Download or read book CNN 2022 11 No 266 written by LiveABC編輯群 and published by 希伯崙股份有限公司. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 專題報導 Ambition and Adaptability 莉茲．特拉斯當選英國新任首相 面臨嚴峻考驗 Liz Truss Becomes Britain’s New Prime Minister 英國前外交大臣莉茲．特拉斯當選保守黨黨魁後，也接受任命成為新首相，是該國第三位女性首相。特拉斯甫上任即面臨經濟、能源以及戰爭問題的嚴峻考驗。 專題報導 The Merry Monarch 永遠的伊莉莎白女王 Looking Back at Queen Elizabeth’s Sharp Sense of Humor 在位70年的英國伊莉莎白二世女王9月8日於蘇格蘭行宮逝世，享耆壽96歲。女王的親民和藹深得人心，她的機智妙語也將永遠讓人懷念。 商業 Finding the Balance 一週工作四天可行嗎？英國企業展開試驗 Some UK Companies Trial a Four-Day Workweek 英國超過70家企業、逾3千名員工參與一週工作四天的試驗，員工每週工時為過往的百分之80，薪水不減，但他們必須承諾工作產能不打折。 科學 Traces of the Past 因「旱」得福 億萬年前恐龍足跡現蹤 Historic Drought Reveals 113-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints 美國德州今夏遭逢十年來最嚴重的乾旱，但乾涸的河床卻讓長年隱沒在沉積物下方、有超過一億年歷史的恐龍足跡意外重見天日。 科技 Space Environmentalism 太空環保運動 不讓地球軌道變垃圾場 Tracking the Man-Made Objects Orbiting Earth 數十年來的太空發展使地球軌道上充斥著大小不一的廢棄物，若不加以控管，恐成為危害地球的不定時炸彈。 體育 Purple and Gold 紫金王朝——NBA洛杉磯湖人隊的輝煌歲月 Reliving the Showtime Era of the Lakers in a New Documentary 1980年代，在球團老闆傑瑞．巴斯和球星魔術．強森、卡里姆．阿布都– 賈霸等人的引領之下，洛杉磯湖人隊打出華麗進攻球風，開啟了NBA輝煌的「表演時刻」年代。 政治 Soviet Statesmanship 終結冷戰和蘇聯的推手——戈巴契夫 How Mikhail Gorbachev Bridged the Gap between the East and West 蘇聯最後一任領導人米哈伊爾．戈巴契夫企圖以改革和開放政策改變體制，雖未在國內帶來預期效果，卻促成了冷戰的終結和蘇聯的解體，獲諾貝爾和平獎肯定。 旅遊 Turkey’s Hidden Gem 悠遊土耳其西岸 造訪日落愛琴海的香草小鎮 Richard Quest Visits the Little-Known Town of Alaçatı 土耳其西部除了有遠近馳名的「棉堡」帕慕卡雷，濱海小鎮阿拉恰提也不容錯過。跟著在地人走進洋溢愛琴海風情的巷弄和阿拉恰提一年一度的香草節。 保育 Hard-Scaled, Soft-Hearted 全球走私最猖獗的動物——穿山甲 Protecting the Pangolin: The World’s Most Trafficked Mammal 傳統中醫和野味捕食的需求使得穿山甲成為全球走私數量最多的動物，為此賴比瑞亞成立了野生動物保護區，保衛這種全身布滿鱗甲卻很溫馴的動物。 科技 Art Meets Activism VR藝術結合環保運動 喚起海洋保育意識 Designing Undersea Sculptures with VR to Help Coral to Grow 一位社會生態學藝術家結合虛擬實境技術、藝術創作及生態保育，打造出「海洋活雕塑」，盼藉此讓大眾更加重視海洋保育。 焦點話題 CNN 全球瞭望 Britain Mourns the Death of Queen Elizabeth II 英國哀悼伊莉莎白二世女王辭世 Ukraine Pushes Russia Out of Kharkiv with Counteroffensive 烏克蘭大反攻 將俄軍逐出哈爾科夫 Steps to Decrease Insomnia 好習慣有助減少失眠 談天說地話英文 全方位理解CNN The Obamas Receive Their White House Portraits 歐巴馬夫婦白宮官方肖像揭幕 新聞片語通 單字聯想地圖 NBA英語 CNN主編教你唸 NBA西區聯盟隊名

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Download or read book The Russian Invasion of Ukraine February December 2022 written by John S Harrel and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US Major General (retired) John S Harrel, a graduate of the US Army War College, trained with the Ukrainian army in the 1990s and in 2006, and commanded Ukrainian troops as part of the NATO force in Kosovo in 2005. His military expertise and detailed knowledge of the combatants informs this clear narrative and analysis of the course of the first 10 months of the war. He gives the reasons for the failure of the Russian invasion and, conversely, explains how the Ukrainian defense exceeded expectations, while acknowledging that strategic mistakes were made on both sides.

Download or read book Young and Restless written by Mattie Kahn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glamour's "The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far" Vogue's "Best Books of 2023 (So Far)" Town & Country's "The 41 Must-Read Books of Summer 2023" A "heartening inspiration"(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was fifteen. In 1912, women’s rights activists organized a massive march in support of women’s suffrage. Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement, but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better-known movements for workers’ rights began, over 1,500 girls—some as young as ten—walked out of factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nation’s first-ever labor strikes. Young women have been disenfranchised and discounted, but the true retelling of major social movements in America reveals their might: they have ignited almost every single one. Young and Restless recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution: teenage girls. From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women’s liberation movement, through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate, Mattie Kahn uncovers how girls have leveraged their unique strengths, from fandom to intimate friendships, to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them. Their stories illuminate how much we owe to girls throughout the generations, what skills young women use to mobilize and find their voices, and, crucially, what we can all stand to learn from them.

Download or read book New Cold Wars written by David E. Sanger and published by Crown. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon “[A] cogent, revealing account of how a generation of American officials have grappled with dangerous developments in the post-Cold War era . . . vividly captures Washington.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) New Cold Wars—the latest from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger—is a fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous confrontations with two very different adversaries. For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peace—so long as they agreed to Washington’s terms. By the time America emerged from the age of terrorism, it was clear that this had been a fantasy. Now the three powers are engaged in a high-stakes struggle for military, economic, political, and technological supremacy, with nations around the world pressured to take sides. Yet all three are discovering that they are maneuvering for influence in a far more turbulent world than they imagined. Based on a remarkable array of interviews with top officials from five presidential administrations, U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign governments, and tech companies, Sanger unfolds a riveting narrative spun around the era’s critical questions: Will the mistakes Putin made in his invasion of Ukraine prove his undoing and will he reach for his nuclear arsenal—or will the West’s famously short attention span signal Kyiv’s doom? Will Xi invade Taiwan? Will both men deepen their partnership to undercut America’s dominance? And can a politically dysfunctional America still lead the world? Taking readers from the battlefields of Ukraine—where trench warfare and cyberwarfare are interwoven—to the Taiwan headquarters where the world’s most advanced computer chips are produced and on to tense debates in the White House Situation Room, New Cold Wars is a remarkable first-draft history chronicling America’s return to superpower conflict, the choices that lie ahead, and what is at stake for the United States and the world.

Download or read book The World Factbook 2003 written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By intelligence officials for intelligent people

Download or read book Rich White Men written by Garrett Neiman and published by Legacy Lit. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Robin DiAngelo, this provocative book investigates major corporate boardrooms and presents a data-driven analysis of how rich white men have preserved their monopoly on power—and what we can do to stop them. It’s no secret that our country has a serious problem when it comes to wealth inequality – and systemic racism and patriarchy have only exacerbated the advantages of wealthy white men. Over the past three decades, America’s richest white men have only become richer, while those suffering in poverty have only gotten poorer. The divide may seem too great to bridge, but Rich White Men exposes the hidden and insidious ways that white male elites inherit, increase, and preserve their status—and, in this book, we get clear on how to uproot their monopoly on power. ​ Serial nonprofit entrepreneur Garrett Neiman’s day job is to get rich white men to donate money to good causes and organizations. In Rich White Men, Neiman brings us into corner offices of billionaires and the boardrooms of Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Stanford, Harvard, and other enclaves of silver-spooned white men to illuminate the role of rich white men in the world and how they justify inequality. He uses the analogy of compound interest to illustrate how the advantages wealthy white men inherit give them a leg up at key moments in their lives, gilding their trajectories and shutting others out. Through this rare, insider access, readers will discover new ways to persuade the elite toward progressive solutions. A hopeful polemic, the book sheds light on dark truths about inequality and the people invested in preserving it while also providing a blueprint for how America can become an equitable democracy. Rich White Men reveals that to realize America’s founding aspiration of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we must recognize, dismantle, and transform our current system into one that liberates us all – including this nation’s morally and spiritually impoverished wealthy white men.

Download or read book Washington s Iron Butterfly written by Donald A. Ritchie and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had Elizabeth "Bess" Clements Abell (1933–2020) been a boy, she would likely have become a politician like her father, Earle C. Clements. Effectively barred from office because of her gender, she forged her own path by helping family friends Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Abell's Secret Service code name, "Iron Butterfly," exemplified her graceful but firm management of social life in the Johnson White House. After Johnson's administration ended, she maintained her importance in Washington, DC, serving as chief of staff to Joan Mondale and cofounding a public relations company. Donald A. Ritchie and Terry L. Birdwhistell draw on Abell's own words and those of others known to her to tell her remarkable story. Focusing on her years working for the Johnson campaign and her time in the White House, this engaging oral history provides a window into Abell's life as well as an insider's view of the nation's capital during the tumultuous 1960s.

Download or read book Covid 19 Psychological Operations and the War for Technocracy written by David A. Hughes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Southeast Asian Conference on Migration and Development SeaCMD 2023 written by Pamungkas A. Dewanto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. In light of the rising Southeast Asia in the centre of knowledge production, the Department of International Relations, the University of Mataram seeks to explore more wide-ranging topics of migration and development. Therefore, we plan to organize Southeast Asian Conference on Migration and Development (SeaCMD), which will take place on Lombok Island of West Nusa Tenggara Province in Indonesia. We encourage a broad range of scholars including researchers, lecturers, policymakers, research consultants, and postgraduate scholars to share their ongoing research or promote their past papers at this conference. Scholars from various disciplines are also encouraged to apply.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks written by Qi Liu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 1700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceeding is a collection of the papers accepted by the CENet2021 – the 11th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks held on October 21-25, 2021 in Hechi, China. The topics focus but are not limited to Internet of Things and Smart Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Communication System Detection, Analysis and Application, and Medical Engineering and Information Systems. Each part can be used as an excellent reference by industry practitioners, university faculties, research fellows and undergraduates as well as graduate students who need to build a knowledge base of the most current advances and state-of-practice in the topics covered by this conference proceedings. This will enable them to produce, maintain, and manage systems with high levels of trustworthiness and complexity.

Download or read book The Last Politician written by Franklin Foer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller! Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, with exclusive access to Biden’s longtime team of advisers, and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this momentous time in our nation’s history. "You might love Biden or you might hate Biden, but either way, if you want to understand him, you will want to buy this book." — Politico “A triumph of reporting.” — Geoff Bennett, PBS NewsHour “Deeply reported…a terrific read.” — Chuck Todd, Meet the Press “Fantastic…The first real insider account of the Biden White House and a fascinating read about Biden himself.” — Jon Favreau, Pod Save America On January 20, 2021, standing where only two weeks earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries, Joe Biden took his oath of office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19, his economists were already warning him of an imminent financial crisis, and his party, the Democrats, had the barest of majorities in the Senate. Yet, faced with an unprecedented set of crises, Joe Biden decided he would not play defense. Instead, he set out to transform the nation. He proposed the most ambitious domestic spending bills since the 1960s and vowed to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan, ending the nation’s longest war and reorienting it toward a looming competition with China. With unparalleled access to the tight inner circle of advisers who have surrounded Biden for decades, Franklin Foer dramatizes in forensic detail the first two years of the Biden presidency, concluding with the historic midterm elections. The result is a gripping and high-definition portrait of a major president at a time when democracy itself seems imperiled. With his back to the wall, Biden resorted to old-fashioned politics: deal-making and compromise. It was a gamble that seemed at first disastrously anachronistic, as he struggled to rally even the support of his own party. Yet, as the midterms drew near, via a series of bills with banal names, Biden somehow found a way to invest trillions of dollars in clean energy, the domestic semiconductor industry, and new infrastructure. Had he done the impossible―breaking decisively with the old Washington consensus to achieve progressive goals? The Last Politician is a landmark work of political reporting—which includes thrilling, blow-by-blow insider reports of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the White House’s swift response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine—that is destined to shape history’s view of a president in the eye of the storm.

Download or read book The Pig Book written by Citizens Against Government Waste and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!

Download or read book The January 6th Report written by Elizabeth Holtzman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important political investigation since Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into Russian influence on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. The full report by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol will feature facts, circumstances, and causes related to the assault on the Capitol Complex. Formed on July 1, 2021, the Select Committee has issued over one hundred subpoenas and held over a thousand witness interviews. The report will provide the results of investigations into interference with the peaceful transfer of power; the preparedness and response of the United States Capitol police and other federal, state, and local law enforcement; and the influencing factors that fomented the insurrection and attack on American representative democracy engaged in a constitutional process. The Select Committee investigation and the January 6th report will join the Mueller Report, the 9/11 Commission Report, the Warren Report, the Starr Report, and Watergate as one of the most important in history. The January 6th Report will be required reading for everyone with interest in American politics, for every 2020 voter, and every American. Featuring a foreword by Elizabeth Holtzman, a lawyer and political leader who was a Democratic Congresswoman from New York. Holtzman has a unique perspective on the situation, as she served on the House Judiciary Committee charged with investigating the Watergate scandal and prepared articles of impeachment that precipitated the resignation of President Nixon.

Download or read book Israel Disarmed written by Mark W. Smith and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Where was the army? Where were the police? Where was the state?” –An Israeli mother on the 10/7 attacks America’s anti-gun lobby wants you to “leave guns to the professionals.” The police and military will protect you, they say. Really? Ask the people of Israel how well that worked out for them. On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 Israelis in cold blood. Civilians waited in anguish for the army or police to rescue them. Why? Because the country’s restrictive gun laws left most people unarmed. The Israeli government made an immediate about-face after October 7. They loosened gun laws to allow as many citizens as possible to arm themselves. So why are America’s anti-gun extremists so determined to brush aside the Constitution and force you to turn in your guns? The lesson from Israel’s experience should be clear: If you wait until catastrophe comes, it’s too late.

Download or read book Biotechnology in Healthcare Volume 2 written by Debmalya Barh and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-08-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biotechnology in Healthcare presents up-to-date knowledge on the emerging field of biotechnology as applied to the healthcare industry. Biotechnology has revolutionized healthcare in the last two decades by developing and introducing novel diagnostics, therapeutics, and preventive measures; whether it is noncommunicable or communicable disease, primary or secondary care, or public health, it has shown its immense potential to provide a solution to the healthcare providers, physicians, and allied health care professionals.The second volume, Applications and Initiatives, contains 19 chapters focused on the applications of biotechnology related to public healthcare, hospital management, oncology, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases, regenerative medicine, IVF, clinical trials, precision food, FMGCs, PPCPs, pharmaceuticals, and smart technologies to monitor pandemic. Further, this volume also presents government initiatives and entrepreneurship challenges in healthcare biotechnology sector.This is a valuable resource for students, biotechnologists, bioinformaticians, clinicians, and members of biomedical and healthcare fields who need to understand more about the promising developments of the emerging field of biotechnology in healthcare. Describes various applications of novel biotechnology approaches in healthcare Presents applications of biotechnology in primary and secondary healthcare and in public health Discusses government initiatives, challenges and opportunities, and entrepreneurship development in the area of healthcare biotechnology

Download or read book Mapping the Darkness written by Kenneth Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-two days underground. No heat. No sunlight. 4 June 1938. Nathaniel Kleitman and his research student make their way down the seventy-one steps leading to the mouth of Mammoth Cave. They are about to embark on one of the most intrepid and bizarre experiments in medical history, one which will change our understanding of sleep forever. Undisturbed by natural light, they will investigate what happens when you overturn one of the fundamental rhythms of the human body. Together, they enter the darkness. When Kleitman first arrived in New York, a penniless twenty-year-old refugee, few would have guessed that in just a few decades he would revolutionise the field of sleep science. In Mapping the Darkness, Kenneth Miller weaves science and history to tell the story of the outsider scientists who took sleep science from the fringes to a mainstream obsession. Reliving the spectacular experiments, technological innovation, imaginative leaps and single-minded commitment of these early pioneers, Miller provides a tantalising glimpse into the most mysterious third of our lives.