![]() ![]() ![]() He forges an unholy alliance with the demons by offering them ten thousand souls, but the demons demand one hundred thousand and without quibbling Drachar accepts. His survival is in doubt as he curls beneath a bush with only his anger keeping him alive. His powers are stripped from him and he is cast out from his home with no possessions nor food with frost on the ground. In a pique of temper he takes the name Drachar, unhomed, and swears a terrible vengeance on his people. ![]() Lothanol despises rules and he spies on the demon world, seeking knowledge and caught in the act of making a pact with the demons he is banished by his own people, the Eldric. Imps are the next in the hierarchy and they can be used as a conduit to summon their more powerful brethrens, demons, but summoning imps or demons is forbidden. His people are sorcerers and they use elementals to summon magic, but their power is very limited. Maxwell’s Demon and the Golden Apple will appeal to leaders of multinational corporations and government programs as well as instructors of undergraduate courses in international relations.Lothanol is arrogant and bored, which is a very dangerous combination. entropy, an irreversible process of disorganization that governs the direction of all physical changes taking place in the universe.” Interweaving his theory of global disorder with issues on the world stage-coupled with a disquisition on board games and the cell phone app "Angry Birds"-Schweller’s thesis yields astonishing insights. "In the coming age,” Schweller writes, “disorder will reign supreme as the world succumbs to. He combines the Greek myth of the Golden Apple of Discord, which explains the start of the Trojan War, with a look at the second law of thermodynamics, or entropy. Schweller explores in his provocative assessment of international politics in the twenty-first century.Schweller considers the future of world politics, correlating our reliance on technology and our multitasking, distracted, disorganized lives with a fragmenting world order. ![]() Mixing myth, entropy, and Angry Birds, Randall Schweller brings a novel perspective to international studies.Just what exactly will follow the American century? This is the question Randall L. ![]()
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