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Half the Sky
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95#1 National Bestseller From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era?s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet... more...
The Prize
Free Press 2011; US$ 22.00Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin?s Pulitzer Prize?winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis. more...
Twilight in the Desert
Wiley 2005; US$ 16.95Twilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book, veteran oil industry analyst Matthew Simmons draws on his three-plus decades of insider experience and more than 200 independently produced reports about Saudi petroleum resources and production... more...
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 24.00This book explores firsthand accounts of the genocide in Darfur. more...
After the Prophet
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever. Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic nation had begun, beginning a succession crisis marked... more...
Murder Without Borders
Random House of Canada 2010; US$ 22.00?I am not interested in why man commits evil; I want to know why he does good.? ? Vaclav Havel What makes a poor, small-town journalist stay on a story even though threatened with certain death, and offered handsome rewards for looking the other way? Over four years, Terry Gould has travelled to Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia and... more...
The Book of Revenge
Random House of Canada 2011; US$ 19.95A darkly comic recollection of a country that no longer exists, and a lyrical examination of the importance of taking a stand when it counts. Set against a backdrop of horrific world events, this is narrative non-fiction at its best. To a young boy growing up poor but happy in an industrial town in Serbia, politics means many national holidays that... more...
Iran, Israel, and the United States: Regime Security vs. Political Legitimacy
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 35.00Providing an unbiased analysis of the past, present, and future of the hostile relationship between Iran, Israel, and the United States, this book presents an up-to-date discussion of the security implications for each of the two states as well as the entire region. more...
The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century
Little, Brown Book Group 2008; US$ 25.36China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The speed of its development is stunning, a combination of cheap labour and commitment to science and technology... more...
The Second World
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableA bold and visionary tour of the most important, and least understood, countries shaping the future of the global order. At the end of the Cold War, we found ourselves living in a world with one superpower, the United States. Now, at the start of the twenty-first century, Parag Khanna argues powerfully that the moment of American supremacy is over,... more...









