For eighteen years Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head They start from a single assertion Leaders do whatever keeps them in power They don't care about the national interestor even their subjectsunless they have to This clever & accessible book shows that the difference between tyrants & democrats is just a convenient fiction Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters or backs that need scratching The size of this group determines almost everything about politics what leaders can get away with & the quality of life or misery under them The picture the authors paint is not pretty But it just may be the truth which is a good starting point for anyone seeking to improve human governance ...

The son of a dreaded despot enrolls in an American college quickly making friends all across campus thanks to his hard-partying ways & endless cash flow Efren Ramirez Katrina Bowden Adam West & Curtis Armstrong star ...

The Dictionary of the Book A Glossary for Book Collectors Book Sellers Librarians & Others is the definitive glossary of the book offering readers all the terms they will need for thorough understanding of how books are made the materials they are made from & how they are described in the bookselling book collecting & library worlds Every key term --- over 1300 different words --- that could be used in booksellers' catalogs library records & collectors' descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary ...

Where mainstream nutritional science has demonised dietary fat for 50 years hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer Nutrition & obesity scientists have struggled to make sense of the paradox that obesity has become an epidemic that diabetes rates have soared & the incidence of heart disease has not declined despite the fact that society is more diet & health aware today than generations ago The Diet Delusion is an in-depth scientific groundbreaking examination of what actually happens in your body as a result of what you eat rather than what the diet industry might have you believe happens & is essential reading for anyone trying to decide which diet
- low-fat or low-carbohydrate
- is truly the healthy diet For years we have been deluded by the dieting industry Now it's time to find out the truth

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Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal & gain weight while another eating the same meal loses pounds? Why despite all the advice about what to eat are we all still getting fatter? The answers are much more surprising
- & fascinating
- than we've been led to believe The key to health & weight loss lies not in the latest fad diet nor even in the simple mantra of 'eat less exercise more' but in the microbes already inside us Drawing on the latest science & his own pioneering research Professor Tim Spector demystifies the common misconceptions about fat calories vitamins & nutrients Only by understanding what makes our own personal microbes tick can we overcome the confusion of modern nutrition & achieve a healthy gut & a healthy body

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Our daily lives our culture & our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more

Dimensions of life from the trivial to the profound They are making use of the capacities of complex communication infrastructures currently dominated by social mass media such as Twitter & Facebook on which they have come to depend Amidst a confusing plurality Felix Stalder argues that are three key constituents of this condition the use of existing cultural materials for one's own production the way in which new meaning is established as a collective endeavour & the underlying role of algorithms & automated decision-making processes that reduce & give shape to massive volumes of data These three characteristics define what Stalder calls 'the digital condition' Stalder also examines the profound political implications of this new culture We stand at a crossroads between post-democracy & the commons a concentration of power among the few or a genuine widening of participation with the digital condition offering the potential for starkly different outcomes This ambitious & wide-ranging theory of our contemporary digital condition will be of great interest to students & scholars in media & communications cultural studies & social political & cultural theory as well as to a wider readership interested in the ways in which culture & politics are changing today

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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks presents a proposal for reframing the terms of this important debate The first major statement by a Jewish leader on the ethics of globalization it introduces a new paradigm into the search for co-existence Sacks argues that we must do more than search for common human values We must also learn to make space for difference even & especially at the heart of the monotheistic imagination The global future will call for something stronger than earlier doctrines of toleration or pluralism It needs a new understanding that the unity of the Creator is expressed in the diversity of creation; Sacks argues that this new thinking also sheds fresh light on the global challenges of an age of unprecedented change economic inequality environmental destruction the connection between information technology & human dignity & the structures of civil society ...

These two witty & perceptive social dramas are sympathetic & honest explorations of the conflicts between the individualism of westernised culture & the social traditions of Africa Both plays have been performed throughout the world ...

At the end of his life Lenin wrote 'we didn't know everything' acknowledging the dilemmas he faced on the road to revolution in 1917 & beyond In this unusual exploration of the crises that Lenin overcame the decisions he made & actions that he took Tariq Ali reveals an insightful political portrait of this most exemplary leader From the first stirrings of revolutionary fervour Lenin sought the right answer to a series of dilemmas that he faced & that still resonate with us today Is terrorism ever a useful tactic? Can imperial wars ever be supported? What sort of political party do we need? What is the moral justification for seizing power? How does one overcome the burden of history? What role does friendship or love play in revolution? How do you establish a legacy that lasts? Ali reveals that no other modern thinker than Lenin has better understood nor more clearly articulated the need to change the world But do Lenin's ideas as expressed in his actions & his political writings still have any significance for us? In this centenary year of the Russian Revolution this book raises important questions related to political representation & the popular institutions necessary to challenge capitalism today ...

Limerent Death Symptom Of Terminal Illness Wanting Not So Much To As To FUGUELow Feels Blvd Surrogate Honeysuckle Manufacturing Discontent Apologies Not Included Nothing To Forget Dissociation ...