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Excellencián innen és túl...
Izgalmas beszámolót vehet a kezébe az olvasó. Hogyan készítették fel a diplomata jelölteket az 50-es évek elején a külszolgálatra, milyen sikamlós vagy éppen botrányos helyzetek adódtak a munka során, hogyan születtek a diplomáciai - gyakran rejtjeles - jelentések? A szerző az úti- és politikai élmények mellett kitér arra is, hogy milyen csapdái lehetnek az alkoholfogyasztásnak, az alkalmi hölgyismerősöknek, de olvashatunk a diplomáciai rangokról és kinevezésekről éppúgy, mint Magyarország elszalasztott üzleti lehetőségeiről.
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Star Wars: Lázadás a Mon Calán
A lázadók Mon Cala felszabadítására törnek: Luke, Han és Leia ismét együtt veszik fel a harcot a zsarnoki Birodalommal!
Ez a képregénygyűjtemény a MARVEL Star Wars sorozatának 44-49. számát foglalja magában. A kötetben található történeteket Kieron Gillen írta és Salvador Larroca rajzolta.
A Lázadók Szövetsége napról napra nő, de a sereg gyarapodásával a gondok is sokasodnak. Képes lesz Leia hercegnő Han Solo és Luke Skywalker segítségével valódi egységbe kovácsolni a különböző frakciókat?
A Mon Cala felszabadításáért indított műveletben Leia szinte lehetetlen feladat előtt áll: meg kell nyernie a lázadás számára a megszállt bolygó lakóit - ebben a küldetésben a diplomácia és a protokoll mestere, C-3PO lesz a segítségére! Miközben Han, Luke és Leia egy veszélyes mentőakciót hajtanak végre, C-3PO új szerepet kap. A Birodalom átmeneti meggyengülése vajon lehetővé teszi, hogy a lázadók megszerezzék a végső győzelmet?
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Cuba
In 1964, while on assignment for Newsweek magazine, photojournalist Elliott Erwitt spent a week in Cuba as a guest of Fidel Castro. There, he captured now-iconic photographs of the beloved Cuban president along with the revolutionary leader Che Guevara. Over fifty years later, coinciding with restored diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States, Erwitt returned to document both its urban and rural landscapes, and-most prominently-the people of this fascinating nation. Presented in a book for the very first time, Erwitt's captivating black-and-white photographs offer an intimate look into this intriguing Caribbean island. From candid glimpses of Fidel Castro to Havana's breathtaking architectural details and scenes of rural life, Cuba reflects an in-depth visual exploration that unveils the heart and soul of the country. Complete with a compelling foreword written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this stunning tome isn't a mere chronicling of Cuba's people and places-it's a historical record of a nation in flux as it opens up to the rest of the world
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The Empress of Art
Intelligent and determined, Catherine modeled herself off of her grandfather in-law, Peter the Great, and sought to further modernize and westernize Russia. She believed that the best way to do this was through a ravenous acquisition of art, which Catherine often used as a form of diplomacy with other powers throughout Europe. She was a self-proclaimed "glutton for art" and she would be responsible for the creation of the Hermitage, one of the largest museums in the world, second only to the Louvre. Catherine also spearheaded the further expansion of St. Petersburg, and the magnificent architectural wonder the city became is largely her doing. There are few women in history more fascinating than Catherine the Great, and for the first time, Susan Jaques brings her to life through the prism of art.
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Marvel kapitány
Marvel kapitány leírása
Magasabbra, távolabbra, gyorsabban!
Bemutatkozik a legnagyobb földi hős, Marvel Kapitány!
Carol Danvers úgy érzi, megfeneklett az élete. Válaszút elé kerül, és váratlan döntése drámai változásokat indít el az univerzumban. Egy galaktikus lázadás közepébe csöppen, ahol minden diplomáciai érzékét és ravaszságát be kell vetnie. Cicáját, Csubit is hiba volt magával hoznia, mert Mordály, a Galaxis Őrzőinek tagja – Carol átmeneti útitársa –, mindenáron le akarja mészárolni.
Ha mindez nem lenne elég, egy rock'n'roll bolygón házassági bonyodalmakat kell elsimítania, miközben a Haffensye Konzorcium hajtóvadászatot indít Carol barátai ellen...
Az első magyar nyelven megjelenő Marvel Kapitány kötetet úgy időzítettük, hogy a hős egyszerre debütálhasson hazánkban a filmvásznon és képregényben egyaránt.
A kötet a 2014-es Captain Marvel-sorozat 1-13. számát tartalmazza.
Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France
This is the entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France. He had affairs with the most famous Parisian actresses, courtesans and can-can dancers. He spoke French more elegantly than English. He was the first ever guest to climb the Eiffel Tower with Gustave Eiffel, in defiance of an official English ban on his visit. He turned his French seduction skills into the diplomatic prowess that sealed the Entente Cordiale. A quintessentially English king? Pas du tout! Stephen Clarke argues that as 'Dirty Bertie', Edward learned all the essentials in life from the French.
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War by Other Means
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2016
Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rates are wielded as tools to win diplomatic allies, punish adversaries, and coerce those in between. Not so in the United States, however. America still too often reaches for the gun over the purse to advance its interests abroad. The result is a playing field sharply tilting against the United States.
"Geoeconomics, the use of economic instruments to advance foreign policy goals, has long been a staple of great-power politics. In this impressive policy manifesto, Blackwill and Harris argue that in recent decades, the United States has tended to neglect this form of statecraft, while China, Russia, and other illiberal states have increasingly employed it to Washington's disadvantage."
--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs
"A readable and lucid primer...The book defines the extensive topic and opens readers' eyes to its prevalence throughout history...[Presidential] candidates who care more about protecting American interests would be wise to heed the advice of War by Other Means and take our geoeconomic toolkit more seriously.
--Jordan Schneider, Weekly Standard
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The Fifth Elephant - (Discworld Novel 24)
A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That mastering it is a lifetime's work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It's not something you can just pick up on the job. A few days ago Sam Vimes was a copper - an important copper, true - chief of police - but still, at his core, a policeman. But today he is an ambassador - to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Today, Sam Vimes is also a man on the run. He has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war. There are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves - and they're catching up.
An Atlas of Countries that Dont Exist
Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton takes us on a magical tour of countries that, lacking diplomatic recognition or UN membership, inhabit a world of shifting borders, visionary leaders and forgotten peoples. Most of us think we know what a country is, but in truth the concept is rather slippery. From Catalonia to the Crimea, and from Africa's last colony to the European republic that enjoyed just a solitary day of independence, the places in this book may lie on the margins of legitimacy, but all can be visited in the real world. Beautifully illustrated by fifty regional maps, each shadowy country is literally cut out of the page of this book. Alongside stories, facts and figures, this Atlas brings to life a dreamlike world of nations that exist only in the minds of the people who live there.
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A Short History of Europe
The first short, single-volume history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England
Europe has for two millennia been a remarkably successful continent. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins tells the story of its evolution from a battlefield of warring tribes to peace, wealth and freedom - a story that twists and turns from Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, Reformation and French Revolution, to the two World Wars and the present day.
Jenkins embraces individuals from Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc, to Wellington and Angela Merkel, as well as cultural figures from Aristotle to Shakespeare and Picasso. Tracing themes down the ages, from youthful ambition and religious conflict to geographical constraints and invasion, he brings together the key forces and dominant periods into one chronological narrative - all with his usual insight, colour and authority.
While experiencing almost constant turbulence, Europe has left an indelible mark on the world.
How did one small continent become so powerful? How did these diverse peninsulas and islands, over time, develop a collective consciousness? How did diplomacy so often collapse into bloodshed, and what are the implications of this today?
Despite the importance of Europe's politics, economy and culture, there has not been - until now - a concise book to tell this story. Covering the key events, eras and individuals, Jenkins' portrait of the continent could not be more timely - or more masterful.
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On China
For more than twenty years after the Communist Revolution in 1949, China and most of the western world had no diplomats in each others' capitals and no direct way to communicate. Then, in July 1971, Henry Kissinger arrived secretly in Beijing on a mission which quickly led to the reopening of relations between China and the West and changed the course of post-war history.For the past forty years, Kissinger has maintained close relations with successive generations of Chinese leaders, and has probably been more intimately connected with China at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique experience and long study of the 'Middle Kingdom', examining China's history from the classical era to the present day, and explaining why it has taken the extraordinary course that it has. The book concentrates on the decades since 1949, presenting brilliantly drawn portraits of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders, and reproducing verbatim Kissinger's conversations with each of them. But Kissinger's eye rarely leaves the long continuum of Chinese history: he describes the essence of China's approach to diplomacy, strategy and negotiation, and the remarkable ways in which Communist-era statesmen have drawn on methods honed over millennia. At the end of the book, Kissinger reflects on these attitudes for our own era of economic interdependence and an uncertain future. On China is written with great authority, complete accessibility and with many wider reflections on statecraft and diplomacy distilled from years of experience. At a moment when the rest of the world is thinking about China more than ever before, this timely book offers insights that no other can.
Cuba
As American-Cuban relations begin to warm, tourists are rushing to discover the throwback tropical paradise just eighty miles off of the American coast. But even as diplomatic relations are changing and the country opens up to the Western world, Cuba remains a rare and fascinating place.
Cuba: A Cultural History tells the story of Cuba’s history through an exploration of its rich and vibrant culture. Rather than offer a timeline of Cuban history or a traditional genre-by-genre history of Cuban culture, Alan West-Durán invites readers to enter Cuban history from the perspective of the island’s uniquely creative cultural forms. He traces the restless island as it ebbs and flows with the power, beauty, and longings of its culture and history.
In a world where revolutionary socialism is an almost quaint reminder of the decades-old Cold War, the island nation remains one of the few on the planet guided by a Communist party, still committed to fighting imperialism, opposed to the injustices of globalization, and wedded to the dream of one day building a classless society, albeit in a distant future. But as this book shows, Cuba is more than a struggling socialist country—it is a nation with a complex and turbulent history and a rich and varied culture.
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One Road, Many Dreams
One Belt, One Road is China's bold plan to remake the global economy. It's an ambitious strategy with a $2 trillion - and rising - budget. The objective? To challenge the existing economic and political world order.
One Road, Many Dreams reveals the true extent of China's ambition, analyses the impact of the One Belt, One Road initiative and assesses its chances of success and failure.
This is the Asian century and China has a plan - to remake the world economy.
Under its audacious One Belt, One Road strategy, China is investing trillions of dollars in hundreds of projects all around the globe. It's buying up ports, building transport networks and constructing major infrastructure. From hydroelectric plants to oil pipelines, China supplies the labour if needed, the raw materials and the finance, creating customers and boosting its own economy in the process.
More than 80 nations have already joined China's increasingly less exclusive club and by 2049, when One Belt, One Road is set to end, its number of members is likely to rival the UN. So far, China has exercised its soft power of debt diplomacy and financial might shrewdly, serving the planet's overlooked middle-income and poor countries. The rest of the world needs to wake up because the scale of One Belt, One Road is unprecedented. Its implications for the global structure of power are potentially seismic as the geopolitical ties between Europe and Asia deepen.
Written by three highly regarded political economists, One Road, Many Dreams examines the One Belt, One Road initiative from all angles. It looks at the projects and the players, the alliances and the governance. It explores the opportunities for China and the threat to the West, particularly for Trump's isolationist US administration. At home and abroad, China is staking its credibility as a superpower on One Belt, One Road. Its resources appear limitless, but One Road, Many Dreams asks a tough question: has China overreached? Or can it really pull this off and remake the world economy in its own interests?
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Digital World War
A seasoned diplomat with deep knowledge of Islamist politics and digital innovation draws the first clear picture of the unprecedented impact of online networks
Social media has dominated the discourse of recent events in the Muslim world—from the Arab Spring and its aftermath to ISIS’s online recruitment. Yet the roles of social media in these events and the use of the dark web, hacking, and digital attacks have received little attention.
Haroon Ullah investigates the unprecedented impact of social media across the Middle East, North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia and demonstrates how it has profoundly changed relationships between regimes and peoples, and within populations—mostly, but not always, for the better. He considers its apparent inherently “democratic,” anti-establishment revolutionary impact, as well as how religious conservatives and extremists have co-opted various platforms. He goes on to show how political parties, corporations, and governments have learned to exploit digital tools to target and mobilize audiences, to ultimately achieve power and status. Identifying key trends across the Muslim world, Ullah outlines what a proper understanding of social media can teach us about regional and international politics and diplomacy.
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The Dawn of Eurasia
Brilliant, bold and beautifully told ... A profound piece of political thinking' Ben Judah, author of This Is LondonIn this original and timely book, Bruno Macaes argues that the best word for the emerging global order is 'Eurasian', and shows why we need to begin thinking on a super-continental scale. While China and Russia have been quicker to recognise the increasing strategic significance of Eurasia, even Europeans are realizing that their political project is intimately linked to the rest of the supercontinent - and as Macaes shows, they will be stronger for it. Weaving together history, diplomacy and vivid reports from his six-month overland journey across Eurasia from Baku to Samarkand, Vladivostock to Beijing, Macaes provides a fascinating portrait of this shifting geopolitical landscape. As he demonstrates, we can already see the coming Eurasianism in China's bold infrastructure project reopening the historic Silk Road, in the success of cities like Hong Kong and Singapore, in Turkey's increasing global role and in the fact that, revealingly, the United States is redefining its place as between Europe and Asia. An insightful and clarifying book for our turbulent times, The Dawn of Eurasia argues that the artificial separation of the world's largest island cannot hold, and the sooner we realise it, the better.
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Chimneys titka
Mikor Anthony Cade, az ifjú szerencsevadász elvállalja, hogy barátja helyett eljuttat egy kéziratot egy angol könyvkiadóhoz, nem is sejti, hogy hamarosan nemzetközi diplomáciai bonyodalom kellős közepén találja magát. Valaki ugyanis a gyilkosságtól sem riad vissza, hogy megakadályozza a kies Herzoszlovákia restaurációját.
Az ügyben ráadásul érintett egy fiatal, igen csinos és talpraesett özvegyasszony is. A gáláns Anthony nem tehet mást, nyakig keveredik a dologba, melyben az angol és herzoszlovák arisztokrácia, a nemzetközi pénzügyi világ legnagyobb kutyái, a francia rendőrség és a Scotland Yard képviselői lesik egymás lépteit, keresik az eltűnt koronagyémántot és egy világhírű bűnöző nyomait Chimneys ódon udvarházában...
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The Legion of Flame
Survival is the only currency...
For centuries, the vast Ironship Trading Syndicate relied on drake blood—and the extraordinary powers it confers to those known as the Blood-blessed—to fuel and protect its empire. But when the drake blood lines began to fail, a perilous expedition was mounted to secure them.
Claydon Torcreek survived the fraught mission through uncharted lands in pursuit of a myth that might have secured his people’s future. Instead he found a nightmare. The legendary White Drake was awoken from a millennia-long slumber, with a thirst to reduce the world of men to ashes, and the power to compel an army of Spoiled slaves to do it.
Spurred on by a vision he desperately hopes he can trust, Clay and rebel naval officer Corrick Hilemore hijack a warship and head towards the icy southern seas, searching for an ancient secret that may give them and their allies a fighting chance.
They are aided on another front by Blood-blessed agent Lizanne Lethridge. The spy and assassin will use her diplomatic status to infiltrate deep into enemy territory on a quest for a device to save them all.
As the world burns around them, and the fires of revolution are ignited, these few Blood-blessed are the last hope for all of civilisation.
Lacná kniha Rýchly život
Berlín je dnes hlavným mestom Európy a kulisou pre strhujúci románový príbeh novej generácie. Metropola, kde sa miešajú národnosti, kultúry a jazyky sa stáva dejiskom divokého nočného života mladých ľudí. Christian a Ayse, novodobí Rómeo a Júlia, prežívajú lásku na prvý pohľad. Lenže staré pravidlá už neplatia. On je chudobný Nemec a ona pochádza z bohatej rodiny arabských prisťahovalcov. Porušenie tradícií vyústi až do neúmyselnej vraždy. Dvojica s príliš rýchlym životom hľadá útočisko na úteku. Kniha sa ihneď po uvedení na trh v nemecky hovoriacich krajinách stala bestsellerom.Nemecká prozaička švajčiarskeho pôvodu Zoë Jennyová (1974) patrí medzi najvýznamnejšie súčasné európske spisovateľky. Pochádza z Bazileja, vyrástla v Grécku a vyštudovala diplomaciu. Prednáša poetiku a pravidelne prispieva do novín i časopisov. Žije v slobodnom povolaní v Londýne. Fenomenálny úspech dosiahla hneď debutovou knihou Izba plná peľu. Nasledovali romány Volanie na lastúre, Rýchly život a det
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Hope
The Hope is the new State of Israel, and its servants include Zev Barak, a young army officer who rises to become military attach? in Washington; Sam Pasternak, arms procurer and master of shuttle diplomacy who heads up military intelligence; Benny Luria, fighter pilot whose finest hour comes over Sinai; Yael, the girl soldier with a penchant for powerful men; Nakhama, the beautiful Moroccan immigrant wife and mother; Kishote, the man with a charmed life who leads an armoured brigade through the desert; and, in America, there is the remarkable Virginia headmistress Emily, whose father is in the CIA. The towering story of modern Israel from Independence to the triumph of the Six-Day War is told through the bittersweet agonies of these people, who between them help create the Hope.
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