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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
352 pages cm
Description
"Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it. "Here are some of the things I try to fight: undemocratic power, corruption, deception of the public, environmental destruction, injustice, inequality and the misallocation of resources, waste, denial, the libertarianism which grants freedom to the powerful at the expense of the powerless, undisclosed interests, complacency." George Monbiot is one...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 643 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portrait, charts, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and material reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line...
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Jo Linden lives in a world where there are no atomic weapons, and the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union is played out in the Pax Games, fought with powerful robotic mecha war machines operated by young pilots; Jo needs the prize money to save her father's mecha repair shop, and keep what is left of her family together, but when competing pilots start dying from poisoning, Jo finds herself caught up in Cold War politics and political...
86) World order
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The former Secretary of State and national security adviser provides a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
8 CDs (600 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Dysfunctional government: It's become a cliche. And most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited view of things. In fact, there have been three great...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
The author recounts how his exposure to the criminal underclass while serving time in a state-run confinement center opened his eyes to the ways in which the behavior and world view of those criminals resembled the politics of American liberalism.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 486 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil rights movement for black Americans."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
512 pages ; cm
Description
An exploration of the New Deal era highlights the politicians and pundits of the time, many of whom advocated for questionable positions, including separation of the races and an American dictatorship.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 307 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and...
94) Democracy
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
10 CDs (13 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil rights movement for black Americans. In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy.
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