In Spite of the Gods - The Strange Rise of India

Edward Luce

Little. Brown and Company

In Spite Of The Gods

Business & Money

Economics

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India is poised to become one of the worlds three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake china as the worlds most populous country by 2032 well before then indias incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities indias volatile relationship with its nuclear-armed neighbour, pakistan, may prove to be the source of the worlds next major conflict and if you call anyone- from your bank to rail enquiries- your query may well be dealt with by a graduate in gujarat any way one looks at it, indias fate matters edward luce, one of the most incisive and talented journalists of his generation, assesses the forces that are forging the new nation cutting through the miasma that still clouds thinking about india, this extraordinarily accomplished book takes the measure of a society that is struggling to come to grips with modernity drawing on historical research, existing literature and his own unparalleled access as the new delhi-based, south asia correspondent of the ft, this is a book that will enthral as well as educate and will remain the definitive book on the country for many years

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Abacus Software

Time To Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline

Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: 2012-5-1 Pages: 291 Publisher: Little Brown UK On its present course. the US faces a world of rising newcountries that will compete with it ever more fiecely as its ownpower is declining In order to slow and. . improve this steadyleakage of power. the US must change course internationally. economically and domestically It must also restructure to remainthe worlds most competitive economy And it must address qualityof life issues and fairness at home But American politics isbroken -.. competing forces and interests have led to stasis. Withchange so tough. where now for a country where the middle classesare suffering as they have never suffered before. the pensionscrisis is growing. the deficit out of sight. and radicalism waitingin the wings

Time to Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Little,Brown

In Time to Start Thinking, Edward Luce offers an incisive and highly engaging account of America’s economic and geopolitical decline. The Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times for the last four years, Luce has traveled the country interviewing public officials like Lawrence Summers and Senator Don Riegle, business leaders including Jeff Immelt and Bill Gates, as well as teachers, health care workers, and scientists. His interviews are candid and revealing: former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen told Luce about the catch-22–like situation of American defense spending: “We are borrowing money from China to build weapons to face down China.” Mullen is just one of many voices who are united in their belief that America must evolve or face serious consequences. Luce’s research, analysis, and reporting covers areas from education to health care to politics to business and innovation. Luce frames the issues historically, comparing America today to Britain in the early-twentieth century, when U.S. inventors developed the light bulb and the internal combustion engine, usurping Britain’s position as the center of research and development, while Germany took the lead in the chemicals and metallurgy industries. As a result, Britain lost its place at the top of the world’s pecking order. Today, the same situation is evolving in America: Chinese and Korean scientists and innovators are becoming increasingly competitive with those in America, and companies like IBM and General Electric now employ more people outside the United States than inside it. In domestic politics, things are also dire: conversation between Republicans and Democrats has all but ceased―Barney Frank calls it “the dialogue of the deaf,” and the once noisy Senate dining room, specifically designed so that members of different parties would be forced to talk to one another, is now empty most lunch hours. No surprise, when the politicians are busy talking to lobbyists and trying to raise campaign funds. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has more than 2,300 different I.T. systems on which it spends more than $10 billion a year and the crippling bureaucracy in the education system leads more than a fifth of new teachers to leave their jobs within three years. In what may be the smartest book yet on why and how America is broken, Luce offers a critical, nonpartisan analysis of the issues facing America today and a renowned journalist’s report on a country in economic, social, and political crisis.

Time To Start Thinking

Sociology

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The Retreat of Western Liberalism

Little, Brown, and Co.

Zbig (hardcover)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London

In Time to Start Thinking, Edward Luce offers an incisive and highly engaging account of America’s economic and geopolitical decline. The Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times for the last four years, Luce has traveled the country interviewing public officials like Lawrence Summers and Senator Don Riegle, business leaders including Jeff Immelt and Bill Gates, as well as teachers, health care workers, and scientists. His interviews are candid and revealing: former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen told Luce about the catch-22–like situation of American defense spending: “We are borrowing money from China to build weapons to face down China.” Mullen is just one of many voices who are united in their belief that America must evolve or face serious consequences.Luce’s research, analysis, and reporting covers areas from education to health care to politics to business and innovation. Luce frames the issues historically, comparing America today to Britain in the early-twentieth century, when U.S. inventors developed the light bulb and the internal combustion engine, usurping Britain’s position as the center of research and development, while Germany took the lead in the chemicals and metallurgy industries. As a result, Britain lost its place at the top of the world’s pecking order. Today, the same situation is evolving in America: Chinese and Korean scientists and innovators are becoming increasingly competitive with those in America, and companies like IBM and General Electric now employ more people outside the United States than inside it. In domestic politics, things are also dire: conversation between Republicans and Democrats has all but ceased—Barney Frank calls it “the dialogue of the deaf,” and the once noisy Senate dining room, specifically designed so that members of different parties would be forced to talk to one another, is now empty most lunch hours. No surprise, when the politicians are busy talking to lobbyists and trying to raise campaign funds.Meanwhile, the Pentagon has more than 2,300 different I.T. systems on which it spends more than $10 billion a year and the crippling bureaucracy in the education system leads more than a fifth of new teachers to leave their jobs within three years.In what may be the smartest book yet on why and how America is broken, Luce offers a critical, nonpartisan analysis of the issues facing America today and a renowned journalist’s report on a country in economic, social, and political crisis.

Time to Start Thinking

Politics & Government

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