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The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor's eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States. Many books have examined China's economic rise, human rights record, turbulent history, and relations with the US; none until now, however, have tackled the issue central to understanding all of these issues: how the ruling communist government works. The Party delves deeply into China's secretive political machine.

Richard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II.

Rural America is struggling. The average farmer is now 57 years old. Family agriculture is gradually fading, and prime farmland is often converted into environmentally harmful applications. But food cultivation has ecological consequences, too. Farms consume 80 percent of the nation’s water. Although they often prevent sprawling development, improve water quality, or provide wildlife habitat, they also pollute rivers, drain wetlands, or emit destructive greenhouse gasses.

Who doesn't love smoothies? Packed with superfoods and antioxidants, healthy green smoothies offer an attractive way for us to receive the nutrients our bodies need without drastically changing our daily lives. Even if you find the taste a bit disagreeable at first, you can still enjoy your smoothies. Simply mix in some fruit, flavored protein power or even cocoa powder in your smoothie.

People have been fasting for centuries. It's one of the oldest health practice known to man.The intermittent fasting diet will transform your body, your mind and your health. It's the revolutionary part-time weight loss diet with lifelong health and anti-aging results. Teacher and former yo-yo dieter, Health Guru has finally discovered a diet that helped her with weight maintenance - and now she shares these secrets eagerly with all who desire to win their personal battle over obesity and ill-health.