DeParle, Jason

Summary: "When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas in the Manila slums thirty years ago, he didn't expect to make a lifelong friend. Nor did he expect to spend decades reporting on her family--husband, children, and siblings--as they came to embody the stunning rise of global migration. In A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family across three...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019

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Summary: For those looking to relocate overseas, or who want to see the world as they embark on their career, Careers Overseas is designed to provide need-to-know information on the wide variety of career paths that students have to choose from. Whether they are considering international internships, international volunteer organizations working with youth, education, the environment, research, or...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. 2017

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Contents: The advantages of a summer job away from home -- The downside -- What jobs can you do? Tourism; Agriculture; English language teaching; Working with children; Volunteer work -- Landing the perfect summer job: 10 tips for success -- Finding a job last-minute -- Essential preparation: Travel; Visas & red tape; What to pack; Accommodation; Money; Health and insurance -- The UK -- Europe: Andorra;...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vacation Work 2010

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Lucas, 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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Summary: 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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Blake, 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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Stent, 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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Friedberg, Aaron L.

Summary: "The West's strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China's rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Polity Press 2022

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Burrows, 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

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Khodorkovskiĭ, Mikhail

Summary: "An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin's Russia, by a former Kremlin insider. "I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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Aro, Jessikka

Summary: "A chilling account of Russian information warfare, Putin's Trolls exposes the individuals and organizations behind the Kremlin's coordinated, military-style social media operations against the West. In this courageous and unflinching book, award-winning journalist Jessikka Aro interweaves her own dramatic story as a target of Russian social media propaganda with accounts from many...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ig Publishing 2022

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Laqueur, Walter

Summary: "There is no question that tensions between Russia and America are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian government's treatment of homosexuals have created diplomatic standoffs and led to a volley of economic sanctions. Much of the blame for Russia's recent hostility towards the West has fallen on steely-eyed President Vladimir...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2015

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Jacques, Martin.

Summary: Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009

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Ostrovsky, Arkady

Summary: "A highly original narrative history by The Economist’s Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in Age of Ambition,"--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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Yohannan, K. P.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gospel for Asia Books 2010

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Ayuyang, Rina

Summary: "The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2023

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Gordimer, Nadine.

Summary: The Nobel Laureate's psychologically penetrating story of the love affair between a rich South African and the illegal alien she "picks up" on a whim Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman's daughter trying to escape a priveleged background she despises? When Julie...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2001

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Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: "Madrid, 1957. Under the oppressive dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth. Photography introduces him to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019

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Peddicord, Kathleen.

Summary: Counsels readers who have suffered retirement savings setbacks on how to explore affordable options abroad, outlining practical steps while revealing how unconventional destinations in foreign cultures may cost less than traditional American retirements.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2010

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Golson, Barry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008

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Satrapi, Marjane

Summary: "Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007

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Rosenberg, Joel C.

Summary: Do recent changes in the Middle East signal peace? One Arab country after another is signing historic, game-changing peace, trade, investment, and tourism deals with Israel. At the same time, Russia, Iran, and Turkey are forming a highly dangerous alliance that could threaten the Western powers. Meanwhile, the U.S. is drawing down its military forces in the Mideast and focusing on matters...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2021

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