- Dictators Who Dominate: Betraying Allies to Gain a Preponderance of Power. McGovern, Erin Rachel
Abstract: As authoritarian leaders rise to power, they require the backing of a group of well-connected, well-organized supporters, who together control a large pool of resources. Every new leader necessarily begins his tenure surrounded by politically powerful kingmakers. Dependent leaders aim to keep these supporters happy by sharing the spoils of office, and they often fall victim to coups when key supporters decide to align their resources behind someone new. An independent leader, by contrast, purges his own inner circle to ensure that the “kingmakers” are too weak to remove him from power. Intra-regime purges are a dangerous gamble, but those leaders who survive the short-term repercussions of betraying their supporters gain a more secure hold on
in Public bookmarks - Everything You Know About Clausewitz Is Wrong | The Diplomat | James R. Holmes
As Mark Twain reputedly quipped, it’s not so much what we know that gets us in trouble; it’s what we know that just ain’t so. How much of what we know about martial ventures is wrong? In the naval sphere, for instance, it’s common knowledge that Alfred Thayer Mahan instructs commanders never to divide the fleet. Except he doesn’t. Once upon a time, it turns out, historians took to quoting other historians quoting Mahan to that effect. Over time the quotation — in reality, someone’s bowdlerized version of his ideas about concentrating naval strength — took on an air of authenticity and authority. “Never divide the fleet” endured as a truism despite its flimsy provenance. And it drowned out Mahan’s real ideas through constant repetition.
in Public bookmarks - Framablog Introduction de Wikipédia dans les salles de classe : le loup est-il dans la bergerie ? 100206
on Beasley-Murray - avril 2008 - Wikipédia (Traduction Framalang : Olivier) Réflexions sur l’utilisation de Wikipédia dans le cadre du cours SPAN312 à l’Université de la Colombie Britannique, « Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation » (NdT : « Meurtre, Folie et Chaos : la littérature latino-américaine en mouvement »), printemps 2008. Wikipédia : mal aimée mais omniprésente dans l’éducation Tel un membre non invité, Wikipédia s’aventure aujourd’hui très près du monde universitaire.
in Public bookmarks - Imagining the Tenth Dimension: a new way of thinking about time and space by Rob Bryanton
Part scientific exploration, part philosophy, this unique book touches upon such diverse topics as dark matter, Feynman's "sum over paths", the quantum observer, and the soul. It is aimed at anyone interested in leading-edge theories about cosmology and the nature of reality, but it is not about mainstream physics. Rather, Imagining the Tenth Dimension is a mind-expanding exercise that could change the way you view this incredible universe in which we live.
in Public bookmarks - Kahlil Gibran Chap.15 - Reason & passion
in Public bookmarks - Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere | Peter Ward
is but a slice of a forever-changing entity and is greatly different from the atmosphere at most times in Earth’s history. It is currently suited to us mammals—hence the high diversity of mammals alive today|Two not-so-ancient versions, in astrobiological timescales, of our “Earth-like atmosphere” very nearly wiped out our furry ancestors some 250 mil.yrs ago and then tried again some 200 mil.yrs ago. If a small premammal named Thrinaxodon, whose delicate skulls have been collected in lowest Triassic strata, had not survived, what would life on Earth be like now? Perhaps we would have a diverse and unbelievably beautiful world of birds, in the air, on the ground, diving deeply into the sea, and perhaps they would be the dominant animals on Earth.
in Public bookmarks - Slate: Who Is Grady Harp? Amazon's Top Reviewers and the fate of the literary amateur By Garth Risk Hallberg Jan 22 2008 7:33
Full disclosure: It was late at night, in a fit of furtive self-Googling, that I discovered the first Amazon customer review of my debut book of fiction. "Superb," wrote Grady Harp of Los Angeles. "Fascinating ... addictive." Not to mention "profound." Such extravagance should have aroused suspicion, but I was too busy basking in the glow of a five-star rave to worry about the finer points of Harp's style. Sure, he'd spelled my name wrong, but hadn't he also judged me "a sensitive observer of human foibles"? Only when I noticed the "Top 10 Reviewer" tag did I wonder whether Grady Harp was more than just a satisfied customer. After a brief e-mail exchange, my publicist confirmed that she'd solicited Grady Harp's review.
in Public bookmarks - The Eye of the Crocodile - ANU Press -Lorraine Shannon
1. Meeting the predator 2. Dry season (Yegge) in the stone country 3. The wisdom of the balanced rock: The parallel universe and the prey perspective Second section 4. A wombat wake: In memoriam Birubi 5. ‘Babe’: The tale of the speaking meat Third section 6. Animals and ecology: Towards a better integration 7. Tasteless: Towards a food-based approach to death
in Public bookmarks - The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change Series): Clayton
The author, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, asks why some well-managed companies that stay on top of new technology and practice quality customer service can still falter. His own research brought a surprising answer to that question. Christensen suggests that by placing too great an emphasis on satisfying customers' current needs, companies fail to adapt or adopt new technology that will meet customers' unstated or future needs, and he argues that such companies will eventually fall behind. Christensen calls this phenomenon "disruptive technology" and demonstrates its effects in industries as diverse as the manufacture of hard-disk drives and mass retailing. He goes on to offer solutions by providing strategies for anticipating changes i
in Public bookmarks - The War in the Air, by H. G. Wells
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The War in the Air, by Herbert George Wells This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The War in the Air Author: Herbert George Wells Release Date: August 10, 2008 [EBook #780] Last Updated: June 2, 2010 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WAR IN THE AIR *** Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, Janet Blenkinship, and David Widger
in Public bookmarks - What's Wrong With Copy Protection: John Gilmore, 16 February 2001
Ron Rivest asked me, "I think it would be illuminating to hear your views on the differences between the Intel/IBM content-protection proposals and existing practices for content protection in the TV scrambling domain. The devil's advocate position against your position would be: if the customer is willing to buy extra, or special, hardware to allow him to view protected content, what is wrong with that?" First, I call it copy protection rather than content protection, because "content" is such a meaningless word. What the technology actually does is to deter copying. Such technologies have a long history in computing, starting with the first microcomputers, minicomputers, and workstations. Except in very small niches, all such systems ultimately failed. Ma
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