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Argo by Antonio J. Mendez & Matt Baglio
epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Antonio J. Mendez & Matt Baglio [Mendez, Antonio J. & Baglio, Matt]

9 HOLLYWOOD I met Jerome Calloway for the first time during the early 1970s, on the set of a spy-themed TV show. The show was popular in the late 1960s ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
None Shall Divide Us by Michael Stone
epub |eng | 2003-05-01 | Author:Michael Stone [Stone, Michael]

17 PRISONER A385 CRUMLIN ROAD JAIL:A RAT-AND COCKROACH-INFESTED VICTORIAN DUMP. IT WAS NOT FIT TO HOUSE HUMAN BEINGS, BUT THEN TO THE AUTHORITIES WE WEREN’T HUMAN BEINGS. We were the ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 26,2014 )
Stilwell & the American Experience in China 1911-45 by Barbara Tuchman
epub |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Barbara Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara]

Another remarkable man, Dr. Gordon Seagrave, appeared at Maymyo at this time to offer his services. An American Baptist missionary surgeon of long experience in Burma, he was unorthodox, uncompromising, ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
Marx by Singer Peter
epub |eng | 2010-12-06 | Author:Singer, Peter [Singer, Peter]

The references to “mankind’s destiny” and to England as “the unconscious tool of history” imply that history moves in a purposive way toward some goal. (The whole paragraph is reminiscent ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 26,2014 )
In Defense of Leon Trotsky by David North
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David North [North, David]

25 Thatcher, pp. 14-17. 26 Thatcher claims that “Deutscher simply puts thoughts into his subjects’ heads for which there is no evidence.” Thatcher cites a passage from Deutscher “which compares ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 26,2014 )
China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
epub, azw3, pdf |rus | 2011-11-07 | Author:Yu Hua [Hua, Yu]

In the 1990s, as the tide of economic development swept over China, a similar situation began to reappear. In the fields surrounding one large steel plant in eastern China, backyard ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism by Michael Burleigh
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Michael Burleigh

III DELIVERING CHAOS If all Irish terrorists were psychopathic criminals like Murphy, there would be no demonstrable ebb and flow to the violence, or shifts in how it was used ...
( Category: Radicalism March 25,2014 )
Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas by John Burnett
mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:John Burnett

12 Where Are the Americans? Papa Zulu Four A two-tiered rack of rifles stands sentinel and ready for instant use within inches of the door to the deck outside; it ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 25,2014 )
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Mark Mazzetti

12: THE SCALPEL’S EDGE “We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours.” —President Ali Abdullah Saleh The meeting was set up for a surrender, a symbolic gesture of peace ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasr
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Vali Nasr

On the campaign trail, Obama had said that Iraq was a misguided enterprise, a needless and costly war of choice that had tarnished America’s image. So it was not a ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
Tea with Hezbollah by Ted Dekker
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-09 | Author:Ted Dekker

Hezbollah Sheik Nabil Qaouk We left the coffee shop with firm handshakes and much more discussion. In another place and another time, not all might have been so congenial, but ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB by Soldatov Andrei & Borogan Irina
mobi |eng | 2010-09-13 | Author:Soldatov, Andrei & Borogan, Irina [Soldatov, Andrei]

After almost three hours, local troops appeared to be hunting one another. We were surprised how disorganized and fluid the whole situation became. At about 5:00 P.M. we managed to ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
The Devil We Know by Robert Baer
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Robert Baer

Oil reserve estimates are based on data provided by oil-producing countries and oil companies. They’re not independently audited, and the numbers are impossible to corroborate. The higher reserves an OPEC ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
Strategic Vision by Zbigniew Brzezinski
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

4: THE UNCOMMON GLOBAL COMMONS The global commons, those areas of the world that are shared by all states, can be reduced to two main sets of global concerns: the ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-12 | Author:Peter Hessler

Wu River brand, Fuling hot pickled mustard tuber! It sounded much better in Chinese than it does in English, and the woman recognized it immediately. All of the Chinese were ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )

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