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Mark Lynas
Six Minutes to Winter

Nuclear war is a far greater immediate threat to humanity's survival than climate change, yet we are in near-total denial. This book puts the issue back to the top of the global agenda.

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Peter Gleick
When the Well Is Dry

A comprehensive look at the relationship between water and violence, and how we can move from conflict to cooperation and peace, by one of the world's leading water experts The first major water war erupt…

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Howard W French
The Second Emancipation

The Second Emancipation , the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French …

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Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Sovereign Funds

"A fascinating insight into the evolution of China's financial policy and its strategic investments using leveraged foreign exchange reserves." -Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist"[Liu] sho…

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Thomas Hale
Long Problems

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other "long problems" that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climat…

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Elio Morillo
The Boy Who Reached for the Stars

"The engineer known as the "space mechanic" speaks to both our future and past in this breathless memoir of his journey from Ecuador to NASA and beyond. Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun…

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A Handbook on Post-1956 Hungarian Refugee Relief

This volume focuses on the 1956 Hungarian refugee crisis, when 200,000 Hungarians fled to Western Europe and beyond after the Soviet invasion. Although the number of refugees was not outstanding by global…

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Michael McFaul
Autocrats vs. Democrats

"A history, an analysis, and a set of prescriptions for the greatest geopolitical challenge of our time: the threat to the democratic world posed by China and Russia." ---Anne Applebaum, author …

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Dan Jones
Medical Missionary

In Medical Missionary: My Journey Through Global Health and Higher Education , Dan Jones explores his personal journey as a spiritual pilgrim and the many surprising twists along the way. Providing reader…

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Brian Jones
Black History Is for Everyone

A longtime educator explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. Black history is under attack from powerful forces that…

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Turkey and the Global Political Economy

While there has been a huge expansion of the literature on Turkish political economy and foreign policy in the last decade or so, fewer studies have explored Turkey's engagement with the changing global p…

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Gary A Hoover
Ladder or Lottery

Who really gets ahead in a market-based economy.This book asks the reader a simple question: Is our economy a ladder or a lottery? Are people able to control their position on the economic spectrum by the…

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Sergey Radchenko
To Run the World

What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko …

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Andrew S Berish
Hating Jazz

A deep dive into the meaning behind the hatred of jazz.A rock guitarist plays four notes in front of one thousand people, while a jazz guitarist plays one thousand notes in front of four people. You might…

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Timothy Scott Brown
Westdeutschland und die Global Sixties

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From outer space and time to sex and death: Timothy Scott Brown shows the West German 1968 movement from a global perspective.

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Joseph T Kelley, Alice R Kelley
Rise and Fall of the Maine Coast

Discover how 450 million years of Earth's history shaped Maine's iconic coastline and what its future holds as climate change transforms our shores.From its legendary rocky cliffs to its sweeping beaches,…

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Bernadette Ludwig
Unwelcome Shores

Unwelcome Shores is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, New York, home to the largest per capita concentration of Liberians in the U.S., that sheds light on the racia…

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Bernadette Ludwig
Unwelcome Shores

Unwelcome Shores is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, New York, home to the largest per capita concentration of Liberians in the U.S., that sheds light on the racia…

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Peter S Goodman
How the World Ran Out of Everything

By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain ---exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that…

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Grace Carrington
Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty

Non-sovereign territories today account for more than half the states in the Caribbean but regional and global histories of the twentieth century tend to exclude them from narratives of protest and change…

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