The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State by Dan Blumenthal English | December 28, 2020 | ISBN: 084475031X | 174 pages | EPUB | 1.19 Mb This is a book about China's grand strategy and its future as an ambitious, declining, and dangerous rival power. Once the darling of U.S. statesmen, corporate elites, and academics, the People's Republic of China has evolved into America's most challenging strategic competitor. Its future appears increasingly dystopian. This book tells the story of how China got to this place and analyzes where it will go next and what that will mean for the future of U.S. strategy. The China Nightmare makes an extraordinarily compelling case that China's future could be dark and the free world must prepare accordingly.
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B09FM2VR19 | 2021 | 13 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB Author: Adrian Tinniswood Narrator: Roger May A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic values. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer afford, dukes and duchesses desperately clung to their ancestral seats, and a new class of homeowners bought their way into country life. A delicious romp, Noble Ambitions pulls us into these crumbling halls of power, leading us through the juiciest bits of postwar aristocratic history - from Mick Jagger dancing at deb balls to the scandals of Princess Margaret. Capturing the spirit of the age, historian Adrian Tinniswood proves that the country house is not only an iconic symbol, but a lens through which to understand the shifting fortunes of the British elite in an era of monumental social change. Experimental Psychology: Ambitions and Possibilities English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031170520 | 298 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6.3 MB This work brings together different perspectives on psychological methods and particularly methods involving experimentation. To encourage a reflective use of research methods, the authors illuminate the historical, philosophical, and scientific dimensions of methodology, providing both defenses and criticisms of experimental psychology. The primary audience of the work are students and researchers in psychological and behavioral sciences, who have an interest in methodology Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt, "The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest" English | 2015 | ISBN: 0312168144, 1509867996 | ASIN: B0140MQVI8 | EPUB | pages: 409 | 3.6 mb [center] Sandeep Dewan, "China's Maritime Ambitions and the PLA Navy" English | ISBN: 9382573216 | 2013 | 184 pages | EPUB | 938 KB China's Maritime Power dates back thousands of years. China has one of the oldest naval traditions in the world, dating from at least the end of the Warring States period in 221 BC. Nonetheless, China has historically been a continental state with a large ground force and only a coastal navy with limited blue water capability. The rise of modern day China raises considerable regional and security concerns, besides economic and political competition towards finding a rightful place in power politics of the South Asian Region and hence needs a critical analysis. There is a need to focus future strategies to deal with such challenges, both in the medium and long term. An effort to achieve the same has been undertaken in this book. The book is sure to stimulate further discussions on China's navy and its ambitions. English | ASIN: B0B5VRVF87 | 2022 | 12 hours and 26 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 342 MB Pakistan's pathway to developing nuclear weapons remains shrouded in mystery and surrounded by misconceptions. While it is no secret why Pakistan became a nuclear power, how Pakistan became a nuclear state has been obscured by mythmaking. In Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb, Mansoor Ahmed offers a revisionist history of Pakistan's nuclear program and the bureaucratic politics that shaped its development from its inception in 1956 until the 1998 nuclear tests. Drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped primary sources, Ahmed offers a fresh assessment of the actual and perceived roles and contributions of the scientists and engineers who led the nuclear program. He shows how personal ambitions and politics within Pakistan's strategic enclave generated inter-laboratory competition in the nuclear establishment, which determined nuclear choices for the country for more than two decades. It also produced unexpected consequences such as illicit proliferation to other countries largely outside of the Pakistani state's control. As Pakistan's nuclear deterrent program continues to grow, Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb provides fresh insights into how this nuclear power has evolved in the past and where it stands today. Leonard S. Spector, "Nuclear Ambitions: The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons 1989-1990" English | ISBN: 0367015765 | 2019 | 462 pages | EPUB | 5 MB This is the fifth in a series on the spread of nuclear weapons. Through these reports, the Endowment seeks to increase public awareness of the fact and the danger of nuclear proliferation and to stimulate greater attention to this vital issue by policy makers, the media, and the scholarly community. The series was initiated with the publication of English | 2022 | ISBN: 1647122309 | 304 pages | True PDF | 2.88 MB In Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb, author Mansoor Ahmed provides a groundbreaking account of Pakistan's rise as a nuclear power. By drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped primary sources, Ahmed reveals how bureaucratic politics shaped the nuclear program's development–and where it stands today. Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House, UK Edition by Adrian Tinniswood English | October 7th, 2021 | ISBN: 1787331784 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 38.15 MB *A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2021* English | 2000 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B002SPZORY | Duration: 9:35 h | 245 MB Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt / Narrated by Lloyd James The Climb is a true, gripping, and thought-provoking account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest: On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders attempted to climb the highest mountain in the world, but things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions on the mountain, miscommunications, unexplainable delays, poor leadership, bad decisions, and a blinding storm conspired to kill. Twenty-three men and women, disoriented and out of oxygen, struggled to find their way down the southern side of the mountain. In the dark, battered by snow driven by hurricane-force winds, some of the climbers became hopelessly lost and resigned themselves to death. Anatoli Boukreev, the head climbing guide for the West Seattle-based Mountain Madness expedition, refused to give up hope. Solo, climbing blind in the maw of a storm that continually threatened his life, Boukreev brought climbers back from the edge of certain death. |