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Summary: Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 KALBlake, Heidi
Summary: "The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat. They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/ Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 BLAStent, Angela
Summary: "An analysis of Putin's Russia and how Russians perceive their place in the modern world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 STESass, A. J.
Summary: "Ellen, an autistic thirteen-year-old, navigates a new city, shifting friendships, a growing crush, and her queer and Jewish identities while on a class trip to Barcelona, Spain"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SASForeman, Amanda
Summary: In the Civil War, both the North and the South demanded Britain's support. A World on Fire portrays the complex web of relationships between the two countries through the lives of a selected group of participants who shared one thing in common. They all wrote about their experiences in diaries and letters that survive to this day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Curso completo de inglés, con más de 300 ilustraciones, más de 100 ejercicios con autocorrección, más de 100 conceptos fundamentales, 30 artículos sobre costumbres y cultura de Estados Unidos, más de 700 palabras agrupadas en más de 50 temas de vocabulario, más de 500 frases verbales de uso común en Estados Unidos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 248 SPANISH INGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.3 INGBradley, James
Summary: Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.4 BRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 359.4 BRAGall, Carlotta
Summary: Describes the toll taken on the U.S., Afghanistan, and Pakistan since the September 11 attacks through ordinary citizens' accounts of fighting and first-hand descriptions from Taliban warlords, intelligence thugs, American generals, and Afghani politicians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 GALGingrich, Newt
Summary: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sounds the warning bell that communist-ruled China poses the biggest threat to the United States that we have seen in our lifetime. The United States is currently engaged in a competition with the Chinese government unlike any other that we have witnessed before. This is a competition between the American system-which is governed by freedom and the rule...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.51 GINHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how one-sided pro-Israel policies reflect the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022
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Summary: "This book looks at one of the transformative moments of the twentieth century: In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and Mao Tse-tung, the enigmatic Communist dictator, met for an hour in Beijing. Their meeting changed the course of history and ultimately laid the groundwork for today's complex relationship between the countries. That monumental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.7305 MACNothomb, Amélie.
Summary: Amélie, une jeune femme belge, vient de terminer ses études universitaires. Sa connaissance parfaite du japonais, langue qu'elle maîtrise pour y avoir vécu dans son enfance, lui permet de décrocher un contrat d'un an dans une prestigieuse entreprise de l'empire du soleil levant, la compagnie Yumimoto. Amélie espère réussir dans ce pays qui la fascine tant. Fascinée par la hiérarchie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albin Michel 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 NOT FRENCHSummary: With unprecedented access to the foremost American negotiators, examine the behind-the-scenes story from the last 25 years, of how the United States came within reach of securing peace between Israel and its neighbors. Today, the need to learn from the past mistakes couldn't be more urgent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HUMBaer, Robert.
Summary: Examines the love-hate relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, describing how the royal family's support of a radical religious group helps keep them in power while fostering hatred of the West throughout Saudi society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.538 BAEFursenko, A. V. (Aleksandr Vasilʹevich)
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 FURKhalidi, Rashid.
Summary: Analyzes three historical moments from the past thirty-five years to reveal how the U.S. and Israel have worked together to prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.053 KHAKinzer, Stephen.
Summary: What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Kinzer provides a penetrating, timely critique of America's approach to the world's most volatile region, and offers a startling alternative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 KINLucas, Edward
Summary: A senior Economist writer argues that the Kremlin's spymasters have excelled in their field beyond the capabilities of their Western-world adversaries, tracing the story behind the 2010 deportation of Anna Chapman while analyzing triumphs and disasters in Western intelligence throughout the Cold War as revealed by a leading Russian NATO spy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 LUCRice, Earle.
Summary: Discusses the people and events involved in Japan's decision to attack on Pearl Harbor, which forced the United States to enter World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.54 RICSwanson, Jennifer
Summary: "Pearl Harbor features real stories of that fateful Sunday morning in 1941 when Japanese planes executed a surprise attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. American Girl Nanea Mitchell shares her own experiences adjusting to the drastic changes to everyday life in Hawaii following the attack"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SWASummary: Marred by an over-reliance on stock footage, this documentary attempts to link the United States insatiable appetite for oil as the chief trigger of the war in Iraq. After making some frightening if familiar points about increasing oil consumption and diminishing reserves is unfortunately veers off into discussions of radioactive depleted uranium rounds in Afghanistan, the privatization of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free-Will Productions 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OILAllison, Graham T.
Summary: The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable." Over the past 500 years, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327 ALIBradley, James
Summary: Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 359.4 BRABurrows, William E.
Summary: Unknown to the public and cloaked in the utmost secrecy, the United States flew missions against the Communist bloc almost continuously during the Cold War in a desperate effort to collect intelligence and find targets for all-out nuclear war. The only hint of the relentless, clandestine operations came when one of the planes was shot down. Many of the air force and navy flyers were killed on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001