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1) Spycatcher
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Spycatcher novels volume 1
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"Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there done-that authenticity make this one of the year's best thriller debuts."
-Lee Child
"Not since Fleming charged Bond with the safety of the world has the international secret agent mystique been so anchored with an insider's reality."
-Noah Boyd, New York Times bestselling author of Agent X and The Bricklayer
"A real spy proves he is a real writer-and a truly deft and inventive one. Spycatcher...
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The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
3) Die twice
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David Trevellyan thrillers volume 2
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Obliged to leave New York City in the aftermath of his previous mission, David Trevellyan is summoned to the British Consulate in Chicago. To the same office where, just a week before, his new handler was attacked and shot by a Royal Navy Intelligence operative gone bad. Assigned the job of finding the rogue agent and putting an end to his treacherous scheme, Trevellyan soon finds that once again, his only hopes of saving countless innocent lives...
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From the centuries-long prejudices against Catholics in America, to the efforts of Fascism, Communism and modern terrorist organizations to "break the cross and spill the wine," this book brings to life the Catholic Church's role in world history, particularly in the realm of diplomacy. Former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney provides a comprehensive guide to the remarkable path the Vatican has navigated to the present day, and a first-person...
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From New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternate history, a novel of alien contact set in the tumultuous year of the Watergate scandal. It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA witha side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancaee. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him...
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A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict.
Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an Afghan American. The message spread, and in a few days it had reached, and affected, millions of people-Afghans and Americans, soldiers and pacifists, conservative...
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In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals.
This book shows how you can apply the Global Goals to your life, as an individual.
7 years on, 600 million people live on less than $2 per day, in starvation, without healthcare, education, clean water, toilets or electricity. Catastrophic climate change lingers over us, as does massive species extinction, while we pollute the planet. Chasms of inequality exist between males and females, rich and...
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Relaciones de conocimiento centro-periferia: hegemonía, contribuciones locales e hibridación , Migración internacional de colombianas en la Ciudad de México: transnacionalismo y globalización ; La Unión Europea como actor global del soft al hard power: ¿una potencia civil?; El papel de los actores internos en los procesos de integración: el caso de la CAN ; Secutirización en tiempos de globalización: elementos para el análisis en el área...
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As 2018 ended, an orchestrated propaganda campaign paralyzed U.S. foreign policy. The trigger was the killing in Istanbul of Jamal Khashoggi, a member of Saudi Arabia's wealthy and politically powerful oligarchy. Mainstream media and misguided, melodramatic politicians hoodwinked millions by portraying Khashoggi as a martyr for press freedom and democracy. The real Khashoggi was nothing of the sort. President Trump's efforts to restore realism to...
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Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications that address the United States' most formidable and pressing national security and foreign policy challenges. This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2018 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, a bipartisan meeting of national security experts, academics, private sector leaders, and technologists. The introduction by Nicholas Burns, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and Condoleezza Rice provides...
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From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the preeminent military power, but American economic might has declined drastically in the face of competition, first from Germany and Japan ad more recently from newly prosperous countries...
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Leonardo Avritzer is Professor of Political Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. He is the author of numerous articles on democracy and civil society in Latin America, and of two books in Portugese: Sociedade Civil e Democratização and A Moralidade da Democracia.
This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in...
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In Uncertain Times considers how policymakers react to dramatic developments on the world stage. Few expected the Berlin Wall to come down in November 1989; no one anticipated the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001. American foreign policy had to adjust quickly to an international arena that was completely transformed.
Melvyn P. Leffler and Jeffrey W. Legro have assembled an illustrious roster of officials...
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Sin lugar a dudas el tema del mercado interno en Japón ha sido un elemento presente, no sólo dentro de la agenda de investigación académica en las últimas décadas, sino un tema político que ha marcado sus relaciones económicas internacionales con sus socios estratégicos. Los reclamos de mayor participación en el mismo, de Estados Unidos y Europa, definieron los rumbos de los vínculos diplomáticos desde la transformación de la economía...
15) Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World
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Why do many Asian, African, and Latin American states have such difficulty in directing the behavior of their populations--in spite of the resources at their disposal? And why do a small number of other states succeed in such control? What effect do failing laws and social policies have on the state itself? In answering these questions, Joel Migdal takes a new look at the role of the state in the third world. Strong Societies and Weak States offers...
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Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant...
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Algunos lugares del mundo brillan por su poder, y proporcionan a sus soberanos un marco monumental y una legitimidad. Otros, frecuentados por mercaderes, soldados y bandoleros, son encrucijadas de caminos de un mundo en evolución. Y algunos, cargados de historia y pasión, pertenecen a pueblos dispuestos a luchar para proteger su herencia. La geopolítica no solo se escribe con palabras, sino con lugares. De Nueva York a La Meca, de Suez a Malaca,...
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Explaining how the U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East could have long-term consequences as other forces come forward to fill the gap, Russell A. Berman details how the retreat began and how the reduction of the U.S. commitment has, in turn, set off a wave of repercussions. He analyzes what motivates such a retreat, how much it is a choice of the Obama administration, and how much it is rooted in U.S. cultural leanings that could outlast the administration....
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Joanne Gowa is Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton University. She is the author of Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade (Princeton) and Closing the Gold Window: Domestic Politics and the End of Bretton Woods.
There is a widespread belief, among both political scientists and government policymakers, that "democracies don't fight each other." Here Joanne Gowa challenges that belief. In a thorough, systematic critique,...
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Con el auge de los partidos nacionalistas de extrema derecha en todo el continente y las negociaciones para el Brexit, la Unión Europea está más desorganizada y llena de dudas que nunca. El reconocido intelectual Ivan Krastev reflexiona en este provocativo libro sobre el futuro de la Unión Europea y los desafíos a los que se enfrenta. Según el autor, si la UE se derrumba, la lógica de su fragmentación será más la del pánico bancario que...
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