Deadly Decision in Beijing
Three decades after 1989, historical materials are now available for understanding the Tiananmen protests in a new light. In a play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown, Yang Su addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. He challenges conventional views that see the military intervention as a necessary measure against a revolutionary mobilization. Beneath the political drama, Deadly Decision in Beijing explores the authoritarian regime's perpetual crisis of leadership transition and its impact on popular movements.
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families-An Introduction
Femeilor din lumea noastră fără cer / To the women of our skyless world - Standard Edition
Scorched Earth
When the German invasion tore open the Soviet front in 1941, retreat was not only a military movement but a nationwide act of subtraction. Railways were stripped, factories dismantled, granaries emptied, bridges prepared for demolition, and whole populations pushed east or left to endure occupation. In that crisis, the Soviet leadership embraced scorched earth strategy as a wager that destruction could manufacture time - time to mobilise, to reconstitute armies, and to rebuild production beyond the enemy's reach.Scorched Earth: The Soviets' Brutal Retreat Strategy explains how denial worked as a system rather than a slogan. It traces soviet evacuation policy alongside industrial relocation, showing how transport bottlenecks and priority lists decided what could be saved. It follows the parallel growth of state coercion: movement controls, labour demands, and security policing meant to enforce compliance and suppress panic, often at direct cost to civilians. Across concrete cases such as rail hubs, river crossings, industrial basins, and winter withdrawals, the book asks what actually slowed an invader, what merely punished the home population, and how incomplete destruction could hand usable assets to the enemy.Written for students, general readers of modern history, and analysts of strategy and governance, this is a framework for judging denial strategies by more than dramatic images of burning towns. Readers will come away understanding how operational tempo depends on infrastructure and labour; why mobilisation is as much administrative as it is martial; and how the burdens of retreat are distributed, remembered, and rebuilt. The central lesson is not that scorched earth "works" or "fails", but that it reshapes the state and society that survive it.
Mineral Mandate
In the late twentieth century, many governments treated resource security as a question of fuel and shipping lanes. In the twenty-first century, the pressure point is often a laboratory-grade separation line, a qualification certificate, or a specialised factory that turns powders into magnets. Rare earths sit at the centre of this shift: not because the elements are mythically scarce, but because modern economies have organised themselves around a few fragile steps where disruption travels faster than policy can respond.Mineral Mandate argues that rare earths are best understood as a strategic supply problem, not a mining story. Following the chain from ore to oxides, metals, and components, Tarek Omraneh shows how supply chain bottlenecks form, why processing and magnet-making carry more leverage than reserves, and how states use export controls and other administrative tools to influence outcomes without open conflict. The book examines the political economy of low-margin yet high-importance industries, the role of industrial policy in sustaining capacity through price cycles, and the practical limits of substitution, thrift, and stockpiling when engineering timelines and standards regimes slow change.Written for students, general readers, and policy and industry analysts, the book offers a decision framework for strategic dependency mapping that goes beyond headlines. Readers will come away able to identify where vulnerability actually sits in a specific supply chain, which actors carry the incentives to invest (or not), and which resilience measures shift bargaining power rather than merely shift costs. The result is a clearer view of how material interdependence becomes leverage, and what it takes to build resilience without illusion.
Quantum Deterrence
From the moment states learned to turn intercepted signals into strategic advantage, cryptography has been more than a technical craft: it has been a way of organising power. Today, more powerful computation is reshaping that contest in distinctive ways. The risk is not only that tomorrow's machines may read today's encrypted archives, but that the mere possibility of future decryption changes what rivals collect, what institutions must protect, and how long trust can reasonably last.Quantum Deterrence explains the strategic implications of post-quantum cryptography without treating it as a single technological cliff-edge. Kenan Durveil shows how encryption standards shift, why key management is often the true point of failure, and how "harvest now decrypt later" turns long-lived data into a reserve of influence. Moving across protocols, certificates, archives, and constrained communications, the book focuses on the institutional realities that determine outcomes: legacy systems that cannot be updated, vendors that set defaults for the world, and governance structures that struggle to own long-horizon risk.Written for students, general readers, and policy and security audiences, the book provides a clear framework for cryptographic migration as a coordination and credibility problem. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of which systems are most exposed, why capability gaps can produce asymmetric advantage, and what deterrence can mean when secrecy may fail after the fact. The central lesson is durable: in a world where mathematics and machines keep advancing, the decisive question is whether institutions can change as quickly as the threat model does.
Mineral Mandate
In the late twentieth century, many governments treated resource security as a question of fuel and shipping lanes. In the twenty-first century, the pressure point is often a laboratory-grade separation line, a qualification certificate, or a specialised factory that turns powders into magnets. Rare earths sit at the centre of this shift: not because the elements are mythically scarce, but because modern economies have organised themselves around a few fragile steps where disruption travels faster than policy can respond.Mineral Mandate argues that rare earths are best understood as a strategic supply problem, not a mining story. Following the chain from ore to oxides, metals, and components, Tarek Omraneh shows how supply chain bottlenecks form, why processing and magnet-making carry more leverage than reserves, and how states use export controls and other administrative tools to influence outcomes without open conflict. The book examines the political economy of low-margin yet high-importance industries, the role of industrial policy in sustaining capacity through price cycles, and the practical limits of substitution, thrift, and stockpiling when engineering timelines and standards regimes slow change.Written for students, general readers, and policy and industry analysts, the book offers a decision framework for strategic dependency mapping that goes beyond headlines. Readers will come away able to identify where vulnerability actually sits in a specific supply chain, which actors carry the incentives to invest (or not), and which resilience measures shift bargaining power rather than merely shift costs. The result is a clearer view of how material interdependence becomes leverage, and what it takes to build resilience without illusion.
The Princess, the Speed-King, and the Sultan of Llang-Llang
In 1929, a news story too crazy for most times, but just perfect for the exuberant Jazz Age, spread through America's newspapers, and even overseas. During that year, readers were titillated with a tale of Twenties extravagance to out-Roar them all. They bought it hook, line, and sinker, and fondly recalled it for decades thereafter. But the elaborate tale was fictitious. A fabulously daring and artful hoax. The perpetrators, three ambitious writers, each bearing the royal title they brought to the task, got away with it.Incorporating extensive research and newly-discovered sources, John Locke, an expert on the writing world of the 1920s, tears away the veils of secrecy for the first time, spinning a fast-moving journey of discovery through fabled times. Unfolding like a great mystery, we discover the rich lives of the hoaxers, how they united in strange purpose, how their globetrotting lives inexorably converged on the hoax, how they engineered its spread, and how their intimate understanding of the Jazz Age made them masters of their scheme. Not even jazz was spared.It's a story spanning East and West colored with unbridled ambition, struggle and success, hoaxes and deceptions, war and peace, the romance of adventure, and the flattening of nineteenth century traditions beneath the steamroller of modernity.Above all hovers the tantalizing mystery of motives-why did they do it?
Remigration
A bold and meticulously argued blueprint for solving Europe's immigration crisis, and how nations can reclaim their identity in an age of demographic upheaval. Across Europe, decades of uncontrolled immigration from the developing world have plunged the continent into an era of political and cultural upheaval. The causes and consequences of this crisis have been endlessly debated--by voices on both the left and the right--but few have seriously considered what a politically realistic and morally defensible solution might look like. In Remigration, Austrian writer and activist Martin Sellner presents a clear and unsparing account of how Europe reached this point and what must be done to recover its balance. Far from the caricature of an extremist right-wing demagogue, Sellner writes with restraint and analytic precision. He argues that the continent's paralysis stems from a "politics of guilt" that made national self-preservation morally suspect and demographic self-replacement inevitable. Sellner's proposal, while controversial, is both humane and meticulously reasoned: The voluntary return of large numbers of unassimilated migrants to their countries of origin, combined with a renaissance of civic confidence at home, opens the path forward for a healthy Europe. Drawing on existing European and international models, he outlines how such a policy could be implemented peacefully and pragmatically. Remigration offers a warning from Europe's experience and a mirror for America's own immigration dilemmas. As the United States faces unprecedented border pressures, Sellner's analysis raises the question that defines our time: What constitutes the contemporary nation, and do its people have a right to remain themselves?
How to Inspect, Validate, Audit, and Enforce Federal Elections
In Defense of The Economic Analysis of Regulation
This monograph addresses the analytical concerns raised by critics of the economic analysis of regulation.
The Collision
What happens when excellence collides with a system never designed to include you?For fourteen years, Dr. Clara Denise West documented that collision with engineering precision.Five degrees. Twenty-seven years of federal service. First Black woman to complete a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Optics while working full-time at NASA. Expertise in radar target identification.The credentials opened the door. They did not prevent what happened next.The Collision is the account of what unfolds when a Black woman engineer enters elite federal institutions-NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command-and approaches positions of authority the system was never designed to grant her.Performance metrics shifted after she exceeded them. Selection criteria evolved when she met them. The path to becoming the first Black subject matter expert in strategic defense was systematically obstructed through mechanisms designed to appear procedural, objective, merit-based.She documented everything.Union grievances. EEO complaints. Appeals. Fourteen years of evidence entered into federal proceedings. Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in 2002 that contributed to the passage of the No FEAR Act, landmark legislation protecting federal employees from discrimination.She never won a case. Not one.But she built an unassailable record.The Collision reveals the mechanics of institutional resistance when proximity to authority triggers recalibration. How organizations claim to reward merit while managing it to preserve hierarchical order. Why credentials that open doors for some produce containment for others.This is not a story of overcoming. It is documentation of what persists.Dr. West did not break through barriers. She mapped them-with the same precision she brought to analyzing radar signatures. The PhD in Systems Engineering that the institution required, then rendered irrelevant. The research contributions made invisible. The expertise acknowledged privately, denied publicly.As president of RAM-Redstone Area Minority Employees Association-she watched it dissolve. She survived a stairwell shove that could have killed her. She saw her health pay the price her cases could not extract.She retired in 2012-not because the system changed, but because her body could no longer withstand what her documentation proved the system would never acknowledge.The Collision is written for those who sense that institutional resistance does not behave according to stated principles of merit. For those who have pursued every credential required, only to discover that proximity itself provokes recalibration.For Black women in STEM who recognize these mechanisms. For anyone who has watched excellence collide with structures designed to contain it.The record exists.Not because it produced accountability.But because fourteen years of engineering precision, applied to institutional behavior, reveals what systems require to remain invisible: the silence of those positioned to see what others cannot.Dr. Clara Denise West refused that silence.The Collision is what happens when documentation meets a system designed to absorb it-and the record persists anyway.
What's Wrong?
What's Wrong contains data from hundreds of public opinion surveys conducted over the past sixty years, distilled in easy-to-read tables.
Labor Costs & International Trade
The growth of international trade between countries with sharply different levels of income has once again raised significant traditional concerns.
Le g矇n矇ral et le politique
La Turquie et l'?gypte sont deux des principales puissances politiques et militaires du Moyen-Orient. Leurs arm矇es respectives jouent un r繫le politique central depuis les origines de leurs ?tats modernes, remontant au XIXe si癡cle. Alors que ces deux pays sont engag矇s depuis maintenant une d矇cennie dans un processus de transformations politiques rapides, qu'ils sont tous deux confront矇s ? un ph矇nom癡ne terroriste en pleine mutation, et que leur opposition structure une grande part du jeu inter矇tatique au Moyen-Orient, cet ouvrage s'int矇resse aux interactions de la sph癡re militaire et de celle du politique, et ? leurs diff矇rentes dimensions historiques, institutionnelles, partisanes et 矇conomiques.
Agrarian Change, Migration and Development
The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migration. Delgado Wise and Veltmeyer explore the dynamics and development implications of the migration processes set in motion by the world capitalist system. The dynamics of these processes are international, in regard to the international or cross-border flows of labour migrants, and internal to countries that have undergone, or are undergoing, a process of agrarian change and social transformation. While it may appear that these migrants are free to choose to abandon their communities and families in the search for a better way of life, the authors show with devastating logic that the decisions made by so many migrants are rooted in the workings of the world capitalist system, which converts them into a pool of surplus labour to be pulled into and out of the system as required by capitalists in their endless search for private profit.
The Inhumanity Of Socialism
The inhumanity of socialism: The case against socialism & a critique of socialism presents a critical analysis of socialist ideology, examining its effects on individual motivation, productivity, and societal organization. The work opens with arguments highlighting the potential consequences of collectivist policies, suggesting that emphasizing equality over personal initiative could undermine ambition and reduce overall output. The first essay outlines concerns about decreased production, the suppression of competition, and the risk that human nature may be at odds with enforced cooperation. The second essay delves deeper into the theoretical foundations of socialism, particularly Marxist principles, questioning their practicality and long-term impact. Throughout, the author underscores the importance of private ownership, capitalism, and incentives as drivers of economic growth and personal achievement. While acknowledging that socialist ideas may be motivated by goodwill, the text stresses that implementation could create unintended hardships, inefficiencies, and societal stagnation. The work combines philosophical reflection with economic critique, aiming to present a reasoned case for the value of individual enterprise and the risks inherent in collectivist approaches.
The Euahlayi Tribe
The Euahlayi tribe: A study of aboriginal life in Australia is a detailed examination of the social, spiritual, and cultural foundations of the Euahlayi people of New South Wales. The book presents an immersive account of daily life shaped by tradition, belief, and close ties to land and community. It explores kinship systems, marriage rules, and social responsibilities that structure relationships and collective identity. Strong emphasis is placed on spiritual understanding, including totemic connections that link individuals to animals, landscapes, and ancestral forces. Mythology and oral tradition play a central role, revealing how moral guidance, knowledge, and continuity are preserved across generations. The work also highlights the figure of Byamee as a unifying spiritual presence influencing both ritual life and ethical conduct. Through careful observation and interpretation, the narrative reflects respect for indigenous knowledge systems and challenges simplified views of Aboriginal society. The study ultimately emphasizes cultural complexity, spiritual depth, and the enduring coherence of traditional life.
Fairy Tales, Their Origin And Meaning
Fairy tales, their origin and meaning: With some account of dwellers in fairyland explores the enduring presence of traditional stories and the deeper ideas that have allowed them to persist across cultures. The book approaches fairy tales as shared cultural expressions rather than simple entertainment, suggesting that they carry symbolic meanings shaped by ancient beliefs and collective imagination. It encourages readers to move beyond everyday logic and enter a mental space where wonder, transformation, and moral reflection coexist. The narrative emphasizes how recurring motifs, magical settings, and supernatural figures reflect human curiosity about nature, courage, fear, and hope. Instead of offering rigid interpretations, the work invites reflection on how folklore connects different societies through similar narrative patterns and imaginative structures. The tone blends scholarly interest with a sense of nostalgia, presenting fairy tales as timeless creations that preserve childhood wonder while revealing traces of early mythmaking traditions. By linking fantasy with cultural memory, the book highlights fairy tales as bridges between imagination, history, and shared human experience.
The Mind In The Making
The mind in the making: The relation of intelligence to social reform examines how patterns of human thinking influence social conditions and collective progress. The work argues that many persistent social problems arise not merely from external circumstances but from inherited habits of thought that shape perception and behavior. It explores how traditional assumptions, unexamined beliefs, and emotional responses limit the effective use of intelligence in addressing conflict, inequality, and social disorder. Emphasis is placed on the need for critical reflection and intellectual flexibility, encouraging readers to question inherited ideas rather than accept them as fixed truths. The discussion highlights the contrast between advances in scientific understanding and the slower evolution of social reasoning, suggesting that reform depends on aligning intelligence with evidence, reason, and humane values. Throughout the work, attention is given to the connection between mental attitudes and social action, proposing that clearer thinking can lead to more constructive policies and relationships. The book ultimately presents intelligence as a dynamic force capable of guiding social improvement when freed from rigid traditions and habitual misconceptions.
The True Citizen, How To Become One
The true citizen: How to become one serves as a guide for young readers aiming to understand the responsibilities and virtues of active citizenship. The work emphasizes that being a citizen extends beyond knowledge of laws and governance to include moral integrity, ethical reasoning, and personal character. Structured to support sustained reflection, the book presents a chapter for each week of the school year, offering concise lessons and memorable ideas to inspire thoughtful engagement. Early sections establish the authors' purpose of filling gaps in traditional education, highlighting the importance of nurturing both intellectual and moral faculties. Lessons encourage students to cultivate honesty, fairness, diligence, and empathy while connecting these virtues to civic participation. By blending ethical instruction with practical guidance, the work suggests that strong communities rely on citizens who are conscientious, informed, and socially responsible. The approach promotes a holistic view of education in which mind, body, and heart are developed in tandem, framing citizenship as an ongoing practice of moral and social commitment.
