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This CSIS report looks at Russia's evolving missile campaign against Ukraine from the opening days of the invasion to present day, the sources of Russian underperformance, and the specific missile systems Russia has deployed.

In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how ChinaâEUR(TM)s aggressive foreign policy is arguably the biggest threat to our security and is a problem that not just the West âEUR" but the rest of the world âEUR" ignores at its peril.

How to choose a model and spot design flaws, especially in moulded hulls, and how to repair many of those faults - Brushed and brushless motors, and their speed controllers, drive systems and propellers - Guidance on rechargeable cells and the correct chargers, and safety tips for lithium polymer cells - Tips on construction and how to set up a boat for racing - Detailed instructions for building a wooden three-point outrigger hydroplane - Rad...

Monumental challenges threaten the sixth mass extinction on planet Earth. From increasing rates of infertility and chronic disease to soil degradation and climate collapse, reviving civilization requires changemakers to step forward and lead with their own unique genius. In Soil & Spirit, Ian C. Williams presents a simple solution: self-actualization. Solutions at scale begin with individuals organizing themselves. Ian guides the reader thro...

Monumental challenges threaten the sixth mass extinction on planet Earth. From increasing rates of infertility and chronic disease to soil degradation and climate collapse, reviving civilization requires changemakers to step forward and lead with their own unique genius. In Soil & Spirit, Ian C. Williams presents a simple solution: self-actualization. Solutions at scale begin with individuals organizing themselves. Ian guides the reader thro...

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In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how China's aggressive foreign policy is arguably the biggest threat to our security and is a problem that not just the West - but the rest of the world - ignores at its peril.

Where the past meets the present in an age-old tale of a struggle between good and evil, compassion, love and ultimate sacrifice."Ian Williams is an extraordinary example of the pure power of imagination and a rare ability to connect that imagination to a really wide range of ways of expressing it. Welcome to his world!" Fred SilverEditor of The Skye Magazine

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Bestselling, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings fresh eyes and new insights to today's urgent conversation on race and racism in startling, illuminating essays that grow out of his own experience as a Black man moving through the world. With that one eloquent word, disorientation, Ian Williams captures the impact of racial encounters on racialized people-the whiplash of race that occurs while minding one's own business....

Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, how information is controlled and how it affects the population. The book also considers the wider implications for all of us, and how we are all tracked, monitored and followed with every click, view and search we make.

Hauntings and obsessions, travellers in jeopardy, lives under siege… A ghost story with an erotic twist, a sociopath walking his victims along their fault lines until they crack, a black GI in wartime Brisbane loses his dog tag, an Australian woman on holiday in Romania finds herself implicated in her lover's stolen jewellery fencing activities… Eleven compelling stories exploring the unexpected and sometimes terrifying consequences of steppin...

Mental Health and the Christian takes a look at the brain, mind, and soul as interchangeable entities and the effects of external and internal stimuli on homeostatic functions.Human beings are consumers. We consume through three gates: eyes, ears, and mouth. How everything we ingest affects what genes are turned on and off in the mind and body is called epigenetics. Achieving homeostasis or balance is the ultimate goal. For Christians, the hea...

A hilarious and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams' own, Reproduction explores unconventional connections and brilliantly redefines family.

This SAE EDGE(TM) Research Report explores how the deployment of automated vehicles (AVs) will affect the insurance industry and the principles of liability that underly the structure of insurance in the US. As we trade human drivers for suites of sensors and computers, who (or what) is responsible when there is a crash? The owner of the vehicle? The automaker that built it? The programmer that wrote the code?Insurers have over 100 years of ex...

From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great Read Frustrated by how tough the issues of our time are to solve - racial inequality, our pernicious depression, the troubled relationships we have with other people - Ian Williams revisits the seemingly simple questions of grade school for inspiration: if Billy has five nickels and Jane has three dimes, how many Black men will be murdered by...

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An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family.Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible imprint.Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hosp...

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