During their combined 40 years in Congress, Martin Frost and Tom Davis were the field generals for their respective parties, each serving two terms as chair of the Democratic and Republican House Campaign Committees, respectively. Now they have joined forces—along with columnist Richard Cohen—in an effort to save Congress from itself. According to the authors, Congress is incapable of reforming itself without a good kick in the seat from ...
What happened? How did it all go wrong? What can we do? Who is to blame? Will the madness ever stop? What will my children do? These are just a few of the questions that many Americans are asking themselves without any real good answers.
Confused, desperate, unaware, frustrated, afraid, angry, destitute, depressed, disheartened, bewildered, hopeless, these words describe what an ever growing number of Americans are feeling today w ...
Very few Chinese names have become, as Shakespeare's Henry V put it: «Familiar in his mouth as household words» to many westerners. Mao, Confucius, Yao Ming, Jackie Chan – there aren't many. But that is about to change. China’s in the midst of its once-in-a-decade political power transition. The Chinese “princeling” Xi Jinping seems set to assume the Presidency of China in March 2013. Xi Jinping (pronounced ‘Shee Gin-ping’) wil ...
За каких-то десять лет искусственный интеллект сравняется с человеческим, а затем и превзойдет его. Корпорации и государственные структуры по всему миру, конкурируя между собой, вкладывают миллиарды в развитие искусственного разума. Но что ждет нас дальше? Ученые задаются вопросом: не окажется ли это изобретение последним – гибельным для нас самих? Достигнув определенного уровня развития, искусственный интеллект сможет сам себя совершенствоват ...
The purpose of this book is to provide an historical examination of China’s activities in Africa, an important yet overlooked aspect of the broader subject of China in Africa today. There is a tendency of observers of China in Africa to always look forward; however, there is a need to look backward. Modern China’s historical presence in Africa must be scrutinized in order to understand the context of its current and future ac ...
Как вы представляете себе жизнь всемирного известного рок-музыканта? Дорогие виллы? Тусовки в Вегасе? Девушки? Наркотики и алкоголь рекой? О, да! У автора этой книги была такая же жизнь, но оказавшись с маленькой дочкой на руках, он решил все изменить. Обладатель премии «Грэмми», гитарист Брайан Уэлч рассказывает, как покинул суперуспешную группу KoЯn на пике карьеры, чтобы стать хорошим отцом и христианином. Брайан не приукрашает трудности, в ...
In the aptly titled treatise What's Wrong With the World, one of the twentieth century's most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other topics. A steadfast champion of the working man, family, and faith, Chesterton eloquently opposed materialism, snobbery, hypocrisy, and any adversary of freedom and simplicity in modern society.Culled from the thousands of essays he contr ...
