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Eliah Al-Saud es un hombre excéntrico y poderoso, emparentado con la familia reinante de Arabia Saudí. Vive en París y dirige una empresa de seguridad que, en realidad, oculta actividades de defensa y de espionaje ofrecidas al mejor postor. Matilde Martínez es una joven pediatra argentina que sueña con curar a los niños más desfavorecidos y trabajar para una ong en el África. El destino la pondrá en el camino de Eliah, y será en París donde...
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Why are the diplomats of the world's most powerful countries flying and traveling all over the world all the time?Why are their military engaged in active military diplomacy, planning, and frequent exercises all over the world in the same way?Are they doing it for national security, for public relations, for peace, for fun, or for prestige?Do they have to do all this in such an elaborate and expensive way?If nations of the world could stop engaging...
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This book addresses the 'why' and the 'how' of the practice of anarcho-transcreation - when fidelity to the original text is incompatible with a literal translation, and where languages and cultures are inescapable from geopolitics. "Flip-over", bilingual, non-fiction style - with an anarchist, decolonial, feminist and anti-capitalist approach.
84) Superpower China – Understanding the Chinese World Power From Asia: History, Politics, Education, Ec
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Superpower China—Understanding the Chinese world power from Asia
History, Politics, Education, Economy and Military Developments in China have become a constant concern to the media and society over the last few years.
But what is the truth among the many future scenarios of this superpower which operates in the shadows? How do they tick in the most highly populated country in the world? What are their aims and how does the indigenous population...
85) Mighty Military and Aggressive Foreign Policy of USA: Horrendous Twin Pillars of National Security
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Despite being the number 1 superpower of the world and has the largest and most lethal military force, America seems to be preoccupied with national security.Could it be because American politicians are obsessed with the longstanding American hegemony, and are loathed to see any possible challenge to its position? Could it be the American politicians are using the highly sensitive issue of national security to justify their belligerent behaviour towards...
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Le nationalisme palestinien émerge dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, porté par des notables locaux et des personnalités religieuses. D'emblée, il se positionne contre l'idée de l'établissement d'un « foyer national juif » en Palestine. En 1948, la création de l'État d'Israël occasionne la première confrontation armée entre...
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Dégager des sous-ensembles régionaux au sein de l'Asie soulève deux difficultés majeures. D'une part, les phénomènes comme la démographie, la superficie ou l'économie opèrent à une échelle beaucoup plus vaste que l'Europe, voire que l'Amérique du Nord. La Chine, qui ne constitue qu'une partie de l'Asie, est, par exemple, aussi grande que les États...
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In his third book on France, the veteran international correspondent, Joseph Harriss, cautions that it is, probably, not the country you, expect. He explores persistent myths about that complex nation and analyzes its rapidly evolving situation today. What have 70 years of Socialism done to it? Are French culture and cuisine still the gold standard? He ranges from politics-why the French were so disgusted with President Nicolas Sarkozy-to wrenching...
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America: "Home of Freedom" or "Empire of Evil"? A country that invents myths and values, or one that is in internal conflict and decline? How can the "actual distance" between San Francisco and Miami be calculated? Why is it impossible to communicate with a New York cab driver in English? How can you account for the terrible string of shootings while still explaining Florida's internal migration from California and the start-up record, low youth unemployment,...
90) Corporatocracy
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This book is the second in the Democracy series, a series of three books. Corporatocracy refers to the powerful group of people who run the world's biggest corporations and the most powerful governments. The societies are ruled by a small minority of the wealthiest. Of the world's 100 largest economies, 71 are corporations while only 29 are countries. More than two-thirds of the richest 100 entities on the planet are corporations, not governments....
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Immigration, both legal and illegal, are probably among the world's biggest and the seemingly intractable problems in the modern age.There are great human tragedies and miseries caused by these problems worldwide. Just look at the Rohingya migrants in Bangladesh refugee camps and elsewhere in the world, and the many illegal migrants taking the perilous journeys to America, Europe and Australia. And then there are the many displaced and dispossessed...
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An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin's Russia, by a former Kremlin insider.
"I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close..." -Mikhail Khodorkovsky, March 2021
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"El imaginario social construido desde la década de los ochenta está plagado de perversiones ideológicas: desde el pensamiento único que aboga por la imposibilidad de cuestionar el capitalismo hasta el inevitable choque civilizatorio entre Oriente y Occidente que mantiene que los musulmanes del mundo se unirían para destruir la civilización judeo-cristiana. Si bien es cierto que no se ha dejado de pensar al margen del capitalismo, también lo...
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Pyotr Volkov (born in Uruguay as Diego Daniel García), is an anthropologist and historian with a special interest in past and current events related to the great history of Slavdom and Orthodox Christianity. For an entire decade, he worked to create an ambitious book in which Orthodox Christianity is put at the center of all political, economical, philosophical, and anthropological considerations which shape our modern world. In this very encompassing...
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On the Philosophy of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism demonstrates Jose Maria Sison's comprehensive and profound knowledge of the epochal stages through which the theory and practice of the world proletarian revolution have developed. Such knowledge is well propagated among the cadres and members of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
This book demonstrates Sison's excellence as a theoretician and teacher of dialectical and historical materialism as well...
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xv, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Turks who thrust the Islamic world into the conflict for their own political, economic, and military ends. The Berlin-Baghdad Express tells the fascinating...
97) Lecciones
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Panorama de narrativas volume 1108
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"Una historia íntima y universal. La peripecia vital de un hombre en un mundo convulso y cambiante. Cuando era niño, los padres de Roland Baines lo enviaron a un internado. Allí, lejos del amparo familiar, tomó lecciones de piano con una joven profesora llamada Miriam Cornell, con quien tuvo una experiencia fascinante y traumática a partes iguales, que marcaría su vida para siempre. Los años, sin embargo, han ido pasando: Roland ha viajado,...
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Cold and isolated, yet home to some 4 million people; harsh and unyielding, yet disintegrating with every passing year, the Arctic defies definition. In the modern mind it represents the quintessentially timeless; its landscape imagined both as a realm of crystalline purity and as a frozen kingdom of dread and death. A unique ecosystem that hosts such beloved creatures as the polar bear and the narwhal and serves as the homeland for some of the world's...
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Putin, NATO & NovichokWas the Salisbury poisoning a catalyst for war?The poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England on March 4th, 2018 set off a war of words between Putin's Russia and the UK Government. As events continue to unravel this short current affairs report delves into the details behind Putin's Russia and the propaganda push from both sides.Putin's resurgence, wars and the dealing of 'traitors'What happened in...
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Découvrez Quel avenir pour notre passé ?, une aventure littéraire captivante qui explore les relations entre la France et l'Algérie à travers les yeux de la jeunesse. Hamza Agha et Enzo Gallice nous guident dans un voyage au croisement de deux cultures, abordant les moments clés de leur histoire commune tout en envisageant un avenir de coopération et de compréhension mutuelle. Plus qu'une simple exploration historique, ce livre est un plaidoyer...
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