Browsing the "Current Affairs" category: 401 books
"The Coming Anarchy" first appeared as a cover story in the Atlantic and has shaped a new paradigm of world disorder. It continues to be debated and cited in Washington, on talk shows, TV and in Universities. Kaplan is not afraid to say what no one e ...more »
ISBN: 0375505342 / Random House / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 347K
In August 1995, twenty-six passengers and a crew of three board a commuter plane in Atlanta headed for Gulfport, Mississippi. Shortly after takeoff they hear an explosion and, looking out the windows on the left side, see a mangled engine lodged a ...more »
ISBN: 0676793983 / Crown / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 595K
"Dragon's Fury - Trodden Under" is the exciting sequel to the first volume in the "Dragon's Fury" series, "Dragon's Fury - Breath of Fire". It picks up the story immediately following the horrific events of March 2006 when the US Navy 7th Fleet and t ...more »
ISBN: 1589292464 / PocketPC Press / Pub Date: Aug 2002 / File Size: 529K
This is a series of articles written and published in 1996-2000 in Macedonia, in Russia, in Egypt and in the Czech Republic.
The book can be roughly divided to three. One part — social, political and cultural critique. The author's main thes ...more »
ISBN: 802385173X / Narcissus Publishing / Pub Date: Mar 2000 / File Size: 261K
From Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, authors of Shrub, Bushwhacked is a hilarious, no-holds-barred look at George W. Bush and his administration, and an essential book for understanding the full, destructive impact of his presidency. For years, be ...more »
ISBN: 1588360512 / Random House / Pub Date: Sep 2003 / File Size: N/A
Every person, great and small, wants the same thing: personal self-preservation. It is their instinct. The Citizen's
SMART Book shows them how to better attain that. This book is a guide for the common civilian citizen to better understand
ter ...more »
ISBN: 1587492601 / Awe-Struck E-Books / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 137K
“Strange things happen when Chinese dynasties near their end. Dams break, earthquakes hit, clouds appear in the shape of weird beasts, rain falls in odd colors, and insects infest the countryside. These are the ill omens of moral turpitude and ...more »
ISBN: 1588361322 / Random House / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 410K
(Note: This Chinese title requires a special Traditional Chinese font. Consult the first page of the eBook for where to download the free font or visit www.twinbook.com.)
September 11, 2001 will be remembered as one of the most horrific and unbeli ...more »
ISBN: 962874481X / TwinBridge Software Corporation / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 559K
A Freed Man: An Emancipation is a first-person account of Mr. Abraham's journey from conformist thinker to free thinker. Along the way he reflects on people and events that influenced his life, and the reader's: The passing of Martin Luther ...more »
ISBN: 0970020902 / Phaelos, Inc. / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 276K
Few writers can match journalist Donald Katz's ability to make an exotic locale familiar or transform the ordinary into a peculiar phenomenon. The setting for each piece in The Valley of the Fallen provides a resonant backdrop for Katz's dazzling pol ...more »
ISBN: 0679647228 / At Random / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 368K
The Lost Art of Drawing the Line will appall and irritate -- and entertain -- readers every bit as much as Philip Howard's first book. Why is it that no one can fix the schools? Why do ordinary judgments fill doctors with fear? Why are seesaws disapp ...more »
ISBN: 0375506993 / Random House / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 238K
The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world -- half a million more than in Communi ...more »
ISBN: 0375506934 / Random House / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 273K
How can people do such things? What sort of human beings could coldly plan, organize and execute such horrific actions? What goes on inside the mind of the suicide bomber? Is terrorism linked to the character of Islam as a religion?
These are som ...more »
ISBN: 1587491362 / Awe-Struck E-Books / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 172K
Are you proud of your neighborhood? Do you feel safe on the streets at night? Are the schools good? Local businesses booming?
If you can't answer "yes" to all of these questions, Love Your Neighborhood can help. This book details a still-unfo ...more »
ISBN: 1553520637 / Electric eBook Publishing / Pub Date: Jul 2002 / File Size: 374K
Thomas Keating St. ThÉrÈse of Lisieux A Transformation in Christ During the year 2000, the relics of Saint ThÉrÈse of Lisieux (1874–1897) toured throughout the United States—at once confirming and stimulating an extraordinary resurgence of interest i ...more »
ISBN: 1930051573 / Lantern Books / Pub Date: May 2001 / File Size: 225K
How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice: A Guide for Adults and Children ...more »
ISBN: 0439278651 / Scholastic, Inc. / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 793K
Ron Rosenbaum has been called "a prose master" of"great cultural journalism" by NPR's Maureen Corrigan and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Powers has called him "one of the few distinctive voices in American journalism". In this monumental collection of ...more »
ISBN: 037550592X / Random House / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 1154K
Cyber terrorism is an emerging new mode of information warfare underscoring the perpetrators' deliberate exploitation of civilian and military systems' inherent
vulnerabilities, thereby affecting national and global security. This volume i ...more »
ISBN: 1401402046 / Transnational Publishers, Inc. / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 394K
The al-Qaida informal and loose international network in over 50 countries has been responsible for spectacular terrorist operations such as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the 1 ...more »
ISBN: 1401401767 / Transnational Publishers, Inc. / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 532K
<5 stars, Review by BUZZY, "What You See Is What You Get hit me where I live. It concerns a female web site designer -Serena, and an internet romance with an airline pilot - Zach. Wham! I was caught right then and there. She is a woman who, after an ...more »
ISBN: 1928670962 / Awe-Struck E-Books / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 350K
Cyber terrorism is an emerging new mode of information warfare underscoring the perpetrators' deliberate exploitation of civilian and military systems' inherent vulnerabilities, thereby affecting national and global security. This volume in ...more »
ISBN: 1401402003 / Transnational Publishers, Inc. / Pub Date: Nov 2001 / File Size: 422K
In New York City, an average of eleven fires are reported every hour of the day and night, 365 days a year. Now, hear the stories behind the news reports, as America's courageous fire fighters tell their stories in their own words This is the real s ...more »
ISBN: 0759200998 / eReads / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 399K
The terrorist attack on Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988 killed 270 people, mostly Americans, and was then the largest mass attack on American civilians. The Price Of Terror portrays the grief and loss of the ...more »
ISBN: 0060085053 / HarperCollins / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 395K
From household gossip to public beatings, this social history explores the many channels through which Athenians maintained public order. Virginia Hunter draws mostly on Attic court proceedings, which allowed for a wide range of evidence, including c ...more »
ISBN: 140080390X / Princeton Univ. Press / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 1064K
America has changed since September 11, 2001. We have lost fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, and friends. But we have also met countless heroes in our midst. And we have learned once again what it truly means to be American. ...more »
ISBN: 0759586462 / Warner Books / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 347K
