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***Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award***
'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China
Syndrome and Mission Impossible' New York Times
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's
most critical resource—microchip technology Power in the modern
world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation
of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower
because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the
technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on
chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now
that edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by the naïve
assumption that globalising the chip industry and letting players
in Taiwan, Korea and Europe take over manufacturing serves
America's interests. Currently, as Chip War reveals, China, which
spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions
into a chip-building Manhattan Project to catch up to the
US. In Chip War economic historian Chris Miller recounts the
fascinating sequence of events that led to the United States
perfecting chip design, and how faster chips helped defeat the
Soviet Union (by rendering the Russians’ arsenal of
precision-guided weapons obsolete). The battle to control this
industry will shape our future. China spends more money
importing chips than buying oil, and they are China's greatest
external vulnerability as they are fundamentally reliant on foreign
chips. But with 37 per cent of the global supply of chips being
made in Taiwan, within easy range of Chinese missiles, the West's
fear is that a solution may be close at hand. 'A riveting
history. Features vivid accounts and colourful characters'
Financial Times 'Fascinating…A historian by training, Miller
walks the reader through decades of semiconductor history – a
subject that comes to life thanks to [his] use of colorful
anecdotes' Forbes 'Indispensable' Niall Ferguson
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Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum reprise their roles as an unlikely
pairing of undercover cops in this action comedy sequel based on
the 1980s TV series. Following their success infiltrating a local
high school, fresh-faced police officers Morton Schmidt (Hill) and
Greg Jenko (Tatum) are despatched to college to try and crack a
crime ring. However, the different lifestyles available in college
threaten to reawaken old divisions, as Schmidt is drawn into a
liberal artistic circle and Jenko finds a home in the
testosterone-fuelled domain of the football team. Will the pair be
able to put aside their differences and remain focussed on their
objective amidst the many opportunities and excesses offered by
college life?
“Miller’s terrific book reminds that Russia made moves toward
the East five hundred years ago, and explains why ignoring the
Russian factor in Asian geopolitics today would be a big
mistake.” —Michael McFaul, author of From Cold War to Hot Peace
“Miller presents a Russia little known in the West: a Eurasian
power that treats its eastern calling as seriously as it does its
western one. Exceptionally well written and argued, We Shall Be
Masters helps us understand Russia on its own terms and offers
historical insight into the future of its relations with China, its
main rival and occasional ally.” —Serhii Plokhy, author of The
Gates of Europe “Challenges the conventional view that [Russia]
has enduring interests in the Far East…For Russia, Miller argues,
Asia has been a land of unfulfilled promises.” —Foreign Affairs
“Captures the immensity, complexity, and importance of Russia’s
eastern borderlands through the eyes of its
explorers…Comprehensive and fluidly written.” —Publishers
Weekly Ever since Peter the Great, Russian leaders have been lured
by the promise of the East. But from the tsars to Stalin and
beyond, Russia’s ambitions have repeatedly outstripped its
capacity. In We Shall Be Masters, Chris Miller explores why these
expansionist dreams so often ended in disappointment. With the
heart of the nation in the European borderlands, Russia’s
would-be pioneers struggled to maintain public interest in their
far-flung pursuits. But its leaders never stopped setting their
sights on the riches of the East. Today, as Vladimir Putin seeks to
cement his strategic partnership with Xi Jinping’s China, the
East remains as elusive and attractive to Russia as ever—and is
likely to be as unattainable.
Environmental Rights offers new perspectives on contemporary debates over rights and environmental issues. It draws on key theories of contemporary philosophers and jurists and case reports from decisions in English, European and US courts. It also examines recent developments within environmental law and policy in the UK and the EU. Specific rights of the individual are examined - the right to clean air and water, access to information, the right to participate in environmental decisions - as well as the practical obstacles to the exercising of these rights. eBook available with sample pages: 020302074X
Environmental Rights offers new perspectives on contemporary
debates over rights and environmental issues. It draws on key
theories of contemporary philosophers and jurists and case reports
from decisions in English, European and US courts. It also examines
recent developments within environmental law and policy in the UK
and the EU. Specific rights of the individual are examined - the
right to clean air and water, access to information, the right to
participate in environmental decisions - as well as the practical
obstacles to the exercising of these rights.
At a time when neoliberal and conservative politics are again in
the ascendency and social democracy is waning, Australian public
policy re-engages with the values and goals of progressive public
policy in Australia and the difficulties faced in re-affirming
them. It brings together leading authors to explore economic,
environmental, social, cultural, political and indigenous issues.
It examines trends and current policy directions and outlines
progressive alternatives that challenge and extend current
thinking. While focused on Australia, the contributors offer
valuable insights for people in other countries committed to social
justice and those engaged in the ongoing contest between
neo-liberalism and social democracy. This is essential reading for
policy practitioners, researchers and students as well those with
an interest in the future of public policy.
At a time when neoliberal and conservative politics are again in
the ascendency and social democracy is waning, Australian public
policy re-engages with the values and goals of progressive public
policy in Australia and the difficulties faced in re-affirming
them. It brings together leading authors to explore economic,
environmental, social, cultural, political and indigenous issues.
It examines trends and current policy directions and outlines
progressive alternatives that challenge and extend current
thinking. While focused on Australia, the contributors offer
valuable insights for people in other countries committed to social
justice and those engaged in the ongoing contest between
neo-liberalism and social democracy. This is essential reading for
policy practitioners, researchers and students as well those with
an interest in the future of public policy.
Social development work takes place in the grey area between
government and the voluntary and community sectors. This book,
written by three well-known educators and researchers in the social
policy and development field, explores the ways in which front-line
professionals working with communities identify and address the
dilemmas inherent in the current policy context. Drawing upon
original material, the authors examine how 'community engagement'
workers negotiate the ethical and emotional challenges they face;
how they work through problems of community representation at
interpersonal and team levels; how they manage the conflicting
roles of local activist and paid worker and what role colleagues,
management and others play when responding to such challenges. The
dilemmas of development work reconnects to, and updates, an
important tradition in social policy which explores the dilemmas of
'street-level' work. It draws on contemporary political theory and
current debates concerning the modernisation of governance and
psycho-social perspectives on identity, values and agency.
Combining theory and practice, it will appeal to practitioners,
policy makers and undergraduates in social and public policy.
In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri
Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious
operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a
vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by
Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of
complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just
weeks before the book was to come out-the artist even had approved
the cover design-Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A
typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at
the Getty Research Institute.; This rich conversation, conducted
during the Nazi occupation of France, is published for the first
time in this volume, where it appears both in English translation
and in the original French version. Matisse unravels memories of
his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Moreau's
atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors, including
Alfred Barnes. He discusses fame, writers, musicians, politicians,
and, most fascinatingly, his travels. Chatting with Henri Matisse,
introduced by Serge Guilbaut, contains a preface by Claude Duthuit,
Matisse's grandson, and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence
Bertrand Dorleac. The book includes unpublished correspondence and
other original documents related to Courthion's interview and
abounds with details about avant-garde life, tactics, and artistic
creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.
From choosing style and placement to finding the right artist to
ensuring safety and proper care (and even correcting or removing
unwanted body art), Miller covers not only tattoos and piercings
but a variety of alternative body modifications.
Dioramas are devices on the frontier of different disciplines: art,
anthropology, and the natural sciences, to name a few. Their use
developed during the nineteenth century, following reforms aimed at
reinforcing the educational dimension of museums. While dioramas
with human figures are now the subject of healthy criticism and are
gradually being dismantled, a thorough study of the work of artists
and scientists who made them helps shed light on their genesis.
Among other displays, this book examines anthropological dioramas
of two North American museums in the early twentieth century: the
American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the New York
State Museum. Sites of creation and mediation of knowledge,
combining painting, sculpture, photography, and material culture,
dioramas tell a story that is always political.
Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Acade mie
Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Acade
mie's 'confe rences', foundational documents in the theory and
practice of art. These texts and the principles they embody guided
artistic practice and art theory in France and throughout Europe
for two centuries. In the 1800s, the Acade mie's influence waned,
and few of the 388 Acade mie lectures were translated into English.
Eminent scholars Christian Michel and Jacqueline Lichtenstein have
selected and annotated forty-two of the most representative
lectures, creating the first authoritative collection of the 'confe
rences' for readers of English. Essential to understanding French
art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these lectures
reveal what leading French artists looked for in a painting or
sculpture, the problems they sought to resolve in their works, and
how they viewed their own and others' artistic practice.
An illuminating account of Russia’s attempts—and failures—to
achieve great power status in Asia. Since Peter the Great, Russian
leaders have been lured by opportunity to the East. Under the
tsars, Russians colonized Alaska, California, and Hawaii. The
Trans-Siberian Railway linked Moscow to Vladivostok. And Stalin
looked to Asia as a sphere of influence, hospitable to the spread
of Soviet Communism. In Asia and the Pacific lay territory,
markets, security, and glory. But all these expansionist dreams
amounted to little. In We Shall Be Masters, Chris Miller explores
why, arguing that Russia’s ambitions have repeatedly outstripped
its capacity. With the core of the nation concentrated thousands of
miles away in the European borderlands, Russia’s would-be
pioneers have always struggled to project power into Asia and to
maintain public and elite interest in their far-flung pursuits.
Even when the wider population professed faith in Asia’s promise,
few Russians were willing to pay the steep price. Among leaders,
too, dreams of empire have always been tempered by fears of cost.
Most of Russia’s pivots to Asia have therefore been halfhearted
and fleeting. Today the Kremlin talks up the importance of
“strategic partnership” with Xi Jinping’s China, and Vladimir
Putin’s government is at pains to emphasize Russian activities
across Eurasia. But while distance is covered with relative ease in
the age of air travel and digital communication, the East remains
far off in the ways that matter most. Miller finds that Russia’s
Asian dreams are still restrained by the country’s firm rooting
in Europe.
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