Foreign Policy, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 A stunning investigation and indictment of the elements in United States' foreign lobbying industry and the threat they pose to democracy. For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only entrenched dictatorships and spread kleptocratic networks, but they've secretly guided U.S. policy without the rest of America even being aware. And now, journalist Casey Michel contends some of them have begun turning their sights on American democracy itself. These Americans are known as foreign lobbyists, and many of them spent years ushering dictatorships directly into the halls of Washington, all while laundering the reputations of the most heinous, repressive regimes in the process. These lobbyists include figures like Ivy Lee, the inventor of the public relations industry - a man who whitewashed Mussolini, opened doors to the Soviets, and advised the Nazis on how to sway American audiences. They include people like Paul Manafort, who invented lobbying as we know it - and who then took his talents to autocrats from Ukraine to the Philippines, and then back to the White House. And they now include an increasing number of Americans elsewhere: in law firms and consultancies, among PR specialists and former lawmakers, and even within think tanks and universities. Many of these lobbyists have transformed into proxies for dictators and strongmen wherever they can be found. And for years, they've escaped scrutiny. In Foreign Agents, Casey Michel shines a light on these foreign lobbyists, and all the damage and devastation they have caused in Washington and elsewhere. From Moscow to Beijing, from far-right nationalists to far-left communists, from anti-American autocrats to pro-Western authoritarians, these foreign lobbyists have helped any illiberal, anti-democratic government they can find. And after decades of success in installing dictator after dictator, and in tilting American policy in the process, some of these lobbyists have now begun trying to end America's democratic experiment, once and for all.
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<p>Książka poświęcona bitwie pod Arnhem, która kosztowała bardzo drogo aliantów. Z brytyjskiej 1 dywizji powietrzno-desantowej, która wylądowała do walki w składzie 10 095 silnych, zdrowych, doskonale wyszkolonych i wyposażonych żołnierzy, zdołano ocalić zaledwie 2163 ludzi. Polska brygada pozostawiła pod Arnhem i Driel 23 procent stanu oficerów i 22 procent stanu szeregowych. Łącznie straty wyniosły około 400 ludzi, w tym 80 poległych. Ta wysoka cena krwi nie przyniosła, niestety, oczekiwanych rezultatów. Operacja „Market-Garden” zakończyła się połowicznym sukcesem.</p> <p>Ten kolejny tomik z reaktywowanego legendarnego cyklu wydawniczego wydawnictwa Bellona przybliża czytelnikowi dramatyczne wydarzenia największych zmagań wojennych w historii; przełomowe, nieznane momenty walk; czujnie strzeżone tajemnice pól bitewnych, dyplomatycznych gabinetów, głównych sztabów i central wywiadu.</p>
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Everything that is visible, that can be explained, is the credible. Everything that is visible and cannot be explained is the existing. We will find the truth.
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Leadership is a mystery, a mystery of community. It is connected with ancient questions about our origins, our soul, our freedom or intended, moral questions. Leadership touches the heart of existence. It is an existential question, an existential process in which we can stand up as man. Each of us, who wants to, can be part of the leadership process. We aim at contributing to a more fundamental approach to leadership that provides the reference for everyone who wants to participate in the leadership. It describes the leadership forces working in the organized community as they can help us to search for and strive "towards doing the good." It also can provide some guidance to all those students who not only want to master a profession but also want to show moral leadership in that profession.
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The period of Roman history on which we now enter is, like so many that had preceded it, a period of revolt, directly aimed against the existing conditions of society and, through the means taken to satisfy the fresh wants and to alleviate the suddenly realised, if not suddenly created, miseries of the time, indirectly affecting the structure of the body politic. The difference between the social movement of the present and that of the past may be justly described as one of degree, in so far as there was not a single element of discontent visible in the revolution commencing with the Gracchi and ending with Caesar that had not been present in the earlier epochs of social and political agitation...
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All history is, perforce, a merciless abridgment, and yet too much can never be written concerning any nation, any people— since each contribution must have a definite value. In the offering of this compendium of history and biography, the publishers lay claim not to any amplification of data in the annals of Detroit and Wayne county, but rather to the condensed, narrative presentation of the history of a section whose records bear the graceful tales of romance and the sterner burdens of definite accomplishment.
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The heroes in this novel are the Scottish sheep McGregor and his Irish sheep-friend Bunglass. McGregor is on the run. He is on the search-list of the British butchers - the NSA. (= National Sheep Attack - department sheep) But dramatic events change his life. And one is happen through The Royal Family. The book will finish with a very special match between teams of sheep and butchers. No one couldn`t be expect to know that. But anything is possible. If you read this book - you will say he words of stupid sheep never ever.
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This book is intended as a breath of fresh air for those who think your relationship needs something extra. It may be you have an acquaintance, a friend or girlfriend you think would like to have a fun experience. When you choose to do a strip show, always remember others' limits. That they must be respected, just as he or she must respect your boundaries. Whoever we are as a people, whether we are men or women, so we enjoy how others think of us and put us in the center of their lives. The same joy goes when we are talking about getting a strip show or doing one. I am about to make sure that the person you have chosen to get the experience to be in the center of this experience. People will love that is being done something extra for them as you give them this experience. My desire with this book is to give an insight into, what it means to be a stripper and what underlies into a strip show. It is not intended that you should throw yourself into this profession, but more as something to refresh your relationship with. And you'll even get experience of being the star of the evening with the magic associated with it.
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