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  The Ripple Effect - China's...

  Enze Han

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  Many studies of China's relations with and influence on Southeast Asia tend to focus on how Beijing has used its power asymmetry to achieve regional influence. Yet, scholars and pundits often fail to appreciate the complexity of the contemporary Chinese state and society, and just how fragmented, decentralized, and internationalized China is today. 
   
   
   
  In The Ripple Effect, Enze Han argues that a focus on the Chinese state alone is not sufficient for a comprehensive understanding of China's influence in Southeast Asia. Instead, we must look beyond the Chinese state, to non-state actors from China, such as private businesses and Chinese migrants. These actors affect people's perception of China in a variety of ways, and they often have wide-ranging as well as long-lasting effects on bilateral relations. Looking beyond the Chinese state's intentional influence reveals many situations that result in unanticipated changes in Southeast Asia. Han proposes that to understand this increasingly globalized China, we need more conceptual flexibility regarding which Chinese actors are important to China's relations, and how they wield this influence, whether intentional or not.

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  Spanish Phrasebook for Everyday...

  Lingosmith Lab

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  Your Practical Spanish Companion for Travel, Everyday Life, and Real Conversations 
  Traveling to a Spanish-speaking country? Meeting Spanish-speaking friends or coworkers? 
  This phrasebook is your easy, go-to guide to using real Spanish in real situations. 
  "Spanish Phrasebook for Everyday Life and Travel" is designed for beginners, tourists, and everyday learners who want to communicate without memorizing grammar rules. From ordering food to navigating transportation or conversing, you'll have the phrases you need when you need them. 
  Who This Book Is For: 
  First-time travelers to Spanish-speaking countries 
  Beginners who want quick wins 
  Students, digital nomads, or expats 
  Anyone who wants to feel more connected while abroad 
  What Makes This Phrasebook Different 
  Real-World Usefulness – No fluff. No grammar lessons. Just practical phrases for real situations. 
  Jump-In Navigation – Organized by topic for quick reference—no need to read cover-to-cover. 
  Easy Pronunciation Help – Includes bolded phonetic guides for every phrase to help you confidently speak. 
  Mini Conversations – End-of-chapter dialogues help you see phrases in action. 
  Cultural Confidence – Navigate local customs and speak respectfully. 
  Inside You’ll Find Phrases For: 
  Travel & Transportation – Airports • Checking In • Security & Boarding • On the Plane • Arrival & Immigration • Public Transit • Taxis • Renting Cars 
  Lodging – Hotels • Checking In & Out • Amenities & Issues During Stay 
  Dining & Food – Menus • Ordering at Restaurants • Dietary Needs & Allergies • At the Bar • Drinks 
  Shopping & Money – Souvenirs • Clothes • Grocery Stores • Bargaining • ATMs • Currency Exchange • Banking 
  Health & Emergencies – Medical Help • Pharmacies • Police Assistance • First Aid • Lost & Found 
  Leisure & Social Life – Romance • Going Out • Social Media • Making Friends • Events 
  Family & Kids – Family Terms • Traveling with Children • Introductions • Age & Profession.

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  The Long Gray Line - The...

  Rick Atkinson

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  A gripping look at the cadets of West Point whose dedication to duty was not honored by the country they served.Young men who dream of heroes look to West Point and to a career of serving their country. The class of 1966 was no exception, but these cadets faced greater challenges than any earlier generation could have imagined. Thirty of them would be killed in Vietnam, but for those who did return, they resigned from the Army in records numbers— returning to a society that paid no honor to their military careers. In The Long Gray Line, Rick Atkinson eloquently tells the stories of the class of ' 66, a class that represented the innocence and patriotism of a generation.

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  Lectures of Col RG Ingersoll...

  Robert G. Ingersoll

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  A second volume of lectures by the most famous orator of the 19th century. Ingersoll was a tireless crusader for the dignity of humanity, and a relentless opponent of organized religion. (Summary by Ted Delorme)

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  Holding Fire - A Reckoning with...

  Bryce Andrews

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  From the award-winning author of Down from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one gun’s role in the violence that shaped the American West—and an impassioned call to forge a new way forward 
  Bryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfather’s Smith & Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men who’d come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness, and the Indigenous peoples who had lived in these landscapes for millennia. This was how the West was “won.” Now, the losses were all around him and a weapon was in his hand. 
  In precise, elegiac prose, Andrews chronicles his journey to forge a new path for himself, and to reshape one handgun into a tool for good work. As waves of gun violence swept the country and wildfires burned across his beloved valley, he began asking questions—of ranchers, his Native neighbors, his family, and a blacksmith who taught him to shape steel—in search of a new way to live with the land and with one another. In laying down his arms, he transformed an inherited weapon, his ranch, and the arc of his life. 
  Holding Fire is a deeply felt memoir of one Western heart’s wild growth, and a personal testament to how things that seem permanent—inheritance, legacies of violence, forged steel—can change. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  The Women Are Up to Something -...

  Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb

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  On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a fiercely brilliant Catholic convert; a daughter of privilege longing to escape her stifling upbringing; an ardent Communist and aspiring novelist with a list of would-be lovers as long as her arm; and a quiet, messy lover of newts and mice who would become a great public intellectual of our time. They became lifelong friends. At the time, only a handful of women had ever made lives in philosophy. But when Oxford's men were drafted in the war, everything changed. 
   
   
   
  As Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch labored to make a place for themselves in a male-dominated world, as they made friendships and families, and as they drifted toward and away from each other, they never stopped insisting that some lives are better than others. They argued that courage and discernment and justice—and love—are the heart of a good life. 
   
   
   
  This book presents the first sustained engagement with these women's contributions: with the critique and the alternative they framed. Drawing on a cluster of recently opened archives and extensive correspondence and interviews with those who knew them best, Benjamin Lipscomb traces the lives and ideas of four friends who gave us a better way to think about ethics, and ourselves.

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