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Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know by Daniel Byman
$27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the entire world was introduced to Al Qaeda and its enigmatic leader, Osama bin Laden. But the organization that changed the face of terrorism forever and unleashed a whirlwind of counterterrorism activity and two major wars had been on the scene long before that ev ...Show more
Climate Change by Joseph Romm
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Category: Not a Book | Series: What Everyone Needs to Know® Ser.
Climate change will have a bigger impact on humanity than the Internet has had. The last decade's spate of superstorms, wildfires, heat waves, and droughts has accelerated the public discourse on this topic and lent credence to climatologist Lonnie Thomson's 2010 statement that climate change "represent ...Show more
Cybersecurity: What Everyone Needs to Know by Peter Singer
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
Dependence on computers has had a transformative effect on human society. Cybernetics is now woven into the core functions of virtually every basic institution, including our oldest ones. War is one such institution, and the digital revolution's impact on it has been profound. The American military, whi ...Show more
North Korea - What Everyone Needs to Know® by Patrick McEachern
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: What Everyone Needs to Know Ser.
After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile development programs, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared mission accomplished in November 2017. Though Kim's pronouncement appears premature, North Kore ...Show more
Social Entrepreneurship by David Bornstein; Susan Davis
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Category: Not a Book | Series: What Everyone Needs to Know Ser.
In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peacef ...Show more
The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know by Philip J. Cook
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
Even before the recent Newtown, CT massacre, gun violence and gun control has preoccupied public officals and legislators at all levels of government as well as powerful special interest groups for years. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know tours the issues that Americans debate when they talk a ...Show more
Ukraine - What Everyone Needs to Know by Serhy Yekelchyk
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Category: Not a Book | Series: What Everyone Needs to Know Ser.
Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However, this theory obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic revolution and the conflict's crucial international ...Show more
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