books: rising powers

books: rising powers

books:

Rising powers

Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word

Linda Christensen

Rethinking Schools Ltd, 2000

A loving, caring teacher for social justice
I'm so glad Ms. Christensen has collected many of her articles from the popular social justice journal, Rethinking Schools. I've known Linda for several years and I've find her to be a teacher who goes the extra mile to bring relevant, culturally conscious teaching to ...

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy

Michael T. Klare

Metropolitan Books, 2008

Charting the challenges ahead
The charts alone tell the story of what lies ahead. The most striking figure for me is that the US, the world's sole superpower for the last 2 decades, holds 3.3% of the world's natural gas reserves yet produces and uses 18.5% of the world total - not sustainable long ...

Phoenix Rising: No-Eyes' Vision of the Changes to Come

Mary Summer Rain

Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 1993

Sub-prime Mortgage Collapse, Credit Squeeze, and Bank Failures
I originally read this book in the early 1990s. After the sub-prime mortgage crisis and now credit crisis of 2008, I thought to myself, I have read about this somewhere but could not remember where. I finally was able to remember this book's name and got it ...

The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy, the Balance of Power, ...

Oded Shenkar

Wharton School Publishing, 2006

Current and Comprehensive
Author Oded Shenkar provides up-to-date information, specific details, and perspectives about the current and future ascension of China. It is and will affect us locally and globally. This book focuses on generalities and will be helpful to those who plan on ...

China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise

Susan L. Shirk

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Subduing Bellicosity
As many others have intricately described the particular subjects that are adroitly dealt with in this book, I will spend my time touting one of its primary virtues. China is oft portrayed as a monolithic power -- a Communist behemoth in the process of ascending to ...

China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia

David C. Kang

Columbia University Press, 2007

Great!
A must have for anyone doing business in China or one just interested in the world economy.

Rising Stars Volume 2: Power (Rising Stars, 2)

J. Michael Straczynski

Top Cow Productions/Image Comics, 2002

Excellent Product
This the conclusion to one of the best written comic graphic novels I have ever read.

Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose (Century Foundation Books (PublicAffairs))

KENNETH PYLE

PublicAffairs, 2008

Resurgence of a Chastened, Wiser Giant
Kenneth Pyle does a remarkable job in helping his readers better assess the future behavior of a resurgent Japan in fast-changing Asia. U.S. policymakers have been repeatedly wrong-footed in gauging Japan's foreign policy since the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry ...

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn

Vintage, 1995

Indispensable aid to understanding China's resurgence
At the recommendations of friends, my wife and both read China Wakes before taking a 3 week tour of China in March 2008. We were sensitive to issues we might not have been. Their insights appeared to us to be "right on." This is a great book whether or not one plans ...

China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

Rob Gifford

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008

True through not flattering picture of China
The author has painted a sympathetic picture of China, more realistic of the existent problems facing billions of Chinese people, instead of sticking to the useless ideological issues like social system, etc. The book tells readers the best things that the government ...

Phoenix Rising

Karen Hesse

Puffin, 1995

Beautifully written!
Phoenix Rising is a beautifully written book that kids from grades 4-9 would enjoy. I loved the descriptions of the changing of the seasons in New England, where the story takes place. I also liked to see how the main character, Nyle, changed from the fall to the ...

Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women Are Rising to the Top

Patricia Reid-Merritt

Wiley, 1997

Phenomenal Book
The information in this book is priceless to African American women in search of her path to success. I read this book and felt revived and ready to take on the world again. I recommend this book to all women who want to know what it took for those before us to carve ...

India Rising: Emergence of a New World Power
Colette Mathur, Frank-Jürgen Richter, ...

Marshall Cavendish Business, 2005

As India marks a decade of economic reforms, it stands poised to enter a new era. With the reform process finally starting to pay off, the economy has been developing along the path of sustainable growth. If the current reforms are sustained, India will be the third largest economy in the world by 2050. "India Rising" is a timely publication on ...

China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy (Asia in World Politics)
Yong Deng

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004

This authoritative book provides a unique exploration of the complex and dynamic motivations behind Beijing's foreign policy. The authors focus on China's choices and calculations on issues such as the ruling Communist party-regime's interests, international status and image, nationalism, Taiwan, human rights, globalization, U.S. hegemony, ...

Hathor Rising: The Power of the Goddess in Ancient Egypt

Alison Roberts

Inner Traditions, 1997

Insightful Read!
This book is by far one of the most insightful books on Ancient Egyptian Theology. Ms. Roberts brings to light much information often neglected by "egyptologists" bent on focusing only on the male aspect of the very complicated Egyptian Cosmologies. The importance of ...