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Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An Interpol agent and a Manhattan Assistant District Attorney find themselves in a high-stakes chase around the globe when they uncover a multitude of illegal activities at one of the world's most powerful banks, which will stop at nothing when it comes to financing war and terror.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although he spoke no English, he dedicated himself to his adopted land, striving for the American dream. Determined to be a success story, he joined the army to pay forcollege. He saw action in Iraq and returned home with PTSD. Believing in the promise of our government, he focused on healing himself and supporting his family. His hard work paid off when he landed...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, and civil wars. Egypt's epochal transition to democracy ended in a violent military coup. Yemen and Libya collapsed into civil war, while Bahrain erupted in smothering sectarian repression. Syria proved the greatest victim of all, ripped apart by internationally fueled insurgencies and an externally...
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Language
English
Description
"The most important political investigation since Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into Russian influence on the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump. The full report by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol features facts, circumstances, and causes related to the assault on the Capitol Complex. Formed on July 1, 2021, the Select Committee has issued over one hundred subpoenas and held...
Author
Publisher
IG Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"After being named Assistant Director of Intelligence for the Capitol Police just days before the 2020 election, Julie Farnam warned its leadership of the upcoming insurrection, sharing that “Congress itself is the target on the 6th.” Tragically, her warnings were ignored. Domestic Darkness takes us inside the explosive events of January 6, 2021, revealing how the Capitol Police disregarded intelligence about the right-wing extremists who would...
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Series
INSS occasional paper volume 52
Publisher
USAF Institute for National Security Studies, USAF Academy
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Series
INSS occasional paper volume 43
Publisher
USAF Institute for National Security Studies, USAF Academy
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II-and determined the fate of the continent. The end of World War II led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled "the long peace." Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, and Malaya-the...
Author
Series
Special report volume 21
Publisher
U.S. Institute of Peace
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A pathbreaking account of the continuing ethnic and state violence after the end of WWI--conflicts that more than anything else set the stage for WWII"--Provided by publisher.
"An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century. For the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This program is read by the author, Denver Riggleman. “Winners make history.”٬٢٠١٤؛Kevin McCarthy Make no mistake: modern information warfare is here and January 6th was just the first battle. That day, an unhinged mindset led to an attack on the Capitol, the most serious assault on American democracy since the end of the Civil War. And that thinking portends even darker days ahead. In The Breach, a former House Republican and the first...
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