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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Living at Risk takes us inside Sandinista Nicaragua five years after the revolution that overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza. Subtitled "The Story of a Nicaraguan Family," the film centers on five brothers and sisters who commit themselves to remaining and working with the revolutionary government in various professional capacities: medicine, community organizing, agricultural reform.
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Language
English
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From the author of The Class of 1846: "A swift-paced narrative of Lincoln's pre-presidential life." -The Washington Post Book World The award-winning historian John C. Waugh takes us on Lincoln's road to the Civil War. From Lincoln's first public rejection of slavery to his secret arrival in the capital, from his stunning debates with Stephen Douglas to his more contemplative moments, Waugh shows us America as Lincoln saw it and as Lincoln described...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Richard Haass -- a member of the National Security Council staff for the first President Bush and the director of policy planning in the State Department for Bush II -- contrasts the decisions that shaped the conduct of the two Iraq wars and makes a crucial distinction between the 1991 and 2003 conflicts while offering a thoughtful examination of the means and ends of U.S. foreign policy: how it should be made, what it should seek to accomplish, and...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Historian Hern�andez reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this ... narrative of revolution in the borderlands. [This book] tells the ... story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a ... radical named Ricardo Flores Mag�on, the magonistas were a ... band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers--and American dissidents--to...
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English
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"CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. 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...
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