Dan Slater

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1) From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia

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English

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Dan Slater is the James Orin Murfin Professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan. His books include Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia. Joseph Wong is the Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and professor of political science at the University of Toronto....

2) Love in the Time of Algorithms: What TechnologyDoes to Meeting and Mating

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Slater, Dan

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English

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"If online dating can blunt the emotional pain of separation, if adults can afford to be increasingly demanding about what they want from a relationship, the effect of online dating seems positive. But what if it's also the case that the prospect of finding an ever more compatible mate with the click of a mouse means a future of relationship instability, a paradox of choice that keeps us chasing the illusive bunny around the dating track?" It's the...

3) House of Rot

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Slater, Danger

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English

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Book, eBook

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"The pink mold growing on the walls isn't the worst thing about Elenya and Myles' brand new fixer upper. There's also the inexplicable footsteps in the night; the sealed-over windows and doors; the neighbor that hears their screams but can't be bothered to help. Soon, there's no leaving at all. No hope of cleaning. And that encroaching mold? It's practically become a second skin. Welcome to the House of Rot. You're never getting out." -- publisher...

4) Wolf boys: two American teenagers and Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel

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Slater, Dan

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication Date

2016.

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English

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The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable. What it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organization? In the border town of Laredo, Texas, Gabriel and his friend Bart abandon promising futures for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military. Mexican-born Detective Robert Garcia...

5) IMPOSSIBLE JAMES

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SLATER, DANGER

Publisher

FUNGASM Press

Publication Date

2019

Language

English

6) Moonfellows

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Slater, Danger

Publisher

Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing

Publication Date

[2022]

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English

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"ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP INTO THE EXISTENTIAL ABYSS. Washington DC. 1906. The inaugural mission of the Moonfellow Program. A chance to shape the future of civilization as we know it. Our first tentative steps out into the stars...It was a complete and unequivocal disaster. Now a hapless gravedigger finds himself among the handful of survivors stranded on the lunar surface--forced to contend with madness, conspiracies, and whatever-the-fuck...