Bücher von Michael Clarke

Award Winner of Literary Titan ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿Rumour has it that in the curious town of Pick-Pock, nothing is ever as it seems.The quaint streets and simple people will lull you into a dream. Keep your eyes open and watch your back. Be quick on your feet and never linger. But if you receive an invitation to join the academy...Beware!Your life will change forever. In The Adventures of Pick Pock, Tick Tock, Rad Manning, Mia Yang, and Eric Bailey had absolutely nothing in common- except for several behaviour issues- and it was highly unlikely their paths would ever cross until the wise headmaster, Mr Chan, brought them together.In an unexpected turn of events, the teens soon realized that facing outrageous illusions, passing daring obstacles, and wielding unusual powers were just the beginning to unlocking Pick-Pock's mysteries-not to mention being chased by a clan of golden monkeys!What happens when you team up a proud Viking-wannabe, a hotheaded teen drama queen, and a gibbering klutz for six entire months?Mischief, mayhem, and rip-roaring adventures, of course!

A concise explanation of all the elements that make up current British defence policy as it goes through a major transition to confront the technological and political challenges Britain faces in the coming decade. -- .

Choice pervades our society: it is founded on political rights to choose and our economy on market choices, but we have now reached the point where choice is extended almost everywhere. This lively and topical book provides a critique of choice in contemporary society and policy, arguing that we can have too much of a good thing. And there are alternatives. In part one, the author shows how choice works at a personal level, its demands, and how it can fail. By examining healthcare, education and pensions, he then explores the alternatives, such as provision. In part two the book reviews the impact of choice through the life cycle, in areas such as careers, relationships fertility, retirement and death. The author considers whether this enhances or burdens our lives, and questions the assumption that more choice is always for the better.

This book is focused on explaining the grand strategic behavior of the United States from the Founding of the Republic to the Trump administration. To do so it employs a neoclassical realist framework to argue that while systemic change explains the broad evolution of US grand strategy, the precise shape and content of the grand strategies pursued has been conditioned by domestic political culture and interests. The book argues that distinct political cultures of statecraft (Hamiltonian, Jeffersonian, Jacksonian and Wilsonian) have acted as permissive filters through which policy-makers have interpreted and responded to systemic stimuli making some grand strategy choices more likely than others in the pursuit of national security. The book demonstrates that while primacist grand strategies were facilitated by the predominance from the mid-19th century to the early 21st century of the vindicationist Hamiltonian and Wilsonian forms of statecraft, the costs of primacy have now stimulated the resurgence of the long dormant, exemplarist Jeffersonian and Jacksonian forms of statecraft under the Obama and Trump administrations, resulting in grand strategies that seek to either manage or stave off decline in Americäs relative power position.

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