Download or read book The Contest of the Century written by Geoff A. Dyer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief Geoff Dyer, a balanced and far-seeing analysis of the emerging competition between China and America. Global politics is shifting rapidly. After decades of rising, China has entered a new and critical phase, seeking to turn its economic heft into global power. In this deeply informed book, Geoff Dyer argues that China and the United States are now embarking on a great power-style competition that will dominate the century. Tensions in the South China Sea and East China Sea are a foretaste of the broader competition to come. With keen analysis based on a deep local knowledge—offering the reader visions of coastal Chinese beauty pageants and secret submarine bases, lockstep Beijing military parades and pigeons caged from the sky—Dyer explains why the U.S. also has a real chance to come out on top and can retain a central role in the world. The Contest of the Century is essential reading at a time of great uncertainty about America’s future and about Asia’s emerging disputes.

Download or read book Report written by Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report for 1905/1906 includes, also, Bulletin no. 38, Jan. 1906; 1907/09 includes, also, Bulletins no. 49-58, Nov. 1907-June, 1909.

Download or read book Contest Theory written by Milan Vojnović and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contests are prevalent in many areas, including sports, rent seeking, patent races, innovation inducement, labor markets, scientific projects, crowdsourcing and other online services, and allocation of computer system resources. This book provides unified, comprehensive coverage of contest theory as developed in economics, computer science, and statistics, with a focus on online services applications, allowing professionals, researchers and students to learn about the underlying theoretical principles and to test them in practice. The book sets contest design in a game-theoretic framework that can be used to model a wide-range of problems and efficiency measures such as total and individual output and social welfare, and offers insight into how the structure of prizes relates to desired contest design objectives. Methods for rating the skills and ranking of players are presented, as are proportional allocation and similar allocation mechanisms, simultaneous contests, sharing utility of productive activities, sequential contests, and tournaments.

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Download or read book Championship Contest Fiddling written by Nate Olson and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Championship Contest Fiddling contains painstakingly detailed transcriptions of 44 fiddle tunes as they were played by thirteen champions of the National Old Time Fiddlers' Contest held in Weiser, Idaho. In addition to the tunes, the book includes excerpts of extensive interviews with these champions where they offer advice on how to play in the contest style, prepare for contests and deal with nerves, adapt and arrange tunes to make them your own, and play with drive, among many other topics. It is an indispensable resource for fiddlers seeking to understand contest fiddling better and prepare for fiddle contests, or learn some great tunes from the masters! Includes audio CD of the actual piece played during the contest.

Download or read book Bailey V Walters Election Contest Twentieth District of Pennsylvania written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections No. 2 and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hill Versus Palmisano Election Contest Third District of Maryland written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections No. 2 and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cornbread Nation 2 written by Lolis Eric Elie and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2010-01-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern barbecue and barbecue traditions are the primary focus of Cornbread Nation 2, our second collection of the best of Southern food writing. "Barbecue is the closest thing we have in the United States to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes," writes John Shelton Reed. Indeed, no other dish is served a dozen different ways just between Memphis and Birmingham. In tribute to what Vince Staten calls "the slowest of the slow foods," contributors discuss the politics, sociology, and virtual religion of barbecue in the South, where communities are defined by what wood they burn, what sauce they make, and what they serve with barbecue. Jim Auchmutey links barbecue to the success of certain Southern politicians; Marcie Cohen Ferris looks at kosher brisket; and Robb Walsh investigates why black cooks have been omitted from the accepted histories of Texas barbecue, despite their seminal role in its development. Beyond the barbecue pit, John Martin Taylor sings the virtues of boiled peanuts, Calvin Trillin savors Cajun boudin, and Eddie Dean revisits his days driving an ice cream truck deep in the Appalachian Mountains. From barbecue to scuppernongs to popsicles, the forty-three newspaper columns, magazine pieces, poems, and essays collected here confirm that a bounty of good writing exists when it comes to good eating, Southern style.

Download or read book Senator from New Mexico Hearings Relative to the Contest of Dennis Chavez V Bronson M Cutting for a Seat in the United States Senate from the State of New Mexico April 10 and June 4 1935 written by United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on privileges and elections and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book No Contest written by Alfie Kohn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that competition is inherently destructive and that competitive behavior is culturally induced, counter-productive, and causes anxiety, selfishness, self-doubt, and poor communication.

Download or read book History of the Great International Contest Between Heenan and Sayers at Farnborough on the 17th April 1860 written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lawrence Versus Milligan Election Contest Third District of Missouri written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections No. 2 and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hill Versus Palmisano Election Contest Third District of Maryland Hearings Before 71 2 February 17 18 and 24 1930 written by United States. Congress. House. Elections No. 2 Committee and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lawrence Versus Milligan Election Contest 3d District of Missouri Hearings April 28 1930 written by United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on elections no. 2.260: and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Contest for Time and Space in the Roman Imperial Cults and 1 Peter written by Wei Hsien Wan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wei Hsien Wan builds on the work of David Horrell and Travis Williams for his argument that the letter of 1 Peter engages in a subtle, calculated form of resistance to Rome, that has often gone undetected. Whilst previous discussion of the topic has remained largely focused on the letter's stance toward specific Roman institutions, such as the emperor, household structures, and the imperial cults, Wan takes the conversation beyond these confines and examines 1 Peter's critique of the Roman Empire in terms of its ideology or worldview. Using the work of James Scott to conceptualize ideological resistance against domination, Wan considers how the imperial cults of Anatolia and 1 Peter offered distinct constructions of time and space-that is, how they envisioned reality differently. Insofar as these differences led to divergent ways of conceiving the social order, they acquired political power and generated potential for conflict. Wan thus argues that 1 Peter confronts Rome on a cosmic scale with its alternative construal of time and space, and examines the evidence that the Petrine author consciously, if cautiously, interrogated the imperial imagination at its most foundational levels, and set forth in its place a theocentric, Christological understanding of the world.