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“david edelstein”

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  • Shooting to Kill

    How An Independent Producer Blasts Through the Barriers to Make Movies That Matter

    by Christine Vachon, David Edelstein ...
    Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the set of Vachon's best-known fillms, Shooting to Kill offers all the satisfaction of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmakins, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs -- and survivors. Hailed by the New York Times as the "godmother to the politically committed film" and by Interview as a true "auteur producer," ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cold Rivals

    The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition

    by Evan S. Medeiros, Richard K. Betts, Harry Harding, Wang Jisi, Wu Xinbo, Elizabeth Economy, Phillip C. Saunders, Li Chen, James Mulvenon, Paul Triolo0, Helen Toner1, David Edelstein2, David Shambaugh3, Arthur R. Kroeber4 ...
    Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the futureThe US-China relationship is now defined by “strategic competition.” In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics.The two countries are now competitors locked in a long-term ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Comparative Union Democracy

    Organization and Opposition in British and American Unions

    by J. David Edelstein ...
    A major empirical study of thirty-one British and fifty-one American national trade unions, this volume provides the background to a new, organizationally oriented theory of union democracy. Supported by in-depth studies of the political process in the British Mineworkers' Union and the Engineers' Union, the book develops and illustrates a general theory of how, in a country with democratic norms, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Long Game

    China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

    by Rush Doshi ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • The Avoidable War

    The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

    by Kevin Rudd ...
    A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable.The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault—of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and be offended. Their ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • A Contest for Supremacy

    China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia

    by Aaron L. Friedberg ...
    “Sober and well-informed. . . . A careful and compelling examination of the U.S.-Chinese relationship from a number of angles.”—Financial TimesThere may be no denying China's growing economic strength, but its impact on the global balance of power remains hotly contested. Political scientist Aaron L. Friedberg argues that our nation's leaders are failing to act expeditiously enough to counter ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Third Revolution

    Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State

    by Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi, himself, the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese political, social, and economic life, and the construction ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • China Goes Global: The Partial Power

    The Partial Power

    by David Shambaugh ...
    Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics--China's politics, its vast social changes, and its economic development--few have focused on how this increasingly powerful nation has become more active and assertive ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • China's Future

    by David Shambaugh ...
    China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy, society, polity, national security, and international relations. The direction the nation takes at this turning point will determine whether it stalls or continues to develop and prosper.Will China be ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Overreach

    How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

    by Susan L. Shirk ...
    Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • China's Vision of Victory

    by Jonathan D. T. Ward ...
    Someday we may say that we never saw it coming. After seventy-five years of peace in the Pacific, a new challenger to American power has emerged, on a scale not seen in generations. Working from a deep sense of national destiny, the Chinese Communist Party is guiding a country of 1.4 billion people towards what it calls “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” and, with it, the end of an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Accidental Conflict

    America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives

    by Stephen Roach ...
    The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship“A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a testy and rapidly changing global relationship.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the short span of four years, America and China have entered a trade war, a tech war, and a new Cold War. This conflict between the world’s two most powerful ... Read more

    $23.99 USD