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Series
Politics of place volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
304 pages 24 cm.
Description
"Marshall takes us into ten regions that are set to shape global politics and power. Find out why the Earth's atmosphere is the world's next battleground; why the fight for the Pacific is just beginning; and why Europe's next refugee crisis is closer than we think. In ten chapters covering Australia, The Sahel, Greece, Turkey, the UK, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Space, Marshall explains how a region's geography and physical characteristics...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it. POLITICAL RISK investigates and analyzes this evolving landscape, what businesses can do to navigate it, and what all of us can learn about how to better understand and grapple with these rapidly changing global political...
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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist movements, or one-party states. Across the world today, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege while different forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum argues...
6) Liberal fascism: the secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
487 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
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A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western techniques.
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1148 p.
Description
“Esta es la historia de mis abuelos y de los vuestros, de nuestros padres y de nuestras propias vidas. De alguna forma es la historia de todos nosotros” -- Ken Follett.
10) Nunca
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janaes
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
834 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Navigating terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading and smear campaigns, Pauline Green, the country's first women president, is caught in a complex web of alliances with the most powerful countries that are being orchestrated by the enemy, and only those with the most elite skills can stop the inevitable.
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Series
Dangerous Nation Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 669 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
A comprehensive, sweeping history of America's rise to global superpower--a follow up to the author's acclaimed first volume, from our nation's earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvi, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Americans are weary of acting as the world's policeman, especially in the face of our unending economic troubles at home. President Obama stands for cutting defense budgets, leaving Afghanistan, abandoning Iraq, appeasing Russia, and offering premature declarations of victory over al Qaeda. Meanwhile, some Republicans now also argue for a far smaller and less expensive American footprint abroad. Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist...
13) On China
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xviii, 586 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
"In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences...
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
374 pages : map ; 22 cm
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"Set primarily in post-WWII Israel, a suspenseful story that is a worthy contribution to Jewish historical fiction. Recounting the tragic losses and heroic triumphs of the Jewish people during this critical stage in their history, Lone Wolf in Jerusalem brings a tale of love, loss and revenge in a new and inspirational way"--Provided by publisher.
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"Yuval Noah Harari?s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today?s most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels more polarized than ever, Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important questions...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 19
Description
As President of the United States, Jack Ryan has faced many challenges, but none have been as personal as this and never has he been this helpless in the face of evil in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form...
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