The rise of Islamic Fundamentalist revolutionary movements, the conflict in Iraq, the surge of leftist political movements in Latin America led by Venezuela's example, and updates of the chapters on Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba,...
World politics
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Auteur:Pearson, Monte L.Sommaire:Many articles in the media examine contemporary American issues and compare them to the problems that led to the fall of the Roman Empire. But before the rise of the Empire, a time of one-man rule and limited freedoms, there was the...
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Auteur:Laxer, James, Springer, JaneSommaire:"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail. Oil...
- Auteur:Smil, VaclavSommaire:
Vaclav Smil's mission is to make facts matter. An environmental scientist, policy analyst, and a hugely prolific author, he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world. In Numbers Don't Lie, Smil answers...
- Auteur:Perry, AnneSommaire:
When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder....
- Auteur:Lucht, BernieSommaire:
For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer...
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Auteur:Gallups, CarlSommaire:Warning! Gods & Thrones will forever change the way you read your Bible. It may be one of the most significant books you've ever read, as it connects deep spiritual truths to your life and to present-day global concerns.Have you...
- Auteur:Sens, Allen G.Sommaire:
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Auteur:Albright, MadeleineSommaire:From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace....
- Auteur:CLANCY, TomSommaire:
Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat...
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Auteur:Follett, Ken.Sommaire:Edge of Eternity, the finale, covers one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, encompassing civil rights, assassinations, Vietnam, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment,...
- Auteur:Waterstone, Marv, Chomsky, NoamSommaire:
The authors reveal how connections between common sense and power can keep social justice movements divided and marginalized, and they show how to overcome these divisions.
- Auteur:Painter, David S.Sommaire:
In this course, Georgetown University professor, David S. Painter, examines the Cold War and its far-reaching, global implications in order to understand the history of the second half of the twentieth century and beyond.
- Auteur:Nossal, Kim RichardSommaire:
Canada must prepare for an isolationist and unpredictable neighbor to the South should a MAGA leader gain the White House in 2025. The American-led global order has been increasingly challenged by Chinese assertiveness and Russian...
- Auteur:Mishra, PankajSommaire:
The author of From the Ruins of Empire (DB 76629) and The Romantics (DB 52514) explores the origins of the great waves of paranoid hatred that persist throughout the world in the early twenty-first century. Also discusses historical...
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Auteur:Brose, Eric DornSommaire:Known as the "Great War," World War One was one of history's greatest tragedies. It eventually dragged most of Europe and the world into its bloody quagmire, inflicting more than four years of suffering, misery, maiming, and death on...
- Auteur:Eichenwald, KurtSommaire:
Presents an account of the first five hundred days after September 11 that reveals previously undisclosed information about the terror wars, warrantless wiretapping, and the anthrax attacks.
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