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Splinterlands

Author : John Feffer
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608467252
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Splinterlands written by John Feffer and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dystopian trilogy opener, an elderly scientist reminisces, wondering why both the planet and his family fell apart. Part Field Notes from a Catastrophe, part 1984, part World War Z, this striking dystopian novel takes us deep into the battered, shattered world of 2050. The European Union has broken apart. Multiethnic great powers like Russia and China have shriveled. America’s global military footprint has virtually disappeared, and the United States remains united in name only. Nationalism has proven the century’s most enduring force as ever-rising global temperatures have supercharged each-against-all competition and conflict among the now three hundred-plus members of an increasingly feeble United Nations. As he navigates the world of 2050, Julian West offers a roadmap for the path we’re already on, a chronicle of impending disaster, and a faint light of hope. He may be humanity’s last best chance to explain how the world unraveled—if he can survive the savage beauty of the Splinterlands. Praise for Splinterlands “In a chilling, thoughtful, and intuitive warning, foreign policy analyst Feffer . . . takes today’s woes of a politically fragmented, warming Earth and amplifies them into future catastrophe . . . . This novel is not for the emotionally squeamish or optimistic; Feffer’s confident recitation of world collapse is terrifyingly plausible, a short but encompassing look at world tragedy.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “Feffer’s book is a wild ride through a bleak future, casting a harsh, thought-provoking light on that future’s modern-day roots.” —Foreword Reviews “A startling portrait of a post-apocalyptic tomorrow that is fast becoming a reality today. Fast-paced, yet strangely haunting, Feffer’s latest novel looks back from 2050 on the disintegration of world order told through the story of one broken family—and offers a disturbing vision of what might await us all if we don’t act quickly.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times–bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed and Had I Known, and founder of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Frostlands

Author : John Feffer
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608469492
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Frostlands written by John Feffer and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devious corporation attacks a farm commune in former Vermont where one scientist just might be able to save the planet. Arcadia’s defense corps is mobilized to fend off what first appears to be a routine assault, one of the many that the community must repulse from paramilitary forces every year. But as sensors report a breach in the perimeter wall, even eighty-year-old Rachel Leopold shoulders a weapon and reports for duty. The attack, it turns out, has been orchestrated by one of the world’s largest corporations, CRISPR International, and it is interested in stopping Rachel’s research into stopping global warming. As Arcadia prepares to defend itself against the next CRISPR attack, Rachel contacts Emmanuel Puig, the foremost scholar of her ex-husband’s work, to get information that she can use to stop CRISPR. Arcadia intersperses the action with short reports from Emmanuel on his interactions with Rachel as they meet, via virtual reality, in different parts of the world—Brussels, Ningxia, and finally Darwin. The novel concludes with an explosive, unexpected twist that forces a re-evaluation of all that has come before. Praise for Frostlands “A worthy sequel to the thought-provoking Splinterlands, Frostlands is triumphant and absorbing science fiction, full of ecological and societal warnings. It is a unique and imaginative look at a future Earth scarred by environmental neglect.” —Foreword Reviews “Feffer expands the urgent environmental warnings of Splinterlands in a slim, standalone sequel that’s equally dire and sinister but more leisurely paced . . . . Devotees of near-future science fiction adventures will root for resolute and energetic Rachel on her quest to save Earth.” —Publishers Weekly “By taking us on a cautionary journey into a future planetary collapse where the term “one per cent” is redefined in a terrifying way, John Feffer forces us to look deeply at our own society’s blindness to ecological apocalypse and greed. But the novel’s enchantment goes beyond dystopia: the quest for salvation depends on a crusty female octogenarian who would make Wonder Woman salivate with envy.” —Ariel Dorfman

A Complete Guide On Making Money In Crypto Games

Author : Henderson Martin's
Publisher : XinXii
ISBN 13 : 3989831267
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book A Complete Guide On Making Money In Crypto Games written by Henderson Martin's and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unlock the secrets to financial success in the digital realm with our ebook, 'Crypto Gaming Profits: Play Your Way to Wealth.' Dive into the world of cryptocurrency games and discover strategic insights, practical tips, and proven techniques to turn your gaming passion into a lucrative source of income. Whether you're a seasoned gamer or a crypto enthusiast, this comprehensive guide will empower you to navigate the crypto gaming landscape and capitalize on emerging opportunities. Start your journey to financial freedom today!"

Borderlands 3 - Strategy Guide

Author : GamerGuides.com
Publisher : Gamer Guides
ISBN 13 : 163102440X
Total Pages : 1061 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Borderlands 3 - Strategy Guide written by GamerGuides.com and published by Gamer Guides. This book was released on with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the Borderlands as you aim to help allies new and old reclaim them from the Children of the Vault. Four new Vault Hunters join the cause as you take to the stars to discover what lies outside Pandora and more. The guide for Borderlands 3 features all there is to see and do including a full walkthrough covering every main and optional mission alongside everything else inbetween. Including indepth strategies on every Vault Hunter and recommended builds to help give you that edge you'll need. Inside Version 1.0 - Full Walkthrough of the main storyline - Coverage of all Optional Missions - Trophy/Achievement Guide - Character Builds

Cryptosocial

Author : Allen Taylor
Publisher : Business Expert Press
ISBN 13 : 1637421842
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Cryptosocial written by Allen Taylor and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cryptocurrency & Social Media Have Married and This is What It Looks Like Social media is a multi-billion-dollar industry where the platforms profit from user-generated content. Cryptocurrencies have arrived to end the exploitation. Cryptosocial: How Cryptocurrencies Are Changing Social Media surveys the history of social media and cryptocurrencies to show how these two unrelated technologies had a chance meeting that is changing the world. If you’re one of the millions of people growing tired of legacy social media and how they take advantage of their own users, this book will open your eyes to the alternatives offering greater happiness, more freedom, and better personal and financial security. Read this book and you’ll learn: What cryptosocial is all about. Which platforms and protocols you should pay attention to. Why cryptosocial media is the best alternative for Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. How to start using cryptosocial media. What you need to participate in decentralized social media platforms. And how you can profit from your own content, gain more control over your identity, and maintain security over your online data and personal assets.

Songlands

Author : John Feffer
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642594857
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Songlands written by John Feffer and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2052. The world is a mess. The climate change meltdown has triggered an endless cycle of natural disasters. Nationalist paramilitaries battle against religious extremists. Multinational corporations, with their own security forces, have replaced global institutions as the only real power-brokers. Waves of pandemics have closed borders with such regularity that travelhas become mostly virtual. Aurora, a middle-aged sociologist, tries not to think about how the world has turned so chaotic and dangerous. At university, she focuses on her students. At home, it 's her children. She devotes her spare time to writing poetry. She 's relatively comfortable, but not particularly happy. And she 's angry at how small her life has become.Then one day a strange woman walks into Aurora 's life and, in an instant, the world 's chaos gets personal. Suddenly the obscure professor has a target on her back and the fate of the world in her hands. Her salvation, and that of the planet as well, lies in the mysteries locked inside the head of this enigmatic woman who has appeared on her doorstep. Unlocking those mysteries will take Aurora on a virtual journey around the fragmented globe and up against the world 's most powerful corporation. Songlands, the stand-alone finale to the Splinterlands trilogy, describes humanity 's last shot at solving the world 's problems. Can Aurora assemble a team to reverse the splintering of the international community and avert an even more dystopian future?

Computational Data and Social Networks

Author : David Mohaisen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030914348
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Computational Data and Social Networks written by David Mohaisen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2021, which was held online during November 15-17, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 24 full and 8 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Combinatorial optimization and learning; deep learning and applications to complex and social systems; measurements of insight from data; complex networks analytics; special track on fact-checking, fake news and malware detection in online social networks; and special track on information spread in social and data networks.

The Art of Michael Whelan

Author : Michael Whelan
Publisher : Bantam Dell Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780553074475
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Michael Whelan written by Michael Whelan and published by Bantam Dell Publishing Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning artist Whelan has illustrated the work of almost every major author in speculative fiction. Here are featured all the artist's major recent paintings, as well as a series of 25 never-before-seen works produced especially for this book. Over 100 full-color reproductions.

Right Across the World

Author : John Feffer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786808554
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Right Across the World written by John Feffer and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a post-Trump world, the right is still very much in power. Significantly more than half the world's population currently lives under some form of right-wing populist or authoritarian rule. Today's autocrats are, at first glance, a diverse band of brothers. But religious, economic, social and environmental differences aside, there is one thing that unites them - their hatred of the liberal, globalised world. This unity is their strength, and through control of government, civil society and the digital world they are working together across borders to stamp out the left. In comparison, the liberal left commands only a few disconnected islands - Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain and Uruguay. So far they have been on the defensive, campaigning on local issues in their own countries. This narrow focus underestimates the resilience and global connectivity of the right. In this book, John Feffer speaks to the world's leading activists to show how international leftist campaigns must come together if they are to combat the rising tide of the right. A global Green New Deal, progressive trans-European movements, grassroots campaigning on international issues with new and improved language and storytelling are all needed if we are to pull the planet back from the edge of catastrophe. This book is both a warning and an inspiration to activists terrified by the strengthening wall of far-right power."--

Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy

Author : Rodney Wallace Kennedy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666712973
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy written by Rodney Wallace Kennedy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy faces threats from an emerging right-wing movement in democratic governments around the world. This may be even more prevalent in the United States because there is an evil that uses rhetorical tropes to undermine the anchor institutions of democracy: press, courts, universities, and Congress. This evil has a personification—former President Donald Trump. All the rhetorical critiques of Trump, that he is a demagogue, an authoritarian, a serial liar, a populist on steroids, fail to take into account the evil that is fomented by his angry and vengeful rhetoric. Pictures of evil in Scripture, philosophy, and rhetoric bear a striking resemblance to Trump. It is not enough to say that he is dangerous to democracy. Kennedy claims that he is the evil seed in democracy that is even now sprouting new versions of the Trump rhetoric as each acolyte attempts to outrage the next. Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy screams at the evil, fights against the evil, and then attempts to sing the songs of goodness and democracy from poets, prophets, and rhapsodes. For the health of democracy these words have been written.

Louis Owens

Author : Joe Lockard
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826360998
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Louis Owens written by Joe Lockard and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy explores the wide-ranging oeuvre of this seminal author, examining Owens’s work and his importance in literature and Native studies. Of Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish American descent, Owens’s work includes mysteries, novels, literary scholarship, and autobiographical essays. Louis Owens offers a critical introduction and thirteen essays arranged into three sections: “Owens and the World,” “Owens and California,” and “The Novels.” The essays present an excellent assessment of Owens’s literary legacy, noting his contributions to American literature, ethnic literature, and Native American literature and highlighting his contributions to a variety of theories and genres. The collection concludes with a coda of personal poetic reflections on Owens by Diane Glancy and Kimberly Blaeser. Libraries, students, scholars, and the general public interested in Native American literature and the landscape of contemporary US literature will welcome this reflective volume that analyzes a vast range of Louis Owens’s imaginative fictions, personal accounts, and critical work.

Revolutionizing Metaverse

Author : Amit Johri
Publisher : BPB Publications
ISBN 13 : 9355512945
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionizing Metaverse written by Amit Johri and published by BPB Publications. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand how DAOs, NFTs, and Web 3.0 are contributing to the development and growth of Metaverse commerce KEY FEATURES ● Get familiar with the concepts of the Metaverse and blockchain technology. ● Explore the potential benefits and challenges of using blockchain in Metaverse. ● Understand how Metaverse has the potential to revolutionize e-commerce. DESCRIPTION Blockchain technology is a key enabler of the Metaverse, providing the infrastructure needed for a decentralized, secure, and transparent virtual world. If you want to use the underlying infrastructure of Blockchain to power the growth and development of the metaverse ecosystem, then this book is for you. The book starts by providing an introduction to the Metaverse, its ecosystem, and the technologies associated with it. It then delves into blockchain architecture and explores the different blockchain protocols and platforms that can be used to fuel the growth of the Metaverse. You will also discover various aspects of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), including how they work, the types of NFTs, popular NFTs, and the differences between fungible and non-fungible tokens. Moving on, you will get familiar with the architecture of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and explore the Compound protocol that sets the precedent for all DAOs. Besides learning more about the evolution of the Web from Web 1.0 to Web 3.0, the book will help you examine the transition from Web 2.0 applications to Web 3.0 decentralized applications (dApps). Lastly, you will deep dive into dApps, their characteristics and the technologies essential for developing these decentralized applications. Upon completion of this book, you will have gained the knowledge necessary to pursue projects in the Metaverse blockchain domain. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Explore different blockchain platforms and protocols for the metaverse. ● Understand how NFTs are used in the metaverse. ● Discover some of the most popular tools for creating DAOs. ● Understand what is DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) in blockchain. ● Get familiar with the characteristics and key attributes of dApps. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR Professionals interested in exploring different job opportunities within the Metaverse and Blockchain domain will find this book resourceful. This book is meant for next generation Students and Freshers who are already exposed to blockchain. TABLE OF CONTENTS Section - I: Foundations of Metaverse 1. Introduction to Metaverse 2. Enabling Metaverse Section - II: Enabling Commerce in Metaverse with Trust Using Blockchain 3. Blockchain in Metaverse 4. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) 5. Decentralized Autonomous Organization 6. Cryptocurrency and Wallet Section - III: Development of Metaverse with Web 3.0 7. Web 3.0 Business Opportunities, Ideas, and Expectations 8. Decentralized Applications (dApps)

The Mannequin Makers

Author : Craig Cliff
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775533859
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book The Mannequin Makers written by Craig Cliff and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book, this strikingly original novel is at turns a gothic tale of a father’s obsession, a castaway story worthy of a Boy’s Own adventure and a thorny remembrance of past tragedies. “The skin was smooth and bright as porcelain, but looked as if it would give to the touch. What manner of wood had he used? What tools to exact such detail? What paints, tints or stains to flush her with life?” So wonders the window dresser Colton Kemp when he sees the first mannequin of his new rival, a man the inhabitants of Marumaru simply call The Carpenter. Rocked by the sudden death of his wife and inspired by a travelling vaudeville company, Kemp decides to raise his children to be living mannequins. What follows is a tale of art and deception, strength and folly, love and transgression, which ranges from small-town New Zealand to the graving docks of the River Clyde, from an inhospitable rock in the Southern Ocean to Sydney’s northern beaches. Along the way we meet a Prussian strongman, a family of ship’s carvers with a mysterious affliction, a septuagenarian surf lifesaver and a talking figurehead named Vengeance.

America: The Farewell Tour

Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501152688
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book America: The Farewell Tour written by Chris Hedges and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Hedges’s profound and unsettling examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate. America, says Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair, and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis; the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress; the pornification of culture; the rise of magical thinking; the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet. Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In his “forceful and direct” (Publishers Weekly) America: The Farewell Tour, Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d’état is reversed these diseases will grow and ravage the country. “With sharply observed detail, Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream” (Kirkus Reviews) and seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time.

Shimmer

Author : Eric Barnes
Publisher : Unbridled Books
ISBN 13 : 1936071495
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Shimmer written by Eric Barnes and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just three years, CEO Robbie Case has grown Core Communications, a data technology company, from 30 people to over 5,000. Now a $20 billion company made legendary by its sudden success, Core is based on a technology no other company can come close to copying, a revolutionary breakthrough known as “drawing blood from a mainframe.” And Robbie, its 35-year-old CEO, is acclaimed worldwide for his vision, leadership and wealth. Except that all of it is based on a lie. The technology doesn’t work, the finances are built on a Ponzi scheme of stock sales and shell corporations, and Robbie is struggling to keep the company alive, to protect the friends who work for him and all that they’ve built. Each day, Robbie tries to push the catastrophe back a little further, while his employees believe that they are all moving closer to “grace,” the day their stock options vest, when they will be made rich for their faith and loyalty and hard work. The details of the lie are all keyed into a shadowy interface that Robbie calls Shimmer, an omniscient mainframe that hides itself, calculates its own collapse, threatens to outsmart its creator and to reveal the corporation’s illegal, fragile underpinnings. Shimmer is the story of a high-tech crusade nearing its end. The shell game Robbie has created is finally running out of room. And Robbie is the only one who knows or who has a chance to make things right. Or is he? A breathless debut novel that charges the atmosphere with suspense and surprise and delivers complex characters you can root for in spite of their flaws, Shimmer is Robbie’s race against the truth.

Capital City

Author : Lee Hurwitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681209005
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Capital City written by Lee Hurwitz and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington DC Mayor Wendell P. Wastson's legacy comes undone when a woman turns down his advances and he sets his burly security guards on her. Evelyn Boone accidentally witnesses the murder and narrowly escapes as Watson orders her execution. So begins a wild goose chase across four states, with Watson's guards in hot pursuit of Evelyn.

Aftershock

Author : John Feffer
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783609516
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Aftershock written by John Feffer and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique, panoramic account of faded dreams, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the fall of communism, to track down hundreds of people he spoke to in the initial atmosphere of optimism as the Iron Curtain fell – from politicians and scholars to trade unionists and grass roots activists. What he discovers makes for fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, reading. From the Polish scholar who left academia to become head of personnel at Ikea to the Hungarian politician who turned his back on liberal politics to join the far-right Jobbik party, Feffer meets a remarkable cast of characters. He finds that years of free-market reforms have failed to deliver prosperity, corruption and organized crime are rampant, while optimism has given way to bitterness and a newly invigorated nationalism. Even so, through talking to the region’s many extraordinary activists, Feffer shows that against stiff odds hope remains for the region’s future.