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How to Win More Strategies for Increasing a Lottery Win

How to Win More Strategies for Increasing a Lottery Win

This book is designed to provide valuable insight into how to improve the return on your investment when playing the lottery. While it does not promise that you will win more often it does show you how to improve the odds of winning larger amounts when your numbers do come up. So when you do win that million-dollar jackpot you will be less likely to have to share it with anyone else. Among the intriguing topics covered are the most popular (and the most foolish) combinations of numbers why it is impossible to improve the odds of any legitimate lottery how popular (and thus unprofitable) an attractive-looking ticket might be why not to follow the suggested numbers from so-called expert advisors and why it is important to avoid winning combinations of past drawings. With this book and a little luck the dream of winning millions might just come true. | How to Win More Strategies for Increasing a Lottery Win

GBP 175.00
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China's Use of Armed Coercion To Win Without Fighting

China's Use of Armed Coercion To Win Without Fighting

This book analyzes when how why and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system. Over the past 20 years China’s international status as a “great power” has become undeniable. China’s “peaceful rise” has included substantial investments in military modernization and an increasingly assertive regional posture. While China has not waged war since 1979 it has frequently resorted to what the U. S. State Department has referred to as “gangster tactics” – threats intimidation and armed confrontation – to advance its strategic aims. This volume illuminates the ways in which China has employed its military and paramilitary tools to coerce other states and examines the motivations and specific foreign policy objectives that China has pursued using force short of war. The study presents new analysis of an original dataset on coercive actions undertaken by China’s armed forces taking into account the political objectives pursued and the environmental contexts in which these operations occurred. It also presents a series of expert case studies addressing the most consequential examples of China using force to coerce in recent decades. The volume contributes to a more historically informed empirically based understanding of great power competition. This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese security and foreign policy strategic studies Asian politics and International Relations. | China's Use of Armed Coercion To Win Without Fighting

GBP 130.00
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Revolutions in Learning and Education from India Pathways towards the Pluriverse

Revolutions in Learning and Education from India Pathways towards the Pluriverse

This book offers an important critique of the ways in which mainstream education contributes to perpetuate an inherently unjust and exploitative Development model. Instead the book proposes a new anarchistic postdevelopmental framework that goes beyond Development and schooling to ask what really makes a meaningful life. Challenging the notion of Development as a win-win relationship between civil society the state and the private sector the book argues that Development perpetuates a hierarchical world order and that the education system serves to reinforce and re-legitimise this unequal order. Drawing on real-life examples of ‘unschooling’ and ‘self-designed learning’ in India the book demonstrates that more autonomous approaches such as these can help to fundamentally challenge dominant ideas of education equality development and what it means to lead meaningful lives. The interdisciplinary approach pursued in this book makes it perfect for anyone with interests across the areas of education development studies radical political theory and philosophy. | Revolutions in Learning and Education from India Pathways towards the Pluriverse

GBP 130.00
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African Constructions of China Insights from Ghana and Kenya

African Constructions of China Insights from Ghana and Kenya

Marking a constructivist turn in Africa-China scholarship this book explores African constructions of China. Using Ghana and Kenya as case studies the book outlines the role of diverse state and non-state actors in defining what China represents to the region and how it compares to Western powers. Resisting Sino- and state-centric analysis of China-Africa relations this book emphasises the importance of African agency in shaping the discourse. The book demonstrates that the identity construction of a foreign state such as China takes place both at the international level and at a domestic intrastate level. Domestic constructions of China in Ghana and Kenya reflect internal tensions about future directions for African political and socioeconomic development and these constructions in turn help to justify government policies towards China. The book concludes by questioning the idea of a straightforward win-win relationship and suggests that exploitative hierarchical relations conventionally associated with North-South interactions may continue in South-South relations. This book’s important analysis of the role of domestic non-state actors in shaping African policymaking extends much needed nuance to a sometimes polarised debate. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of politics international relations global development and African and Chinese Studies. | African Constructions of China Insights from Ghana and Kenya

GBP 130.00
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Denmark A Modern History

Denmark A Modern History

First published in 1986 Denmark seeks to show the way in which modern Denmark with its high standard of living its sense of an orderly society and its tolerance had emerged and been shaped since the beginning of the 19th century. It traces its political history the emergence of political parties and the protracted struggle for parliamentary democracy in the face of a king determined to appoint his own ministers. It looks at the determination of the Danes after the financial repercussions of the Napoleonic wars and the territorial and economic losses resulting from the Schleswig-Holstein debacle in 1864 to win through and recoup their losses. Social changes are described in some detail particularly in the twentieth century and attention is paid to the workings of the Danish welfare state. Appendices trace in broad outline the historical relationship between Denmark and its former colonies of Greenland and Faroe Islands now both self-governing territories. This book will be of interest to students of history geography political science sociology and cultural studies. | Denmark A Modern History

GBP 90.00
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Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past or regarding it as a way of life which warmly repaid slave and slaveholder. He does not reduce the issue to one of fact and figures nor does he inject endless hypotheses and analogues. Rather this finely etched volume encompasses the human implications of slavery and its practices. It emphasizes the distinguished and disreputable elements on both sides of the slavery relationship and in every part of the United States. Slavery offers peculiar challenges to the student of American life past and present. It is unrealistic to avoid the human implications of slavery and its practice. It is equally unhelpful to assume glib and partial viewpoints with respect to so all-embracing a system as slavery became. The cause of progress no less than social science is not advanced by indifference to patent facts. The civil libertarian who romanticizes black people indiscriminately and lumps Jefferson Davis with Simon Legree may win popularity with enthusiasts and ideologues. But they will soon find themselves quaint and outmoded. The author reminds us that the safest approach to slavery is to determine what the institution meant to the country at large; why it flourished as it did and how it came to be opposed and overthrown. The work includes high quality often neglected readings that permit the reader to form his or her own views. It reveals the best writing on all aspects of the slavery issue as well as analytic summations by contemporary historians and social researchers.

GBP 130.00
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Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft The Principle of National Security Stewardship

Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft The Principle of National Security Stewardship

This book analyzes the concept of military necessity and just war thinking and argues that it should be seen as a vital moral principle for leaders. The principle of military necessity is well understood in the manuals of modern militaries and is recognized in the war convention. It is the idea that battlefield commanders should make every effort to win on a local battlefield within legal means and using proportionate and discriminating weapons and tactics. Every legal textbook on war includes military necessity as a foundational principle within the jus in bello (ethics of fighting war) alongside principles of proportionality and distinction and it is taught in every Western military academy. Even the International Committee of the Red Cross lauds the concept as a cardinal principle of warfare. However unlike legal scholarship one can pick up a book by almost any just war thinker in philosophy theology or the social sciences and the concept is missing altogether in their literature. This volume returns military necessity to just war thinking and lays out the argument for doing so. Each contributor taps into one of the many dimensions of military necessity such as its relationship to jus ad bellum (ethics of going to war) categories (e. g. right intention) its relationship to jus in bello categories or its application in foreign policy and military doctrine. Case studies in the book point out the practical moral dimensions of military necessity in cases from the targeted killing of terrorists to battlefield decisions that led to the use of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. This book will be of interest to students of just war theory military ethics statecraft and international relations. | Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft The Principle of National Security Stewardship

GBP 130.00
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The Chinese Machiavelli 3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft

The Chinese Machiavelli 3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft

Machiavelli drew on 2000 years of history to develop theories on how to make war how to win battles and how to gain power and keep it. Using Machiavelli as a springboard Dennis and Ching Ping Bloodworth boldly and adroitly map out 3000 years of Chinese political-military history-from Confucius to Mao Zedong-using Machiavell's discourse of power politics. They reveal a pageantry of Chinese historical figures from wise strategists heroic generals crafty statesmen and ruthless emperors to brave knights-errant and from stately Confucian philosophers to shrewd cunning Legalist thinkers without the usual Confucian restraint. The Chinese Machiavelli intends to help Western readers who may be puzzled by Chinese diplomatic and military strategy understand the principles that have guided both past and present Chinese leaders. For instance why have modern communist Chinese leaders often befriended right-wing European politicians who are out of office rather than left-wing leaders in power? Why did they entertain President Nixon while the United States was at war with North Vietnam? Within the framework of a chronological history concentrating on power politics and using the social and cultural scene as a backdrop the Bloodworths use China's long history to find answers. Peter Li's preface for this new edition explains the structure of the book and offers a penetrating analysis of the authors' style and method. Although The Chinese Machiavelli is authored for the general public rather than for the specialist the latter will also benefit from reading this history. The authors describe the continuity of Chinese history and reveal how knowledge of China's past sheds light on the political behavior of China's rulers today. | The Chinese Machiavelli 3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft

GBP 125.00
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Thinkback A User's Guide to Minding the Mind

Thinkback A User's Guide to Minding the Mind

The fundamental premise of Thinkback-based on overwhelming scientific evidence-is that intelligence is not fixed at birth and that with consistent effort we can dramatically improve our capacities. It counters the claims of some psychologists that it is impossible to increase intelligence because that ability is determined at birth. Thinkback builds on the Think Aloud strategies in Arthur Whimbey and Jack Lochhead's popular and widely used volume Problem Solving & Comprehension now in its sixth edition. Since its publication thousands of students have used these techniques for improving thinking and analytic reasoning to increase test scores win National Merit Scholarships and gain admission to top-ranked professional schools. Now Thinkback shows how these powerful strategies can be applied to a range of important academic areas including mathematics language arts social studies and science. Thinkback is a tool for student empowerment-a strategy they can use to improve both their ability to think and their ability to learn. The Thinkback classroom on the other hand is a design for teacher liberation-enabling them to see learning more clearly than they ever could before. This is the only book currently available that contains detailed models of metacognitive dialogues in the classroom. These dialogues enable teachers and teacher educators to observe thinking processes that have previously been invisible and undetectable. Based on over 20 years of careful cognitive research the dialogues provide teachers with important insights into the nature of thinking and problem solving. Thinkback is a picture window on the working mind. This book: Describes the Thinkback strategy for making thinking strategies explicit easy to teach and easy to learn. Includes numerous detailed examples that demonstrate the Thinkback technique. Six quite different learning strategies-deri | Thinkback A User's Guide to Minding the Mind

GBP 175.00
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Jury and the Defense of Insanity

Jury and the Defense of Insanity

Thirty years after it was first published the issues raised in The Jury and the Defense of Insanity remain pertinent. Rita James Simon examines how motivated and competent juries are how well jurors understand and follow judges' instructions their understand-ing of expert testimony and the extent to which their own backgrounds and experiences influence their decisions. Simon provides a rare opportunity to observe how jurors go about the process of deliberating and reaching a verdict by following them into the jury room and recording their deliberations. This pathbreaking study of jury room behavior provides compelling evidence of the effectiveness of our trial by jury system. The Jury and the Defense of Insanity was the product of an experimental study con-ducted as part of the University of Chicago Jury Project. Over 1 000 jurors were chosen to participate not as volunteers but as part of their regular jury duty in two experimental trials one on a charge of housebreaking the other of incest. In each the insanity de-fense was raised. Court judges instructed the jurors to consider the recorded trials they were about to hear with all the care and seriousness they would give to a real criminal prosecution and the taped recordings of their deliberations make it clear that they did just that. These recordings along with responses to detailed questionnaires yielded significant data equally applicable to civil as to criminal cases. We learn their reactions to their fellow jurors; personal evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of delibera-tions; the degree to which religion sex social status education and like factors affect participation in and influence on the course of the deliberation; and the recounting of and reliance upon personal experience in seeking to reach a verdict among other in-sights furnished by this study. This is an exact record not a description or recollected account of the struggle of a jury to weigh evidence and achieve a just verdict. For lawyers whose job it is to win civil and criminal cases for behavioral scientists who study male and female reactions in their cultural environment to the circumstances that confront them and to all who are interested in how people behave and why in a dramatic socially significant situation this is a fascinating and revealing book.

GBP 130.00
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