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A forceful and clarifying challenge to conventional accounts of geopolitics, Near and Far Waters offers an accessible introduction to the combination of economic and political relations that are the reason behind, and the result of, the development of seapower to control near waters and project force into far waters.

Ever stood frozen in a grocery aisle, paralyzed by 37 types of orange juice or milk options that require a PhD to decode? Welcome to America—the land of freedom, fries, and fifty wildly different grocery store experiences. In this delightfully quirky road trip, Robert Okine trades tourist traps for frozen food sections and souvenir shops for snack aisles.

The great forces of population change—the balance of births, deaths and migrations—have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity. The same forces that have shaped our past and present are shaping our future. Illustrating this through 10 illuminating indicators, Paul Morland shows how demography is both a powerful and an under-appreciated lens through which to view the global transformations that are currently underway.

How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? How can we come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted, but it's also critical to our species' evolutionary success. In From Here to There, Michael Bond tells stories of the lost and found - Polynesian sailors, orienteering champions, early aviators - and surveys the science of human navigation.

Drought-hit regions bleeding those who for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its biggest, and most present, consequences: a total reshaping of the earth’s human geography. As Gaia Vince points out early in Nomad Century, global migration has doubled in the past decade, on track to see literal billions displaced in the coming decades.

The document, "Tragedy in the Crosshairs: A Historical Perspective on Fatal Shootings", explores the historical, cultural, and legislative dimensions of firearms and their impact on society. Through a comprehensive review, it examines the evolution of gun technology, significant historical events, societal implications, and the ongoing debates surrounding gun violence and legislation. This work seeks to provide a nuanced understanding of America's complex relationship with firearms.

An essential audiobook for anyone interested in the interplay between geography and global politics, this fully revised edition of Prisoners of Geography offers a vivid look at the forces driving our increasingly complex world.

Si la duda razonable protege al acusado, ¿cómo se protege a la víctima? Tessa Ensler es una abogada de éxito especializada en la defensa de agresores sexuales. Su tenacidad está al servicio del sistema judicial, en el que cree totalmente: es la existencia de la duda razonable lo que hay que probar, incluso más allá de lo que a primera vista, prima facie, aparece ante un juez. Hasta que a Tessa le sucede lo que a tantas mujeres y se encuentra en el lado opuesto, descubriendo que las reglas que siempre ha defendido no están escritas para ellas.

Pedofilia, nekrofilia, kazirodztwo, flagelacja, sadyzm, brutalne gwałty, a także czarnoksięstwo, profanacja trupów, miłosne napoje – to tylko niektóre wątki bulwersującej książki Elwiry Watały. Chronologiczne ramy Wielkich zboczeńców są szerokie: od Egiptu faraonów po Rosję Putina. Autorka obnaża różne dewiacje seksualne władców i wielkich tego świata, także tych, których zwykliśmy uważać za wzór cnót. Nie osądza swych bohaterów, nie wnika w motywy ich postepowania, nie piętnuje i nie usprawiedliwia. Z porażającą brutalnością ukazuje perwersyjne oblicze ludzkiej natury.

Mountains, meridians, rivers and borders; these are some of the features that carve up the world on our maps and in our minds. But geography is far less set in stone than we might believe and, over time, we have become experts at reshaping our surroundings. From the Qhapaq Ñan, South America's 'Great Road', and the Panama Canal to Mozambique's railways and Korea's sacred Baekdu-daegan mountain range, Samson explores how we mould the world around us. And how, as we etch our needs onto the natural landscape, we alter the course of history.

In The Time beneath the Concrete, Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Taking as his primary object Palestinian refugee camps, created in the fallout of the eliminatory violence of Israel's founding, Abourahme shows how these camps become the primary place where settler colonial attempts to dominate space and time encounter Indigenous refusal. Seen from the camps, Israel becomes a settler colonial project defined by its inability to move past the past—a project stuck at its foundational moment of conquest.

To truly grasp the roots of America’s political polarization, economic inequality, public health crises, and democratic collapse, we must examine the country’s longstanding regional divides. In Nations Apart, Colin Woodard—an expert on North American regionalism and European ethnonationalism —delves into how centuries-old settlement patterns and the cultural geography they created have shaped today’s most contentious policy debates and brought American democracy to the brink.

A doctor's firsthand account of the devastating impacts of gun violence and how we can end this epidemic. Gun violence has become the leading cause of death for children and has decreased the lifespan of American adults by 2. 5 years. Beyond the statistics are the untold stories of doctors and health care workers who work to save the lives of victims of gun violence. In this powerful and moving book, Cedric Dark takes listeners into the harrowing experiences of these physicians. Dark intertwines these stories with an examination of policies that could save countless lives.

In How to Lose the Hounds, Celeste Winston explores marronage—the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery—as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power from slavery until the present day.

The explosion of glee and sympathy for Luigi surprised everyone, but it was everywhere. Hours after the shooting of the United Healthcare executive, his company put out a message out on Facebook saying their “hearts go out to Brian’s family and all who were close to him.” People replied with laughing emojis and comments like this one: “No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That’s the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximize profits on your health.”

الكراهيةُ ثقافةٌ تخاطبُ الجانبَ الغرائزيَّ والانتماءات الأولية قي الإنسان، كالقبلية والطائفية والمذهبية والقومية الضَّيقة، وتنمي وتغذي مشاعر البغضاء فيه. وحسب تصور المؤلف، فإنها محصلةٌ لكل الصِّفات والعناصر السَّيئة التي تشكل تمايزًا وفروقًا بين النَّاس، كالتَّعصب والتَّطرف والطَّبقية والتنميط والإقصاء والتَّخوين والتكفير والإستعلاء.

Apoyado en entrevistas con psicólogos, abogados, activistas y mujeres sobrevivientes, expone el vacío legal que rodea a este crimen, el desconocimiento de servidores públicos cuando una mujer trans desea arreglar sus documentos, la brutalidad de policías que las agreden y el silencio desdeñoso de la población cuando son lastimadas en las calles o en sus viviendas.

More people traveled internationally in 2019 than in any year in history. After COVID began its rapid spread throughout the world, though, international travel plummeted, and nations across the world hardened their borders. For the first time, governments took the same tools that have been used against less privileged migrants and asylum seekers and turned them on citizens from countries that had long enjoyed relatively unfettered travel—and sometimes on their own citizens.

FOMO SAPIENS: Wie du in Krisenzeiten dein Glück findest! Mit einem persönlichen Vorwort von Schauspielerin und Autorin Valerie Huber. In der heutigen Welt, in der junge Menschen vor nie dagewesenen Herausforderungen stehen, ist es verständlich, dass wir uns oft überwältigt fühlen. Klimawandel, Kriege, Pandemien und wirtschaftliche Unsicherheiten prägen unseren Alltag. Trotz des Fortschritts und der Möglichkeiten, die uns der digitale und wirtschaftliche Wandel bietet, erleben wir eine beispiellose Unzufriedenheit. Warum fühlen wir uns so?

The North Will Rise Again covers the colourful adventures of its inhabitants, the expansiveness and optimism that defines Northern culture, and the recurrent sense of failure and despair that is at the heart of one of the West’s most impoverished regions. By telling the story of the North in the last few decades, Alex goes in search of answers to some of the big questions at the forefront of British politics and society today.