Specific Topics in Politics & Government
mobi | | | Author:Ramadan, Tariq. [Ramadan, Tariq.]

Culture and Meaning Culture is an essential element. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Ben Macintyre

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Spanish Trails ADOLF CLAUSS had much to occupy his mind. His attempts to obtain the briefcase had so far failed. The Spanish naval authorities were proving vigorously uncooperative. ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Chuck Pfarrer

Zawahiri had become Osama’s puppet master. The doctor encouraged Osama to expand the base at the Lion’s Den, and dig increasingly intricate tunnels, bunkers, and air raid shelters. There was ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Mark M. Lowenthal

THE ASSASSINATION BAN: A MODERN INTERPRETATION In August 1998 the United States launched a cruise missile attack on targets in Afghanistan associated with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The ...
( Category: National & International Security March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-01 | Author:Gérard Chaliand; Arnaud Blin

What could be done to counter terrorism? The fundamental problem was information-gathering, the linchpin of any effective prevention, infiltration, neutralization, manipulation, and elimination. Building a dossier would give insight into ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:Simon Winchester

The British had few early doubts about the purpose behind the annexation of Hong Kong. The island had been placed there for the exclusive convenience of the British Empire, and ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Jeremy Paxman

The Maxim Gun, and they have not. There was an imperial coda to this massacre. Five days after the Khalifa’s forces were wiped out at Omdurman, a boat came drifting ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-06 | Author:Dalton Fury

George brought Ali up to date, with Adam Khan meticulously translating and Ali nodding in the affirmative. Ali said that he planned to exploit the bomb drop, as soon as ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-06 | Author:Crile, George [Crile, George]

CHAPTER 20 Gust and the Eldorado NO WASPS NEED APPLY Avrakotos was not a morning person. By the time he left his row house in McLean, Virginia, and placed his ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-08-08 | Author:Wright, Lawrence [Wright, Lawrence]

“YOU ARE NOT UNAWARE OF THE INJUSTICE, repression, and aggression that have befallen Muslims through the alliance of Jews, Christians, and their agents, so much so that Muslims’ blood has ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-08 | Author:Jane Mayer

At this point, a remarkable internal rebellion broke out on the island. It was led not by political opponents of the Bush Administration, nor by human rights activists, but rather ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Matthew M. Aid

CHAPTER 6 Men of Zeal Homeland Security and Domestic Terrorism The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —U.S. SUPREME COURT ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker

Striking back at the Al Qaeda message sometimes required American combat skills. One of the most successful efforts was undertaken on the ground in Iraq, in advance of the November ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Sanger, David E. [Sanger, David E.]

GEN. JAMES MATTIS is no one to be trifled with. The burly head of CENTCOM spent the last year bolstering defenses in case war breaks out with Iran. He has ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )