Notes on a Century

Notes on a Century
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 439
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ISBN-10 : 9781101575239
ISBN-13 : 1101575239
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Book Synopsis Notes on a Century by : Bernard Lewis

Download or read book Notes on a Century written by Bernard Lewis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Went Wrong? tells the story of his extraordinary life After September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation, catapulting What Went Wrong? and later Crisis of Islam to become number one bestsellers. He was the first to warn of a coming "clash of civilizations," a term he coined in 1957, and has led an amazing life, as much a political actor as a scholar of the Middle East. In this witty memoir he reflects on the events that have transformed the region since World War II, up through the Arab Spring. A pathbreaking scholar with command of a dozen languages, Lewis has advised American presidents and dined with politicians from the shah of Iran to the pope. Over the years, he had tea at Buckingham Palace, befriended Golda Meir, and briefed politicians from Ted Kennedy to Dick Cheney. No stranger to controversy, he pulls no punches in his blunt criticism of those who see him as the intellectual progenitor of the Iraq war. Like America’s other great historian-statesmen Arthur Schlesinger and Henry Kissinger, he is a figure of towering intellect and a world-class raconteur, which makes Notes on a Century essential reading for anyone who cares about the fate of the Middle East.

Notes from The Century Before

Notes from The Century Before
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Publisher : Modern Library
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781588362247
ISBN-13 : 1588362248
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Notes from The Century Before by : Edward Hoagland

Download or read book Notes from The Century Before written by Edward Hoagland and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it. Showcasing Hoagland’s extraordinary gifts for portraiture—his cast runs from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and indigenous guide—Notes from the Century Before is a breathtaking mix of anecdote, derring-do, and unparalleled elegy from one of the finest writers of our time.

Living in Hope and History

Living in Hope and History
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781408833032
ISBN-13 : 1408833034
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Book Synopsis Living in Hope and History by : Nadine Gordimer

Download or read book Living in Hope and History written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've written, a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in.' It is, in fact, an extraordinary collection of essays, articles, appreciations of fellow writers and addresses delivered over four decades, including her Nobel Prize Lecture of 1991. We may examine here Nadine Gordimer's evidence of the inequities of Apartheid as she saw them in 1959, her shocking account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a country free at last, a view from the queue on that first day blacks and whites voted together plus updates on subsequent events. Gordimer's canvas is global and her themes wide-ranging. She examines the impact of technology on our expanding world-view, the convergence of the moral and the political in fiction and she reassesses the role of the writer in the world today.

Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century

Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780807878064
ISBN-13 : 0807878065
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century by : Alejandro de la Fuente

Download or read book Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century written by Alejandro de la Fuente and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local Cuban sources, Alejandro de la Fuente provides the first examination of the transformation of Havana into a vibrant Atlantic port city and the fastest-growing urban center in the Americas in the late sixteenth century. He shows how local ambitions took advantage of the imperial design and situates Havana within the slavery and economic systems of the colonial Atlantic.

The Business of the 21st Century

The Business of the 21st Century
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Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 1612680631
ISBN-13 : 9781612680637
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Book Synopsis The Business of the 21st Century by : Robert T. Kiyosaki

Download or read book The Business of the 21st Century written by Robert T. Kiyosaki and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Business of the 21st Century, Robert Kiyosaki explains the revolutionary business of network marketing in the context of what makes any business a success in any economic situation. This book lends credibility to multilevel marketing business, and justifies why it is an ideal avenue through which to learn basic business and sales skills... and earn money.

Another Century of War?

Another Century of War?
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Publisher : The New Press
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9781595587282
ISBN-13 : 1595587284
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Book Synopsis Another Century of War? by : Gabriel Kolko

Download or read book Another Century of War? written by Gabriel Kolko and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another Century of War? is a candid and critical look at America's “new wars” by a brilliant and provocative analyst of its old ones. Gabriel Kolko's masterly studies of conflict have redefined our views of modern warfare and its effects; in this urgent and timely treatise, he turns his attention to our current crisis and the dark future it portends. Another Century of War? insists that the roots of terrorism lie in America's own cynical policies in the Middle East and Afghanistan, a half-century of real politik justified by crusades for oil and against communism. The latter threat has disappeared, but America has become even more ambitious in its imperialist adventures and, as the recent crisis proves, even less secure. America, Kolko contends, reacts to the complexity of world affairs with its advanced technology and superior firepower, not with realistic political response and negotiation. He offers a critical and well-informed assessment of whether such a policy offers any hope of attaining greater security for America. Raising the same hard-hitting questions that made his Century of War a “crucial” (Globe and Mail) assessment of our age of conflict, Kolko asks whether the wars of the future will end differently from those in our past.

Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-century Atlanta

Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-century Atlanta
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 0807822701
ISBN-13 : 9780807822708
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Book Synopsis Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-century Atlanta by : Ronald H. Bayor

Download or read book Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-century Atlanta written by Ronald H. Bayor and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta is often cited as a prime example of a progressive New South metropolis in which blacks and whites have forged "a city too busy to hate." But Ronald Bayor argues that the city continues to bear the indelible mark of racial bias. Offering the first