life and the lives of all those in the Empire hang in the balance.Far to the east, Laia of Serra knows the fate of the world lies not in the machinations of the Martial court, but in stopping the Nightbringer. But while hunting for a way to bring him down, Laia faces unexpected threats from those she hoped would aid her, and is drawn into a battle she never thought she'd have to fight.And in the land between the living and the dead, Elias Veturius has given up his freedom to serve as Soul Catcher. But in doing so, he has vowed himself to an ancient power that will stop at nothing to ensure Elias's devotion--even at the cost of his humanity.

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Globalization & its Discontents Penguin

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Our world is changing. Globalization is not working. It is hurting those it was meant to help. And now, the tide is turning

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Womb Awakening Inner Traditions Bear and Company

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Rediscover the lost ancient mystery teachings of the Cosmic Womb

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X-Antologia PC Techland

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Opis: Nośnik: DVD Wymagania: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, karta grafiki 256 MB (GeForce 6800 lub lepsza), 10 GB HDD, Windows 98 SE/Me/2000/XP SP2/Vista/7, DVD ROM, Karta dźwiękowa zgodna z Dx9.0c. Gatunek: gry akcji Handluj Walcz Buduj Myśl Zbiór wszystkich części największej kosmicznej sagi w jednym pudełku: X: Beyond The Frontier w wersji 2.2 Po upadku imperium ziemskiego, jako Kyle Brennan, pilot testowy nowo powstałego myśliwca kosmicznego X musisz ponownie sięgnąd gwiazd. Po nieudanym skoku przestrzennym znajdujesz się w obcym uniwersum pełnym niebezpieczeostw i nowych możliwości. X: Tension w wersji 2.2 Extra: The Perseus Mission. Ponownie wciel się w rolę Kyle Brennana i odszukaj drogi powrotnej na Ziemię. Wyposaż swój statek w najnowsze zdobycze techniki od obcych ras, wykorzystaj swoją pozycję i walcz z wrogimi Xenonami. X2: The Threat w wersji 1.5 Extra: UPLINK online community. W uniwersum X pojawiła się nowa wroga rasa Kha ak. Z jej potęgą, wystarczającą do unicestwienia całego sektoru, Kha ak ruszają na podbój galaktyki. Jako Julian Gardna musisz stawić czoła zagrożeniu. Walcz i umacniaj swoją pozycję w galaktyce, przygotowując się do ostatecznego starcia. X3: Reunion w wersji 2.5 Extra: Bala Gi s Research missions. Twoja flota rozproszona po całej galaktyce. Rasa Kha ak wciąż zagraża innym sektorom. W uniwersum X pojawiło się nowe potężniejsze zagrożenie. Co łączy piratów Yaki, statek widmo oraz pozostawiony przez rasę starożytnych maszynę zagłady? Nowa przygoda czeka! X3: Terran Conflict w wersji 3.0 Extra: BALANCE OF POWER mission pack Ostatnia część sagi X. Gdy inne rasy napotykają na swojej drodze Imperium Ziemskie nic nie jest takie jakim się wydaje. Przez lata nieustających konfliktów i zagrożeń ze strony Xenonów i Kha ak otwarty konflikt to kwestia czasu. Przygotuj się do ostatecznej rozgrywki: Handluj, Walcz, Buduj i Myśl. Cechy gry: - Odkryj zapierający dech w piersiach świat X, poprzez wszystkie części sagi. - Przejmij ogromne pancerniki przy użyciu własnej załogi piratów. - Kontroluj flotyllę swoich statków i przeprowadzaj skoordynowane ataki na stacje kosmiczne. - Wybieraj spośród ponad 100 rodzajów statków, broni i sprzętu. Dodatkowo: - Obszerna encyklopedia całego świata X, opisująca statki, planety, postacie występujące we wszystkich częściach X. - Bonus DVD z trailerami, artami, screenami, modami i narzędziami moderskimi, opowiadaniami ze świata X, soundtrackiem i wieloma innymi...

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Logic of the Trinity Fordham University Press

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This book recounts the remarkable history of efforts by significant medieval thinkers to accommodate the ontology of the Trinity within the framework of Aristotelian logic and ontology. These efforts were remarkable because they pushed creatively beyond the boundaries of existing thought while trying to strike a balance between the Church's traditional teachings and theoretical rigor in a context of institutional politics. In some cases, good theology, good philosophy, and good politics turned out to be three different things. The principal thinkers discussed are Augustine, Boethius, Ablard, Gilbert of Poitiers, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham. The aspects of Trinitarian doctrine dealt with are primarily internal ontological questions about the Trinity. The approach draws on history of theology and philosophy, as well as on the modern formal disciplines of set-theoretic semantics and formal ontology. Augustine inaugurated the project of constructing models of the Trinity in language drawn from Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy, especially the conceptual framework of Aristotle's Categories.He used the Aristotelian notions of substance and relation to set up a model whose aim was not so much to demystify the Trinity as to demonstrate the logical consistency of maintaining that there is one and only one God at the same time as maintaining that there are three distinct persons, each of whom is God. Standing against this tradition are various heretical accounts of the Trinity. The book also analyzes these traditions, using the same techniques. All these accounts of the Trinity are evaluated relative to the three constraints under which they were formed, bearing in mind that the constraints on philosophical theorizing are not limited to internal consistency but also take note of explanatory power. Besides analyzing and evaluating individual accounts of the Trinity, the book provides a novel framework within which different theories can be compared.

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Wild Feminine Beyond Words Publishing

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Wild Feminine offers a unique, holistic approach to reclaiming the power, spirit, and joy of the female body and to understanding its connection to creative energy flow. By restoring physical and energetic balance in the pelvic bowl, women can learn to care for themselves in a nourishing and respectful manner, heal spiritual fractures, and renew their relationship with the sacred feminine. Although the feminine body is an access point to the greater realm of the spirit, many women have lost their connection to this source. Author Tami Kent, MSPT, has an answer. Drawing from her experiences as a woman's health physical therapist who works with the physical body and female energy system, Kent provides a framework for healing the body and navigating the realms of feminine spirit. Through pelvic bodywork, healing stories, visualisations, rituals and creative exercises, women can explore the deep and natural wisdom inherent in the female body.

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Austerity Oxford University Press Inc

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Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts-austerity-to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private debt was rechristened as government debt while those responsible for generating it walked away scot free, placing the blame on the state, and the burden on the taxpayer. That burden now takes the form of a global turn to austerity, the policy of reducing domestic wages and prices to restore competitiveness and balance the budget. The problem, according to political economist Mark Blyth, is that austerity is a very dangerous idea. First of all, it doesn't work.As the past four years and countless historical examples from the last 100 years show, while it makes sense for any one state to try and cut its way to growth, it simply cannot work when all states try it simultaneously: all we do is shrink the economy. In the worst case, austerity policies worsened the Great Depression and created the conditions for seizures of power by the forces responsible for the Second World War: the Nazis and the Japanese military establishment. As Blyth amply demonstrates, the arguments for austerity are tenuous and the evidence thin. Rather than expanding growth and opportunity, the repeated revival of this dead economic idea has almost always led to low growth along with increases in wealth and income inequality. Austerity demolishes the conventional wisdom, marshaling an army of facts to demand that we austerity for what it is, and what it costs us.

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Mothering from Your Center Beyond Words Publishing

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Building on the themes from Tami Lynn Kent's popular first title Wild Feminine, Mothering From Your Center addresses the energetic, physical, and healing power within the pelvic bowl through conception, pregnancy, and birth, while also offering tools for using this creative energy to build new mothering patterns, work with the energy bond between mother and child, enhance daily access to joy, create balance between work and home, and facilitate the notion of mother as creative visionary. As a holistic healthcare provider and physical therapist, Kent presents the most comprehensive book to date for complete pelvic healing. With clear, compassionate language, Kent helps women heal physically and emotionally, while also learning to access their full creative potential as an individual and a mother. Discover your creative essence, spirit, and innate joy of mothering.

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Afghanistan REAKTION BOOKS

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Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient trade routes and strategic position between India, Inner Asia, China, Persia and beyond has meant the region has been subject to frequent invasions. Modern Afghanistan is a culturally and ethnically diverse country, but one divided by conflict, political instability and by mass displacements of its people. Jonathan L. Lee places the current conflict in Afghanistan in its historical context and challenges many of the West's preconceived ideas about the country. Lee chronicles the region's monarchic rules and the Durrani dynasty, focusing on the reigns of each ruler and their efforts to balance tribal, ethnic, regional and religious factions, moving on to the struggle for social and constitutional reform and the rise of Islamic and Communist factions. He offers new cultural and political insights from Persian histories, the memoirs of Afghan government of?cials, British government and India Of?ce archives, recently released CIA reports and Wikileaks documents. Lee also sheds new light on the country's foreign relations, its internal power struggles and the impact of foreign military interventions such as the 'War on Terror'.

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