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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Bad Elements	Ian Buruma	"Strange things happen when Chinese dynasties near their end. Dams break, earthquakes hit, clouds appear in the shape of weird beasts, rain falls in odd colors, and insects infest the countryside. Th…	OL119117W
Makings of the Sea	John Baldacchino	In Thodor Angelopoulos’s Ulysses’s Gaze it is poetically claimed that God’s first creation was the journey after which came doubt and nostalgia. Anyone who knows the Mediterranean will recognise th…	OL15193444W
Dangerous nation	Robert Kagan	A reevaluation of America's place in the world from the colonial era to the turn of the twentieth century. Foreign-relations expert Kagan strips away the myth of America's isolationist tradition and …	OL15855040W
God and gold	Walter Russell Mead	"An illuminating account of the birth, the rise, and the continuing rise, of a global political and economic system that rested first on the power of Britain and rests today on that of the United Sta…	OL16046508W
Imperiofobia y leyenda negra	María Elvira Roca Barea	María Elvira Roca Barea acomete con rigor en este volumen la cuestión de delimitar las ideas de imperio, leyenda negra e imperiofobia. De esta manera podemos entender qué tienen en común los imperios…	OL17752681W
A just response	Katrina Vanden Heuvel	"Some of the most respected figures on the progressive left, in a series of thoughtful, informed, and provocative essays, began to analyze the causes and consequences of this new American wound, and …	OL17908257W
God and gold	Walter Russell Mead	"An illuminating account of the birth, the rise, and the continuing rise, of a global political and economic system that rested first on the power of Britain and rests today on that of the United Sta…	OL18713546W
Through a screen darkly	Martha Bayles	"What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods--but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reason…	OL19666482W
Forgiveness 4 you	Ann Bauer	When Former Catholic priest Gabriel McKenna provides meaningful comfort to advertising executive Madeline Murray, she conceives of a religion-free form of confession as a business, with Gabriel at th…	OL19997469W
Strange and familiar	Martin Parr,David Chandler,Alona Pardo	Twenty-three photographers from countries around the world offer their own perspectives on British society. British photographer Martin Parr has selected works, dating from the 1930s to today, that c…	OL20037113W
American dream, global nightmare	Ziauddin Sardar,Merryl Wyn Davies	There is something deeply wrong with America. The American dream has become a global nightmare from which we all need to awake as quickly as possible. In this hard-hitting sequel to their best-sellin…	OL2012689W
Public relations and nation building	Margalit Toledano	"All public relations emerges from particular environments, but the specific conditions of Israel offer an exceptional study of the accelerators and inhibitors of professional development in the hist…	OL20955096W
Syria, Press Framing, and the Responsibility to Protect	Tom Pierre Najem,Walter C. Soderlund,E. Donald Briggs	1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) :	OL21600001W
Cheers America	Justin Webb	The editor for BBC television in America examines the nation that he spent the better part of a decade living in, looking at America's possibility and promise and exploring a new era in diplomacy and…	OL22345204W
The end of conceit	Patrick Chabal,Patrick Chabal	"In this radical new book, Patrick Chabal addresses the crucial issue of why the manner in which we in the West approach key political, social, and economic issues in today's globalized world - our t…	OL22646164W
Bir Osmanlı kimliği	Salih Özbaran	Greeks; history; Ottoman Empire.	OL2331599W
The rise of China in Asia	Carolyn W. Pumphrey	A compilation of reports prepared by attendees and participants of a March 2001 conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that examined the security implications of the rise of China for the Interna…	OL33505388W
America embattled	Richard Crockatt	What causes Anti- Americanism and where are its historical roots? What is the impact of 9/11 on America's sense of itself and its role in the world? Is America paradoxically a victim of its own polit…	OL3477409W
Chinas unlimited	Gregory B. Lee	This book is about the ways Chineseness has been represented over the past hundred years or so. Much of the book discusses the Orientalizing and crude racist ideologies that have formed the foundatio…	OL3745030W
Tree of hate	Philip Wayne Powell	It deals with the history of Mexico, after the Conquest, and people's negative perception of Spain as a result of the Conquest, refering to this negativism as the"Black Legend."	OL6608787W