Wenn in der Stadt, die niemals schläft, plötzlich die Lichter ausgehenJuli 1977 in New York: Hitze, Gewitter – und dann der große Blackout. Als ein Blitzschlag die Stadt lahmlegt, versinkt New York im legendären Stromausfall von 1977. Auf der Upper East Side wird gefeiert, in Brooklyn bedrohen Plünderungen Existenzen. Cynthia Simmons kämpft sich durch die Dunkelheit, auf der Suche nach ihrer hochschwangeren Tochter Pamela

Pain is a four-letter word that we need to have the least amount as we grow older. I had a problem with my sciatic nerve a few years back, and it was horrible. It went from my back to my leg and my feet. I couldn't walk or do any exercise with that pain. So I decided to search for a system that would help me because even though I don't know how long I would live, I want to live as long as I need to with the least amount of pain possible. I now walk six to eight miles per day, am totally he...

For over a quarter of a century, the author has ventured systematically into the emerging field of international political economy, an area traditionally dominated by political scientists. Crossing Frontiers - the title refers both to national and disciplinary boundaries - brings together for the first time a dozen of his essays. These essays exhibit a pragmatism, a preference for practical applications over abstract theory, and a willingness to face the complexity of the real world rather...

In the club presents a comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia, arguing for clubs as key contributors to South Asia’s colonial associational life and civil society. Using government records, personal memoirs, private club records, and club histories themselves, In the club explores colonial club life with chapters arranged thematically: the legal underpinnings of clubs; their physical locations and compositions; their financial health; the role of servants and staff as ...

**How can you maximize success—and limit failure?**Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Cohen brilliantly investigates the mystery and science of streaks.""A feast for anyone interested in the secrets of excellence."" —Andre AgassiFor decades, statisticians, social scientists, psychologists, and economists (among them Nobel Prize winners) have spent massive amounts of precious time thinking about whether streaks actual...

A key figure in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Benjamin V. Cohen (18941983) was a major architect of public policy from the first days of FDR’s presidency through the early days of the Cold War. Although he kept a low public profile, Cohen’s influence extended across a wide range of domestic and foreign policy initiatives. In this biography, William Lasser offers the first account of Ben Cohen’s life and career, and an assessment of his contributi...

"Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethn...

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's development, the contrasting worldviews of its American and British schools, and the different ways scholars have sought t...

WHEN COHEN HOARD gets a tongue in the mail, it really ruins his day. The package isn’t even addressed to him, it’s addressed to Calla Human, whoever that is.Cohen doesn't have time for disembodied tongues. The transportation AI they are creating at work is going to change the world. And Cohen has to fix the bug in his demo code before it releases in a few days. But now he’s got to take care of this stupid tongue first.When he manages to deliver the tongue to Calla Human, sh...

Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States.In the latter nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its concerns have carried forward to today: How could you tell the food you bough...

At any given time, a limited number of national currencies are used as instruments of international commerce, to settle foreign trade transactions or store value for investors and central banks. How countries whose currencies gain international appeal choose to use this status forms their strategy of currency statecraft. In different circumstances, issuing governments may welcome and promote the internationalization of their currency, tolerate it, or actively oppose it. Benjamin J. Cohen o...

Around the world, numerous communities seek the protections of sovereignty--a "dream state" of their own--to preserve their traditional way of life. However, these secessionist movements create risk of prolonged conflict in countries of every size and location, from tiny statelets in the Caribbean or Pacific to large and fragile multiethnic federations like Russia, India, and even the United States. Dream States asks and answers two questions: How serious is the danger of separati...