Burrows, Mathew.

Summary: "Twenty-five years ago when Mathew Burrows went to work for the CIA as an intelligence analyst, the world seemed frozen. Then came the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union; suddenly, unpredictability became a universal theme and foresight was critical. For the past decade, Burrows has overseen the creation of the Global Trends report--the key futurist guide for the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 BUR

Summary: Presents essays which give firsthand accounts of the protests that have taken place throughout the Arab world during the Arab Spring, written by activists and journalists who witnessed the demonstrations.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.044 DIA

Toumani, Meline.

Summary: A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a 'love thine enemy' experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use-- and abuse-- our personal histories.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUMANI, MELINE TOU

Angelos, James

Summary: "A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece's dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country today In recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.5 ANG

Breyer, Stephen G.

Summary: "In this original, far-reaching and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of SCOTUS in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of public and private activity--from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade--obliges the Court to consider and understand circumstances beyond America's borders. At a time when ordinary...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 341.0973 BRE

Slahi, Mohamedou Ould.

Summary: "This is the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 SLA