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"In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well a[...]
Edition statement: 2nd ed. ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-104942-7 Article on page: xvi, 604 p. Descriptors: Class number: 327.51 Tags: World politics--21st century ; China--Foreign relations--20th century ; China--Foreign relations--21st century Languages: English Books
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakis[...]
Edition statement: 2e ed. ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-103824-7 Article on page: xv, 566 p. Class number: 954.9105 Tags: Pakistan--Politics and government--1988 ; Pakistan--Social conditions--21st century ; Pakistan--History Languages: English Books
The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open war For three decades, the United States and Iran hav[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-312367-5 Article on page: 642 p. Descriptors: Class number: 327.73055 Tags: United States--Foreign relations--Iran ; Iran--Foreign relations--United States ; United States--Military relations--Iran ; Iran--Military relations--United States ; United States. Central Intelligence Agency Languages: English Books
Who Hasn't Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond--whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding[...]
Edition statement: Rev. Ed. ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-311700-1 Article on page: XII, 589 p. Class number: 304.28 Tags: Environmental policy ; Social change ; Social history ; Social history--Case studies ; Social change--Case studies ; Environmental policy--Case studies ; Civilization ; Anthropology Languages: English Books
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Col[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-241-95868-1 Article on page: XII, 589 p. Descriptors: Class number: 304.2 Tags: Social history -- Case studiesSocial change -- Case studies.,Environmental policy -- Case studies.,Histoire sociale -- Études de cas.,Changement social -- Études de cas.,Politique de l'environnement -- Études de cas.,Civilisation -- Philosophie -- Études de cas.,Nature -- Effets de l'homme -- Études de cas.,Écologie humaine -- Études de cas.,Décadence.,Climat --Changements.,Évolution sociale Languages: English Books
The authors review the latest research to report key findings on willpower and offer practical advice for increasing it. One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with "New York Times" science write[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-59420-307-7 Article on page: 291 p. Class number: 153.8 Tags: Self-control ; Will Languages: English Books
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? Why should you never run for[...]
Edition statement: 2nd ed. ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-103459-1 Article on page: XXXIII, 444 p. Class number: 003.54 Tags: Uncertainty (Information theory)--Social aspects ; Uncertainty (Information theory) ; Forecasting Languages: English Books
An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in t[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-102330-4 Article on page: 1 vol. (XXI, 1044 p.) Descriptors: Class number: 327.124 1 Tags: Intelligence service--Great Britain--History Languages: English Books
From the winner of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award'A devastating account of the foul-mouthed, money-grabbing men responsible for Bear Stearns' collapse' Ruth Sunderland, Observer'We all f****d up. Government. R[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-103959-6 Article on page: 1 vol. (592 p.) Class number: 332.109 73 Tags: Financial institutions--United States ; International economic relations Languages: English Books
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-311876-3 Article on page: XIV, 237 p. Class number: 909.83 Tags: Political culture--Developed countries ; Social change--Developed countries ; Democracy--Developed countries ; World politics Languages: English Books
Businesspeople are taught to make decisions with facts and logic and to avoid emotional bias. But according to the latest research, we almost never decide rationally, despite thinking that we do. Our experiences carry an emotional charge, encode[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-1-59184-337-5 Article on page: 1 vol. (XI, 228 p.) Tags: Psychology, Industrial ; Organizational behavior ; Interpersonal relations--Psychological aspects ; Personnel management--Psychological aspects Languages: English Books
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-104406-4 Article on page: xii., 253 p. Descriptors: 2.60 Pollution, disasters and safety > Disasters > Accidents
Class number: 796.522 095 491 Tags: Mountaineering injuries ; Accidents (E) ; Mountains ; Pakistan (E) ; Travel Languages: English Books
This book tells the story of one of the most astonishing dramas in EuropeÂ’s history. In the summer of 1812 after years of uneasy peace, Napoleon, the master of almost the whole continent, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-100935-3 Article on page: XVII, 617 p. Descriptors: Class number: 940.27 Tags: Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns--Russia ; Russia--History--Alexander I, 1801-1825 ; Tolstoy, Leo graf, 1828-1910. Voina i mir Languages: English Books
In one of the most gripping financial narratives in decades, Andrew Ross Sorkin—a New York Times columnist and one of the country's most respected financial reporters—delivers the first definitive blow-by-blow account of the epochal economic cri[...]
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-311824-4 Article on page: XX, 618 p. Tags: Financial crises ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Financial crises--United States--History--21st century ; Financial crises--United States--History Languages: English Books
ISBN (or other code): 978-0-7181-9400-0 Article on page: V, 441 p. Descriptors: Class number: 330.9/03 Tags: Money--History ; Money--Political aspects ; Finance, Public ; History, Modern Languages: English