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A Decade of Drift

Author : Martin Parkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922464095
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Decade of Drift written by Martin Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The erosion of public trust in government has been a characteristic of liberal democracies in recent years. How much have the twists and turns in climate change policy over the past decade contributed to this in Australia? As a senior public servant during six prime ministerships, Martin Parkinson had a front-row seat from which to watch the inability of successive governments to tackle climate change. From an emissions trading scheme through to a National Energy Guarantee, this is a story of science and expertise ignored, short-termism, wasted opportunities and international disappointment. Climate change demands both a local and a global response, just as do pandemics, mass migration and ocean pollution. The increasingly urgent question is whether governments are up to the challenge or are prepared to bear the consequences of inaction or indifference. The history of climate change policy in Australia is a sorry story which should leave Australians demanding more courage and commitment from their political leaders.

The Old Drift

Author : Namwali Serpell
Publisher : Hogarth Press
ISBN 13 : 1101907142
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Old Drift written by Namwali Serpell and published by Hogarth Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage."--Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - "Clear-eyed, energetic and richly entertaining."--The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Time - Tordotcom - Kirkus Reviews - BookPage 1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black, white, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass, their lives--their triumphs, errors, losses and hopes--emerge through a panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction. From a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts, microdrones and viral vaccines, this gripping, unforgettable novel is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders, and a meditation on the slow, grand passage of time. Praise for The Old Drift "An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic . . . This is a dazzling book, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "A founding epic in the vein of Virgil's Aeneid . . . though in its sprawling size, its flavor of picaresque comedy and its fusion of family lore with national politics it more resembles Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children."--The Wall Street Journal "A story that intertwines strangers into families, which we'll follow for a century, magic into everyday moments, and the story of a nation, Zambia."--NPR

Drift

Author : Rachel Maddow
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307461009
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Drift written by Rachel Maddow and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse. Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, Drift reinvigorates a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.

The Canadian Way of War

Author : Bernd Horn
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550026127
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Way of War written by Bernd Horn and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays underlines the reality that the "Canadian way of war" is a direct reflection of circumstances and political will.

The Continental Drift Controversy

Author : Henry R. Frankel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521875048
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis The Continental Drift Controversy by : Henry R. Frankel

Download or read book The Continental Drift Controversy written by Henry R. Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geoscience.

The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 1, Wegener and the Early Debate

Author : Henry R. Frankel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316616045
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 1, Wegener and the Early Debate written by Henry R. Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the early debate over Wegener's theory of continental drift, based on extensive interviews and archival material.

Dismal Diplomacy, Disposable Sovereignty

Author : Carrillo Gantner
Publisher : In the National Interest
ISBN 13 : 9781922633149
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Dismal Diplomacy, Disposable Sovereignty written by Carrillo Gantner and published by In the National Interest. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As 'America's shoeshine boy in the South Pacific', Australia is accustomed to being told what to do. In the space of a mere five years, the subjugation of Australia's national interest to that of the United States in provoking China under president Trump led us very quickly into a hostile relationship with the rising power of the People's Republic of China, and trashed forty years of positive relationship building. The Australian Government is inexperienced in its dealings with China, about which it knows very little. It fails to understand that primarily China wants to be treated with the respect due to a major power. Seeking to curry favour with Washington, the Australian Government and the media have turned the people against China. Claiming to stand up against the newly aggressive nation under President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Morrison has damaged Australia's critical trading relationship with China as he acts to shore up his own political support against domestic challengers. As a result, Australia is now suffering serious Chinese blowback. This book describes the current unhappy situation and, based on Gantner's forty years of work in cultural exchange with China, offers some modest suggestions on improving bilateral relations. With the United States pushing for containment of and confrontation with China, and an insecure Australia giving up its sovereignty to buy American protection, it is not at all certain that this will happen.

Drifts

Author : Kate Zambreno
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593087216
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Drifts written by Kate Zambreno and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Drifts is a dazzling and enjoyable book. Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup. I've never read truer pages on the subject of pregnancy. No writer has come so close to achieving a total grasp of life: the entanglement of everyday things, a writing project, and a pregnant body, in a single work.” —Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Named a Best Book of the Year by The Paris Review, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Vulture, and Refinery29 “Reading all Zambreno feels like the jolt one gets from a surprise cut or burn in the kitchen, that sudden recognition that you’re in a body and the body can be hurt.” —Alicia Kennedy, Refinery29 Haunting and compulsively readable, Drifts is an intimate portrait of reading, writing, and creative obsession. At work on a novel that is overdue, spending long days walking neighborhood streets with her restless terrier, corresponding ardently with fellow writers, the narrator grows obsessed with the challenge of writing the present tense, of capturing time itself. Entranced by the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, Albrecht Dürer, Chantal Akerman, and others, she photographs the residents and strays of her neighborhood, haunts bookstores and galleries, and records her thoughts in a yellow notebook that soon subsumes her work on the novel. As winter closes in, a series of disturbances—the appearances and disappearances of enigmatic figures, the burglary of her apartment—leaves her distracted and uncertain . . . until an intense and tender disruption changes everything. A story of artistic ambition, personal crisis, and the possibilities and failures of literature, Drifts is the work of an exhilarating and vital writer.

Drift

Author : Patrick Jones
Publisher : Darby Creek ™
ISBN 13 : 1467733563
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Drift written by Patrick Jones and published by Darby Creek ™. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great thing about drifting, thinks Kekoa, is that it's more about skill than expensive parts. That's good for him. Since his mom left him on the island with his grandma, his Nissan Skyline 350 is all he has to his name. Life is the opposite for Billy Cain, who can buy his way into or out of anything. But when Billy's antics threaten the few things Kekoa cares about, they'll put it to the test: does skill or money win out when it comes to wheels, winding mountain roads, honor, and love? Includes real tech specs and tuning details for the Nissan Skyline 350!

SIPRE Report

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book SIPRE Report written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of Physics in Collision 4

Author : Abraham Seiden
Publisher : Atlantica Séguier Frontières
ISBN 13 : 9782863320303
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of Physics in Collision 4 written by Abraham Seiden and published by Atlantica Séguier Frontières. This book was released on 1984 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 3, Introduction of Seafloor Spreading

Author : Henry R. Frankel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107377331
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 3, Introduction of Seafloor Spreading by : Henry R. Frankel

Download or read book The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 3, Introduction of Seafloor Spreading written by Henry R. Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This four-volume treatise on the continental drift controversy is the first complete history of the origin, debate and gradual acceptance of this revolutionary theory. Based on extensive interviews, archival papers and original works, Frankel weaves together the lives and work of the scientists involved, producing an accessible narrative for scientists and non-scientists alike. This third volume describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geology and geophysics. Fuelled by the Cold War, US and British workers led the way in making discoveries and forming new hypotheses, especially about the origin of oceanic ridges. When first proposed, seafloor spreading was just one of several competing hypotheses about the evolution of ocean basins.

Historical Drift

Author : Arnold L. Cook
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1600669204
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Historical Drift written by Arnold L. Cook and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Drift—This book helps define, diagnose, detect and reverse historical drift. Must my church die, you ask? The vision dims, the core values shift, the passion fades, the original moorings are left behind. You are not alone in your question. There are others like you, Christian leaders, both lay and clergy, who want to see our churches return to the basic issues of doctrine and faith.

The Autobiography of an Old Drifter

Author : Percy M. Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of an Old Drifter written by Percy M. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unmasked

Author : Bill Bowtell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922464248
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Unmasked written by Bill Bowtell and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering to millions more. In 2020, COVID-19 emerged into a world where many governments had failed to heed the lessons of the past, and so they were unprepared and unable to stop its global spread. But some countries had learned the harsh lessons of HIV/AIDS, and had contained SARS1, Ebola, Zika and MERS. When coronavirus hit, they knew what to do to save their people from avoidable infections and deaths. In Unmasked: the Politics of Pandemics, Bill Bowtell draws on his four decades of experience in the global and local politics of public health to examine why some countries got it right with coronavirus while others collapsed into misery and chaos. He looks closely at the critical weeks when poor planning brought Australia to the brink of disaster, until the Australian people forced their governments to put public health before politics. Unmasked reveals how and why our politicians failed us during the greatest public health crisis of this century to date. In the National Interest is a new series in the Monash University Publishing list that is focused on the challenges Australia confronts. The series informs, influences and inspires public discourse. Showcasing experts both from within Monash and beyond, these short, thought-provoking and accessible books will address the major issues of our times, from public policy to governance and government.

Contemporary Drift

Author : Theodore Martin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543891
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Drift written by Theodore Martin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to call something “contemporary”? More than simply denoting what’s new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we’re living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an integral, yet often unnoticed, part of the literature and film of our moment. In Contemporary Drift, Theodore Martin argues that the contemporary is not just a historical period but also a conceptual problem, and he claims that contemporary genre fiction offers a much-needed resource for resolving that problem. Contemporary Drift combines a theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present with a historical account of contemporary literature and film. Emphasizing both the difficulty and the necessity of historicizing the contemporary, the book explores how recent works of fiction depict life in an age of global capitalism, postindustrialism, and climate change. Through new histories of the novel of manners, film noir, the Western, detective fiction, and the postapocalyptic novel, Martin shows how the problem of the contemporary preoccupies a wide range of novelists and filmmakers, including Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, Vikram Chandra, China Miéville, Kelly Reichardt, and the Coen brothers. Martin argues that genre provides these artists with a formal strategy for understanding both the content and the concept of the contemporary. Genre writing, with its mix of old and new, brings to light the complicated process by which we make sense of our present and determine what belongs to our time.

Climates of Hunger

Author : Reid A. Bryson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299073734
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Climates of Hunger written by Reid A. Bryson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1977-06-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, world climate changes have drawn more attention than at any other time in history. What we once called "crazy weather," just a few years ago, is now beginning to be seen as a part of a logical and, in part, predictable pattern, an awesome natural force that we must deal with if man is to avoid disaster of unprecedented proportions. Climates of Hunger is a book of paramount importance for our time. It will be essential reading not only for professionals in the field—including agricultural meteorologists, political scientists, geographers, sociologists, and business counselors—but for all who are concerned in any way with environmental trends, world and domestic food supplies, and their effects on human institutions.