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Empire of Dust is a 2011 documentary film directed by Bram Van Paesschen. The film documents the workers of China Railway Seventh Group (CREC-7), a subsidiary of China Railway Group Limited (CREC), as they are contracted to construct a road between Kolwezi and Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film follows two employees of ...
In 2023, Smith Spark published A Woman of the Sword. Set in the same world as the Empires of Dust, the novel is character-led, focusing more on "grunt" characters, including from a feminist perspective and addressing PTSD and the trials of motherhood. A review in Grimdark magazine stated that the book "hurts to read", but is "unputdownable at ...
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We live in a golden age of historical fiction, from Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” adapted for television by Barry Jenkins, to Mark Sullivan’s bestseller “Beneath a ...
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Richard R. Smith is a management consultant, author, speaker, and academic. He serves as a professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), [ 1 ] Executive Advisor to the Dean of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School , and Founding Faculty Director of the Human Capital Development Lab. [ 2 ]
The United Arab States was a short-lived confederation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and North Yemen from 1958 to 1961. [15]The title of the book refers to Arabs without using the definite article "the" (Arabs instead of the Arabs) because, according to the author, the meaning of the word has repeatedly changed over time, making it "misleading" to use. [16]
In response to Smith's claims that the New Deal was socialist, Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas described Roosevelt as a state capitalist, and he also stated that Roosevelt's New Deal policies were a poor imitation of the platform of the Socialist party, noting that while Roosevelt sought to regulate Wall Street, Thomas and the Socialist ...