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  • Thy Will Be Done

    The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

    Series Libro 25 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A "blistering exposé" of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction ( Publishers Weekly ).What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year ... Leer más

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  • Follow the Pipelines

    Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil

    “Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Students, foreign affairs ‘experts’ and officials should have this work as required reading.”—Jim Miles, Palestine Chronicle“[Dennett is] an expert in resource-based politics.”—TimeUnraveling the mystery ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Crash of Flight 3804, The

    A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil

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    Unraveling the mystery of a master spy’s death by following pipelines and mapping wars in the Middle EastIn 1947, Daniel Dennett, America’s sole master spy in the Middle East, was dispatched to Saudi Arabia to study the route of the proposed Trans-Arabian Pipeline. It would be his last assignment. A plane carrying him to Ethiopia went down, killing everyone on board. Today, Dennett is recognized ... Leer más

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    On Race, Empire, and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE, THE IRISH TIMES AND THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT**SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZEA provocative history of men who were worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age.**Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly ... Leer más

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  • Year of No Garbage

    Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

    de Eve O. Schaub ...
    "Eve’s brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we’ve become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better.” —Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free JulyYear of No Garbage is Super Size Me meets the environmental movement.In this book Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date ... Leer más

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  • Riding With Cochise

    The Apache Story of America's Longest War

    de Steve Price ...
    Riding With Cochise brings the violent drama of the American Southwest to life through the eyes of the legendary Apache chieftain Cochise and three other tribal leaders, Geronimo, Victorio, and Mangas Coloradas. Relying largely on the oral histories told by relatives of these great warriors as well as personal diaries of others who were involved, veteran author Steve Price takes the reader deep ... Leer más

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  • Tesla: Wizard at War

    The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power

    de Marc Seifer ...
    In this revelatory new book, the author of the award-winning international bestseller Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla delves deeper into the groundbreaking ideas and astonishing mind of one of the greatest geniuses of modern times . . .“In a few years hence, it will be possible for nations to fight without armies, ships or guns, by weapons far more terrible to the destructive action and ... Leer más

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  • Usurpers, A New Look at Medieval Kings

    This examination of six usurper kings of England, and the people and circumstances surrounding them, is "a masterpiece of academic scholarship" ( Midwest Book Review).In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy—and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England's reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some ... Leer más

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  • Soul City

    Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia

    de Thomas Healy ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice**2021 Hooks National Book Award WinnerThe fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country”**In 1969, with America’s cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKissick announced an audacious plan: he would build a new city in rural North Carolina, ... Leer más

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  • Humane

    How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

    de Samuel Moyn ...
    "[A] brilliant new book . . . Humane provides a powerful intellectual history of the American way of war. It is a bold departure from decades of historiography dominated by interventionist bromides." —Jackson Lears, The New York Review of BooksA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humaneIn the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or ... Leer más

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  • Science and the modern world

    Enriched edition. Revisiting the Modern Intersection of Science and Society: A Philosophical Analysis

    In "Science and the Modern World," Alfred North Whitehead presents a profound exploration of the relationship between scientific developments and the philosophical implications that arise within contemporary society. Through a masterful combination of analytic rigor and poetic nuance, Whitehead critiques the mechanistic worldview that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlightenment. He ... Leer más

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  • Blood and Money

    War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire

    de David McNally ...
    The history of money and its violent and oppressive origins from slavery to war—by the author of Global Slump.In most accounts of the origins of money we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. But in this groundbreaking study, David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development as one of violence and human ... Leer más

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