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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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xxiii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Victor Sebestyen reveals the events of 1946 by chronologically framing what was taking place in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, with seminal decisions made by heads of state that would profoundly change the old order forever. Whether it was the July 22 bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the July 25 Bikini Atoll underwater atomic bomb test, or the August 16 Great Calcutta Killings in India, 1946 was a year of seismic and dramatic events....
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"Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn't easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with their limited resources to stabilize the world. Warner has his sights set on more than just politics. Since he proposed to Juliette two weeks ago, he's been eager to finally marry her, the person he loves more than anything and has endured so much to be with. But with so much chaos...
24) Nunca
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Publisher
Plaza Janaes
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
834 pages ; 23 cm
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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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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
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viii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for dominance. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today...
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Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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"The film considers the unparalleled stretch of violence during the 20th century as a single, unrelenting 'war of the world' that began with Japan's invasion of Russia in 1904 and continued through the Korean War all the way to an ongoing 'Third Word's War'"--Container.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Vaclav Smil's mission is to make facts matter. An environmental scientist, policy analyst, and a hugely prolific author, he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world. In Numbers Don't Lie, Smil answers questions such as: What's worse for theenvironment--your car or your phone? How much do the world's cows weigh (and what does it matter)? And what makes people happy?"--
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Dangerous Nation Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
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x, 669 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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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.
29) New world order
Publisher
Disinformation Company
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85, 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A behind the scenes look at the underground anti-globalist movement.
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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...
31) On China
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
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xviii, 586 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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"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...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 25 cm.
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Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, human immunology, psychology, and his own extraordinary experiences, Ramo delivers a brilliant new paradigm for understanding the dangerous--and dangerously unpredictable--new global order.
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DK, 2017
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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¿Debe ser derrocado un gobernante injusto? ¿Es la democracia la mejor forma de gobierno? ¿Puede ser justa una guerra? A lo largo de la historia, estas y otras preguntas acerca de cuál es el mejor modo de gobernarnos han suscitado respuestas de grandes pensadores que hoy siguen dando forma al mundo. Con un lenguaje claro se ofrece concisas explicaciones que desbrozan la jerga académica, esquemas que hacen sencillas las teorías más complejas...
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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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"Beginning in the 1850s, Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans who made their fortunes in the China opium trade. As they---good Christians all---profitably addicted millions, American missionaries arrived, promising salvation for those who adopted Western ways. From drug dealer Warren Delano to his grandson Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from the port of Hong Kong to the towers of Princeton University, from the era of Appomattox to the age...
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Criterion collection volume 821
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Eager for war, a general plans a nuclear apocalypse.
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Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years? absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country?s civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune...
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