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  • United Nations

    A History

    by Stanley Meisler ...
    "This is a definitive account of the United Nations for a general audience, told by a master." —Jim Hoagland, The Washington PostUnited Nations: A History begins with its creation in 1945. Although the organization was created to prevent war, many conflicts have arisen, ranging from the Korean War, to the Six-Day War, to genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda. Stanley Meisler's in-depth research examines ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kofi Annan

    A Man of Peace in a World of War

    by Stanley Meisler ...
    In this thoughtful, balanced biography, former Los Angeles Times foreign and diplomatic correspondent Stanley Meisler traces Kofi Annan’s unconventional rise from optimistic student to striving personnel and budget specialist in the United Nations bureaucracy to full-time manager of the world’s crises. The book presents a unique portrait of this widely admired leader, with Annan’s own view of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When the World Calls

    The Inside Story of the Peace COrps and Its First Fifty Years

    by Stanley Meisler ...
    A complete and revealing history of the Peace Corps—in time for its fiftieth anniversaryWhen the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps's first fifty years. Stanley Meisler's engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers' unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Shocking Paris

    Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse

    by Stanley Meisler ...
    For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them apart from the French-born (and less talented) young artists of the period. Modigliani and Chagall eventually ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age

    by Michael Chertoff ...
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  • Science and the Modern World

    by Alfred North Whitehead ...
    "Science and the Modern World" by Alfred North Whitehead, originally published in 1925 redefines the concept of modern science.This book takes readers through the history of modern science and shows how cultural history has affected science over time in Romanticism, Quantum Theory, religion, and movements for social progress.Whitehead invites his audience to understand and read with celebration ... Read more

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  • Wal-Mart

    The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

    Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    A collection of essays that "do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart " ( Booklist , starred review).Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the United States and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a ... Read more

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  • The Elements We Live By

    How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table

    by Anja Røyne ...
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  • Information Wars

    How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation & What We Can Do About It

    by Richard Stengel ...
    A "well-told" insider account of the State Department's twenty-first-century struggle to defend America against malicious propaganda and disinformation ( The Washington Post).Disinformation is nothing new. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But today, social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious. In a disturbing turn ... Read more

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  • The Violent American Century

    War and Terror Since World War II

    by John W. Dower ...
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    "Tells how America, since the end of World War II, has turned away from its ideals and goodness to become a match setting the world on fire" (Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist and national security correspondent).World War II marked the apogee of industrialized "total war." Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of ... Read more

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  • The Tragedy of American Science

    From Truman to Trump

    by Clifford D. Conner ...
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  • Europe

    A Natural History

    by Tim Flannery ...
    A tale of cave bears and comet strikes and a hundred million years of history by the bestselling author of Here on Earth: "Marvelous."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery applies the eloquent interdisciplinary approach he used in his ecological histories of Australia and North America to the story of ... Read more

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