No civilization no matter how mighty it may appear to itself is indestructible'-Niall Ferguson We do not need to invent the world anew The international order established by the United States after World War II is in need of expansion & repair but not reconception'-Fareed Zakaria Fears of a globalized world are rampant Across the West borders are being reasserted & old alliances tested to their limits Could this be the end of the liberal order or will the major crises of the twenty-first century strengthen our resolve? ...

The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular & dramatic events But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French-Belgian border with a car-load of drugs Raid after police raid followed with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour In protest there were riders' strikes & go-slows with several squads withdrawing en masse andone expelled By the time the Tour reached Paris just 96 of the 189 starters remained & of those 189 starters more than a quarter were later reported to have doped The 1998 Tour de Farce's' status as one of the most scandal-struck sporting events in history was confirmed Voet's arrest was just the beginning of sport's biggest mass doping controversy
- what became known as the Festina affair It all but destroyed professional cycling as the credibility of the entire sport was called into question & the cycling family began to split apart & yet ironically the 1998 Tour was also one of the best races in years The End of the Road is the first English-language book to provide in-depth analysis & a colourful evocation of the tumultuous events during the 1998 Tour Alasdair Fotheringham uncovers step by step how the world's biggest bike race sank into a nightmarish series of scandals that left the sport on its knees He explores its long-term consequences
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The first & only novel by Lydia Davis winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013' It surprised me over & over to find that I was with such a young man He was twenty-two when I met him He turned twenty-three while I knew him but by the time I turned thirty-five I did not know where he was anymore' Mislabelled boxes confusing notes wrong turnings
- such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises her memories of a love affair into a novel With compassion wit & what seems to be candour she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself & her past but we begin to suspect along with her that given the elusiveness of memory & understanding any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction Back in print at last this is Lydia Davis's first
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- novel ' Extraordinary' Newsday' Brilliant' New Yorker' Breathtakingly elegant' Details' Beautifully written' Marie Claire' Astonishing' Elle Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories one novel & six short story collections most recently Can't & Won't She is the recipient of a Mac Arthur Fellowship & was named an Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters by the French government for her fiction & her translations of modern writers including Gustave Flaubert & Marcel Proust She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg The Social Network) joined acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel Sex Tape) on his book tour an epic five-day journey began As the two men share laughs & reveal hidden frailties they are forever bonded in this fascinating & ultimately heartbreaking story ...

The End of the World RPG Revolt of the Machines ...

An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial system Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession--but not our economics In The End of Theory Richard Bookstaber discusses why the human condition & the radical uncertainty of our world renders the standard economic model--and the theory behind it--useless for dealing with financial crises What model should replace it? None At least not any version we've been using for the past two hundred years Instead Bookstaber argues for a new approach called agent-based economics one that takes as a starting point the fact that we are humans not the optimizing automatons that standard economics assumes we are Bookstaber's groundbreaking paradigm promises to do a far better job at preventing crises & managing those that break out As he explains our varied memories & imaginations color our economic behavior in unexpected hues Agent-based modeling embraces these nuances by avoiding the mechanistic unrealistic structure of our current economic approach Bookstaber tackles issues such as radical uncertainty when circumstances take place beyond our anticipation & emergence when innocent everyday interactions combine to create sudden chaos Starting with the realization that future crises cannot be predicted by the past he proposes an approach that recognizes the human narrative while addressing market realities Sweeping aside the historic failure of twentieth-century economics The End of Theory offers a novel & innovative perspective along with a more realistic & human framework to help prevent today's financial system from blowing up again ...

'A wonderful book about wonderful books & mothers & sons & the enduring braid between them'
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The cult-hit Manning Award-nominated mini-series gets collected with bonus content! When the Biblical apocalypse starts charming bastard Bram Carlson is raptured into Heaven in a "clerical error" After he&s sent back to Earth Bram decides to cash in the end of the world for all it&s worth! But can his anxious roommate Ben save his friend from himself & the mounting forces of Armageddon? Check out the book the Onion&s AVClub called "hilarious" & IGN called "an amazing series!" ...

A guidebook describing Britain's famous ' End to End' cycle route a journey of almost 1000 miles from the very tip of southwest England
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For fans of Station Eleven an extraordinary story of motherhood in a world changed beyond recognition 144 pages Hunter Megan ...