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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

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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...

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The Girl from Human Street: A Jewish Family Odyssey

by Roger Cohen

Published: 2015-12-08

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In his intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family history—a memoir of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love—award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate and discerning eye on the legacy of his own forebears. Beginning in the nineteenth century a...

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To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War (City Lights Open Media)

by John Gibler

Published: 2011-06-28

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Mexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused over $130 billion into Mexico's economy, now the country's single largest source of income. C...

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

by Lila Abu-Lughod

Published: 2015-09-07

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the cont...

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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe

by George Friedman

Published: 2016-02-16

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New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman delivers a fascinating portrait of modern-day Europe, with special focus on significant political, cultural, and geographical flashpoints where the conflicts of the past are smoldering once again.For the past fiv...

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Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

by Anne Garrels

Published: 2017-03-14

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Short-listed for the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeMore than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, the Chelyabinsk region contai...

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Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific

by Robert D. Kaplan

Published: 2015-01-06

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMESFrom Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict.   Over the last decade, ...