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Power Club : L'apprentissage

Auteure: Alain Gagnol

Nombre de pages: 438

En 2038, devenir un super-héros est un privilège de riches. Anna n'est pas née sur Krypton, pourtant elle s'apprête à devenir une super-héroïne. Jeune et riche, elle répond aux critères du Power Club© ! Les termes du contrat sont les suivants : on lui inocule des boosters, une technologie de pointe qui la rend en quelques jours surhumaine, elle entre dans la légende aux côtés des huit super-héros déjà célèbres. En échange, elle se doit d'incarner le rêve absolu, de vendre son image aux médias, aux plus grandes marques. Et, accessoirement, elle est libre de sauver le monde. Roman publié sous la direction de Denis Guiot.

The Power Club

Auteure: Greg Gildersleeve

Nombre de pages: 160

Power Club 2 : Ondes de choc

Auteure: Alain Gagnol

Nombre de pages: 434

En 2038, Le Power Club © peut faire de vous un super-héros, mais à quel prix ? Être un simple pion qui fait le buzz dans les médias ? Neutraliser les criminels même s'il en coûte la vie à de nombreux civils ? Se laisser manipuler, tout comme l'opinion publique, par les politiciens ? Très peu pour Anna qui va payer cher son intégrité. Autrefois adulée, aujourd'hui détestée, elle seule peut prouver au monde entier ce qu'est une vraie super-héroïne. Roman publié sous la direction de Denis Guiot.

Power Club 3 : Un rêve indestructible

Auteure: Alain Gagnol

Nombre de pages: 80

UN DERNIER TOME EXPLOSIF ! LA TRILOGIE À NE PAS RATER Du haut de ses 19 ans, Anna a déjà sauvé le monde, mais elle a vécu le pire. Qui irait imaginer que la personne la plus puissante sur Terre souffre de stress post-traumatique ? Alors qu'elle est au centre de l'attention, Anna est la seule à voir venir une menace plus grande encore : le sénateur Wallace, qui a promis de créer une armée de soldats surhumains, est sur le point d'être élu président des États-Unis. Malgré sa fragilité, Anna est aussi la seule capable de l'arrêter.

The Power of the Space Club

Auteure: Deganit Paikowsky

Nombre de pages: 265

This book analyses the decisions of nations to develop indigenous space programs in order to become a leading world power.

The Sources of Great Power Competition

Auteure: J. Patrick Rhamey Jr. , Spencer D. Bakich

Nombre de pages: 342

This volume explores the determinants of state power, the strategic options of rising powers, the drivers of conflict in dynamic international systems, and American grand strategy past and present to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the current era of great power competition. Leveraging insights from international relations, history, economics, and political demography, it offers rich perspectives on the competition among newly rising powers and long-dominant leaders in the international system. This book presents novel theories and innovative empirical investigations into the economic and demographic challenges confronting rising powers, along with new inquiries into these countries’ capacity to mobilize both their citizens and their militaries. While China’s grand strategy has attracted significant attention in recent years, these authors look beyond U.S.–PRC relations by considering the war proneness and strategic repertoires of rising regional powers, including India and Russia. Yet, the possibility of great power war remains a justifiable concern. This book examines the so-called Thucydides’s Trap by exploring both its explanatory power in the conflict...

Transformer Standards of the Electric Power Club

Auteure: Electric Power Club

Nombre de pages: 44

China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change

Auteure: Sanna Kopra

Nombre de pages: 209

As American leadership over climate change declines, China has begun to identify itself as a great power by formulating ambitious climate policies. Based on the premise that great powers have unique responsibilities, this book explores how China’s rise to great power status transforms notions of great power responsibility in general and international climate politics in particular. The author looks empirically at the Chinese party-state’s conceptions of state responsibility, discusses the influence of those notions on China’s role in international climate politics, and considers both how China will act out its climate responsibility in the future and the broader implications of these actions. Alongside the argument that the international norm of climate responsibility is an emerging attribute of great power responsibility, Kopra develops a normative framework of great power responsibility to shed new light on the transformations China’s rise will yield and the kind of great power China will prove to be. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, China studies, foreign policy studies, international organizations, international ethics...

Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board

Auteure: United States. National Labor Relations Board

Nombre de pages: 1450

The Secret Club

Auteure: Greg Gildersleeve

Nombre de pages: 206

Damon couldn’t wait to start the eighth grade: being in the top grade of the district school, getting to be a crossing guard, and seeing old friends. But at the new school, eighth grade is the lowest grade, there are no crossing guards, and old friends move on. Worse, Damon’s power to control darkness keeps turning itself on and off. Even worse, two former members of The Power Club start a new club—without him. But things at the new school aren’t what they seem. A menacing shapechanger and a friendly werewolf complicate matters as Damon learns of a plot to send his friends away for good and start a war with “ords.” Will his new club—The Secret Club—be enough to prevent a war?

The Grand Strategies of Great Powers

Auteure: Tudor A. Onea

Nombre de pages: 176

What is grand strategy and what is it good for? What are great powers, and which states are great powers today? What are the grand strategies available to great powers? What are the conditions under which a certain strategy is suitable and when should it be rejected? What are the factors affecting the success or failure of a given grand strategy? The present volume provides answers to these questions by introducing a typology of great power grand strategies, as strategies of rising, status quo, and declining powers, as well as through historical illustrations of each type. The reader is thus exposed to strategies such as divide and conquer, biding your time, opportunity strike, primacy, semi-detachment, concert, and appeasement through the experiences of leaders such as Bismarck, Peter the Great, Metternich, Deng Xiaoping, Neville Chamberlain, and Stalin. This analysis is then brought to bear on present developments in the grand strategies of the United States, China, and Russia. The volume should be of interest to both the academic and foreign policy-making communities, and in particular to students of international relations, diplomacy, history, and current international affairs.

Regions, Power, and Conflict

Auteure: William R. Thompson , Thomas J. Volgy , Paul Bezerra , Jacob Cramer , Kelly Marie Gordell , Manjeet Pardesi , Karen Rasler , J. Patrick Rhamey Jr. , Kentaro Sakuwa , Rachel Van Nostrand , Leila Zakhirova

Nombre de pages: 295

The three main levels of analysis in international relations have been the systemic, the national, and the individual. A fourth level that falls between the systemic and the national is the region. It is woefully underdeveloped in comparison to the attention afforded the other three. Yet regions tend to be distinctive theaters for international politics. Otherwise, we would not recognize that Middle Eastern interstate politics somehow does not resemble Latin American interstate politics or interstate politics in Southern Africa (although once the Middle East and Southern Africa may have seemed more similar in their mutual fixation with opposition to domestic policies in Israel and South Africa, respectively). This book, divided into three parts, first makes a case for studying regional politics even though it must also be appreciated that regional boundaries are also hazy and not always easy to pin down empirically. The second part examines power distributions within regions as an important entry point to studying regional similarities and differences. Two emphases are stressed. One is that regional power assessments need to be conditioned by controlling for weak states which are...

Status in World Politics

Auteure: T. V. Paul , Deborah Welch Larson , William C. Wohlforth

Nombre de pages: 323

A systematic study of why rising powers seek greater status in world politics and when dominant powers recognize their claims.

Propelling India from Socialist Stagnation to Global Power: Growth process

Auteure: Arvind Virmani

Nombre de pages: 432

Presents a comprehensive retrospective of India's economic policies and performances, including an in-depth analysis of a wide range of issues from a variety of perspectives: historical, global, institutional, and political-economic. The discussion explores the "tripolar world" comprised of the United States, China, and India as the changing dominant players in global power.

Ascending Order

Auteure: Rohan Mukherjee

Nombre de pages: 353

Why do rising powers sometimes challenge an international order that enables their growth, and at other times support an order that constrains them? Ascending Order offers the first comprehensive study of conflict and cooperation as new powers join the global arena. International institutions shape the choices of rising states as they pursue equal status with established powers. Open membership rules and fair decision-making procedures facilitate equality and cooperation, while exclusion and unfairness frequently produce conflict. Using original and robust archival evidence, the book examines these dynamics in three cases: the United States and the maritime laws of war in the mid-nineteenth century; Japan and naval arms control in the interwar period; and India and nuclear non-proliferation in the Cold War. This study shows that the future of contemporary international order depends on the ability of international institutions to address the status ambitions of rising powers such as China and India.

Military Strategy of Middle Powers

Auteure: Håkan Edström , Jacob Westberg

Nombre de pages: 242

Military Strategy of Middle Powers explores to what degree twenty-first-century middle powers adjust their military strategies due to changes in the international order, such as the decline in US power. The overarching objective of the book is to explain continuity and change in the strategies of a group of middle powers during the twenty-first century. These strategies are described, compared, and explained through the lens of Realism. In order to find potential explanations for change or continuity within the cases, as well as for similarities and differences between the cases, the strategies of 11 ‘middle’ powers are analysed (Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, India, Japan, and South Korea). This group of countries are considered similar in several important aspects, primarily regarding relative power capacity. When searching for potential explanations for different strategic behaviours among the middle powers, their unique regional characteristics are a key focus and, consequently, the impact of the structure and polarity, as well as the patterns of amity and enmity, of the regional context are analysed. The empirical investigation...

Green Practices and Business Augmentation: Hosting the Green Card

Auteure: Dr. Manodip Ray Chaudhuri , Dr. Soma Sur

Nombre de pages: 310

This book is a research reference book in the area of Green Business Practices within various domains of Organizational Management in the backdrop of enterprise augmentation. This book is an anthology, with a collection of 24 papers, presented as chapters here, concerning Green Practices and Business Sustainability from a wide angle of various propositions, opinions, intentions and estimations. The book is intended for researchers and scholars in the fields of Business Sustainability and Green Practices.

Brazil’s Africa Strategy

Auteure: C. Stolte

Nombre de pages: 232

The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy objectives and shedding light on the mechanisms of Brazilian status-seeking in Africa.

Major Powers and the Quest for Status in International Politics

Auteure: T. Volgy , R. Corbetta , K. Grant , R. Baird

Nombre de pages: 439

This book explores the effects and consequences of major global power and major regional power status attribution on the foreign policies of states striving for such status and the consequences of status differentiation for the international system and the post-Cold War international order.

Ebony

Nombre de pages: 184

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

International Security Studies Volume 4，Number 1，Summer 2018

Auteure: Tao Jian

Nombre de pages: 328

本書是由國際關係學院主辦的《國際安全研究》的英文半年集刊，主題是國際安全理論研究，內容涉及不干涉內政學說、世界體系的發展、歷史視角中的三次世界大戰、質性和平的條件比較（當代東亞與戰後西歐）、當代國際安全的文化價值基礎、互聯網對國際政治影響機理、中國周邊安全環境指標體系及其評估、聯合陣線與美國軍事干涉等問題的研究。

Jet

Nombre de pages: 64

The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Jet

Nombre de pages: 64

The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Ebony

Nombre de pages: 152

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous Publication

Nombre de pages: 394

National Directory of Commodity Specifications

Auteure: United States. National Bureau Of Standards

Nombre de pages: 390

Controlling and Berlin Balanced Scorecard Approach

Auteure: Wilhelm Schmeisser , Lydia Clausen , Rebecca Popp , Carsten Ennemann , Olaf Drewicke

Nombre de pages: 308

The “Harvard Balanced Scorecard model” by Kaplan and Norton wishes to make strategies communicable and more manageable for companies across all management levels within the company. To this effect, the balanced scorecard is a qualitative controlling or performance management instrument.

Jet

Nombre de pages: 68

The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

China's Energy Geopolitics

Auteure: Thrassy N. Marketos

Nombre de pages: 178

China’s need for energy has become a driving factor in contemporary world politics and a precondition for sustaining China’s continuing high economic growth. This book argues that a US presence in Central Asia is necessary for securing the energy provision of China from the region.

NBS Special Publication

Nombre de pages: 396

International Organization in the Anarchical Society

Auteure: Tonny Brems Knudsen , Cornelia Navari

Nombre de pages: 374

This book takes up one of the key theoretical challenges in the English School’s conceptual framework, namely the nature of the institutions of international society. It theorizes their nature through an analysis of the relationship of primary and secondary levels of institutional formation, so far largely ignored in English School theorizing, and provides case studies to illuminate the theory. Hitherto, the School has largely failed to study secondary institutions such as international organizations and regimes as autonomous objects of analysis, seeing them as mere materializations of primary institutions. Building on legal and constructivist arguments about the constitutive character of institutions, it demonstrates how primary institutions frame secondary organizations and regimes, but also how secondary institutions construct agencies with capacities that impinge upon and can change primary institutions. Based on legal and constructivist ideas, it develops a theoretical model that sees primary and secondary institutions as shared understandings enmeshed in observable historical processes of constitution, reproduction and regulation.

Miscellaneous Publications

Nombre de pages: 396

Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation

Auteure: Barry Buzan , Evelyn Goh

Nombre de pages: 316

Bitterly contested memories of war, colonisation, and empire among Japan, China, and Korea have increasingly threatened regional order and security over the past three decades. In Sino-Japanese relations, identity, territory, and power pull together in a particularly lethal direction, generating dangerous tensions in both geopolitical and memory rivalries. Buzan and Goh explore a new approach to dealing with this history problem. First, they construct a more balanced and global view of China and Japan in modern world history. Second, building on this, they sketch out the possibilities for a 21st century great power bargain between them. Buzan puts Northeast Asia's history since 1840 into both a world historical and a systematic normative context, exposing the parochial nature of the China-Japan history debate in relation to what is a bigger shared story about their encounter with modernity and the West, within which their modern encounter with each other took place. Arguing that regional order will ultimately depend substantially on the relationship between these two East Asian great powers, Goh explores the conditions under which China and Japan have been able to reach strategic...

Intraocular Lens Calculations

Auteure: Jaime Aramberri , Kenneth J. Hoffer , Thomas Olsen , Giacomo Savini , H. John Shammas

Nombre de pages: 1004

Cataract surgery, with 25-30 million surgeries per year, has become one of most popular surgeries in the world. The calculation of its power is of utmost importance. As new premium intraocular lenses (IOLs) and modern surgical techniques have been developed, the demand has grown exponentially - not only for eliminating cataracts, but also for getting rid of the need for glasses. This book offers a comprehensive overview of IOL power calculations and its various formulas and methods. Chapters discuss use of the diagnostic biometry devices that provide the measurements and the management of different clinical situations where particular modifications must be applied. Chapters also discuss the newest generation of multifocal and toric IOLs that can only be implanted if no residual refraction is planned for, which implies a perfect mastery of all the IOL calculation process. This book marks the first time in ophthalmological history that all the main leaders inthe field have collaborated in a project that will undoubtedly be the reference for the next ten years. Intraocular Lens Calculations is a must-have resource for cataract and refractive surgeons as well as technicians and anyone ...

Jet

Nombre de pages: 68

The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Social Closure and International Society

Auteure: Tristen Naylor

Nombre de pages: 328

Laying the foundations of a theory of ‘international social closure’ this book examines how actors compete for a seat at the table in the management of international society and how that competition stratifies the international domain. In a broad historical survey from the ‘Family of Civilised Nations’, through the Great Powers’ club, to the G7 and G20 today, Naylor investigates the politics of membership in the exclusive clubs that manage international society and ensure its survival, providing us with a new way to think about how status competition has changed over time and what this means for international politics today. With its sociologically grounded theory, this book advances English School scholarship and transforms the study of contemporary summitry, providing a ground-breaking approach rooted in archival research, elite interviews, and ethnographic participant observation. This book is of interest to international relations scholars interested in the ‘expansion’ and globalisation of international society, the history of international summits, and transformations in international order, as well as to those examining concepts including stratification,...