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  Leadership and the Rise of Great...

  American Classics

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  "Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers" by Yan Xuetong is a profound exploration of the intricate relationship between leadership styles and the ascent of global powers. This audiobook summary distills the essential insights from Yan's analysis, offering a concise yet comprehensive overview for those looking to grasp the complex dynamics of international relations quickly. 
  Yan Xuetong, a distinguished Chinese scholar, delves into the different leadership styles - humane authority, hegemonic, anemocratic, and tyrannical - and how these styles have shaped the trajectories of major world powers like China, the United States, and Russia. The audiobook illuminates how these nations have risen to prominence, not just through military might or economic prowess, but through their ability to influence and reshape the international order. 
  The audiobook also sheds light on the shifting global landscape, particularly the move towards a bipolar world order, with China increasingly challenging US dominance. This transition is marked by changes in international norms and the emergence of a leaderless global order, characterized by declining international cooperation. 
  In this quick and easy listen, you'll find all the practical information that can be applied from Yan Xuetong's original work. If you've already read the book, this audio will help cement the most important lessons. And if you haven't, don't worry, you're getting all the critical insights in a fraction of the time. Whether you're a student of international relations, a geopolitics enthusiast, or someone intrigued by the rise and fall of great powers, this audiobook summary is an invaluable resource, saving you hours of reading while providing a rich understanding of global leadership dynamics.

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  Transforming Leadership

  James MacGregor Burns

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  The New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner examines the history of leadership, and the crucial role of leaders in a healthy democracy.   In Transforming Leadership, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures—from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe’s absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment’s ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution.   Along the way, he looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worlds—Elizabeth I, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gorbachev, and others. Culminating in a bold and innovative plan to address the greatest global leadership challenge of the twenty-first century, the long-intractable problem of global poverty, Transforming Leadership will spark lively discussion in classrooms and boardrooms throughout the country.  

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  Making Britain Civilized - How...

  Abhijit Naskar

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  "Hitler's holocaust took over 6 million lives, hence he is rightly deemed a monster, but the british empire uprooted 15 million people from their homes, massacred millions and starved four million people to death. What about that?" 
  Abhijit Naskar, the scientist and reformer who's been at the forefront of humankind's struggle against discrimination, prejudice and injustice, gives us a work of making amends. In his simple yet bold words, as always, Naskar states: "There is no such thing as constitutional monarchy, you can either have constitution or monarchy."

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  Homo Politicus - The Strange and...

  Dana Milbank

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  Washington's most acerbic (and feared) columnist, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, skewers the peculiar and alien tribal culture of politics.Deep within the forbidding land encircled by the Washington Beltway lives the tribe known as Homo politicus. Their ways are strange, even repulsive, to civilized human beings; their arcane rites often impenetrable; their language coded and obscure. Violating their complex taboos can lead to sudden, harsh, and irrevocable punishment. Normal Americans have long feared Homo politicus, with good reason. But fearless anthropologist Dana Milbank has spent many years immersed in the dark heart of Washington, D.C., and has produced this indispensable portrait of a bizarre culture whose tribal ways are as hilarious as they are outrageous.Milbank's anthropological lens is highly illuminating, whether examining the mating rituals of Homo politicus (which have little to do with traditional concepts of romantic love), demonstrating how status is displayed in the Beltway's rigid caste system (such as displaying a wooden egg from the White House Easter Egg Roll), or detailing the precise ritual sequence of human sacrifice whenever a scandal erupts (the human sacrificed does not have to be the guiltiest party, just the lower ranked). Milbank's lacerating wit mows down the pompous, the stupid, and the corrupt among Democrats, Republicans, reporters, and bureaucrats by naming names. Every appalling anecdote in this book is, alas, true.

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  NIPCC vs IPCC - Addressing the...

  S. Fred Singer

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  Global warming: Is it natural or is it manmade? This issue is of crucial importance for both climate science and climate policy. We update the ongoing controversy. This booklet also discusses chaotic uncertainties of climate models and how to overcome them, presents new thinking on Climategate and the Hockeystick graph - and shows what we can say about the absence of post-1979 warming in the temperature data of the 20th century.

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  British Army of the Rhine - The...

  Paul Chrystal

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  The nervous geopolitical tension between East and West, the Cold War, emerged before the end of the Second World War and lasted until 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The British Army of the Rhine was born in 1945 out of the British Liberation Army at the close of the war as the military government of the British zone of occupied Germany. As the Soviet threat increased, so BAOR became less of an occupational army and assumed the role of defender of Western Europe, and as a major contributor to NATO after 1949.This book traces and examines the changing role of BAOR from 1945 to its demise in the 1993 Options for Change defence cuts. It looks at the part it played in the defence of West Germany, its effectiveness as a Cold War deterrent, the garrisons and capabilities, logistics and infrastructure, its arms and armour, the nuclear option and the lives of the thousands of families living on the front line.

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