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Becoming Rivals

Author : Brandon Valeriano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415537533
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Rivals written by Brandon Valeriano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivalries are a fundamental aspect of all international interactions. The concept of rivalry suggests that historic animosity may be the most fundamental variable in explaining and understanding why states commit international violence against each other. By understanding the historic factors behind the emergence of rivalry, the strategies employed by states to deal with potential threats, and the issues endemic to enemies, this book seeks to understand and predict why states become rivals. The recent increase in the quantitative study of rivalry has largely identified who the rivals are, but not how they form and escalate. Questions about the escalation of rivalry are important if we are to understand the nature of conflictual interactions. This book addresses an important research gap in the field by directly tackling the question of rivalry formation. In addition to making new contributions to the literature, this book will summarize a cohesive model of how all interstate rivalries form by using both quantitative and qualitative methods and sources.

Rivals

Author : Bill Emmott
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156033626
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Rivals written by Bill Emmott and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking new take on the growing rivalry between China, India and Japan-- and what it means for America, the global economy and the twenty-first century.

The Rivals

Author : Daisy Whitney
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316193291
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Rivals written by Daisy Whitney and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alex Patrick was assaulted by another student last year, her elite boarding school wouldn't do anything about it. This year Alex is head of the Mockingbirds, a secret society of students who police and protect the student body. While she desperately wants to live up to the legacy that's been given to her, she's now dealing with a case unlike any the Mockingbirds have seen before. It isn't rape. It isn't bullying. It isn't hate speech. A far-reaching prescription drug ring has sprung up, and students are using the drugs to cheat. But how do you try a case with no obvious victim? Especially when the facts don't add up, and each new clue drives a wedge between Alex and the people she loves most: her friends, her boyfriend, and her fellow Mockingbirds. As Alex unravels the layers of deceit within the school, the administration, and even the student body the Mockingbirds protect, her struggle to navigate the murky waters of vigilante justice may reveal more about herself than she ever expected.

Partners and Rivals

Author : Wendy J. Schiller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691048871
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Partners and Rivals written by Wendy J. Schiller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues against the commonly held view that individual Senators do an inadequate job in representing their states. Instead it demonstrates how the competitive structure of Senate delegations creates the potentialfor broad and responsive representation in the Senate.

The Rivals

Author : Joan Johnston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141656179X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Rivals written by Joan Johnston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston brings to life an unforgettable love story between two strong-willed people from different worlds in her thrilling new novel featuring the Blackthornes of Bitter Creek, Texas, and their formidable rivals, the Grayhawks of Wyoming. Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes, all hell breaks loose -- because she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk. The crisis pits the two powerful families against each other in a race against time. Playboy Drew DeWitt, a Blackthorne cousin, insists on taking part in the search -- putting him on a collision course with Sarah. Her cop instincts tell her the sexy Texan is trouble. But when evidence emerges of a conspiracy against the U.S. government, Sarah accepts Drew's high-powered help as she negotiates a shadowy landscape of hidden rivals and ruthless greed where every moment counts in saving lives, including her own.

American Royals III: Rivals

Author : Katharine McGee
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0593429702
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book American Royals III: Rivals written by Katharine McGee and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES • The third book in the bestselling American Royals series is here, and a meeting of monarchs will test everyone's loyalty to the crown…and their own hearts. Beatrice is queen, and for the American royal family, everything is about to change. Relationships will be tested. Princess Samantha is in love with Lord Marshall Davis—but the more serious they get, the more complicated things become. Is Sam destined to repeat her string of broken relationships…and this time will the broken heart be her own? Strangers will become friends. Beatrice is representing America at the greatest convocation of kings and queens in the world. When she meets a glamorous foreign princess, she gets drawn into the inner circle…but at what cost? And rivals will become allies. Nina and Daphne have spent years competing for Prince Jefferson. Now they have something in common: they both want to take down manipulative Lady Gabriella Madison. Can these enemies join forces, or will old rivalries stand in the way?

The Rivals

Author : Vi Keeland
Publisher : C. Scott Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1951045289
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Rivals written by Vi Keeland and published by C. Scott Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sexy, enemies-to-lovers standalone novel from #1 New York Times Bestseller, Vi Keeland. The feud between Weston Lockwood and me started at the altar. Only neither of us attended the wedding, and the nuptials happened decades before either of us was born. Our grandfathers had been best friends and business partners, at least up until my grandfather’s wedding day—when his bride-to-be blurted out she couldn’t marry him because she was also in love with Weston‘s grandfather. The two men spent years fighting over Grace Copeland, who also happened to be their third business partner. But in the end, neither man could steal half of her heart away from the other. Eventually, they all went their separate ways. Our grandfathers married other women, and the two men became one of the biggest business rivals in history. Our fathers continued the family tradition of feuding. And then Weston and I did, too. For the most part, we kept as much distance as possible. Until the day the woman who started the feud died—and unexpectedly left one of the most valuable hotels in the world to our grandfathers to share. Now I’m stuck in a hotel with the man I was born to hate, trying to unravel the mess our families inherited. As usual, it didn’t take long for us to be at each other’s throats. Weston Lockwood was everything I hated: tall, smart, cocky, and too gorgeous for his own good. We were fire and ice. But that shouldn’t be an issue. Our families were used to being at war. There was just one minor problem, though. Every time Weston and I fought, we somehow wound up in bed.

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

Author : Adele Faber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039334326X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too written by Adele Faber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times best-selling guide to reducing hostility and generating goodwill between siblings. Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry. This wise, groundbreaking book gives parents the practical tools they need to cope with conflict, encourage cooperation, reduce competition, and make it possible for children to experience the joys of their special relationship. With humor and understanding—much gained from raising their own children—Faber and Mazlish explain how and when to intervene in fights, provide suggestions on how to help children channel their hostility into creative outlets, and demonstrate how to treat children unequally and still be fair. Updated to incorporate fresh thoughts after years of conducting workshops for parents and professionals, this edition also includes a new afterword.

Great Rivals in History

Author : Joseph Cummins
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741960428
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Great Rivals in History written by Joseph Cummins and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two supremely powerful political rivals lock horns in a clash of personality and ideology, they can change the course of human history.

Rivals and Retribution

Author : Shannon Delany
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312625189
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Rivals and Retribution written by Shannon Delany and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this final volume in the series, Pietr and Jessie find themselves caught in a pack war with a new breed of werewolf.

The Infinite Game

Author : Simon Sinek
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735213526
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Infinite Game written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers—only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset. On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.

Rivals

Author : Tim Green
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780061626944
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Rivals written by Tim Green and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperstown! Josh is thrilled when all his hard training pays off in a big way and his team, the Titans, makes it to a national tournament in Cooperstown, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. More is on the line for Josh than just a trophy. Winning would mean everything to his dad—now Josh's coach. Winning could mean a major endorsement deal for the Titans and the attention of big league scouts! After a dirty play and a brutal injury threaten to sideline Josh, he spies suspicious activity at the tournament. He tries to tell his good friend Jaden about what he's seen, but she's too busy spending time with the L.A. Comets' star player, Mickey Mullen Jr., to want to get involved. Jaden says she's doing research for the newspaper . . . but is she? Now Josh has a rival—both on the field and off—as he swings for the fences in a game that quickly becomes more dangerous. New York Times bestselling author Tim Green delivers a hard-hitting look at what some teams will do to win in this gripping companion to Baseball Great.

The Constitutional Year Book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitutional Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Matisse and Picasso

Author : Jack Flam
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786723831
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Matisse and Picasso written by Jack Flam and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for his decorum and discretion, created an art that transcended daily life and conveyed a sensuality that inhabited an abstract and ethereal realm of being. In contrast, Picasso became the exemplar of intense emotionality, of theatricality, of art as a kind of autobiographical confession that was often charged with violence and explosive eroticism. In Matisse and Picasso , Jack Flam explores the compelling, competitive, parallel lives of these two artists and their very different attitudes toward the idea of artistic greatness, toward the women they loved, and ultimately toward their confrontations with death.

More Than Rivals

Author : Ken Abraham
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 1493404245
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book More Than Rivals written by Ken Abraham and published by Revell. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Inspiring True Story Set in the Midst of the Civil Rights Era By 1970, racial tension was at a breaking point in the southern town of Gallatin, Tennessee. Desegregation had emotions running high. The town was a powder keg ready to erupt. But it was also on the verge of something incredible. Eddie Sherlin and Bill Ligon were boys growing up on opposite sides of the tracks who shared a passion for basketball. They knew the barriers that divided them--some physical landmarks and some hidden in the heart--but those barriers melted away when the boys were on the court. After years of playing wherever they could find a hoop, Eddie and Bill entered the rigors of their respective high school teams. And at the end of the 1970 season, all-white Gallatin High and all-black Union High faced each other in a once-in-a-lifetime championship game. What happened that night would challenge Eddie and Bill--and transform their town. This New York Times bestseller is a fast-paced true story of courage, determination, character, and forgiveness.

The Art of Rivalry

Author : Sebastian Smee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812994817
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Rivalry written by Sebastian Smee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are household names today. But to achieve what they did, each needed the influence of a contemporary—one who was equally ambitious but possessed sharply contrasting strengths and weaknesses. Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas were close associates whose personal bond frayed after Degas painted a portrait of Manet and his wife. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso swapped paintings, ideas, and influences as they jostled for the support of collectors like Leo and Gertrude Stein and vied for the leadership of a new avant-garde. Jackson Pollock’s uninhibited style of “action painting” triggered a breakthrough in the work of his older rival, Willem de Kooning. After Pollock’s sudden death in a car crash, de Kooning assumed Pollock's mantle and became romantically involved with his late friend’s mistress. Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon met in the early 1950s, when Bacon was being hailed as Britain’s most exciting new painter and Freud was working in relative obscurity. Their intense but asymmetrical friendship came to a head when Freud painted a portrait of Bacon, which was later stolen. Each of these relationships culminated in an early flashpoint, a rupture in a budding intimacy that was both a betrayal and a trigger for great innovation. Writing with the same exuberant wit and psychological insight that earned him a Pulitzer Prize for art criticism, Sebastian Smee explores here the way that coming into one’s own as an artist—finding one’s voice—almost always involves willfully breaking away from some intimate’s expectations of who you are or ought to be. Praise for The Art of Rivalry “Gripping . . . Mr. Smee’s skills as a critic are evident throughout. He is persuasive and vivid. . . . You leave this book both nourished and hungry for more about the art, its creators and patrons, and the relationships that seed the ground for moments spent at the canvas.”—The New York Times “With novella-like detail and incisiveness [Sebastian Smee] opens up the worlds of four pairs of renowned artists. . . . Each of his portraits is a biographical gem. . . . The Art of Rivalry is a pure, informative delight, written with canny authority.”—The Boston Globe

What Do We Know about War?

Author : John A. Vasquez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442212659
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book What Do We Know about War? written by John A. Vasquez and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Do We Know about War? reviews the research on causes of war and the conditions of peace over the past forty-five years. Leading scholars explore the critical roles of territorial disputes, alliances, arms races, rivalry, and nuclear weapons in bringing about war as well as the factors promoting peace, including democracy, norms, stable borders, and capitalist economies. Considering what has been learned about the causes of war and the conditions of peace in the ten years since the publication of the first edition, this invaluable text offers an accessible and up-to-date overview of current knowledge and an agenda for future research. Contributions by: Brett V. Benson, Paul F. Diehl, Colin Flint, Daniel S. Geller, Douglas M. Gibler, Gary Goertz, Paul R. Hensel, Choong-Nam Kang, Jack S. Levy, Zeev Maoz, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Michael Mousseau, Karen Rasler, Susan G. Sample, William R. Thompson, Brandon Valeriano, John A. Vasquez, and Peter Wallensteen.