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Linguistic approaches to literature volume Volume 31
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Setting the great crisis of 2020 in broad historical perspective, Niall Ferguson challenges the conventional wisdom that our failure to cope better with disaster was solely a crisis of political leadership, as opposed to a more profound systemic problem. Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate...
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Oxford University Press
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English
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"The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in venues like the New Republic and Commentary, such intellectuals were always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to literature to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind of thinker has supplanted that archetype: the thought leader. Equipped with one big idea, thought leaders focus their energies on TED talks rather than highbrow...
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Contributions in political science volume no. 64
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
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Political power and social theory volume Volume 30
Publisher
Emerald
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English