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  • The Arab Uprisings

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by James Gelvin ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Employing an engaging question-and-answer format, The Arab Uprisings explores the revolutionary protests that have rocked the Arab world since late 2010. In this updated and revised second edition, James L. Gelvin explores the varied paths taken by the uprisings and assesses their historical and global significance. Gelvin begins with an overview-What were the conditions in the Arab world that led ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Arab Uprisings

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by James Gelvin ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Employing an engaging question-and-answer format, The Arab Uprisings explores the revolutionary protests that have rocked the Arab world since late 2010. In this updated and revised second edition, James L. Gelvin explores the varied paths taken by the uprisings and assesses their historical and global significance. Gelvin begins with an overview-What were the conditions in the Arab world that led ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Winner Take All

    China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance -- their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life -- few people who are not economists or traders know how commodity markets work. Almost every day, newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of impending doom -- shortages of arable land, clashes ... Read more

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  • Age of Anger

    A History of the Present

    by Pankaj Mishra ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 • Named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and NPR • Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeOne of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world—from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise ... Read more

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  • Ethics

    by Baruch Spinoza ...
    Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Latin: Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata), usually known as the Ethics, is a philosophical treatise written by Benedict de Spinoza. It was written between 1664 and 1665 and was first published in 1677.The book is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of Euclid in philosophy. Spinoza puts forward a small number of definitions and ... Read more

    $1.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ayatollahs' Democracy

    An Iranian Challenge

    by Hooman Majd ...
    "One of America's most astute revealers of Iranian culture and identity."-Reza Aslan, The AtlanticHailed as one of the year's best foreign policy books, Hooman Majd's latest offers dramatic perspective on a country with global ambitions, an elaborate political culture, and policies with enormous implications for world peace. Drawing on privileged access to the Iranian power elite, Majd "gives a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A History of Thailand

    by Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker ...
    In A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. They trace how a Buddhist cosmography adapted to new ideas of time and space, and a traditional polity was transformed into a new nation-state under a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food

    by Wayne Roberts ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    Covering fast food, organic food, junk food, institutional food, and more, this guide shows how “real food” has become increasingly scarce, with production and distribution increasingly dominated in the West by agri-business. The guide goes on to present the alternatives that are emerging based on the concept of community food security.Wayne Roberts is a leading North American writer, activist, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War

    by H. G. Wells ...
    "What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War" is a non-fiction work written by H.G. Wells, first published in 1916 during World War I. In this book, Wells attempts to predict the future course of history and society in the aftermath of the war.As the title suggests, "What is Coming?" is a speculative work that offers Wells's insights and predictions about the consequences of the war and the ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Caspian Oil During World Wars

    by Iakovos Alhadeff ...
    A very short essay with the the battles for the Caspian oil during World Wars, but also during more recent wars of attrition ... Read more

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  • Russia vs Turkey: The Geopolitics of the South & the Turk Stream Pipelines

    by Iakovos Alhadeff ...
    This long essay is the second part of a series, with the first part being "USA Russia & China in the Middle East: Alliances & Conflicts". Over 80 maps are used to explain the energy war between Russia and Turkey, two countries that have been fighting for regional dominance for many centuries.Today, the main geographical locations of their conflicts are the regions of Central Asia and East ... Read more

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  • The Soldier and the Changing State

    Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas

    by Zoltan Barany ...
    The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states. Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, Zoltan Barany argues that the military is the most important institution that states maintain, for without military elites who support democratic governance, democracy cannot be ... Read more

    $35.99 USD