![]() ![]() 'Sharp insights into the way geography shapes the choices of world leaders. ![]() I can't think of another book that explains the world situation so well. - Nicolas Lezard, Evening Standard 'Like having a light shone on your understanding. In an ever more complex, chaotic and interlinked world, Prisoners of Geography is a concise and useful primer on geo-politics. It's time to put the 'geo' back into geopolitics. In ten chapters and ten maps, Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential insight into one of the major factors that determines world history. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obsessed with Crimea, why the USA was destined to become a global superpower, or why China's power base continues to expand ever outwards, the answers are all here. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Geography shapes not only our history, but where we're headed.Īll leaders are constrained by geography. THE MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ![]() Schools & English Language Center Discount THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER All leaders are constrained by geography. ![]()
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Curated by Wendy Williams, founder of the San Francisco-based Equal Rights Advocates, and Mary Hartnett, an adjunct professor at the Law Center and director of the center’s Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program, this almost-autobiography contains everything from elementary school essays to her famed dissents. There is no better way to fully understand the life and legacy of such a powerful force in the fight for equality than through an assortment of her speeches and writings, placed in context by short introductions. My Own Words is a brilliant way to pay tribute to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 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Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector and a true believer in the System, is assigned to find out what went wrong. ![]() The System doesn’t make mistakes, but something isn’t right about the circumstances surrounding Hunter’s death. When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. In the world of Gnomon, citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of ‘transparency.’ Every action is seen, every word is recorded, and the System has access to its citizens’ thoughts and memories–all in the name of providing the safest society in history. ![]() From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, comes a virtuosic new novel set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, that is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle. ![]() ![]() In this narrative of literary development, the episodic chronicle play fails to show the disparate events of the past contributing to a single action-fails, like the chronicle, to comprehend the past-while the history play successfully makes sense of those events. ![]() Within the development of Elizabethan drama, Edward II is granted a crucial role in bringing to the English “chronicle play”-including Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays and Richard III-the unity and purpose of the mature “history” play, epitomized by Shakespeare’s later, more aesthetically sophisticated tetralogy. ![]() Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II is typically applauded as an aesthetic achievement, a history play that brings form and meaning to the incoherent material of its chronicle source by retelling the king’s slightly dull, twenty-year reign as the fierce and deadly struggle of a few willful personalities. ![]() ![]() In this 2016 volume she recounts incidents from her life around 2010 when she wrote and then published the van Gogh book - though in fact that occupies less than a quarter of the pages, the rest being about life with her partner Ricky (who is a new devlopment since the earlier books that I had read). ![]() ![]() Her work is generally autobiographical, ranging in length from a single frame to a half-dozen pages for individual pieces. Barbara: "O tree, how can I achieve complete serenity?"Īs previously noted, I'm a big fan of the Dutch graphic artist Barbara Stok, whose only work translated into English (so far) is her biography of Vincent van Gogh - I bought Toch Een Geluk (roughly, " It's Just As Well") at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. ![]() |