balance of power

Examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those in recent memory.

Traces the origins of the conflict between the East and West, exploring how tensions between the world's halves have evolved and changed over the last 2,500 years and highlighting crucial events and battles that have shaped the conflict.

An analysis of the First World War and its aftermath.

Nineteen-year-old Piri, who lives above the clouds in a technological metropolis, finds his world is about to change when an accident drops him out of the city. As he tries to survive life on the surface, which is an atrocious reality of gruesome creatures known as Scavs, he starts to understand his own feelings for Niko, the boy who rescued him.

Celestial Being rises again, armed with the new Gundam "Double-Oh" piloted by Gundam Meister Setsuna F. Seiei, to put an end to the oppression of the Earth's people by the Autonomous Peace-Keeping Force A-LAWS of the Earth Sphere Federation.

Earth in the year 2307 has developed a new source of energy provided by a large-scale solar power generation system which is controlled by three superpower blocs, but that control is threatened when a private armed organization called Celestial Being--which is in possession of Gundam mobile suits--appears on the scene to intervene in all acts of war.

Presents a historical account from the Ming Dynasty to Ottoman Turkey to Imperial Spain of how economic imbalances caused civil collapse and why the United States could be next.