The inside story of an&nbsp;extraordinary, once-in-a-generation&nbsp;victory:&nbsp;the normalization of&nbsp;relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, Kosovo,&nbsp;and Morocco. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity. For decades, the U.S. State Department called it diplomacy. David Friedman was an outside candidate when President Trump appointed him U.S. ambassador to Israel. He took office to find U.S.-Israel policy stuck in stalemate. For years, accepted wisdom was that extensive experience and detailed knowledge of Middle Eastern history and culture were necessary to negotiate treaties. In truth, Friedman realized, all parties played on that accepted wisdom to stall--expecting to get a better deal further down the road. Tossing the State Department playbook aside and incorporating insights from his many years as a negotiator in the American private sector, Friedman and a small team with no prior diplomatic experience revamped American diplomacy to project "peace through strength." He emphasized the importance of leverage, the key to any good negotiation. After painstaking, behind-the-scenes work, the Abraham Accords were signed: a historic series of peace deals between Israel and the five Muslim nations. In Sledgehammer, Friedman tells the true story of how the Abraham Accords came about. He takes us from the Oval Office to the highest echelons of power in the Middle East, putting us at the table during the intense negotiations that led to this historic breakthrough. The inside story of arguably the greatest achievement of the Trump Administration, Sledgehammer is an important, inspiring account of the hard, hopeful work necessary to bring long overdue--and lasting--peace to one of the most turbulent and tragic regions of the globe.

Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East

FRIEDMAN, DAVID

Reference

Broadside Books

Winner, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians. The city of Florence came late to the process of town foundation that reshaped Europe at the end of the Middle Ages, yet the five towns it created are the most complex and artistically accomplished of the entire new town tradition. Florentine New Towns is an original and comprehensive study of an important episode in late Medieval urbanism. It uncovers the root of urban phenomena familiar since the Renaissance but shown here to have developed much earlier. On the basis of archival evidence unknown for any other medieval founded towns, Friedman demonstrates that the Tuscan new towns of San Giovanni, Castelfranco di Sopra, Terranuova, Scarperia, and Firenzuola were created by men recognized as professional designers by 14th-century Florence. He identifies them and analyzes their design process, including the geometry of sines and chords on which two of the new towns are based. During the period from 1299 to 1350 when Florence undertook its foundation of towns, it was in the process of a transformation that was central to the formation of the modern European city. This was a time when the merchant class gained control of government and when government took charge of the physical environment of the city. A new urban ideal emerged, Friedman points out, that was only partly realized in Florence but which found its fullest expression in the planners' comprehensive schemes for these new towns. David Friedman is Associate Professor of History in the Architecture Department at MIT. An Architectural History Foundation Book.

Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages (AMERICAN MONOGRAPH SERIES)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Mit Pr

This guide offers a broad summary of the law of intellectual property (patents, copyrights trademarks, trade secrets, and a variety of other sui generis forms of protection for innovations and creativity) and the law of unfair competition (trademark infringement, passing off, trade disparagement, and deceptive advertising).It also touches on related fields of law, such as antitrust, consumer protection, regulated industries, and the law governing interference with contractual and noncontractual relations.

Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

McManis, Charles

Intellectual Property

West Academic Publishing

This book addresses the reasons for the spectacular growth of Japanese manufacturing industries in the period beginning with the mid-1950s and ending in the late 1970s. Clean, tight book. 264pp. Index. Previous owner's name on front end page. http://www.diatrope.com/DB/13985.jpg 1 2 y 3.5 2

The Misunderstood Miracle: Industrial Development and Political Change in Japan (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

Business & Money

Economics

Cornell University Press

The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Open Court

Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy is a peer-reviewed analysis of the economic and technological potential for a comprehensive suite of climate, energy, and transportation solutions and policies to greatly reduce U.S. global warming emissions and help get us on a path to avoiding some of the worst impacts of climate change. The results demonstrate that meeting stringent near- and medium-term emissions caps in the United States is feasible and can be done cost-effectively. This analysis is an important contribution to the U.S. and international climate policy debates.   The analysis relies primarily on a modified version of the Department of Energy's National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). The model was supplemented with offline analyses of energy efficiency and availability of biomass energy. The combined modeling effort is an integrated assessment of a package of climate and energy policies across multiple sectors of the economy within a timeframe of 2030. It captures the dynamic feedback effects between energy use, prices, investments, and the economy, while also considering competition for limited resources and land. Different policy scenarios, sets of assumptions, and resource/technology packages were analyzed. Among the solutions modeled are increased energy efficiency, greater contributions from renewable energy, increased vehicle efficiency, increased investment in research, development and deployment of existing and new low carbon technologies, smart growth incentives and the implementation of an economywide cap-and-trade program.   The analysis shows that the technologies and policies pursued under the Blueprint produce dramatic changes in energy use and cuts in carbon emissions. It also shows that consumers and businesses reap significant savings on their energy bills, while the economy continues to grow robustly.

Climate 2030: National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy

Science & Math

Cleetus, Rachel

Clemmer, Steven

Earth Sciences

Union of Concerned Scientists

As the fable goes, the Gods all got together to decide where they were going to hide the secret of life from Man. The first God said, “Let’s hide it up in the sky. Man can’t fly so he won’t be able to get to it there.” The second God said, “Let’s hide it at the bottom of the sea. Man can’t breathe underwater, so he won’t be able to get to it there.” Then, the third, and wisest God said, “I have an idea. Let’s hide the secret of life right inside Man himself. He’ll NEVER think of looking for it there!’ For so many of us, we have spent years looking for success and fulfillment everywhere but where they can actually found. Inside of ourselves. There is nothing to attract. Nothing to target. Nothing to achieve. All we have to do is Notice what has been there all along, inside of ourselves. And the moment we do that, the physical world, which is nothing more than a mirror designed to reflect back to us what WE are thinking, MUST reflect what we are thinking. In fact, it’s doing that right now. In this third book in The Thought Exchange Series, David fulfills his readers’ and students’ request for a simple workbook of step by step exercises in which we can understand, on an Experiential level, that EVERYTHING we could ever want we already have inside.

It's All Inside: A Thought Exchange Workbook for Sourcing Success and Happiness From the Inside Out

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Library Tales Publishing, Incorporated

A collection of recipes, articles, poems, and stories related to historical recreation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially within the Society for Creative Anachronism. It includes more than three hundred period recipes, both original and worked out version, articles on medieval cooking, making tents, transportable period furniture, hardened leather armor, Germanic lyres, period jewelry and how to make it, and many other things.Part I contains the same material as How to Milk an Almond, Stuff an Egg, and Armor a Turnip: A Thousand Years of Recipes, published separately by the same authors.

A Miscellany

History

COOK, Elizabeth

Europe

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Trained as a musician and inspired by the likes of John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Smokey Robinson, it’s no wonder that David Friedman’s poems shimmer with pulsating life and musicality all of their own. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Infinity, Friedman introduces us to the world as seen through the eyes of Huckleberry and leads intrepid explorers on an infinite journey though the simplicity of his mind. Distilling the magic of a single thought into humorous and poignant poems and poetic stories, Friedman challenges us to see the world and ourselves anew—to find fresh truths and new modes of understanding in ancient texts, old pop song lyrics, and everyday objects. Exploring themes of faith, happiness, self-discovery, and much, much more, these poems will open your heart to deeper realities and challenge your mind to engage authentically with itself. So put down the remote, open this collection of fantastical poems, and be prepared for a wonderful and hilarious magical mystery ride through the world of Huckleberry Infinity.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Infinity

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

How can each of us live Cooler Smarter? While the routine decisions that shape our days—what to have for dinner, where to shop, how to get to work—may seem small, collectively they have a big effect on global warming. But which changes in our lifestyles might make the biggest difference to the climate? This science-based guide shows you the most effective ways to cut your own global warming emissions by twenty percent or more, and explains why your individual contribution is so vital to addressing this global problem. Cooler Smarter is based on an in-depth, two-year study by the experts at The Union of Concerned Scientists. While other green guides suggest an array of tips, Cooler Smarter offers proven strategies to cut carbon, with chapters on transportation, home energy use, diet, personal consumption, as well as how best to influence your workplace, your community, and elected officials. The book explains how to make the biggest impact and when not to sweat the small stuff. It also turns many eco-myths on their head, like the importance of locally produced food or the superiority of all hybrid cars. The advice in Cooler Smarter can help save you money and live healthier. But its central purpose is to empower you, through low carbon-living, to confront one of society’s greatest threats.

Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living

Self-Help

ROGERS, JOHN

Shulman, Seth

The Union of Concerned Scientists

Deyette, Jeff

Ekwurzel, Brenda

Mellon, Margaret

Shaw, Suzanne

Personal Transformation

Island Press

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