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Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
by Joseph S. NyeHow to make friends, even after conquests.
In The Presence of My Enemies
by Gracia Burnham Dean MerrillCan faith, hope, and love survive A YEAR OF TERROR? FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARIES Martin and Gracia Burnham, what started out as a relaxing, once-m-a-lifetime anniversary getaway at an exotic island resort turned into one of the most horrific nightmares imaginable Kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group with ties to Osama bin Laden, the Burnhams were snatched away from friends and family and thrust into a life on the run in the Philippine jungle During a perilous year in captivity, they faced near starvation, constant exhaustion, frequent gun battles, coldhearted murder-and intense soul searching about a God who sometimes seemed to have forgotten them In this gripping firsthand account of faith, love, and struggle in th'e face of unnervingly casual brutality, you'll go behind the scenes of a real life drama, told in gritty detail by the least likely survivor Whatever the struggles of your life, you'll find encouragement and hope in this refreshingly honest story of a yearlong battle with the darkness that inhabits the human heart "The Burnhams, under torturous conditions, befriended their guards, comforted their fellow hostages and kept their faith in a God who seemed to have abandoned them." -USA TODAY ISBN 0-8423-6239-8 Inspiration/Biography US $7 99 Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllll 06239 0 " 113 1809H00799'"10
The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
by Walter A. McdougallThis highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important declassified material, such as the National Security Council's first policy paper on space, McDougall examines U.S., European, and Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short account of Nikolai Kibalchich, a late nineteenth-century Russian rocketry theoretician, McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made its way into space first because it was the world's first "technocracy"―which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose." He also explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States.<P><P> Pulitzer Prize Winner
Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East
by John KeayRelations with the Middle East over time.
Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
by David BeresfordStory of the 1981 hunger strike by Irish prisoners in Northern Irelan, and the first and famous death of Bobby Sands. Uses "coms" passed secretly between the prisoners and IRA contacts outside.
From Beirut to Jerusalem
by Thomas L. Friedman"Friedman, who twice garnered the Pulitzer as a New York Times correspondent in Lebanon and Israel, further delineates the two countries in this provocative, absorbing memoir cum political and social analysis. A condensed, incisive history of the Middle East is proffered, as well as personal reflections on his 10-year sojourn: the issue of Friedman's Jewishness in Beirut, the fact that he was the Times 's first Jewish reporter in Israel, the bombing of his apartment in Beirut by the PLO, which took the lives of his Lebanese news assistant's children." -From Publishers Weekly<P><P> Winner of the National Book Award
West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir
by William BlumA highly personal and candid memoir by a former U.S. State Department employee who became a radical dissident in the 1960s and remains active in opposing U.S. imperialism
The Bill of Rights in the Modern State
by Geoffrey R. Stone Richard A. Epstein Cass R. SunsteinPapers from a symposium at the University of Chicago celebrating the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights.
Berlin in the Balance, 1945-1949
by Thomas ParrishThe blockade, the airlift, and the first major battle of the cold war.
The Cold War Encyclopedia
by Thomas ParrishInformation on significant events, places, and personalities associated with the Cold War.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
by Howard PyleA simultaneously charming and violent re-telling of the rise and fall of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, from Howard Pyle's original British classic.
Autopsy on an Empire
by Jack F. Matlock Jr.A history and analysis of the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Russia's Fate Through Russian Eyes: Voices of the New Generation
by Heyward Isham Natan M. ShkylarFrom the book: The young Russian men and women who record in these pages the hopes, fears, triumphs, and tragedies their country has undergone in recent years-altering their own lives profoundly in the process-all come from the first post-Soviet generation to achieve positions of leadership in Russia. They report on five challenges central to Russia's survival and stabilization: reshaping the state, coping with new economic rules, striving toward the rule of law, building a civil society, and preserving the national culture and educational capacity. They love their country, while understanding all too well the crippling psychological legacy of seventy years of a dictatorship that was both cunning and cruel in dispensing a plausible Utopian myth and exacting extraordinary sacrifices in the name of that myth. They understand the acute sense of disorientation that overcame all generations when the USSR abruptly dissolved in 1991 and the Communist Party simultaneously lost much, if not all, of its power. As several of our authors recall, it was like waking up one morning and finding yourself a citizen of an entirely different country, meanwhile discovering that your parents were not your real parents and that you had acquired a brand new surname.
The Making of the President, 1960
by Theodore H. WhiteThe greatest political story ever told—the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, as captured in Theodore White's dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle<P><P> The Making of the President 1960 is the book that revolutionized—even created—modern political journalism. Granted intimate access to all parties involved, Theodore White crafted an almost mythic story of the battle that pitted Senator John F. Kennedy against Vice-President Richard M. Nixon—from the decisive primary battles to the history-making televised debates, the first of their kind. Magnificently detailed and exquisitely paced, The Making of the President 1960 imbues the nation's presidential election process with both grittiness and grandeur, and established a benchmark against which all new campaign reporters would measure their work. <P><P> Pulitzer Prize Winner
Indian Express [Fri, 24 Nov 2017]
by Indian ExpressArticles in this issue: Muslim cleric, his two relatives beaten up in train in UP: FIR Durga principal Goddess…court over-reaching: I&B tells Kerala High Court Like Congress, like BJP: Nine prime acres for a song — this time for Gita Research Centre
Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Will Transform America and the World
by Peter G. PetersonHow Aging is changing our world.
DANIK JAGRAN [Mon, 27 Nov 2017]
by Sanjay GuptaArticles in this issue: विधानसभा और लोकसभा चुनाव एक साथ कराने की फिर हुई वकालत लव जिहाद मामले में युवती आज दर्ज कराएगी सुप्रीम कोर्ट में बयान दर्ज पैसे नहीं देने पर मां की गला दबाकर हत्या, बेटा गिरफ्तार तुषार की सीटी सुनकर भागते हैं खुले में शौच करने वाले, मोदी बोले- स्वच्छता का प्रेरक रघुराम राजन बोले- राजनीति में आने का विचार नहीं, एक प्रोफेसर के रूप में खुश गुजरात में कांग्रेस की तीसरी लिस्ट पर बवाल, पार्टी दफ्तर में जमकर तोड़फोड़ पत्नी को रखने के लिए कोर्ट पति को नहीं कर सकता मजबूर: सुप्रीम कोर्ट नंगे पैरों में जूते पहना दो सरकार, लौटेगा हॉकी का गौरव गुजरात चुनाव से पहले कांग्रेस को झटका, पार्टी प्रवक्ता रेखा चौधरी ने दिया इस्तीफा ऑटो चालक के बेटों ने उठाया संस्कृत के प्रसार का बीड़ा भारतीय शेयर बाजार की कमजोर शुरुआत, सेंसेक्स 77 अंक गिरकर 33601 के स्तर पर ईपीएफ पर ब्याज दर में हो सकती है और कटौती, यहां जानिए वजह PF जमा पर ब्याज दर घटा सकता है EPFO, वित्त वर्ष 2017-18 के लिए मिलेगा कम ब्याज 42 महीनों में किए गए मोदी सरकार के सुधारों का समेकन करने की जरूरत: नीति आयोग राजस्थान का लाइमस्टोन व सीमेंट उद्योग संकट में रिवर्स चार्ज और ई-वे बिल से जुड़े प्रावधानों में किया जाएगा बदलाव जीएसटी में कटौती का लाभ नहीं देने वाली बड़ी कंपनियों पर होगी कार्रवाई आने वाले दिनों में बड़ी शाखाओं से नहीं, छोटी ब्रांचों से चलेंगे बैंक: रजनीश कुमार भविष्य में कम हो सकती हैं जीएसटी की दरें: अरविंद सुब्रमण्यन सोना फिर से हुआ सस्ता, जानिए अब कितने का हुआ 10 ग्राम गोल्ड नवंबर 2017 के ये हैं बेस्ट बैटरी बैकअप स्मार्टफोन, कीमत 6999 रुपये से शुरू फोटोग्राफी में आजमा रहे हैं हाथ तो ये हैं बेस्ट एंट्री लेवल DSLR कैमरा फीचर और परफार्मेंस के मामले में खास हैं ये 5 हेडफोन, जानें कीमत गूगल क्रोम में होते हैं ये 5 हिडेन फीचर्स, जिन्हें नहीं जानते होंगे आप एयरटेल इनफिनिटी बनाम वोडाफोन रेड: जानिए प्लान से जुड़ी पूरी डिटेल्स क्या छोटे डिस्प्ले वाले आईफोन SE 2 को खरीदना चाहेंगे आप बाजार में उपलब्ध हैं ये खास इंस्टेंट कैमरा आपके दिलाते हैं पुराने दौर की याद 5 वैल्यू फॉर मनी स्मार्टफोन्स, फीचर्स और परफॉर्मेंस में हैं जबरदस्त मोबाइल नंबर से आधार लिंक के नए तरीके अपना रही टेलिकॉम कंपनियां