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A Clash of Thrones The Power-Crazed Medieval Kings, Popes and Emperors of Europe


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English | ISBN: 0750962283 | 2015 | 208 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Medieval Europe is a dark and dangerous place. In 1054 the Church tears itself in two, setting the scene for nearly 500 years of turmoil. Empires will collide and dynasties will rise and fall; marriages will be made and alliances broken. It is a place where love clashes with ambition and violence rules – enemies are blinded, rivals are murdered and heretics are burnt at the stake. As the Black Death sweeps the continent and the Mongol hordes threaten its borders, can the kings of the old world survive the dawn of a new era?

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Dawn of a New Order Geopolitics and the Clash of Ideologies


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English | 2017 | ISBN: 1784539724 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.8 mb
The most significant development in global politics following the end of the bi-polar Cold War era has been the rise of a multi-polar state system. This has led to the emergence of major potential super-powers, global rivalry, international terrorism and the gradual weakening of the one remaining hegemonic, uni-polar state after the Cold War – the US. The idealistic hopes following the collapse of communism have evaporated and Cold War competition between liberal capitalism and communism has been replaced by multi-polar global rivalry that can only be resolved by a balance of power buttressed by international law. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book, Professor Rein Müllerson outlines the challenges associated with the new geopolitics of the twenty-first century. Based on in-depth research over several decades it is an essential tool for understanding the new world order and the ensuing crises in global politics.

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The Clash within Civilisations Coming to Terms with Cultural Conflicts


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English | 2001 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 0415262291, 0415262283 | PDF | 0,6 mb
Expanding upon, and engaging with, the influential theories of Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilisations, this book is a major, and controversial, contribution to these key contemporary debates. Dieter Senghaas examines some of the most significant political issues we face today:

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The Clash of the Cultures Investment vs. Speculation [Audiobook]


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English | September 10, 2019 | ASIN: B07X2Z828Q | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 11m | 381 MB
Author: John C. Bogle | Narrator: Al Kessel
Over the course of his 60-year career in the mutual fund industry, Vanguard Group founder John C. Bogle has witnessed a massive shift in the culture of the financial sector. The prudent, value-adding culture of long-term investment has been crowded out by an aggressive, value-destroying culture of short-term speculation. Mr. Bogle has not been merely an eyewitness to these changes, but one of the financial sector’s most active participants. In The Clash of the Cultures, he urges a return to the common-sense principles of long-term investing.
Provocative and refreshingly candid, this audiobook discusses Mr. Bogle’s views on the changing culture in the mutual fund industry, how speculation has invaded our national retirement system, the failure of our institutional money managers to effectively participate in corporate governance, and the need for a federal standard of fiduciary duty.

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The Clash of Economic Ideas The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years


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English | April 16, 2012 | ISBN: 1107012422, 110762133X | True EPUB | 440 pages | 0.8 MB
The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms.

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Clash of Crowns The Battle of Byland 1322 Robert the Bruce’s Forgotten Victory


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English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1399035916 | 192 pages | EPUB | 62 Mb
Forgotten by history, this clash of kings is given new life as Harry Pearson explores the epic Battle of Byland, shedding light on a pivotal moment in the Wars for Scottish Independence.

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Beyond Suspicion The Moral Clash Between Rootedness and Progressive Liberalism


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English | June 18, 2024 | ISBN: 0520382854 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 3.4 MB
For more than four decades, socially disadvantaged Israeli Mizrahim-descendants of Jews from Middle Eastern and North African communities-have continuously supported right-wing political parties. Scholars, left-wing politicians, and activists tend to view Mizrahim as reacting against their structural exclusion, or more crudely as acting against their own interests, but Nissim Mizrachi locates the source of their so-called paradoxical behavior within the limitations of the liberal grammar by which their outlook and behavior are read.

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