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The heralding of ambitions and hardening of geopolitical and military stances by China has given rise to few questions: Did China challenge the United States too hard and too soon and, by doing so, seriously jeopardize its chances of achieving its objectives? Can Washington still contain China's ascendancy and retain its current leading status?This book attempts to explore these questions and analyse if China has tried to display its strength to America too soon. It argues that by comparing the comprehensive national power of the two countries, one may be able to answer the above questions.<b>Contents:</b> <ul><li>Acknowledgments</li><li>About the Author</li><li>Foreword</li><li>Introduction</li><li>The Good Years</li><li>The Unraveling</li><li>Sailing Against the Wind</li><li>The Convergence Aptitude</li><li>The Mistakes Avoidance Aptitude</li><li>The Universality Aptitude</li><li>The Military Aptitude</li><li>The Economic Aptitude</li><li>The Technological Aptitude</li><li>Conclusion</li><li>Bibliography</li><li>Index</li></ul><br><b>Readership:</b> General public; scholars, graduate and undergraduate students studying international business, political science, international relations, American Studies, and China Studies.China;United States;National Power;Economic Growth;Trade War;Convergence Capability;Military Might;Technological Competition;Cultural Universality;South China Sea;East China Sea;Thucydides Trap;First Island Chain;Second Island Chain;Middle Kingdom;Exceptional Nation;Chinese Communist Party;White House;Indian Ocean;India;Russia;Japan;Iran;Made in China 2025;China Dream;Fourth Industrial Revolution;TPP;Pivot to Asia0<b>Key Features:</b><ul><li>Only book that compares the comprehensive national power of both China and the United States</li></ul>
New Architecture Of Science, The: Learning From Graphene
The New Architecture of Science explores how the architecture of advanced nanoscience labs affects the way scientists think, conduct experiments, interact and collaborate. The unique design of the National Graphene Institute in Manchester, UK sheds light on the new generation of 21st century science laboratories. Weaving together two tales of this building, lead scientist and one of the designers, Kostya Novoselov, and architectural anthropologist, Albena Yaneva, combine an analysis of its distinctive design features with ethnographic observation of the practices of scientists, facility managers, technicians, administrators and house service staff. Capturing simultaneously the complex technical infrastructure and the variability of human experiences that it facilitates, contemporary laboratory buildings are shown to be vital settings for the active shaping of new research habits and ways of thinking, ultimately leading to discovery and socio-technical innovations.Related Link(s)<b>Contents:</b> <ul><li>Foreword</li><li>Acknowledgements</li><li>Preamble</li><li>[M] Introduction: The Making of the Graphene Building + [E] Experience of Design</li><li>[M] Location, Location, Location + [E] Experiencing Movement</li><li>[M] Square Shape</li><li>[M] Vibration</li><li>[M] Two for the Price of One + [E] Experiencing the Hidden Building</li><li>[M] Solutions Dictated by the Process</li><li>[M] Design of the Storage Rooms + [E] Experiencing the Flows</li><li>[M] The Key Lab: Clean Room + [E] Experiencing Clean Lab Work</li><li>[M] Variety of Labs</li><li>[M] Transportation Routes + [E] Experiencing Circulation</li><li>[M] Other Functions: Meetings, Conferences, Events + [E] Experiencing Communication</li><li>[M] How We Ended Up with the Roof Garden + [E] Experiencing Breakout</li><li>[M] Atria, Coffee and Writable Walls + [E] Experiencing the Social Life of Science</li> <li>[M] Veil Design + [E] Experiencing the Building Envelope</li><li>[M] Future Services + [E] Experiencing Growth</li><li>Conclusions: A New Approach to Science Architecture</li><li>NGI Floor Plans</li><li>Index</li></ul><br><b>Readership:</b> Academics, professionals and students from architecture, urban studies, science and technology studies (STS) programs, and the sciences; general public. Architecture of Science;Design and Urban Studies;Science Communication;National Graphene Institute, Manchester;Kostya Novoselov;Graphene0<b>Key Features:</b><ul><li>The book captures an array of participants in design and in the use of scientific buildings. In addition to the «usual suspects» featured in studies of scientific design (the scientists and the architects), we encounter lab technicians, facility managers, gas room and storage room technicians, porters, admin people, experimental officers, house attendants, events managers. Picturing the world of the graphene building as inhabited by all these «unsung heroes» provides a novel (more inclusive) understanding of how science architecture functions.</li><li>The study of the NGI help us to successfully redefine the very meaning of multidisciplinarity. Far from being a discursive exchange of ideas, multidisciplinarity, we witness in this book, emerges while sharing spaces and equipment, rubbing shoulders at the lab benches, reading results together or writing on the black walls. This is a novel aspect compared to the many accounts that focus on communication and collaboration as based on purely subjective interactions</li><li>The book illustrates a new methodological approach for understanding the architecture of the new generation of scientific buildings (that is, a slow ethnography that pays equal attention to human and nonhuman participants in science labs). It advocates an equal attention to the intricate design and technical infrastructure and to the variability of human experience that it facilitates</li></ul>
Reversing Climate Change: How Carbon Removals Can Resolve Climate Change And Fix The Economy
'The genius of Graciela Chichilnisky is recognized by economists and with this book she has focused that talent to the dire problem facing mankind. To survive we must do more than stave off a further rise of CO₂ in the atmosphere. We need to reverse it if the planet is to be viable. Professor Chichilnisky's achievement along with her co-author Peter Bal is to show us the way to rescue our future.'<div style='text-align: right;'>Professor Edmund Phelps2006 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsDirector, Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University</div>'In the world of economic theory, Graciela Chichilnisky is an A-list star.'<div style='text-align: right;'>The Washington Post</div>'The team of Chichilnisky and Bal has exceptional skill in explaining complex topics with great clarity making it easy for non-scientists interested in climate change to read. They address the science of climate change, the complex international negotiations needed to reach a compromise between developing nations and the developed ones, and importantly the urgent need to find a way of extracting CO₂ from the atmosphere and utilizing and sequestering it in a commercially profitable manner. The last topic has been almost completely ignored by the media.'<div style='text-align: right;'>Theodore Roosevelt IVManaging Director & Chairman of Barclays Cleantech InitiativeBARCLAYS</div>The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an economic system that created a price for carbon for the first time, is now used in four continents, is promoted by the World Bank, and is recommended even by leading oil and gas companies. However, one critical problem for the future of the Kyoto Protocol is the continuing impasse between the rich and the poor nations.Who should reduce emissions — the rich or the poor countries?<b>Contents:</b> <ul><li>Introduction: Climate Change and our Future</li><li>Global Crisis and the Mandate of COP</li><li>Insuring the Future</li><li>The Kyoto Protocol and its Carbon Market</li><li>The Road to Paris: An Insider's Timeline</li><li>An Uncertain Future</li><li>Implementing the Carbon Market and its CDM</li><li>The Paris Agreement: Failure as an Opportunity</li><li>Avoiding Extinction</li><li>Four Obscure Articles in the Paris Agreement Hold the Key to Resolve Climate Change</li><li>Reversing Climate Change</li><li>The Future Act of 2018: New U.S. Law Provides Unlimited Tax Credits to Remove CO₂ from Air</li></ul><br><b>Readership:</b> A must read for academics and professionals studying, implementing and analyzing global climate change policies; interested advance undergraduates and postgraduates interested in the follow up of the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC 1992 founding.COP21;Climate Change;UNFCCC;Carbon Negative Technology00
Spinach On The Ceiling: The Multifaceted Life Of A Theoretical Chemist
'Karplus's tales of a turbulent graduate school experience at Caltech will inspire readers to muster fortitude when everything seems to be spinning out of control. Karplus balances rigorous scientific discussions with refreshing chapters expounding his passion for photography and gastronomy.'<div style='text-align: right;'>Alfred ChinNature Chemistry, May 2020</div>Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus was eight when his family fled Nazi-occupied Austria via Switzerland and France for the United States. He would later credit his life as a refugee as a decisive influence on his world view and approach to science.Spinach on the Ceiling is an autobiographical telling of Karplus' life story, and how it led him to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013. The book captures pivotal moments in Martin's life — from his escape to Switzerland in 1938 shortly after Hitler's entrance into Austria; to memorable moments like when his parents gave him a microscope which opened his eyes to the wonders of science; to his education in New England and California; and his eventual scientific career which took him to England, Illinois, Columbia, Strasbourg, and Harvard. It relates how Martin's optimistic outlook and belief in his vision made it possible for him to overcome setbacks in his life, and turn a subject of study his colleagues considered a waste of time into a central part of chemistry and structural biology. It is his hope to inspire and aid young readers, in particular, to have a successful trajectory in their own lives. Although research and teaching have been his primary focus, he has traveled the world photographing people and places with a Leica IIIC and has had numerous exhibitions of the photographs. He has also enjoyed a lifelong interest in cooking and worked in some of the best restaurants in France and Spain.<b>Contents:</b> <ul><li>Preface</li><li>Acknowledgments</li><li>My Ancestors</li><li>Childhood Years in Europe</li><li>Final Days in Europe</li><li>A New Life in America</li><li>Beginning of Scientific Interests</li><li>College Years</li><li>Graduate School</li><li>Postdoctoral Sojourn in Oxford and Europe</li><li>University of Illinois: NMR and Coupling Constants</li><li>Move to Columbia and Focus on Reaction Kinetics</li><li>The FBI and I</li><li>Return to Harvard University and Biology</li><li>Move to Paris</li><li>Protein Folding, Hemoglobin and the CHARMM Program</li><li>The First Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Biomolecule</li><li>Early Applications of Molecular Dynamics</li><li>My Career as a Photographer</li><li>How We Came to Move to Strasbourg</li><li>My Life as a Chef</li><li>Announcement of the Nobel Prize</li><li>After the Announcement</li><li>The Nobel Prize Event</li><li>Science After the Nobel Prize Simulation</li><li>Life After the Nobel Prize</li><li>References</li><li><b><i>Appendices:</i></b><ul><li>Karplusians: 1955–2019</li><li>Martin Karplus: LIFE IN COLOR — From the 1940s to 2019</li><li>Nobel Lecture</li><li>Haaretz Article</li><li>Supplementary Material</li></ul></li><li>Index</li></ul><br><b>Readership:</b> A wide range of readers including students, scientists, historians, science enthusiasts, people interested in the Nobel Prize, Nobel Laureates, and the lives of people who escaped from Nazi Austria.Martin Karplus;Nobel Prize;Spinach on the Ceiling;Chemistry;Autobiography;CHARMM;Hemoglobin;Molecular Dynamics;NMR;Coupling Constants;Theoretical Chemistry;Reaction Kinetics;Biomolecular Simulations;BPTI;Photography;FBI;Allostery;Molecular Motors;F1 ATPase;Protein Folding;Enzyme Catalysis;cooking;Oxford;Europe00
Show Dad How
For dads who are excited to be involved with their new baby, but might not quite know where to start, Show Dad How is an ideal resource. From practical to playful, 156 awesome things every new father needs to know–one step at a time. In a series of nearly wordless, highly informative, often hilariously illustrated, step-by-step activities, dads-to-be learn how to do dozens of useful (and fascinating and important and sometimes surprisingly fun) tasks
Reframing Syrian Refugee Insecurity through a Feminist Lens
While there has been a shift in security studies from the security of states to that of people, realpolitik still takes place under the banner of an emerging discourse of "refugee crisis." Located at the intersection of security studies and refugee scholarship, this book is both a process and a product. It explores the multi-leveled sites of refugee security construction and policy translation that play an instrumental role in informing how Syrian refugee insecurity is engendered and experienced in the case of Lebanon. It sheds light on how impromptu choices made by involved bodies—such as the Lebanese government and the UNHCR—can significantly impact local realities, creating a vicious cycle of Syrian refugee insecurities.
Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society
A life of liberty and responsibility does not just happen, but requires a particular kind of education, one that aims at both a growth of the human soul and an enrichment of political society in justice and the common good. This we call a liberal education. Forgetfulness of liberty is also a forgetfulness of the multi-dimensional nature of the human person, and a diminution of political life. Keeping in mind what can be lost when liberal education is lost, this volume makes the case for recovering what is perennially noble and good in the liberal arts, and why the liberal arts always have a role to play in human flourishing.Each of the authors herein focuses on the connection of three primary themes: human dignity, liberal education, and political society. Intentionally rooted in the hub that joins the three themes, each author seeks to unfold the contemporary significance of that hub. As a whole, the volume explores how the three themes are crucial to each other: how they illuminate each other, how they need each other, and how the loss of one jeopardizes the wellbeing of the others. In individual chapters, the authors engage various relevant aspects of liberal education. As a result, the volume is organized into three parts: Liberal Education and a Life Well Lived; Thinkers on Dignity and Education in History; Contemporary Topics in Dignity and Education. As education is increasingly channeled into an ever more narrow focus on technical specialization, and measured against professional success, students themselves face a maelstrom of campus politics and competing political orthodoxies. These are among the issues that tend to militate against the operative liberty of the student to think and to speak as a person. This edited collection is offered as an invitation to think again about the liberal arts in order to recover the meaning of education as the authentic pursuit of the good life or eudemonia.
Sacred Disobedience
Sacred Disobedience: A Jungian Analysis of the Saga of Pan and the Devil traces the ancient Greek God Pan, who became distorted into the image of the Devil in early Christianity. When Pan was demonized, the powerful qualities he represented became repressed, as Pan’s visage twisted into the model of the Devil. This book follows a Jungian analysis of this development. In ancient Greek religion, Pan was worshipped as an honored deity, corresponding to an inner psycho-spiritual condition in which the primitive qualities he represented were fully integrated into consciousness, and these qualities were valued and affirmed as holy. But in the era of early Christianity Pan “dies,” and the Devil is born, a twisted inflation, possibly due to an underlying repression. In the Jungian system, repressed psychic contents do not disappear, as proponents of the new order tacitly assume, but distort and grow more powerful, or “inflate,” to cripple the psyche that refuses to incorporate these split-off elements. Repressed contents will expand to explosive force as the repressed elements eventually return regressively from below. It becomes important then, to understand what qualities the primitive Goat God carried, to appreciate what was repressed in the Western psycho-spiritual system, and what subsequently needs reintegration.
Foucault against Neoliberalism?
In the late 1970s, Michel Foucault dedicated a number of controversial lectures on the subject of neoliberalism. Had Foucault been seduced by neoliberalism? Did France’s premier leftist intellectual, near the end of his career, turn to the right? In this book, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie argues that far from abandoning the left, Foucault’s analysis of neoliberalism was a means of probing the limits and lacunae of traditional political philosophy, social contract theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. For Lagasnerie, Foucault’s analysis was an attempt to discover neoliberalism’s singularity, understand its appeal, and unearth its emancipatory potential in order to construct a new art of rebelliousness. By reading Foucault’s lectures on neoliberalism as a means of developing new practices of emancipation, Lagasnerie offers an original and compelling account of Michel Foucault’s most controversial work.
Minority Women and Western Media
Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices presents research examining media portrayals of women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their gender but also their race, religion, ability, physical attributes, and political status. Whilst their voices are frequently excluded, marginalized and misrepresented, the chapters in this volume show how minority women are creating and articulating new discourses and challenging assumptions and expectations about themselves. This book provides insights into how women are represented in different media, including newspapers, television shows, films, and online platforms. Scholars of media studies, women’s studies, and communication will find this book particularly useful.