The Shirker by Mark J. Schultis Requirements: .ePUB reader, 600 KBOverview: Abandoning another man’s conflict is a choice. Abandoning your own conflict is not. Recently discharged from the Aeronautical Expansion Defense and secretly suffering from PTSD, Vio Recarey arrives on the frontier world Obcasio II with nothing but the clothes on his back. All Vio […]
Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise by Susan L. ShirkRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 432 MBOverview: For three decades after Mao’s death in 1976, China’s leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country’s inexorable economic ascendance, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China’s peaceful intentions. Then, as […]
China: Fragile Superpower by Susan L. ShirkRequirements: .MP3 reader, 362 MBOverview: Susan L. Shirk, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China, knows many of today’s Chinese rulers personally and has studied them for three decades. She offers invaluable insight into how they think—and what they fear. In this revealing book, you will […]
Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty and Became Their Own Bosses by Martha Shirk, Anna S. WadiaRequirements: .ePUB reader, 5 MBOverview: Over the last five years, the number of women-owned businesses has grown at twice the rate of all U.S. firms; in the next few years, the number is expected to surpass the […]
Making War on the World: How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order by Mark ShirkRequirements: .PDF reader, 3 MBOverview: The state bounds politics: it constructs and enforces boundaries that separate what it controls from what lies outside its domain. However, states face a variety of threats that cross and challenge their geographical and conceptual boundaries. Transnational […]