![]() By accepting that ISIS truly believes the end is nigh, we can understand its strategy-and predict what it will do next. ![]() In The Way of the Strangers, he has given us the definitive work to date on the origins, plans, and meaning of the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization. Based on Wood's unprecedented access to supporters, recruiters, and high-ranking members of the most infamous jihadist group in the world, The Way of the Strangers is a riveting, fast-paced deep dive into the apocalyptic dogma that informs the group's worldview, from the ideas that motivate it, to the "fatwa factory" that produces its laws, to its very specific plans for the future. Graeme Wood is America’s foremost interpreter of ISIS as a world-historical phenomenon. Indispensable' David Aaronovitch, The TimesĪ radical rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wantsįrom Graeme Wood, author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants," comes the definitive book on the history, psychology, character, and aims of the Islamic State. ![]() 'From Mosul to Melbourne, from Cairo to Tokyo, from London to Oslo, from Connecticut to California: Graeme Wood's quest to understand the Islamic State is a round-the-world journey to the end of the night' Niall Ferguson ![]()
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![]() ![]() US Treasury bonds are widely regarded as one of the safest investments on Earth, and China’s holdings of US government debt ballooned from $101 billion to peak at $1.3 trillion in 2013.Ĭhina was the largest foreign creditor to the United States for more than a decade. That generated vast amounts of dollars for China and it needed a safe place to stash them. ![]() Together they own $2 trillion - more than a quarter - of the $7.6 trillion in US Treasury securities held by foreign countries.īeijing started to ramp up buying of US Treasuries in 2000, when the United States effectively endorsed China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, triggering an export boom. As the clock ticks down toward an unprecedented US debt default, the world’s second- and third-biggest economies are watching in fear.Ĭhina and Japan are the largest foreign investors in American government debt. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book describes in very great detail how the relationship between Tversky and Kahneman developed, how it was interrupted by the different Israeli wars, how they moved from Israel to the US and how it ended. ![]() ![]() The book covers the story of this “unlikely” pair of academics who started this revolution plus some side stories about people who were greatly influenced by them, for instance in Basketball and Medicine. As stock investors we all know that human behaviour in the stock market is anything but rational, however only following the groundbreaking work of those two guys, we now have a more structured way to understand how the mind really works. Up until Prospect Theory, the human mind was assumed to be perfectly rational for most theories dealing with human behaviour and decision-making. And for which Kahneman got the Nobel Prize in 2002 (Tversky unfortunately died some years before that). “The Undoing Project” is the story of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, two Israeli professors who developed the so-called “Prospect Theory” which deals with the behavioural “biases” that the human mind shows when deciding under uncertainty. His books are usually great to read, very well researched and a few of them have already turned into movies like “The Big Short”. Michael Lewis is clearly “THE” author for financial books at the moment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans only no one calls them that. Now, ‘special meat’ – human meat – is legal. Then, governments initiated the Transition. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. I would also like to thank the author, Agustina Bazterrica, and the translator, Sarah Moses. All opinions and views are my own and are not influenced by receiving a copy of this book in any way. I would like to thank Poppy Stimpson and Pushkin Press for sending me an advanced e-copy of this book to review. Here is a list of some of the trigger warnings: Blood, explicit detail of eating human flesh, heavy discussions of the slaughter process, dehumanising language and actions, rape, sexual abuse and assault, violence, murder, death, animal abuse (very explicit in one section of the book), gore, explicit sex, loss of a child.* Given the topics the book discusses, it can make for a difficult read, so it is worth being mindful of this before reading. If you’re easily squeamish and don’t like gory books then this isn’t the book for you. *Trigger Warnings – This book has a LOT of trigger warnings and certainly isn’t for the faint hearted. ![]() Author: Agustina Bazterrica (Translated by Sarah Moses) ![]() ![]() ![]() The cover of Rachel Kushner’s new essay collection, The Hard Crowd, brought all these dreamy vistas back. As a gen-X teenager, I stole it from my father’s shelf and it helped feed a fantasy vision of what a writer should be: ironic, experienced, hard-boiled, and above all present at the scene, a mode encapsulated by the famous photograph of Didion lounging against a white Stingray, looking antsy. It epitomised a style of reportage that drew the writer into the frame, no longer neutral witness but active participant, a character as sharply dressed and developed as any of their subjects. The New Journalism gathered together the work of crack young writers such as Joan Didion, Hunter S Thompson and Truman Capote. I n 1973, Tom Wolfe edited a collection that cast a long shadow over American letters. ![]() ![]() Tate, a former journalist who worked for papers in the Northwest before earning a PhD in history at the University of Washington in 1995, has written a convincing tale of misery and ultimate failure of the mission. ![]() The result is a highly readable, myth-busting, fact-based story of what happened, and more important, why it happened. But she then steps back from the gruesome killing to dissect with deep research the story, the people and the place where cultures collided with deadly results. In this book by Cassandra Tate, the author tells the well-known story of the tragic fate of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and seven others - five men and two teenage boys. The story told in Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West begins three decades earlier when Marcus Whitman came west to scout locations for a Presbyterian mission. ![]() ![]() T his book review serves as a postscript to the recent Inlander issue that examined the bloody history of racism in the Inland Northwest due to the incursion of Confederacy loyalists after the Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted clues about how this might go, or how it might end. “At the same time, at the beginning of the pandemic, I remember the difficulty of adapting to a life of pure uncertainty. “It’s a story where civilization collapses, but our humanity persists-maybe there’s something there that people wanted to absorb,” author Mandel told Esquire recently. Viewers can go into watching Station Eleven knowing that the novel itself is anchored by hope despite the difficulties surrounding its characters. If anything, critics are heralding the series as a momentary balm after nearly two years in a pandemic of our own. Still, that doesn’t mean that Station Eleven will leave audiences already fatigued by the pandemic feeling even worse after watching. ![]() ![]() Of course, the limited series is premiering at a time when its themes are likely to hit rather close to home for viewers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Isabella credited her mother Myra with teaching her how to weave a story centered on a well-loved Bible verse. ![]() Myra’s father was Horatio Gates Spafford, a well-respected author and New York newspaper editor, so she developed her own writing skills at a very early age. Myra was herself a story-teller, and often entertained her six children with stories of her own younger years. “Make a story out of it for mother,” she would say and out of those beginnings, Isabella began to develop the writing skills that would serve her as an adult. “A Writer” by William Adolphe Bouruereau, 1890.īut it was probably Isabella’s mother, Myra, who taught Isabella to be a great story-teller.Īt a young age-even before she could write-Isabella’s mother encouraged her to make up little stories about things. He gave her a journal when she was very young and-to teach her to pay attention in church-he encouraged her to take notes during Sunday sermons so they could discuss the minister’s message later in the day. Isabella Alden’s father Isaac Macdonald is often credited with instilling in her a love of writing. This post is part of our blogiversary celebration! Leave a comment below or on Isabella’s Facebook page to be entered into Friday’s drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card! ![]() ![]() GANNON: If you have that embedded in the structure in this Constitutional language, then it's there to be used as a tool for whichever purposes one wants to use it. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: There's a clause, a loophole. There are exceptions, including criminals. In other words, it grants freedom to all Americans. KEVIN GANNON: The 13th Amendment to the Constitution makes it unconstitutional for someone to be held as a slave. And the film makes the case that the American criminal justice system really serves as a strategy to control black and brown people - in essence, slavery by another name. ![]() It was just named to the shortlist for an Oscar in the documentary category. ![]() It is a documentary about the weighty topic of mass incarceration. You might remember that last year her film "Selma" was nominated for two Academy Awards. ![]() It's called "13TH." It's the latest offering from director Ava DuVernay. Well, one film is already generating that buzz and the topic might surprise you. The awards season is upon us and soon you'll hear all kinds of interviews and talk about films all in search of that elusive Oscar buzz. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New York, NY, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018īibliography note Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index Carrier category volume Carrier category codeĬarrier MARC source rdacarrier Content category text Content type codeĬontent type MARC source rdacontent Contents Birth - The Special Pigeon Service - Leopold Vindictive - Arrival - Listening - Battle of the skies - Reaching out - Resistance - Secret agents - Undercover - Battle of the skies II - Capture - Interrogation and infiltration - The viscount - Trials and tribulations - Deception - The Americans are coming - Fates Control code 2018017421 Dimensions 24 cm Edition First U.S.Operation Columba : the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe.Label Operation Columba : the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe, Gordon Corera Instantiates ![]() |