The Believer’s mission is to introduce readers to the best and most interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thought—whether that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking. Its content (including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and reviews) offers fresh perspectives from editors Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and Karolina Waclawiak. Each issue includes the popular columns “Stuff I’ve Been Reading,” by Nick Hornby, and “What the Swedes Read” (a look at Nobel Prize-winners), by Daniel Handler.The Summer Issue features new work by Nell Zink, Álvaro Enrigue, and Gary Greenberg; interviews with Robert Coover, Amber Tamblyn, and the New York Public Library’s Paul Holdengräber; and new poetry by Rae Armantrout. Also in these pages, and among many other delights, you’ll find a special section on the theme of wildlife, essays on the man after whom Jim Jones patterned himself and what it’s like to be named after a sibling who died before you were born, examinations of the work of the artists Ray Johnson and Jimmy Robert, and the editors’ short lists for the eleventh annual Believer Book Award and the fifth annual Believer Poetry Award.
The Believer’s mission is to introduce readers to the best and most interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thought—whether that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking—in an attractive vehicle that’s free from the bugbears of condescension, mustiness, and jargony obfuscation. Its content (including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and reviews) offers fresh perspectives from editors Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and Karolina Waclawiak. Each issue includes the popular columns “Stuff I’ve Been Reading,” by Nick Hornby, and “What the Swedes Read” (a look at Nobel Prize-winners), by Daniel Handler.The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. There are book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and that are very often long. There are also interviews that are very long. We will focus on writers and books we like. We will give people and books the benefit of the doubt. The working title of this magazine was The Optimist. —The Editors
China's guiding principle for foreign relations and its focus on states and regions has shifted a lot from the first 30 years of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, to 1978 and beyond, after reform and opening-up. However, PRC's diplomatic practice has been continuous, whether it was participation in the Korean War, breaking up with the former Soviet Union after a honeymoon period, China's self defense war over Sino–Indian border, participation in the Vietnam War, breakthrough in the Sino–US relation, or PRC's self defense war over the Sino–Vietnamese border. These historical events brought the need for theoretical study in International Politics (IP). The development of China's IP research was slow and filled with complications, but it signified a breakthrough from scratch. This book has filled gap by depicting a complete scroll of China's IP research in over 60 years since 1949. This book has followed two principles: one is according to the classification of the IP discipline and the other is to recommend adaptations according to China's actual conditions.<b>Contents:</b> <ul><li>International Politics Studies in China <i>(Li Shaojun)</i></li><li>Studies on International Pattern and International Order <i>(Song Wei and Pan Jingnan)</i></li><li>On Chinese International Relations Research Methods <i>(Zhou Fangyin)</i></li><li>Studies on Contemporary Chinese Diplomacy <i>(Wang Cungang)</i></li><li>Studies on International Security in China <i>(Liu Feng)</i></li><li>Studies on Chinese National Sovereignty and Interest <i>(Fang Changping)</i></li><li>Studies on International Organizations in China <i>(Li Dongyan)</i></li><li>Nationalism Studies in China <i>(Wang Jun)</i></li><li>Study on Regional Integration in China <i>(Feng Weijiang)</i></li><li>Studies in China on Global Governance <i>(Ren Lin)</i></li><li>International Political Economy Study in China <i>(Xu Xiujun)</i></li><li>Diplomacy Study in China <i>(Zhao Kejin)</i></li><li>Generation of the School of International Relations Study in China <i>(Xu Jin)</i></li></ul><br><b>Readership:</b> Scholars and researchers of international politics, international relations and contemporary China; international think-tank institutions. International Politics Studies;International Pattern and International Order;Chinese International Relations Research Methods;Contemporary Chinese Diplomacy;International Security;Chinese National Sovereignty and Interest;International Organizations;Nationalism Studies;Regional Integration;Global Governance;International Political Economy Study;Diplomacy Study;School of International Relations Study0<b>Key Features:</b><ul><li>This book has filled a gap by depicting a complete scroll of China's international politics research in over 60 years since 1949</li></ul>
If you were asked to write about your father, what would you say?
Florence Welch, Paul Weller, Nina Stibbe and the sons and daughters of Ian Dury, Johnny Ball, Roy Castle, Leonard Cohen and many others relate the quirks, flaws and quiet heroisms of their dads. By turns funny, tender and heartbreaking, My Old Man offers a unique opportunity to reflect on our own relationships with our dads – who they really are, and how we come to understand ourselves through them.