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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It

by Joshua Cooper Ramo

Published: 2010-06-02

Paperback: 285 pages

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Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial ...

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Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism

by Harm de Blij

Published: 2007-02-12

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Over the next half century, the human population, divided by culture and economics and armed with weapons of mass destruction, will expand to nearly 9 billion people. Abrupt climate change may throw the global system into chaos; China will emerge as a superpower; and Islamic terrorism and ...

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Catching the Wind

by Melanie Dobson

Published: 2017-05-09

Paperback: 416 pages

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What happened to Brigitte Berthold?That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and ten-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival...

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His Family

by Ernest Poole

Published: 2015-09-02

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At sixty, Roger Gale looks at how his family -- his three daughters in particular -- respond to the changing times. He sees a little bit of himself in each of them. This is the first novel to win the Pulitzer Prize

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Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent

by Fred Burton

Published: 2009-06-09

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In this hard-hitting memoir, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, worldly-wise few. Plunging readers into the mur...

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Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA

by Jefferson Morley

Published: 2008-03-11

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Mexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War-a hotbed of spies, revolutionaries, and assassins. The CIA's station there was the front line of the United States' fight against international communism, as important for Latin America as Berlin was for Europe. And its undisputed spymaster wa...

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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution

by Lee Alan Dugatkin, Lyudmila Trut

Published: 2017-03-23

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Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs—they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken...

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United Nations: The First Fifty Years

by Stanley Meisler

Published: 1997-02-12

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In a lucid, colorful account, Stanley Meisler brings alive the personalities and events of the first fifty years of the United Nations. It is a story filled with action and heartbreak. "Stanley Meisler tells the story of the United Nations, its promise and its problems, with clarity and au...

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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

by Robert D. Kaplan

Published: 2005-05-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New Y...

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After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro's Regime and Cuba's Next Leader

by Brian Latell

Published: 2007-02-06

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This is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary Castro brothers and the impending dynastic succession of Fidel's younger brother Raul. Brian Latell, the CIA analyst who has followed Castro since the sixties, gives an unprecedented view into Fidel and Raul's remarkable r...