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The dragon's gift : the real story of china in africa
Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in some of the po…
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- 978-0-19-960629-0
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- xv, 397 hlm. : ilus. ; 24 cm
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- 337.5106 BRA T
The grand chessboard : American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
As the twentieth century draws to a close, the United States has emerged as the world's only superpower: no other nation possesses comparable military and economic power or has interests that bestride the globe. Yet the critical question facing America remains unanswered: What should be the nation's global strategy for maintaining its exceptional position in the world? Zbigniew Brzezinski tackl…
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- 978-0-465-09435-6
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- xiv, 230 hlm. : ilus. ; 21 cm
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- 327.73 BRZ T
Heartland : three essays on geopolitics
Heartland is a fascinating introduction to a pioneer of geopolitics. Halford Mackinder's trailblazing ideas have influenced international politics to this day. His concept that world domination depends on the control of the global "pivot area" or "heartland" - the centre of the large land mass of Europe and Asia - has informed the political tactics and wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe…
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- 978-0-6485315-7-9
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- 107 hlm. : ilus. ; 18 cm
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- 320.12 MAC H
Why a students work for c students : and b students work for the government
In this follow-up to his Rich Dad Poor Dad series, Robert Kiyosaki takes aim at the traditional education system, arguing that it is fundamentally designed to produce employees ("A" students) rather than innovators and entrepreneurs ("C" students). The book serves as a financial handbook for parents, urging them not to rely solely on school reports as an indicator of a child's future success…
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- 978-1-61268-076-7
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- 453 hlm. : ilus. ; 23 cm
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- 370.11 KIY W
Towards the Indonesia Republic : marxist lineages in the national revolution
Drawing on little known archival sources, this work brings to the fore the salience of a schism in the Indonesian communist movement between pro-Moscow loyalists and “national-communists” reaching back to the 1920s, which survived even the Japanese occupation and surfaced in the throes of the National Revolution (1945–49). At the heart of the rift lay contrasting visions of revolutionary …
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- 97898152203004
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- xxviii, 264 hlm. : ilus. ; 25 cm
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- SEJ GUN T
Chip war : the fight for the world's most critical technology
Power in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermin…
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- 978-1-3985-0412-7
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- xxvii, 431 hlm. : ilus. ; 20 cm
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- POL MIL C
Trade wars are class wars : how rising inequality distorts the global economy…
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today’s trade wars to decisions made by politicians a…
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- 978-0-300-26144-8
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- xix, 269 hlm. : ilus. ; 20 cm
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- EKO KLE T
Price wars : how the commodities markets made our chaotic world
A fascinating, groundbreaking exposé of how commodity traders in New York and London have destabilized societies all over the world, leaving the most vulnerable at the mercy of hunger, chaos, and war. For Rupert Russell, the Brexit vote was only the latest shock in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children placed in cag…
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- 9781474613996
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- 340 hlm. : ilus. ; 20 cm
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Prisoners of geography
Prisoners of Geography is the book people need to understand what's happening in the news today, from China's ambitions to the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. Bestselling author and geopolitics expert Tim Marshall looks at the past, present and future to offer crucial insights into one of the major factors that determines world history – because if you don't know geography, you'll never hav…
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- 978-1-78396-859-6
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- xxiv, 456 hlm. : ilus. ; 20 cm
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- GEP MAR P
Renewable energy finance : theory and practice
Renewable Energy Finance: Theory and Practice, Second Edition integrates the special characteristics of renewable energy with key elements of project finance. Through a mixture of fundamental analysis and real-life examples, readers learn how renewable energy project finance deals mix finance, public policy, legal, engineering and environmental issues. This book investigates the economics of la…
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- 978-0-443-15955-8
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- ix, 357 hlm. : ilus. ; 23 cm
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- 333.794 RAI R
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