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UNINA9910164919403321 |
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Steel Danielle |
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Dangerous Games : A Novel |
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Westminster : , : Random House Publishing Group, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (233 pages) |
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FIC044000FIC008000FIC027020 |
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Investigative reporting--Fiction |
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"Bringing together a cast of fascinating characters in a riveting tale of ambition and corruption, politics, passion, and ultimate justice, Dangerous Games is a thrilling drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets and breaks rules to bring the most important news to the world--from riots in America to protests on the streets of Tehran. With her daughter in college, and working alongside cameraman Ben Chapman, a deeply private ex-Navy SEAL, Alix revels in the risks and whirlwind pace of her work. But her latest assignment puts her at the center of an explosive story that will reshape many lives, including her own: investigating damning allegations involving the vice president of the United States, Tony Clark. Alix starts with a nationally revered woman who may be the key to exposing frightening secrets. Olympia Foster is the fragile, reclusive widow of America's most admired senator, who had been destined for the presidency before an assassin's bullet felled him. Since then, Olympia has found emotional support from Clark, who once wanted her as his wife and now stands as her protector and confidant. When Alix begins to dig deeper, federal agents pick up the trail. Then the threats begin. As the stakes rise in this dangerous game, Alix needs Ben's help as never before. And soon they realize they are grappling with an adversary far more sinister than they had imagined"-- |
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"In this timely and intriguing novel, a TV journalist and ex-Navy SEAL delve deep under the surface of political influence and power to uncover the corruption that lies beneath. Risk-taking investigative television journalist Alix Phillips dashes from hot spot to hot spot around the world in the company of her equally intrepid camerman, ex-Navy SEAL Ben Chapman. Alix and Ben put their lives--and their hearts--on the line in a perilous assignment that has them in pursuit of a corrupt Vice President linked to the revered widow of a visionary, assassinated scion of a powerful political family"-- |
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UNINA9910814849403321 |
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Autore |
Brautigam Deborah |
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Will Africa feed China? / / Deborah Brautigam |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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0-19-939687-6 |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Food security - China |
Food security - Africa |
Land settlement - Africa |
Agriculture - Economic aspects - Africa |
China Foreign economic relations Africa |
Africa Foreign economic relations China |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Who Will Feed China? -- Long March: History of Chinese Agricultural Engagement in Africa -- The Mountains are High and the Emperor is Far Away -- Zombie Investments -- Green Shoots -- The Future -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Database of Media Reports and Actual Outcomes -- Endnotes -- Index. |
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"Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the Chinese government is aggressively buying up huge tracts of prime African land to grow food to ship back to China. In Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, probes the myths and realities behind the media headlines. Her careful research challenges the conventional wisdom; as she shows, Chinese farming investments are in fact surprisingly limited, and land acquisitions modest. Defying expectations, China actually exports more food to Africa than it imports. Is this picture likely to change? African governments are pushing hard for foreign capital, and China is building a portfolio of tools to allow its agribusiness firms to "go global." International concerns about "land grabbing" are well-justified. Yet to feed its own growing population, rural Africa must move from subsistence to commercial agriculture. What role will China play? Moving from the halls of power in Beijing to remote irrigated rice paddies of Africa, Will Africa Feed China? introduces the people and the politics that will shape the future of this engagement: the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and the entrepreneurial private investors who followed them. Their fascinating stories, and those of the African farmers and officials who are their counterparts, ground Brautigam's deeply informative, deftly balanced reporting. Forcefully argued and empirically rich, Will Africa Feed China? will be a landmark work, shedding new light on China's evolving global quest for food security and Africa's possibilities for structural transformation"-- |
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