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 Century Leather Wrap Bag Gloves Black (Black, Medium) $59.99 Great Gloves. I ordered the Small and they fit perfectly. Hard to find a glove small enough for a 5'2" girl. They seem to be holding up well, I use them about 3 times a week and so far, so good!  The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century $25.95 George Friedman, the author of The Next 100 Years, is the founder and CEO of STRATFOR, a private intelligence and forecasting company. He is the author of four books and numerous articles on national security, information warfare, computer security, and the intelligence business. He lives in Austin, Texas. If the reader of this book is a severe critic of the United States, that reader must be prepared for an author who is very pro United States. While Friedman's bias is indeed extreme, he does a very credible and learned job of defending his position with substantial informed levels of information. Secondly, the reader will find in this book an interesting discussion on wars and their effects. Third, this author reveals a fascinating forecasting methodology. Friedman states, "...it is important that I address my method - that is, precisely how I can forecast what I do. I don't intend to be taken seriously on the details of the war in 2050 that I forecast. But I do want to be taken seriously in terms of how wars will be fought then, about the centrality of American power, about the likelihood of other countries challenging that power, and about some of the countries I think will - and won't - challenge that power." Finally, I found the author's views on the next 100 years to be, to say the least, dramatic!  Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - The Complete Epic Series $26.98 Memory! It can play tricks on you. I remembered this series as being better than I thought. Of course, our ability to discriminate between good and bad increases as we get older. I suppose seeing much better shows since helps here. Anyway, Buck is not as good as I remembered it. But it is somewhat fun and the ladies were as attractive as I remembered! :-) But season 2 is just plain unwatchable.  The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century $29.95 When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world¡Çs two biggest nations? And with this ¡Èflattening¡É of the globe, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner? |
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