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81) Isolate
Author
Series
The grand illusion volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
596 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party. When a respected Landor Councilor dies of "heart failure" at a social event, because of his political...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
"COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form...
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (391 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
Presents in-depth information on conflicts appearing in today's headlines. Users are provided with historical background and analysis to events to give a greater understanding of the politics, players, and layers of current affairs.
84) Railways at war
Author
Publisher
Howell-North Books
Pub. Date
1980.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A narrative account of the world-changing negotiations of the post-World War II era draws on new archival material and interviews to analyze the influences of discussions surrounding such events as the development of the atomic bomb, Britain's withdrawal from India and the creation of the Israeli state."--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Economist Books, an imprint of Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 308 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The world today rests on increasingly unstable fault lines. From the conflict in Ukraine or fresh upheavals in the Middle East to the threats posed to humanity by a global pandemic, climate change, and natural disasters, the world's danger zones once again draw their battle lines across our hyper-connected, yet fragmented globe. In this revised and updated fourth edition, join veteran Economist journalist John Andrews as he analyzes the old enmities...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a human whirlwind and a man confident in France's importance on the world stage. In this hilarious send-up of diplomacy and international politics, he takes on American neo-cons, corrupt Russians and the opportunistic Chinese while his hapless speech writer endures the eccentricities of his megalomaniacal boss and his sycophantic entourage.
97) U.S. news weekly
Publisher
U.S. News & World Report
Pub. Date
2009-2015.
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 381 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from the First World War to the economic crash of 2008. A global history with a special focus on the United...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The rules, policies, and institutions that have guided the world since World War II have largely run their course. The United States remains the world's strongest country, but American foreign policy has at times made matters worse, both by what the United States has done and by what it has failed to do. Haass explains that the election of Donald Trump and the unexpected vote for Brexit signals that many in modern democracies reject important aspects...
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