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What I Mean to Say

Remaking Conversation in Our Time

by Ian Williams ...

Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
Enough small talk. Let’s get right to it: Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation?In contemporary society, much of our communication exists in a new dimension, the online space, and it’s changing how we regard each other and how we converse. In the digital realm, we can be anonymous, we can make false and hurtful ... Read more

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Enough small talk. Let’s get right to it: Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation?In contemporary society, much of our communication exists in a new dimension, the online space, and it’s changing how we regard each other and how we converse. In the digital realm, we can be anonymous, we can make false and hurtful
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The Fire of the Dragon

China's New Cold War

by Ian Williams ...

Shortlisted for the Orwell PrizeAs seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC)Under President Xi Jinping, China's global ambitions have taken a dangerous new turn. Bullying and intimidation have replaced diplomacy. Trade and investment, even big-spending tourists and students, have been weaponised. Beijing has strengthened its alliance with Vladimir Putin, ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the Orwell PrizeAs seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC)Under President Xi Jinping, China's global ambitions have taken a dangerous new turn. Bullying and intimidation have replaced diplomacy. Trade and investment, even big-spending tourists and students, have been weaponised. Beijing has strengthened its alliance with Vladimir Putin,
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Vampire State

The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy

by Ian Williams ...

This is the terrifying story of China's vampire economy.State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese economy. However, none seems to capture the predatory, at times surreal, nature of the economy of the world's most populous nation – nor the often bruising and mind-bending experience of doing business ... Read more

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This is the terrifying story of China's vampire economy.State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese economy. However, none seems to capture the predatory, at times surreal, nature of the economy of the world's most populous nation – nor the often bruising and mind-bending experience of doing business
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Kas (A Journey Through Time): Adventure Through Time: Adventure Through Time

Adventure Through Time

by Ian Williams ...

What if history was not fixed? What if time itself could be crossed, witnessed, and remembered?This is the extraordinary chronicle of the experiences that shaped my life-events so astonishing that most people could scarcely imagine them, let alone believe them.My journey through time was never planned. It was an unexpected passage that nearly claimed my life, yet against all odds, I survived to ... Read more

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What if history was not fixed? What if time itself could be crossed, witnessed, and remembered?This is the extraordinary chronicle of the experiences that shaped my life-events so astonishing that most people could scarcely imagine them, let alone believe them.My journey through time was never planned. It was an unexpected passage that nearly claimed my life, yet against all odds, I survived to
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Disorientation

Being Black in the World

by Ian Williams ...

A Boston Globe Best Book of 2021: "Lyrical, closely observed" essays on being Black in the US, Canada, and Trinidad, and how those experiences differed ( Kirkus Reviews).Finalist for the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionWith that one eloquent word, disorientation, Scotiabank Giller Award winner Ian Williams captures the impact of racial encounters on racialized people—the ... Read more

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A Boston Globe Best Book of 2021: "Lyrical, closely observed" essays on being Black in the US, Canada, and Trinidad, and how those experiences differed ( Kirkus Reviews).Finalist for the 2021 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionWith that one eloquent word, disorientation, Scotiabank Giller Award winner Ian Williams captures the impact of racial encounters on racialized people—the
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Reproduction

A Novel

by Ian Williams ...

"With subtlety and wit, [a] prizewinning debut" novel set in 1970s Toronto "explores a liaison across race and class divisions in Canada" ( The Guardian, UK).Felicia and Edgar come from different worlds. She's a nineteen-year-old student and Caribbean immigrant while he is the impetuous heir to his German family's fortune. When their ailing mothers are assigned the same Toronto hospital room, ... Read more

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"With subtlety and wit, [a] prizewinning debut" novel set in 1970s Toronto "explores a liaison across race and class divisions in Canada" ( The Guardian, UK).Felicia and Edgar come from different worlds. She's a nineteen-year-old student and Caribbean immigrant while he is the impetuous heir to his German family's fortune. When their ailing mothers are assigned the same Toronto hospital room,
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Every Breath You Take - Featured in The Times and Sunday Times

China's New Tyranny

by Ian Williams ...

One of the year's most exciting releases' - The Herald China is building the world's first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet freedom has been eliminated and ubiquitous surveillance cameras employ the latest facial recognition technology. Through flagrant cyber espionage, it has plundered Western technology on a massive scale, ... Read more

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One of the year's most exciting releases' - The Herald China is building the world's first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet freedom has been eliminated and ubiquitous surveillance cameras employ the latest facial recognition technology. Through flagrant cyber espionage, it has plundered Western technology on a massive scale,
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The Fire of the Dragon

China's New Cold War

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"Really, really good, a fascinating book to read. So if you are thinking of buying something for someone at Christmas, I suggest you find out more about China. Some of it is pretty scary stuff" — The Stand with Eamon Dunphy Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2023 As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Under President Xi Jinping, China's global ambitions ... Read more

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"Really, really good, a fascinating book to read. So if you are thinking of buying something for someone at Christmas, I suggest you find out more about China. Some of it is pretty scary stuff" — The Stand with Eamon Dunphy Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2023 As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Under President Xi Jinping, China's global ambitions
... Read more
Vampire State

The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy

by Ian Williams ...

"This is a timely and important read... Through several deeply reported chapters, he outlines how Beijing wields its influence on business: from regulatory coercion and boardroom intimidation, through even to the mysterious disappearance of entrepreneurs." — Financial Times, Best New Books on EconomicsThis is the terrifying story of China’s vampire economy.State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese ... Read more

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"This is a timely and important read... Through several deeply reported chapters, he outlines how Beijing wields its influence on business: from regulatory coercion and boardroom intimidation, through even to the mysterious disappearance of entrepreneurs." — Financial Times, Best New Books on EconomicsThis is the terrifying story of China’s vampire economy.State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese
... Read more
Every Breath You Take - Featured in The Times and Sunday Times

China's New Tyranny

by Ian Williams ...

'one of the year's most exciting releases' - The HeraldChina is building the world's first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet freedom has been eliminated and ubiquitous surveillance cameras employ the latest facial recognition technology.Through flagrant cyber espionage, it has plundered Western technology on a massive scale, ... Read more

$12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

'one of the year's most exciting releases' - The HeraldChina is building the world's first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet freedom has been eliminated and ubiquitous surveillance cameras employ the latest facial recognition technology.Through flagrant cyber espionage, it has plundered Western technology on a massive scale,
... Read more
Personals

by Ian Williams ...

These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, these are poems voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting with others, often to no avail. Ian Williams writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets. He also invents his own: poems that spin into ... Read more

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These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, these are poems voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting with others, often to no avail. Ian Williams writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets. He also invents his own: poems that spin into
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Putin's Missile War

Russia's Strike Campaign in Ukraine

by Ian Williams ...

Series series CSIS Reports
Russia’s missile campaign against Ukraine has severely underperformed expectations. In the invasion’s early days, Russia underestimated the necessary scale and effort of its missile campaign. Since then, Russia has changed course multiple times, most recently moving to target Ukrainian electrical grid and civilian infrastructure during the winter months. Russia’s haphazard missile campaign ... Read more

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Russia’s missile campaign against Ukraine has severely underperformed expectations. In the invasion’s early days, Russia underestimated the necessary scale and effort of its missile campaign. Since then, Russia has changed course multiple times, most recently moving to target Ukrainian electrical grid and civilian infrastructure during the winter months. Russia’s haphazard missile campaign
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