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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
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Morgan Spurlock |
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even high… |
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O caderno
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José Saramago |
"Provocative and lyrical, ... on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, the author started jotting down his reflections on the world in which he lives. He evokes life in his beloved city of Li… |
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The post-American world
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Fareed Zakaria |
The New York Times bestseller, revised and expanded with a new afterword: the essential update of Fareed Zakaria's international bestseller about America and its shifting position in world affairs. F… |
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Age of Anger
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Pankaj Mishra |
From Goodreads (edited by me though): **One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis**
Modernity, secularism, development, and progress ha… |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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Yuval Noah Harari |
In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. Censorship works not by blocking the flow of information, but rather by flooding people with disinformation and distractions. 21 Lesson… |
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War footing
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R. James Woolsey |
Summary:America has been at war for years, but until now, it's not been clear with whom. We have been fighting without being clear for what. We have been waging war without using the full resources w… |
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The statesman's yearbook 2011
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Turner, Barry |
Following recent research into customer needs, a wealth of extra content has been included in this new edition, including political profiles, government histories, extended economic overviews and a g… |
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The broken compass
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Peter Hitchens |
Amazon review: Mr. Hitchens latest book, The Broken Compass is a short 200 page essay on the state of affairs in the United Kingdom as of this writing in mid-2009.
The book is divided into three p… |
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What next?
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Chris Patten |
Globalisation, energy, international crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, nuclear proliferation, small arms proliferation, international drugs trafficking, climate change, water shortage, migration, e… |
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The retreat of western liberalism
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Edward Luce |
In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's relative decline, proving to be a prescient voice o… |
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The confidence trap
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David Runciman |
"Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. … |
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Divided
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Tim Marshall |
"Tim Marshall ... analyzes the most urgent and tenacious topics in global politics and international relations by examining the borders, walls, and boundaries that divide countries and their populati… |
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Strategicheskiĭ vzgl︠i︡ad
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Zbigniew K. Brzezinski |
In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism… |
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Today we drop bombs, tomorrow we build bridges
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Gill, Peter |
"The 'War on Terror' has politicized foreign aid in a way never before seen, with often devastating consequences. Aid workers are being killed in unprecedented numbers, and civilians in war-torn coun… |
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How did we get into this mess?
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George Monbiot |
"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 pu… |
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Twilight of Democracy
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Anne Applebaum |
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism and authoritarianism.
From the United States and… |
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Natos Return to Europe
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Rebecca R. Moore,Nicholas Burns,Damon Coletta |
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The Age of Consent
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George Monbiot |
Having made a hugely significant contribution to the increasingly irrefutable, if alarming, diagnosis of the ills of early 21st century consumerist culture and its free-market myths, George Monbiot s… |
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Dictionary of Modern Strategy and Tactics
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Michael Keane |
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The age of the unthinkable
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Joshua Cooper Ramo |
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 … |
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