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The Precipice (The Grand Tour; also Asteroid Wars)
Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left--the company he founded, Astro Manufacturing. Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph, he doesn't care if Earth perishes in the process. And he knows that the perfect bait to ensnare Dan Randolph--and take control of Astro--is his revolutionary new fusion propulsion system. As Randolph--accompanied by two fascinating women who are also brilliant astronauts--flies out to the Asteroid Belt aboard a fusion-propelled spacecraft, Humphries makes his move. The future of mankind lies in Randolph's hands. The Asteroid Wars have begun. .
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At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation?
This book focuses on an even more urgent and “inconvenient truth” than global warming At the nuclear precipice, humanity’s choices are catastrophe or transformation This book explores the present nuclear predicament, and how to step away from the precipice and assure humanity’s future. It examines the intersections between international law and national policies; and between nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism and nuclear disarmament. The book offers a way out if policy makers of leading countries can summon the vision and political will to move in a new direction. .
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Rein in at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and US-PRC Relations
Rein in at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and US-PRC Relations draws extensively on the US-PRC negotiating record to assess the issues and dynamics at play on the Taiwan question While Beijing and Taipei are ultimately responsible for their future relationship, the book argues that American leaders, inattentive to the history and the nuances of normalization, have generated unintended crises – and could do so again. Written by Stimson senior associate and East Asia program director Alan D. Romberg, this study has been hailed as "the definitive work on the evolution of the Taiwan question.".
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Walking the Precipice: Witness to the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
Covering everything that Charlie Wilson's War did not, Walking the Precipice gives a succinct, readable account through a woman's eyes of the rise of the Taliban in war-torn Afghanistan. This is a personal report about a country at the heart of the "War on Terror." In 1990, activist and grandmother Barbara Bick, age sixty-five, traveled with a women's delegation to Afghanistan for what she thought would be her last great adventure. Instead, while the Mujahideen shelled Kabul, Bick forged deep friendships with her Afghan hosts. In the ensuing years, she watched with horror as the Taliban took over Afghanistan and instituted its fiercely anti-woman policies. In 2001, Bick returned to Afghanistan, this time to even more dangerous terrain: the region dominated by the Northern Alliance, the anti-Taliban militia. She was their guest at a compound where Ahmad Shah Massoud, their leader, was also staying, and was there on September 9 when Taliban infiltrators assassinated him prior to the al Qaeda attacks on the United States. Bick returned to Afghanistan one last time, in 2004, to see how women were faring under the new government. Walking the Precipice gives new insight into the people, politics, and culture of a country that should be on everyone's "watch list." A longtime peace and human rights activist, Barbara Bick has worked for Women Strike for Peace, NEGAR-Support of Women of Afghanistan, the Institute for Policy Studies, the Institute of Women's Policy Research, and the National Conference of State and Local Public Policies. .
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Memoirs of Madame de la Tour du Pin: Laughing and Dancing Our Way to the Precipice
An aristocratic autobiography from the time of the French Revolution "From my earliest days I had a feeling that adventures lay in store for me." Madame de La Tour du Pin offers the reader a "faithful picture of myself as I am and as I have been." Written for her son, this intimate document records the changes that befell her family and all those who attended the court of Louis XVI at the time of the French Revolution. A royalist, but also a realist, she concludes that "the rot started at the top and spread downwards." She came back to France after a three-year exile and became involved with the royalist cause, but her hopes were frequently dashed. This selection ends with the return of Napoleon to Paris from Elba. Despite her considerable hardships, Madame de La Tour du Pin writes with great intelligence, compassion, and wit. Memoirs: Laughing and Dancing Our Way to the Precipice is among the first of a new list of nonfiction paperbacks published as Harvill Press Editions..
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