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By F. E Peters. 2003
New York University professor F.E. Peters delivers a course that will take you on a journey through the fascinating history…
of Jerusalem. As you explore the myriad contributions made to the city by the Jews, Christians, and Muslims, you'll come to understand why each religion reveres this holy place. 2003.By Michael A Barnhart. 1995
This text presents a survey of Japan's foreign relations since the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The author describes three searches…
for security: the search for sovereignty; the search for empire and the search for comprehensive security. 1995.By Tabatha Southey. 2017
Tabatha Southey is possessed of the wisdom of the ages. She understands the psychological struggles of shadowy Russian pee traffickers.…
She recognizes the PR benefits of puppy-throwing. She has deeply considered the moral quandaries presented by sea-slug penises. She even knows her own bra size (really, please stop asking). Showcases the many lessons learned from over a decade of column writing. For example, you don't want to piss off the jazz enthusiasts. And you really, really don't want to piss off the homeopaths. Along with these thorny issues, Southey has covered the most pressing topics of our times, from the struggles of having an unusually handsome prime minister to the impending dystopic future faced by the Trump United States and Casino Resort. 2017. Uniform title: Newspaper columns.By Kathy Gannon. 2005
In 1986 Kathy Gannon headed to Afghanistan as a foreign correspondent, and for the next eighteen years she witnessed its…
tragic opera: the final collapse of communism followed by bitterly feuding warlords being driven from power by the Taliban; the subsequent arrival of Arabs and exiles, among them Osama bin Laden; and the transformation of the country into the staging post for a global jihad. She also observed the terrible, unforeseen consequences of Western intervention, the ongoing suffering of ordinary Afghans, and the ability of the most corrupt of the warlords to reinvent and reinsert themselves into successive governments. Some descriptions of violence. c2005.By Phil Callaway, Martha Bolton. 2006
By Jack Prelutsky. 2000
A collection of more than one hundred humorous poems with titles such as "Deep in Our Refrigerator," "Butterflies, You Puzzle…
Me," "We Are Plooters," and every child's lament, "Why Do I Have to Clean My Room?" For grades 2-4. 2000.By Erick Stakelbeck. 2015
Terrorism expert Erick Stakelbeck pulls back the curtain on ISIS, the violent terrorist organization spreading death and hate in the…
Middle East. The rise of ISIS took the White House by complete surprise: President Obama called the group "JV," then was forced to reassess when ISIS began executing innocent American journalists. Now radicalized Americans and Europeans are joining ISIS's ranks. So who is ISIS? How powerful are they? And are they a threat to the homeland? 2015.By Bettany Hughes. 2017
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three…
names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. 2017.By Martin Gilbert. 1998
Israel is a small and relatively young country, but its turbulent history has placed it squarely at the centre of…
the world stage this century. Martin Gilbert traces its history, from its beginnings with the dramatic declaration of Statehood in May 1948, through the many subsequent conflicts and political watersheds. Using contemporary documents and eyewitness accounts, drawing on his own intimate knowledge of the country and its people, the author weaves together all these dramatic events into a seamless narrative. 1998.By J. P Docherty. 1999
Explores the people, history, culture, land, and economy of this Middle Eastern country, once called Mesopotamia, which is considered the…
"cradle of civilization." Also briefly discusses its modern wars with neighbours Iran and Kuwait. Grades 5-8. c1999.By Ian Buruma. 2003
Buruma traces Japan's transformation from an isolated island shogunate into an expansive military empire and then a pacified and prosperous…
democracy. Beginning with Commodore Perry's 1853 naval mission to open Japan to American traders, he follows a century of history, culminating in Douglas MacArthur's remarkable - but flawed - achievement in guiding Japan toward democracy. 2003. (Modern Library chronicles ; 11)By Joey Slinger. 1992
Slinger, a humourist and columnist with the "Toronto Star," has collected some of his columns on the subject of "urban…
ecology." They are arranged by groups like "Endangered species," "Field marks," and "Animal behaviour." 1992.By William Chapman. 1987
When Corazon Aquino took power in the Philippines, she quickly discovered that she had inherited Marcos' problem of domestic unrest.…
The New People's Army, the communist force in the Philippines, was established 20 years ago, and it controls at least 20 percent of the local political units. 1987.By John Keay. 2000
A five-thousand-year overview of the subcontinent from the Harappan people in the Indus Valley around 3000 B.C. to the nineteenth-century…
takeover by the British Raj. Presents a chronology of cultural and political developments that shaped the twentieth-century nations of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. c2000.By Ed Rothfarb. 1998
Traces the history of the three-hundred-year Mughal dynasty in northern India. Describes the Mughals' arrival in the fifteenth century led…
by Babur, who conquered and remained to rule. Examines the development of Islam during the interchange of cultures, as the Mughals interacted with the local Hindu traditions. For junior and senior high readers. 1998.By Larry Wilmore. 2009
Within these pages are the musings, the revelations, the ruminations, and the reflections of comic Larry Wilmore. Here, collected for…
the first time, all in one place, are his Black Thoughts. From why black weathermen make him feel happy (or sad) and why brothas don't see UFOs to his search for Black Jesus or his quest to replace "African-American" with "chocolate". 2009.By Molly Phillips. 1990
Born in Hong Kong in 1909, the author has witnessed the three modern eras of Chinese history: the final days…
of the Imperial Ching dynasty; the republican rule of Chiang Kai-Shek; and Communist rule since 1949. She describes the people, culture, and history of China as she experienced them. 1990.By Tim Allen. 1996
Known for his starring role in the sitcom Home Improvement, Allen humorously describes an unusual weekend. Alone while his wife…
and daughter have gone camping, he puzzles over "the big questions" brought on by his midlife crisis--while he searches for a missing hood ornament. Strong language. 1996.By Jess Kimball Leslie. 2017
From accounts of the lawless chat rooms of early AOL to the perpetual high school reunions that are modern-day Facebook…
and Instagram, the essays paint a clear picture: That all of us have a much more twisted, meaningful, emotional relationship with the online world than we realize or let on. Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and early '90s, Jess looked to the nascent Internet to find the tribes she couldn't find IRL: fellow Bette Midler fans; women who seemed impossibly sure of their sexuality; people who worked with computers every day as part of their actual jobs without being ridiculed as nerds. It's in large part because of her embrace of an online life that Jess is where she is now, happily married, with a wife, son, and dog, and making a living of analyzing Internet trends and forecasting the future of tech. 2017.A collection of humorous essays dealing with marriage, children, the national anthem, lettuce, and other suburban, domestic concerns. Bombeck asks…
"Who killed apple pie?" and instructs readers "How to speak child fluently". 1978.