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  • The American Way of War

    How Bush's Wars Became Obama's

    door Tom Engelhardt ...
    Serie series TomDispatch Books
    The creator of TomDispatch.com "tackles our military fetish . . . He takes on our war-possessed world with clear-eyed, penetrating precision" ( Mother Jones).Tom Engelhardt, creator of the website TomDispatch.com, takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11 to present day, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end.Since 2001, ... Meer lezen

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  • The United States of Fear

    door Tom Engelhardt ...
    Serie series TomDispatch Books
    The creator of TomDispatch.com "focuses on the specific absurdities of American wars . . . strident, passionate, and problem-solving" ( Mother Jones).In 2008, when the US National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected president Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet's "sole superpower" would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing ... Meer lezen

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  • A Nation Unmade by War

    door Tom Engelhardt ...
    Serie series TomDispatch Books
    "In his searing new book . . . Engelhardt has composed a requiem for a nation turned upside down by the relentless pursuit of global power" (Karen J. Greenberg, author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State).As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade ... Meer lezen

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  • Shadow Government

    Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

    door Tom Engelhardt ...
    Serie series TomDispatch Books
    "A book about secrets and surveillance . . . [from] one of the great forces on the side of clarity, democracy, openness, and really good writing" (Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark).In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside ... Meer lezen

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  • Masters of Mayhem

    Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz

    door James Stejskal ...
    "Written with great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight . . . a new perspective on the well-trodden story of the Arab Revolt" ( Military History Matters on its Book of the Year, Silver Award–winner).Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but using audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize ... Meer lezen

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  • The Tragedy of American Science

    From Truman to Trump

    A look at the destructive history of science-for-profit, including its toll on the US pandemic response, by the author of A People's History of Science.Despite a facade of brilliant technological advances, American science has led humanity to the brink of interrelated disasters. In The Tragedy of American Science, historian of science Clifford D. Conner describes the dual processes by which this ... Meer lezen

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  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    door Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Meer lezen

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  • Information Wars

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

    door 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 ... Meer lezen

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  • The Violent American Century

    War and Terror Since World War II

    door John W. Dower ...
    Serie series Dispatch Books
    "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 ... Meer lezen

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  • Whose Middle Ages?

    Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past

    door Geraldine Heng ...
    Serie series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
    "An ethical and accessible introduction to a historical period often implicated in racist narratives of nationalism and imperialism." —Sierra Lomuto, Assistant Professor of Global Medieval Literature, Rowan UniversityA collection of twenty-two essays, Whose Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the ... Meer lezen

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  • The World Almanac Road Trippers' Guide to National Parks: 5,001 Things to Do, Learn, and See for Yourself

    door World Almanac ...
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling World Almanac comes a brand-new, full-color book celebrating the National Parks––"America's best idea"––and providing a valuable resource for first-time visitors and longtime park fans alike.From the rugged, rocky coasts of Acadia to the geysers and hot springs of Yellowstone to the in-your-face beauty of the Grand Canyon, the national parks of North America ... Meer lezen

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  • What the Future Looks Like

    Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World

    door Jim Al-Khalili ...
    Get the science facts, not science fiction, on the cutting-edge developments that are already changing the course of our future.Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award–winning author Jim Al–Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking ... Meer lezen

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