Gate Crashing Oxford And Facing A New World
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Gate Crashing Oxford And Facing A New World
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Author : Stefan F. Gavell
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2008-11
Gate Crashing Oxford And Facing A New World written by Stefan F. Gavell and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the dramatic story of a Polish flyer who fought in the Polish, French and British air forces in World War II. Subsequently, he gate-crashed Oxford by defying the existing rules of admission. However, he discovered that he, in turn, was gate-crashed intellectually and philosophically by Oxford. He had the good fortune to be taught by some world-renowned professors and tutors who reshaped his life and outlook, thus helping him to face a changing world. After Oxford, he accepted an offer to work for an international agency where he devoted his talents to finding solutions to world economic problems, especially food and nutrition problems in newly created countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. His life experiences span such famous cities as Krakow, Bucharest, Beirut, Alexandria, Paris, London, Oxford, Washington and Rome, which enlivens the story.
The Invisible Arm Poems At 97
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Author : Jess Strauss
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-07-28
The Invisible Arm Poems At 97 written by Jess Strauss and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-28 with Poetry categories.
In his sixth book, ninety-seven year old poet Jess Strauss shares his own experiences, ideas, and reflections on overcoming the challenges that life presents over time. Communicating the importance of love, caring, and friendship, he encourages us to be active and not rest on the sidelines. Each of us should be a friend to ensure an "Invisible Arm" around another's shoulder for support in hard times when we aren't available. The poems are real, sincere, and thought provoking. Strauss's reference to the many degrees of love, from young to old, family to valued friends, developing new friends or dealing with the loss of loved ones, will cause you to ponder. You will feel his compassion for the poor, his attitude toward war, and concern for nature and the environment. It will stimulate your own buried thoughts on many subjects. How many obstacles did you overcome? It's all in The Invisible Arm: Poems at 97.
Too Old To Be Old
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Author : Jess Strauss
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2012-12-14
Too Old To Be Old written by Jess Strauss and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-14 with Poetry categories.
Poet Jess Strauss is 95 and doesnt know how many days, months or years are in store for him. Sitting back and waiting for the inevitable to arrive is not his way of life. As the title of the book says, Strauss is too old to be concerned with being old. The goal is to survive and be active in the remaining years. In this collection, he blends memory and vision to share experiences with his resilient attitude toward life and longevity. The poems are real, sincere, inspiring, and thought provoking. In compassionate verse, Strauss offers his poetic viewpoints on poverty, disability, loneliness, war, and the ironies of life. Theres romance, love, stories, friendship, family values, and ironic laughter represented page after page.
The Long Game
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Author : Rush Doshi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-11
The Long Game written by Rush Doshi and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-11 with Political Science categories.
For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States do about it? In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. Taking readers behind the Party's closed doors, he uncovers Beijing's long, methodical game to displace America from its hegemonic position in both the East Asia regional and global orders through three sequential "strategies of displacement." Beginning in the 1980s, China focused for two decades on "hiding capabilities and biding time." After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, it became more assertive regionally, following a policy of "actively accomplishing something." Finally, in the aftermath populist elections of 2016, China shifted to an even more aggressive strategy for undermining US hegemony, adopting the phrase "great changes unseen in century." After charting how China's long game has evolved, Doshi offers a comprehensive yet asymmetric plan for an effective US response. Ironically, his proposed approach takes a page from Beijing's own strategic playbook to undermine China's ambitions and strengthen American order without competing dollar-for-dollar, ship-for-ship, or loan-for-loan.
Sane New World
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Author : Ruby Wax
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-06-06
Sane New World written by Ruby Wax and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Self-Help categories.
The mental health and mindfulness bestseller from A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled and How to be Human author Ruby Wax, who shows us why and how our minds can send us mad and how we can rewire our thinking to calm ourselves in a frenetic world. 'Finally - a map for the troubled human mind. And it's funny.' -Caitlin Moran Ruby Wax - comedian, writer and mental health campaigner - shows us how our minds can jeopardize our sanity. With her own periods of depression and now a Masters from Oxford in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy to draw from, she explains how our busy, chattering, self-critical thoughts drive us to anxiety and stress. If we are to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world. Helping you become the master, not the slave, of your mind, here is the manual to saner living.
Oxford Examined
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Author : Richard O. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2017-01-04
Oxford Examined written by Richard O. Smith and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-04 with Humor categories.
Repeatedly jamming his fork of curiosity into the live toaster of opportunity, comedian Richard O. Smith captures the experience of living in Oxford in probably the funniest book written about the Dreaming Spires. Collected here are 70 of his best Oxford Examined columns from the award-winning Oxford Times magazine Oxfordshire Limited Edition including several previously unpublished stories. In these unflinchingly truthful columns he meets celebrities (Kate Middleton, Dara O'Briain, the one who plays Phoebe in Friends and a predictably grumpy Alan Sugar), visits the 11th dimension with an Oxford University maths protégée, gatecrashes Encaenia, flirts with a Roman slave girl from 79AD, is ejected from the Oxford Union by burly security, witnesses a comeuppance for a pack of arrogant students, conducts a walking tour for Britain's scariest hen party, moves a library (which transpires to be harder work than moving a mountain), sees Britain's most pretentious theatre production, participates in the UK's national bell ringing championships (yes, that is a thing), allows Oxford University psychologists to experiment on him, rescues four escaped horses in a busy Oxford street (thankfully it wasn't the apocalypse), becomes a crime-fighting superhero, is hospitalised in a serious bike accident, gets chased by a furious revenge-fixated woman dressed as a Friesian cow, strides out of his house one morning and disappears down a giant sink hole, mentors two stand-up comedy virgins, commits a devastating social faux pas and pledges to never use a split infinitive or sentence this long again. 'Right from the introductory preamble, this is pure comedy genius. I dare anybody to read it and not start sniggering out loud. Warning: this may attract odd looks if you are on a bus or anywhere else in public.' --Oxford Times 'Bring together an outstanding comic writer and a city of unlikely people and you'll find the perfect love-match. The wittiest, zaniest, and most truthful guide to a city you'll read: armchair travel has never been so good. Or so funny.' --Susie Dent 'The funniest book ever about Oxford. Pure comedy genius. I read Oxford Examined and laughed so much.' --Gill Oliver, Oxford Mail
China S Grand Strategy
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Author : Andrew Scobell
language : en
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Release Date : 2020-07-27
China S Grand Strategy written by Andrew Scobell and has been published by Rand Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-27 with History categories.
To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report identified and characterized China’s grand strategy, analyzed its component national strategies (diplomacy, economics, science and technology, and military affairs), and assessed how successful China might be at implementing these over the next three decades.
The New World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1840
The New World written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1840 with New York (N.Y.) categories.
Zombies
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Author : Jennifer Rutherford
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Zombies written by Jennifer Rutherford and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Not so long ago zombies rarely shuffled out of B-grade horror movies and cult comic books, but today they are everywhere. Zombies are proliferating, demonstrating an extraordinary capacity to transport fluidly from genre to genre, from the apocalyptic future to the already survived past, and in and out of fictional form. Today they can be found in just about any genre or discourse and as they move sinuously across the cultural landscape they keep morphing; taking on ever new and ever more bizarre associations. Zombies would appear to be unthinkable, the ultimate nightmare of a world devoured by the dead, and yet more and more often this horror-scape provides a form of figurative capture for the way things are. This book explores why. Zombies explores the recent transformation of zombie from cult genre to a figure that pervades western culture. Rutherford examines the zombie as a powerful metaphor for a constellation of social forces that define contemporary reality. This is an ideal introduction to all that is social about zombies, for students and general readers alike. Extracts from Zombies, were recently published in Australian newspapers, The Age, The Canberra Times and the Sydney Morning Herald. Available now to read online: www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/dead-right-20130620-2olqr.html
A Little Life
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Author : Hanya Yanagihara
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2015-03-10
A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Fiction categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.