Summary: The fifteen year realization of a cinematic dream that presents the profound and life-changing journey of innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama to solve many of the world's problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DALSummary: The Great Decisions briefing book features impartial, thought-provoking analyses on eight issues of concern to U.S. policymakers today. Written by carefully selected experts, each article offers policy options for U.S. officials as well as questions and tools for discussion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foreign Policy Association, Inc. 2024
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Mooney, Carla
Summary: Is your salad drizzled with olive oil imported from Italy? What country made the car that your parents drive? Globalization connects us today more than ever before, and in ways we never expected, and populations around the world are questioning whether this is a purely beneficial circumstance or if we should take steps to scale back our interrelatedness. Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 327 MOOSummary: The post Cold War era began with a decade of conflicts often mediated by the United States as the world's only remaining superpower. The September 11 terrorist attacks, however, marked the dawning of a new era. The United States became preoccupied by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while around the world, new challenges and threats emerged: a more assertive Russia, an increasingly powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 POSHunter, Nick.
Summary: A variety of case studies explores the ways countries relate to the rest of the world on a variety of issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 327 HUNMiller, Chris
Summary: "An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource--microchip technology--with the United States and China increasingly in conflict. You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil--the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.476 MILSteinberg, James.
Summary: "After forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations, policymakers, politicians, and pundits on both sides of the Pacific see growing tensions between the United States and China. Some go so far as to predict a future of conflict, driven by the inevitable rivalry between an established and a rising power, and urge their leaders to prepare now for a future showdown. Others argue that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.51 STEDoyle, Don Harrison
Summary: When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model of democracy, would indeed 'perish from the earth.' In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7 DOYSpilsbury, Louise
Summary: Children can get answers to questions like: what is global conflict? And how does it affect people in countries all over the world? Children will begin to understand the way others struggle with these issues and discover ways they can help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around SpilsburyZeihan, Peter
Summary: "Most countries and companies are not prepared for the world Peter Zeihan says we're already living in. For decades, America's allies have depended on its might for their economic and physical security. But as a new age of American isolationism dawns, the results will surprise everyone. In Disunited Nations, geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan presents a series of counterintuitive arguments...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 ZEIHelberg, Jacob
Summary: The author, who led Google's internal global product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference from 2016 to 2020, reveals that spoils of the ongoing cyberwar with certain countries are power over every meaningful aspect of our society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.10285 HELJohns, Geoff
Summary: "As the Doomsday Clock ticks toward midnight, the DC Universe will encounter with its greatest threat: Dr. Manhattan. But nothing is hidden from Manhattan, and the secrets of the past, present and future will leave ramifications on our heroes lives forever. Something is amiss in the DC Universe. Following the events of DC Universe: Rebirth and Batman/The Flash: The Button, Geoff Johns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOHGerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: "During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to distance the United States from the neoconservative foreign policy legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and usher in a new era of a global, interconnected world. More than two years have passed since his inauguration, and the reality of President Obama's approach is in stark contrast to the ebullient and optimistic image that he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GERSummary: The Great Decisions briefing book features impartial, thought-provoking analyses on eight issues of concern to U.S. policymakers today. Written by carefully selected experts, each article offers policy options for U.S. officials as well as questions and tools for discussion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foreign Policy Association, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GREHaass, Richard
Summary: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. The rules, policies, and institutions that have guided the world since World War II have largely run their course. Respect for sovereignty alone cannot uphold order in an age defined by global challenges from terrorism and the spread of nuclear weapons to climate change and cyberspace. Meanwhile, great-power rivalry is returning. Weak states pose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HAAShiffman, John.
Summary: John Shiffman presents the rare and intimate narrative of a daring national security sting designed to protect U.S. soldiers, sailors, and pilots from the greatest danger they face on the battlefield; an enemy equipped with American-made weapons and technology.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.93 SHISummary: Foreign Affairs magazine is the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and international affairs. Foreign Affairs magazine is published by the Council of Foreign Relations, a non-profit and nonpartisan membership organization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Council on Foreign Relations 1922
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Sanger, David E
Summary: "In 2015, Russian hackers tunneled deep into the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee, and the subsequent leaks of the emails they stole may have changed the course of American democracy. But to see the DNC hacks as Trump-centric is to miss the bigger, more important story: Within that same year, the Russians not only had broken into networks at the White House, the State...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 SANEngler, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 337 ENGZakaria, Fareed.
Summary: Explores how the rapid rise of such nations as China, India, and Brazil is countering America's previous dominance over the global economy, geopolitics, and culture, and shares advice on how the United States can thrive in the face of international changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic ZakariaStone Fish, Isaac
Summary: "A timely, provocative expose of our political and business leadership's deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing-at a great often hidden cost to our society"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 STOSummary: This remarkable story from the past is especially timely today. Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this film retraces the 800 years in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ORNBradley, James
Summary: A vast history of American-Chinese relations from its missionary origins to the eve of WWII. Dark portraits of those whom conventional history has acclaimed, potent in its critique of the missionary instinct, and brilliant in its exploration of the power of myth and mirage to convince men and women and nations that destiny is on their side, this is James Bradley's most intrepid work yet.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2015