epub |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Maziar Bahari [Bahari, Maziar]

Chapter Thirteen The next morning, Brown Sandals came to my cell early, and with my breakfast, he gave me a pen and six pieces of paper with the names of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-13 | Author:Bremmer, Ian & Keat, Preston [Bremmer, Ian]

A number of economic factors also affect the likelihood of expropriations. One is an overtly statist economic policy. In 1975, Great Britain expropriated the (already bankrupt) British Leyland Motor Corporation, ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith

Dealing with Good Deed Doers We commented earlier that “Successful leaders are not above repression, suppression, oppression, or even killing their rivals, real and imagined.” The truth of this statement ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:Michael Sandel

An Egalitarian Nightmare “Harrison Bergeron,” a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., plays out this worry as dystopian science fiction. “The year was 2081,” the story begins, “and everybody was ...

mobi | | | Author:Unknown

mobi, epub | | 2002-07-29 | Author:Lorenzo Carcaterra

* * * MARY HAD SAT silently for many minutes, her eyes on Angelo, her mind swayed by the memories she had conjured up during our long night together. Behind ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Francis Fukuyama

20 ORIENTAL DESPOTISM How a modern state was reconsolidated in China after the Tang Dynasty; the usurpation of the empress Wu and what it tells us about the Chinese political ...

mobi |eng | 2008-08-19 | Author:Steve Levine

The Russian edition of Godfather of the Kremlin became a nonfiction bestseller, with 110,000 copies sold. Klebnikov tried to repeat that success with a book based on fifteen hours of ...

mobi |eng | 1999-12-15 | Author:Simon Winchester

The frontier with Montenegro is half an hour’s drive from the outskirts of Dubrovnik. From the main road it is possible to see—impossible to avoid, in fact—the zigzag track that ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-20 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Chapter 5 Supporting Evidence: The Middle East Beyond declarations of leaders, and the self-refuting case of Iraq, several additional bits of evidence have been adduced to justify the faith in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Turning Point? The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings in May 2009, followed by Obama’s speech in Cairo, have been widely interpreted as a turning point in U.S. Middle East policy, leading to consternation ...

mobi |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Greenfield, Kent [Greenfield, Kent]

4. If you’ve ever been in a casino, you know that both money and hours can vanish without much apparent help on your part. Windows and clocks do not exist. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-20 | Author:Green, R.G. [Green, R.G.]

Chapter 6 KHERIN felt the eyes boring into him even if no one had approached him, and he saw the hostility in the sneers that hadn’t been hidden quickly enough. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-17 | Author:Unknown

The Battle of the Sexes The scenario of this game envisages a couple who have just fallen in love and decide to go on holiday together. The problem is that ...

mobi | | | Author:Unknown

Back - New Search irretrievable breakdown (of a marriage) See marital breakdown; divorce. Back - New Search irrevocable adj. Incapable of being revoked. For example, powers of appointment may be ...