Author: Ronald Surz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Most of our 78 million baby boomers will spend much of this decade in the Risk Zone spanning the 10 years before and after retirement. Losses in the Risk Zone can make remaining lifetimes far less comfortable, and could make boomers a burden on society because $50 trillion is at stake.Following the Roaring 2010s, the odds of avoiding a market crash in this decade are incredibly low. This book explains why inflation and other threats are likely to burst bubbles in stock and bond markets, creating significant investment losses. Baby boomers should protect their savings at this critical time. Baby boomers need risk management, but most are not getting it. In the jargon of investing, boomers should be "risk off" to protect their lifetime savings. Importantly, baby boomers should:1.Review their current asset allocation. The Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) reports that the average boomer is invested 60/40 stocks/bonds. This is a mix that lost more than 30% in 2008 and is poised to lose even more in the next market crash.2.Consider reducing risk and protecting against inflation. The book explains how to accomplish this.3.Use all the tools, like reverse mortgages, risk mitigation tools, Social Security and Medicare. Each chapter includes a link to a video on the topic from the Baby Boomer Investing Show. I believe this is unique and appealing. It's a fun way to delve into these highly informative and timely topics.
Baby Boomer Investing in the Perilous Decade of the 2020s
Author: Ronald Surz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Most of our 78 million baby boomers will spend much of this decade in the Risk Zone spanning the 10 years before and after retirement. Losses in the Risk Zone can make remaining lifetimes far less comfortable, and could make boomers a burden on society because $50 trillion is at stake.Following the Roaring 2010s, the odds of avoiding a market crash in this decade are incredibly low. This book explains why inflation and other threats are likely to burst bubbles in stock and bond markets, creating significant investment losses. Baby boomers should protect their savings at this critical time. Baby boomers need risk management, but most are not getting it. In the jargon of investing, boomers should be "risk off" to protect their lifetime savings. Importantly, baby boomers should:1.Review their current asset allocation. The Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) reports that the average boomer is invested 60/40 stocks/bonds. This is a mix that lost more than 30% in 2008 and is poised to lose even more in the next market crash.2.Consider reducing risk and protecting against inflation. The book explains how to accomplish this.3.Use all the tools, like reverse mortgages, risk mitigation tools, Social Security and Medicare. Each chapter includes a link to a video on the topic from the Baby Boomer Investing Show. I believe this is unique and appealing. It's a fun way to delve into these highly informative and timely topics.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Most of our 78 million baby boomers will spend much of this decade in the Risk Zone spanning the 10 years before and after retirement. Losses in the Risk Zone can make remaining lifetimes far less comfortable, and could make boomers a burden on society because $50 trillion is at stake.Following the Roaring 2010s, the odds of avoiding a market crash in this decade are incredibly low. This book explains why inflation and other threats are likely to burst bubbles in stock and bond markets, creating significant investment losses. Baby boomers should protect their savings at this critical time. Baby boomers need risk management, but most are not getting it. In the jargon of investing, boomers should be "risk off" to protect their lifetime savings. Importantly, baby boomers should:1.Review their current asset allocation. The Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) reports that the average boomer is invested 60/40 stocks/bonds. This is a mix that lost more than 30% in 2008 and is poised to lose even more in the next market crash.2.Consider reducing risk and protecting against inflation. The book explains how to accomplish this.3.Use all the tools, like reverse mortgages, risk mitigation tools, Social Security and Medicare. Each chapter includes a link to a video on the topic from the Baby Boomer Investing Show. I believe this is unique and appealing. It's a fun way to delve into these highly informative and timely topics.
Conservative Internationalism
Author: Henry R. Nau
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691168490
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A reexamination of America's overloaded foreign policy tradition and its importance for global politics today Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions—liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism. In this book, distinguished political scientist Henry Nau delves deeply into a fourth, overlooked foreign policy tradition that he calls "conservative internationalism." This approach spreads freedom, like liberal internationalism; arms diplomacy, like realism; and preserves national sovereignty, like nationalism. It targets a world of limited government or independent "sister republics," not a world of great power concerts or centralized international institutions. Nau explores conservative internationalism in the foreign policies of Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan. These presidents did more than any others to expand the arc of freedom using a deft combination of force, diplomacy, and compromise. Since Reagan, presidents have swung back and forth among the main traditions, overreaching under Bush and now retrenching under Obama. Nau demonstrates that conservative internationalism offers an alternative way. It pursues freedom but not everywhere, prioritizing situations that border on existing free countries—Turkey, for example, rather than Iraq. It uses lesser force early to influence negotiations rather than greater force later after negotiations fail. And it reaches timely compromises to cash in military leverage and sustain public support. A groundbreaking revival of a neglected foreign policy tradition, Conservative Internationalism shows how the United States can effectively sustain global leadership while respecting the constraints of public will and material resources.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691168490
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A reexamination of America's overloaded foreign policy tradition and its importance for global politics today Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions—liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism. In this book, distinguished political scientist Henry Nau delves deeply into a fourth, overlooked foreign policy tradition that he calls "conservative internationalism." This approach spreads freedom, like liberal internationalism; arms diplomacy, like realism; and preserves national sovereignty, like nationalism. It targets a world of limited government or independent "sister republics," not a world of great power concerts or centralized international institutions. Nau explores conservative internationalism in the foreign policies of Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan. These presidents did more than any others to expand the arc of freedom using a deft combination of force, diplomacy, and compromise. Since Reagan, presidents have swung back and forth among the main traditions, overreaching under Bush and now retrenching under Obama. Nau demonstrates that conservative internationalism offers an alternative way. It pursues freedom but not everywhere, prioritizing situations that border on existing free countries—Turkey, for example, rather than Iraq. It uses lesser force early to influence negotiations rather than greater force later after negotiations fail. And it reaches timely compromises to cash in military leverage and sustain public support. A groundbreaking revival of a neglected foreign policy tradition, Conservative Internationalism shows how the United States can effectively sustain global leadership while respecting the constraints of public will and material resources.
Peak Everything
Author: Richard Heinberg
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 0865716455
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Transitioning gracefully from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 0865716455
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Transitioning gracefully from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty.
Work-based Learning as a Pathway to Competence-based Education
Author: Anke Bahl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783962080945
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783962080945
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Retirement Planning Guidebook
Author: Wade Pfau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945640179
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945640179
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Understanding Media
Author: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537430058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537430058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
Policy Transformation in Canada
Author: Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487519877
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Canada's centennial anniversary in 1967 coincided with a period of transformative public policymaking. This period saw the establishment of the modern welfare state, as well as significant growth in the area of cultural diversity, including multiculturalism and bilingualism. Meanwhile, the rising commitment to the protection of individual and collective rights was captured in the project of a "just society." Tracing the past, present, and future of Canadian policymaking, Policy Transformation in Canada examines the country's current and most critical challenges: the renewal of the federation, managing diversity, Canada's relations with Indigenous peoples, the environment, intergenerational equity, global economic integration, and Canada's role in the world. Scrutinizing various public policy issues through the prism of Canada’s sesquicentennial, the contributors consider the transformation of policy and present an accessible portrait of how the Canadian view of policymaking has been reshaped, and where it may be heading in the next fifty years.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487519877
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Canada's centennial anniversary in 1967 coincided with a period of transformative public policymaking. This period saw the establishment of the modern welfare state, as well as significant growth in the area of cultural diversity, including multiculturalism and bilingualism. Meanwhile, the rising commitment to the protection of individual and collective rights was captured in the project of a "just society." Tracing the past, present, and future of Canadian policymaking, Policy Transformation in Canada examines the country's current and most critical challenges: the renewal of the federation, managing diversity, Canada's relations with Indigenous peoples, the environment, intergenerational equity, global economic integration, and Canada's role in the world. Scrutinizing various public policy issues through the prism of Canada’s sesquicentennial, the contributors consider the transformation of policy and present an accessible portrait of how the Canadian view of policymaking has been reshaped, and where it may be heading in the next fifty years.
The Future of Text
Author: Frode Hegland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This book is the first anthology of perspectives on the future of text, one of our most important mediums for thinking and communicating, with a Foreword by the co-inventor of the Internet, Vint. Cerf and a Postscript by the founder of the modern Library of Alexandria, Ismail Serageldin. In a time with astounding developments in computer special effects in movies and the emergence of powerful AI, text has developed little beyond spellcheck and blue links. In this work we look at myriads of perspectives to inspire a rich future of text through contributions from academia, the arts, business and technology. We hope you will be as inspired as we are as to the potential power of text truly unleashed. Contributions by Adam Cheyer * Adam Kampff * Alan Kay * Alessio Antonini * Alex Holcombe * Amaranth Borsuk * Amira Hanafi * Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. * Anastasia Salter * Andy Matuschak & Michael Nielsen * Ann Bessemans & María Pérez Mena * Andries Van Dam * Anne-Laure Le Cunff * Anthon Botha * Azlen Ezla * Barbara Beeton * Belinda Barnet * Ben Shneiderman * Bernard Vatant * Bob Frankston * Bob Horn * Bob Stein * Catherine C. Marshall * Charles Bernstein * Chris Gebhardt * Chris Messina * Christian Bök * Christopher Gutteridge * Claus Atzenbeck * Daniel Russel * Danila Medvedev * Danny Snelson * Daveed Benjamin * Dave King * Dave Winer * David De Roure * David Jablonowski * David Johnson * David Lebow * David M. Durant * David Millard * David Owen Norris * David Price * David Weinberger * Dene Grigar * Denise Schmandt-Besserat * Derek Beaulieu * Doc Searls * Don Norman * Douglas Crockford * Duke Crawford * Ed Leahy * Elaine Treharne * Élika Ortega * Esther Dyson * Esther Wojcicki * Ewan Clayton * Fiona Ross * Fred Benenson & Tyler Shoemaker * Galfromdownunder, aka Lynette Chiang * Garrett Stewart * Gyuri Lajos * Harold Thimbleby * Howard Oakley * Howard Rheingold * Ian Cooke * Iian Neil * Jack Park * Jakob Voß * James Baker * James O'Sullivan * Jamie Blustein * Jane Yellowlees Douglas * Jay David Bolter * Jeremy Helm * Jesse Grosjean * Jessica Rubart * Joe Corneli * Joel Swanson * Johanna Drucker * Johannah Rodgers * John Armstrong * John Cayle * John-Paul Davidson * Joris J. van Zundert * Judy Malloy * Kari Kraus & Matthew Kirschenbaum * Katie Baynes * Keith Houston * Keith Martin * Kenny Hemphill * Ken Perlin * Leigh Nash * Leslie Carr * Lesia Tkacz * Leslie Lamport * Livia Polanyi * Lori Emerson * Luc Beaudoin & Daniel Jomphe * Lynette Chiang * Manuela González * Marc-Antoine Parent * Marc Canter * Mark Anderson * Mark Baker * Mark Bernstein * Martin Kemp * Martin Tiefenthaler * Maryanne Wolf * Matt Mullenweg * Michael Joyce * Mike Zender * Naomi S. Baron * Nasser Hussain * Neil Jefferies * Niels Ole Finnemann * Nick Montfort * Panda Mery * Patrick Lichty * Paul Smart * Peter Cho * Peter Flynn * Peter Jenson & Melissa Morocco * Peter J. Wasilko * Phil Gooch * Pip Willcox * Rafael Nepô * Raine Revere * Richard A. Carter * Richard Price * Richard Saul Wurman * Rollo Carpenter * Sage Jenson & Kit Kuksenok * Shane Gibson * Simon J. Buckingham Shum * Sam Brooker * Sarah Walton * Scott Rettberg * Sofie Beier * Sonja Knecht * Stephan Kreutzer * Stephanie Strickland * Stephen Lekson * Stevan Harnad * Steve Newcomb * Stuart Moulthrop * Ted Nelson * Teodora Petkova * Tiago Forte * Timothy Donaldson * Tim Ingold * Timur Schukin & Irina Antonova * Todd A. Carpenter * Tom Butler-Bowdon * Tom Standage * Tor Nørretranders * Valentina Moressa * Ward Cunningham * Dame Wendy Hall * Zuzana Husárová. Student Competition Winner Niko A. Grupen, and competition runner ups Catherine Brislane, Corrie Kim, Mesut Yilmaz, Elizabeth Train-Brown, Thomas John Moore, Zakaria Aden, Yahye Aden, Ibrahim Yahie, Arushi Jain, Shuby Deshpande, Aishwarya Mudaliar, Finbarr Condon-English, Charlotte Gray, Aditeya Das, Wesley Finck, Jordan Morrison, Duncan Reid, Emma Brodey, Gage Nott, Aditeya Das and Kamil Przespolewski. Edited by Frode Hegland.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This book is the first anthology of perspectives on the future of text, one of our most important mediums for thinking and communicating, with a Foreword by the co-inventor of the Internet, Vint. Cerf and a Postscript by the founder of the modern Library of Alexandria, Ismail Serageldin. In a time with astounding developments in computer special effects in movies and the emergence of powerful AI, text has developed little beyond spellcheck and blue links. In this work we look at myriads of perspectives to inspire a rich future of text through contributions from academia, the arts, business and technology. We hope you will be as inspired as we are as to the potential power of text truly unleashed. Contributions by Adam Cheyer * Adam Kampff * Alan Kay * Alessio Antonini * Alex Holcombe * Amaranth Borsuk * Amira Hanafi * Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. * Anastasia Salter * Andy Matuschak & Michael Nielsen * Ann Bessemans & María Pérez Mena * Andries Van Dam * Anne-Laure Le Cunff * Anthon Botha * Azlen Ezla * Barbara Beeton * Belinda Barnet * Ben Shneiderman * Bernard Vatant * Bob Frankston * Bob Horn * Bob Stein * Catherine C. Marshall * Charles Bernstein * Chris Gebhardt * Chris Messina * Christian Bök * Christopher Gutteridge * Claus Atzenbeck * Daniel Russel * Danila Medvedev * Danny Snelson * Daveed Benjamin * Dave King * Dave Winer * David De Roure * David Jablonowski * David Johnson * David Lebow * David M. Durant * David Millard * David Owen Norris * David Price * David Weinberger * Dene Grigar * Denise Schmandt-Besserat * Derek Beaulieu * Doc Searls * Don Norman * Douglas Crockford * Duke Crawford * Ed Leahy * Elaine Treharne * Élika Ortega * Esther Dyson * Esther Wojcicki * Ewan Clayton * Fiona Ross * Fred Benenson & Tyler Shoemaker * Galfromdownunder, aka Lynette Chiang * Garrett Stewart * Gyuri Lajos * Harold Thimbleby * Howard Oakley * Howard Rheingold * Ian Cooke * Iian Neil * Jack Park * Jakob Voß * James Baker * James O'Sullivan * Jamie Blustein * Jane Yellowlees Douglas * Jay David Bolter * Jeremy Helm * Jesse Grosjean * Jessica Rubart * Joe Corneli * Joel Swanson * Johanna Drucker * Johannah Rodgers * John Armstrong * John Cayle * John-Paul Davidson * Joris J. van Zundert * Judy Malloy * Kari Kraus & Matthew Kirschenbaum * Katie Baynes * Keith Houston * Keith Martin * Kenny Hemphill * Ken Perlin * Leigh Nash * Leslie Carr * Lesia Tkacz * Leslie Lamport * Livia Polanyi * Lori Emerson * Luc Beaudoin & Daniel Jomphe * Lynette Chiang * Manuela González * Marc-Antoine Parent * Marc Canter * Mark Anderson * Mark Baker * Mark Bernstein * Martin Kemp * Martin Tiefenthaler * Maryanne Wolf * Matt Mullenweg * Michael Joyce * Mike Zender * Naomi S. Baron * Nasser Hussain * Neil Jefferies * Niels Ole Finnemann * Nick Montfort * Panda Mery * Patrick Lichty * Paul Smart * Peter Cho * Peter Flynn * Peter Jenson & Melissa Morocco * Peter J. Wasilko * Phil Gooch * Pip Willcox * Rafael Nepô * Raine Revere * Richard A. Carter * Richard Price * Richard Saul Wurman * Rollo Carpenter * Sage Jenson & Kit Kuksenok * Shane Gibson * Simon J. Buckingham Shum * Sam Brooker * Sarah Walton * Scott Rettberg * Sofie Beier * Sonja Knecht * Stephan Kreutzer * Stephanie Strickland * Stephen Lekson * Stevan Harnad * Steve Newcomb * Stuart Moulthrop * Ted Nelson * Teodora Petkova * Tiago Forte * Timothy Donaldson * Tim Ingold * Timur Schukin & Irina Antonova * Todd A. Carpenter * Tom Butler-Bowdon * Tom Standage * Tor Nørretranders * Valentina Moressa * Ward Cunningham * Dame Wendy Hall * Zuzana Husárová. Student Competition Winner Niko A. Grupen, and competition runner ups Catherine Brislane, Corrie Kim, Mesut Yilmaz, Elizabeth Train-Brown, Thomas John Moore, Zakaria Aden, Yahye Aden, Ibrahim Yahie, Arushi Jain, Shuby Deshpande, Aishwarya Mudaliar, Finbarr Condon-English, Charlotte Gray, Aditeya Das, Wesley Finck, Jordan Morrison, Duncan Reid, Emma Brodey, Gage Nott, Aditeya Das and Kamil Przespolewski. Edited by Frode Hegland.
A Wild and Precious Life
Author: Edie Windsor
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250195144
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A lively, intimate memoir from a marriage equality icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in the 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism. "Brash, funny and brave." —NPR “A captivating and inspiring story of a queer woman who believed in her right to take up space and be seen.”—BuzzFeed "Windsor’s story fighting for what she believed in is one that will leave readers inspired." —NBC OUT Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to Thea Spyer, her partner of more than four decades. The Supreme Court ruled in Edie’s favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full marriage equality in the US. Beloved by the LGBTQ community, Edie embraced her new role as an icon; she had already been living an extraordinary and groundbreaking life for decades. In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software. In the early 1960s Edie met Thea, an expat from a Dutch Jewish family that fled the Nazis, and a widely respected clinical psychologist. Their partnership lasted forty-four years, until Thea died in 2009. Edie found love again, marrying Judith Kasen-Windsor in 2016. A Wild and Precious Life is remarkable portrait of an iconic woman, gay life in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, and the rise of LGBT activism.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250195144
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A lively, intimate memoir from a marriage equality icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in the 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism. "Brash, funny and brave." —NPR “A captivating and inspiring story of a queer woman who believed in her right to take up space and be seen.”—BuzzFeed "Windsor’s story fighting for what she believed in is one that will leave readers inspired." —NBC OUT Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to Thea Spyer, her partner of more than four decades. The Supreme Court ruled in Edie’s favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full marriage equality in the US. Beloved by the LGBTQ community, Edie embraced her new role as an icon; she had already been living an extraordinary and groundbreaking life for decades. In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software. In the early 1960s Edie met Thea, an expat from a Dutch Jewish family that fled the Nazis, and a widely respected clinical psychologist. Their partnership lasted forty-four years, until Thea died in 2009. Edie found love again, marrying Judith Kasen-Windsor in 2016. A Wild and Precious Life is remarkable portrait of an iconic woman, gay life in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, and the rise of LGBT activism.
In the Path of God
Author: Daniel Pipes
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412826160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Americans' awareness of Islam and Muslims rose to seemingly unprecedented heights in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, but this is not the first time they have dominated American public life. Once before, during the period of the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis of 1979 to 1981, Americans found themselves targeted as a consequence of a militant interpretation of Islam. Daniel Pipes wrote In the Path of God in response to those events, and the heightened interest in Islam they generated. His objective was to present an overview of the connection between in Islam and political power through history in a way that would explain the origins of hostility to Americans and the West. Its relevance to our understanding of contemporary events is self evident. Muslim antagonism toward the West is deeply rooted in historical experience. In premodern times, the Islamic world enjoyed great success, being on the whole more powerful and wealthier than their neighbors. About two hundred years ago, a crisis developed, as Muslims became aware of the West's overwhelming force and economic might. While they might have found these elements attractive, Muslims found European culture largely alien and distasteful. The resulting resistance to Westernization by Muslims has deep roots, has been more persistent than that of other peoples, and goes far to explain the deep Muslim reluctance to accept modern ways. In short, Muslims saw what the West had and wanted it too, but they rejected the methods necessary to achieve this. This, the Muslim trauma, has only worsened over the years. "Scholarly, far-ranging, and thoughtful... the debate is interesting, and Pipes has made a stimulating contribution to it."-The New Republic "Brilliant, authoritative... demonstrates encyclopedic knowledge of Muslim intellectual history... Few other writers have explained so lucidly such complex developments in Muslim history."-The Washington Post "He has resisted a widespread tendency to translate Muslim self-expression into social science jargon as unintelligible as any mosque harangue. His unadorned interpretation strikes a judicious balance between faithfulness to sources and clarity of presentation."-The American Spectator Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and a columnist for the New York Post and the Jerusalem Post. Among his books are The Long Shadow: Culture and Politics in the Middle East (published by Transaction), Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma, and The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Aftermath and the West.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412826160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Americans' awareness of Islam and Muslims rose to seemingly unprecedented heights in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, but this is not the first time they have dominated American public life. Once before, during the period of the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis of 1979 to 1981, Americans found themselves targeted as a consequence of a militant interpretation of Islam. Daniel Pipes wrote In the Path of God in response to those events, and the heightened interest in Islam they generated. His objective was to present an overview of the connection between in Islam and political power through history in a way that would explain the origins of hostility to Americans and the West. Its relevance to our understanding of contemporary events is self evident. Muslim antagonism toward the West is deeply rooted in historical experience. In premodern times, the Islamic world enjoyed great success, being on the whole more powerful and wealthier than their neighbors. About two hundred years ago, a crisis developed, as Muslims became aware of the West's overwhelming force and economic might. While they might have found these elements attractive, Muslims found European culture largely alien and distasteful. The resulting resistance to Westernization by Muslims has deep roots, has been more persistent than that of other peoples, and goes far to explain the deep Muslim reluctance to accept modern ways. In short, Muslims saw what the West had and wanted it too, but they rejected the methods necessary to achieve this. This, the Muslim trauma, has only worsened over the years. "Scholarly, far-ranging, and thoughtful... the debate is interesting, and Pipes has made a stimulating contribution to it."-The New Republic "Brilliant, authoritative... demonstrates encyclopedic knowledge of Muslim intellectual history... Few other writers have explained so lucidly such complex developments in Muslim history."-The Washington Post "He has resisted a widespread tendency to translate Muslim self-expression into social science jargon as unintelligible as any mosque harangue. His unadorned interpretation strikes a judicious balance between faithfulness to sources and clarity of presentation."-The American Spectator Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and a columnist for the New York Post and the Jerusalem Post. Among his books are The Long Shadow: Culture and Politics in the Middle East (published by Transaction), Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, Friendly Tyrants: An American Dilemma, and The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Aftermath and the West.