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Chapter 1. The Strategic Logic of China's Economy -- Chapter 2. The Dynamic Strategy Theory, a Formal Statement -- Chapter 3. Industrialisation Sub-strategies: Theory and Practice -- Chapter 4. Asia's First Industrial Giant: Japan's Strategic Pursuit -- Chapter 5. China's Millennial Pathway in a Strategic Mirror -- Chapter 6. China's Economic Performance and Strategic Pathway From the Late Qing to the Death of Mao Zedong -- Chapter 7. China's Strategic Pathway From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping -- Chapter 8. The Xi Inheritance -- Chapter 9. China's Strategic Pursuit Under Xi Jinping and the New Era -- Chapter 10. China in the World-system: Strategic Pathways to 2100.

"Authoritative, personal, and vividly written, Romney: A Reckoning is a revealing account of Mitt Romney's life. Based on dozens of exclusive interviews with Romney, his family, and his inner circle as well as hundreds of pages of his personal journals, this book offers a rare, portrait of a politician who in recent years has been at the center of our nation's most defining political dramas." --Amazon

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Guide to Health Literacy -- Common Misconceptions about Healthy Relationships -- Questions and Answers -- Dating and Attractiveness -- 1. How can I tell if I am ready to date or seek a partner? -- 2. How do I cope with loneliness? -- 3. What can I do to be noticed by potential partners? -- 4. How do I "ask someone out" without feeling awkward? -- 5. Will asking out a friend ruin the friendship? -- 6. Are dating or hookup apps a good way to meet potential partners? -- 7. Is a "hookup" or "friends with benefits" arrangement right for me? -- 8. How do I keep the conversation going on a first date? -- 9. How do I respond to others who are pressuring me to date or become sexually active if I don't feel ready? -- 10. Does dating someone from a different background present any unique challenges? -- Building Connection and Trust -- 11. How can my partner and I feel more connected to each other? -- 12. Is it important that my partner and I have the same interests or hobbies? -- 13. How can my partner and I learn to speak the same "love language?" -- 14. What are the barriers to connection, and how are they overcome? -- 15. How can my partner and I build trust? -- 16. Are monogamy and nonmonogamy equally healthy options for me? -- Sexual Health -- 17. What are the ingredients of a healthy sex life? -- 18. Are masturbation and pornography use healthy while in a relationship? -- 19. How can I reduce the risks associated with sexual activity, including unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections? -- 20. What is sexual assault, and how can I avoid perpetrating it or becoming a victim of it? -- 21. Who can I talk to about pregnancy, sex, or sexual health without others finding out? -- Healthy Boundaries.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America's most fascinating political figures--including news-making revelations from Mitt Romney himself about dissension within today's Republican Party--written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic.Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump's GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing alone against the forces he believes are poisoning the party he once led. Romney was the first senator in history to vote to remove from office a president of his own party. When that president's supporters went on to storm the US Capitol, Romney delivered a thundering speech from the Senate floor accusing his fellow Republicans of stoking insurrection. Despite these moments of public courage, Romney has shared very little about what he's witnessed behind the scenes over his three decades in politics--in GOP cloakrooms and caucus lunches, in his private meetings with Donald Trump and his family, in his dealings with John McCain, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Joe Manchin, and Kyrsten Sinema. Now, exclusively for this biography, Romney has provided a window to his most private thoughts. Based on dozens of interviews with Romney, his family, and his inner circle as well as hundreds of pages of his personal journals and private emails, this in-depth portrait by award-winning journalist McKay Coppins shows a public servant authentically wrestling with the choices he has made over his career. In lively, revelatory detail, the book traces Romney's early life and rise through the ranks of a fast-transforming Republican Party and exposes how a trail of seemingly small compromises by political leaders has led to a crisis in democracy. Ultimately, Romney: A Reckoning is a redemptive story about a flawed politician who summoned his moral courage just as fear and divisiveness were overtaking American life.

Originally published in 1956, this title aims to compress in to a brief yet readable form, the essentials of successful parentcraft at the time, bearing in mind the four elements of developing a new life - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. It is a comprehensive guide through a baby's life from birth through the early years.

Politicians and lobbyists have incentives to conceal any quid pro quo relationships between them, leaving scholars largely unable to link campaign money to legislative votes. Using behind-the-scenes information gained from novel data sources such as legislators' schedules, fundraising events, legislative amendments, and the campaign contributions of individual lobbyists and the political action committees these lobbyists control, Amy McKay instead investigates how lobbyists influence the content of congressional legislation. The data reveal hidden relationships between lobbyists' campaign assistance and legislators' action on behalf of those lobbyists. Relative to constituents and even average lobbyists, the lobbyists who provide campaign money to members of Congress are more likely to secure meetings with those members, to see their requests introduced as legislation, and to achieve a larger portion of their legislative goals adopted into law. These findings raise important normative concerns about the ability of some to use money to co-opt the democratic process.

This unprecedented, meticulous accounting of how mass incarceration has devastated Black communities is a powerful call to action: reparations are possible, vital, and long overdue. Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power is a staggering account of the destruction wrought by mass incarceration. Finding that the economic value of the damages to Black individuals, families, and communities totals $7.15 trillion-roughly 86 percent of the current Black-White wealth gap-this compelling and exhaustive analysis puts unprecedented empirical heft behind an urgent call for reparations. Much of the damage of mass incarceration, Tasseli McKay finds, has been silently absorbed by families and communities of the incarcerated-where it is often compensated for by women's invisible labor. Four decades of state-sponsored violence have destroyed the health, economic potential, and political power of Black Americans across generations. Grounded in principles of transitional justice that have guided other nations in moving past eras of state violence, Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power presents a comprehensive framework for how to begin intensive individual and institutional reparations. The extent of mass incarceration's racialized harms, estimated here with new rigor and scope, points to the urgency of this work and the possibilities that lie beyond it

Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, 'Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People', Susan McKay talks again to the Protestant community in Northern Ireland. Based on almost 100 brand-new interviews, and told with McKay's trademark passion and conviction, this is essential reading. This new title will be accompanied by a new edition of 'Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People'. Containing interviews with politicians, former paramilitaries, victims and survivors, business people, religious leaders, community workers, young people, writers and others, it tackles controversial issues, such as Brexit, paramilitary violence, the border, the legacy of the Troubles, same-sex marriage and abortion, RHI, and the possibility of a United Ireland, and explores social justice issues and campaigns, particularly the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights. Interviewees include: Eileen Weir, Dee Stitt, Dawn Purvis, Chrissie Quinn, Clare Sugden, Toni Ogle, Kyle Black, Sammy Wilson and others, and ties in to topical debates around identity in the context of Brexit and the centenary of the foundation of Northern Ireland. Susan McKay is an award-winning writer and commentator and contributes regularly to print and broadcast media, including Guardian/Observer, New York Times, Irish Times and London Review of Books.

"A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II. On February 13th, 1945 at 10:03 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombing of Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the streets into a blast furnace, the shelters into ovens, and whipping up a molten hurricane in which the citizens of Dresden were burned, baked, or suffocated to death. Early the next day, American bombers finished off what was left. Sinclair McKay's The Fire and the Darkness is a pulse-pounding work of history that looks at the life of the city in the days before the attack, tracks each moment of the bombing, and considers the long period of reconstruction and recovery. The Fire and the Darkness is powered by McKay's reconstruction of this unthinkable terror from the points of view of the ordinary civilians: Margot Hille, an apprentice brewery worker; Gisela Reichelt, a ten-year-old schoolgirl; boys conscripted into the Hitler Youth; choristers of the Kreuzkirche choir; artists, shop assistants, and classical musicians, as well as the Nazi officials stationed there. What happened that night in Dresden was calculated annihilation in a war that was almost over. Sinclair McKay's brilliant work takes a complex, human, view of this terrible night and its aftermath in a gripping book that will be remembered long after the last page is turned."

Acknowledgements -- Note on on Japanese Names and English Dubs -- Introduction: 3, 2, 1. . . -- Let's Jam! -- 1: -- "The Work Which Becomes A New Genre Itself": Shinichiro Watanabe's Influences and Legacy -- 2: Mish-Mash Blues: Analyzing Yoko Kanno's Style -- 3: "Black Dog" Serenade: Bebop, Classic Rock and Jazz Standards -- 4: Jupiter Jazz: Scoring the World of Bebop -- 5: See You, Space Cowboy: Music and Genre Parody in "Cowboy Funk" and "Mushroom Samba?" -- 6: Jamming With Edward (and Jet and Faye): Scoring Bebop's Characters -- 7: Ballad of Fallen Angels: Spike Spiegel's Musical Journey -- Conclusion: You're Gonna Carry That Weight. -- Bibliography -- Endnotes.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- The East German dilemma -- Policy-making in the GDR -- The role of theorists in the GDR -- 2 The fight to preserve the unity of the German nation -- The divided nation -- The SED, the nation and the Berlin Wall -- Conclusion -- 3 The unity of the nation in doubt -- Challenges to Ulbricht's line -- The new socialist constitution -- The challenge of Brandt's Ostpolitik -- Conclusion -- 4 The 'socialist nation' in the GDR -- The invention of a 'socialist nation' in the GDR -- The consequences of the new Nationskonzept -- Conclusion -- 5 The 'socialist German nation' - from consolidation to crisis -- Nationality: German -- citizenship: GDR -- The SED: 'heir to everything progressive in the history of the German people' -- The return of the nation to the political agenda -- Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion -- The paradoxes of official nationalism in the GDR -- The four phases of the official line -- The nature of East German identity -- West German policy regarding the German nation -- The case of the GDR and nation-building theory -- Bibliography