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"Numerous narratives have been published on the space race in the past few years, but no definitive, prescriptive book has been published about what it means for entrepreneurs and investors. The Space Economy fills that gap and explains how the average person can capitalize on the space economy. The Space Economy summarizes the events that have opened the space economy with an eye toward the trillion-dollar investment opportunity they have created. From current opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors in geospatial technology and satellite communications to emerging markets in commercial spaceflight and tourism, the book explains where and how to participate in the markets of the future"--

It would be hard to overstate the impact of Sun Tzu's The Art of War on military thought. Beyond its impact in Asia, the work has been required reading in translation for US military personnel since the Cold War. Sun Tzu has been interpreted as arguing for 'Indirect Strategy' in contrast to 'Direct Strategy,' the latter idea stemming from Ancient Greece. This is a product of twentieth-century Western thinking, specifically that of Liddell Hart, who influenced Samuel B. Griffith's 1963 translation of Sun Tzu. The credibility of Griffith's translation was enhanced by his combat experience in the Pacific during World War II, and his translation of Mao Zedong's On Guerrilla War. This reading of Sun Tzu is, however, very different from Chinese interpretations. Western strategic thinkers have used Sun Tzu as a foil or facilitator for their own thinking, inadvertently engaging the Western military tradition and propagating misleading generalizations about Chinese warfare.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction. Making a World of States -- Chapter 1. Constitution as Archive: Drafting the Empire, 1848-1860s -- Chapter 2. The Secret Science of Dual Sovereignty: 1867 and After -- Chapter 3. Fictional States: Lands and Nations -- Chapter 4. Pure Theory: Jellinek and Kelsen Reinvent Legal Philosophy -- Chapter 5. What Is a New State? 1919 in the History of the Austro-Hungarian Empire -- Chapter 6. State Birth at the Frontier of Knowledge: Reimagining International Law from Postimperial Vienna -- Chapter 7. Sovereignty in Sequence: Law, Time, and Decolonization -- Conclusion. The Temporal Life of States -- Notes -- Index.

This book explores the ways in which multimodality and multilingualism as areas of study intersect and provides empirical examples of how this looks in practice from a wide range of settings. It argues that the everyday practices of multilingual communities are multimodal in nature

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Tables -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Africans, African Americans, and the Roots of Pan-African Nationalism -- The Emergence of Pan-Negroism -- Nationalism as Protest Against White Racism -- Pan-Negroism and Identification With the African Homeland -- "Back to Africa" and "Black Zionism" -- The Pan-African Conferences and Congresses -- The Impact of Pan-Negroism On Africa -- Notes -- 2 From Pan-Negroism to Territorial Nationalism: Nationalism Without Nations -- Notes -- 3 Négritude -- The Emergence of "Négritude" -- Individual, People, Society, and Culture in "Négritude" -- "Négritude": From Racial and Cultural Identity to Political Nationalism -- Counter-Reactions to the Theory of Négritude -- Notes -- 4 Continental Pan-Africanism -- The Background to the Emergence of Continental Pan-Africanism -- First Pan-African Unification Efforts -- Forces of Cohesion and Division in Africa -- Notes -- 5 The New Nationalism and Its Historical Heritage -- Memories and Myths of Precolonial Africa -- The Tradition of "Primary Resistance" to the European Conquest -- Uprisings Against White Rule and Their Place in National Ideology -- Notes -- 6 The Permeation of Western Liberal Concepts -- The Emergence of New Nationalist Concepts and Modernization Processes in Africa -- Western Liberal Concepts-Weapons in the War Against Colonial Rule -- Notes -- 7 Socialist and Communist Concepts and Anticolonial African Nationalism -- Anticolonialism, Anticapitalism, and Anti-Westernism -- African Socialism -- Notes -- 8 Radical Ideologies of National, Economic, Social, and Cultural Liberation -- The Origins of Radical Nationalism in Africa -- The Aims of Radical Ideologies -- Ideological Sources of Influence -- From Political Struggle to Armed Struggle.

"Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh and contested 'informal' enclaves and communities in the cities of India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, this book challenges current ways of thinking about the governance of human settling, mobility, and placemaking. Together, the 15 essays question the validity of the conventional hegemonic divisions of Global North vs. Global South and 'formal' vs. 'informal', in terms of geographic presence, transborder performances, and the ideological inter-dependence of Northern and Southern spaces, spatial practices and the uniformity of authoritative enforcements. The book, whose authors themselves come from all over the world, uses 'Global South' as a methodological apparatus to ask the 'Southern' question of settling and unsettling across the globe. Crucially, the studies reveal the sentiments, resourcefulness and the agency of those positioned by the powerful within the dichotomies of formal/informal, legitimate/ illegal, privileged/marginalized; etc., who are traditionally identified within the dominant development discourse as mere numbers or designated by intervening institutions as helpless recipients. By focusing on hitherto invisible events and untold stories of adaptation, negotiation and contestation by people and their communities, this volume of essays takes the ongoing North-South debate in new directions and opens up to the reader's fresh areas of inquiry. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, planning, politics and sociology, as well as built environment professionals"--

"At a time where multilateralism is coming under increasing pressure, a new reflection on the foundations of international law is warranted. Democracy and Sovereignty: Rethinking the Legitimacy of Public International Law addresses urgent new and intrinsically international subject areas, such as digitalization, climate change and transborder investments. This volume looks at the changing role of state sovereignty and explores more democratic modes of legitimation in order to supplement the traditional concept of state consent, and sharpen the notion of democracy itself"--

"How do we make democracy more equal? Although in theory, all citizens in a democracy have the right to participate in politics, time-consuming forms of participation often advantage some groups over others. Where some citizens may have time to wait in long lines to vote, to volunteer for a campaign, to attend community board meetings, or to stay up to date on national, state, and local news, other citizens struggle to do the same. Since not all people have the time or inclination to devote substantial energy to politics, certain forms of participation exacerbate existing inequalities. Democracy for Busy People takes up the very real challenge of how to build a democracy that empowers people with limited time for politics. While many plans for democratic renewal emphasize demanding forms of political participation and daunting ideals of democratic citizenship, political theorist Kevin J. Elliott proposes a fundamentally different approach. He focuses instead on making democratic citizenship undemanding so that even busy people can be politically included. This approach emphasizes the core institutions of electoral democracy, such as political parties, against deliberative reforms and sortition. Timely and action-focused, Democracy for Busy People is necessary reading."--

"A "remake" of C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite, this book charts patterns of elite domination amid paradigmatic changes in the structuring of U.S. social institutions and political life since the postwar period that lay bare the essentially corrupt and authoritarian nature of neoliberal capitalism and the power elites behind it. Driven by an inexhaustible pursuit of profits and wealth accumulation, power elites of the last half century conceived of and imposed a new form of global capitalism that has positioned the "free market" as an ultimate political and cultural authority. In the process, they have suppressed policies and rules, social movements, and political organizations that might impede profitability and exacted an unspeakable toll on human and planetary life. Similar to Mills, The New Power Elite elucidates the means through which today's elites accumulate wealth and power, including the subordination of military and governmental systems, media and culture, and labor, finance, and production to "market imperatives." It departs from Mills, however, in accounting for major transformations in the political geography of corporations and labor, the rise of finance capital, and role of U.S. imperialism in the structuring of global capitalism. And, unlike Mills, the book argues that while the American State, mass media, and cultural institutions can still operate as a sites of contestation, political, military, and cultural institutions today should not be considered as autonomous from market forces, as their principal function is to serve the interests of capital and operate on its behalf"--