Pelican Books
Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty
Guy Standing
Pelican Books
Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty
Guy Standing
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In the second edition of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jorge Duany provides a compendium to the island's rich history, culture, politics, economy, and diaspora. Written in an accessible question-and-answer format, Duany covers the history of the island as well as the demographic, economic, political, and cultural features of contemporary Puerto Rico.
The influence of aerospace weapons on the battlefield is felt profoundly, yet the mechanism of coercion by which these weapons alter the will of the adversary is poorly understood. This book argues that it is not what these weapons physically do but how they weaponize fear and trigger a sense of defenselessness that matters for understanding their coercive effect.
The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization is the first book in political theory about Vietnamese political thought. It traces an intergenerational debate among six major political figures in colonial Vietnam about how the Vietnamese should respond to French colonial domination, what the Vietnamese should do with their traditions given the influx of different ideas about politics and society from the West, and how they should harness feelings of national shame to construct national dignity.
