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  • Capitalism on a Ventilator

    The Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S.

    by Margaret Kimberley, Sara Flounders, Carlos Martinez, Monica Moorehead, Deirdre Griswold, Mumia Abu Jamal, Vijay Prashad, Lee Siu Hin ...
    In January 2020, China alerted major international scientific bodies about the eruption of a dangerous new virus and heavily promoted basic precautions. U.S. politicians and corporate media ridiculed and ignored the warnings.Washington ramped up its policy of racist propaganda, military encirclement, trade war and sanctions. The consequence, tens of thousands of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. – the ... Read more

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  • The Shock Doctrine

    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

    by Naomi Klein ...
    International BestsellerWinner of the Warwick Prize for Writing18th in The Guardian's top 100 Greatest Books since 2000"Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell.” —John le CarréThe bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq</... ... Read more

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  • The Hundred-Year Marathon

    China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

    by Michael Pillsbury ...
    One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and ... Read more

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  • The Retreat of Western Liberalism

    by Edward Luce ...
    An "insightful and harrowing" analysis of the state of Western-style democracy by the Financial Times columnist and author of Time to Start Thinking ( The New York Times).In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times columnist Edward Luce charted the course of America's economic and geopolitical decline, proving to be a prescient voice on the state of the nation.In The ... Read more

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  • No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses

    A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses

    by Peter Piot ...
    The story of a microbiologist’s remarkable career, from identifying ?the Ebola virus to pioneering AIDS research and policy.When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, “There’s no future in infectious diseases. They’ve all been solved.” Fortunately, Piot ignored him, and the result has been an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, as a young man, Piot was sent to ... Read more

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  • Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

    Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

    by Dan Bortolotti ...
    More fascinating and harrowing accounts of the volunteer professionals who risk their lives to help those in desperate need.Praise for the second edition:"Direct and evocative, this well-written book pushes readers to the edge of a world of grueling realities not known by most Americans."-- ChoiceDoctors Without Borders (aka Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) was founded in 1971 by rebellious ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • China Goes Global: The Partial Power

    The Partial Power

    by David Shambaugh ...
    Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics--China's politics, its vast social changes, and its economic development--few have focused on how this increasingly powerful nation has become more active and assertive ... Read more

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  • Betrayal of Trust

    The Collapse of Global Public Health

    by Laurie Garrett ...
    In this "meticulously researched" account (New York Times Book Review), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the dangers of a failing public health system unequipped to handle large-scale global risks like a coronavirus pandemic.The New York Times bestselling author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes on perhaps the most crucial global issue of our time in this eye-opening book. She ... Read more

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  • Corporate Warriors

    The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

    by P. W. Singer ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new "Privatized ... Read more

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  • Haiti After the Earthquake

    by Paul Farmer ...
    "Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort." -- Financial Times"The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction is sharp." -- Economist"A gripping, profoundly moving book, an urgent dispatch from the front by one of our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Great Games, Local Rules

    The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

    by Alexander Cooley ...
    The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over the same region, now one of the most volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Weapons of Mass Migration

    Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy

    by Kelly M. Greenhill ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    **IR theorists, foreign policy analysts and migration, security studies, and human rights scholars will all find this book a valuable addition to their scholarship.**â• Political Studies ReviewAt first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what ... Read more

    $22.79 USD