A Choice Of Enemies

Author : Sir Lawrence Freedman
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307373335

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The United States is locked into three prolonged conflicts without much hope of early resolution. Iran is pursuing a nuclear program; the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein has seen unrelenting intercommunal violence; and the Taliban have got back into Afghanistan. George W. Bush will almost certainly leave office without solving any of these big foreign policy issues that have defined his presidency. Sir Lawrence Freedman, distinguished historian of 20th-century military and political strategy, teases out the roots of each engagement over the last thirty years and demonstrates with clarity and scholarship the influence of these conflicts upon each other. How is it that the US manages to find itself fighting on three different fronts? Freedman supplies a context to recent events and warns against easy assumptions: neo-conservatives, supporters of Israel and the hawks are not the sole reasons for the failure to develop a viable foreign policy in the Middle East. The story is infinitely more complex and is often marked by great drama. Unique in its focus, this book will offer new revelations about the history of the US in the region, and about America’s role in the wider world. A Choice of Enemies is essential reading for anyone concerned with the complex politics of the Middle East and with the future of American foreign policy. “Freedman is not just a good historian but a terse, readable writer.” Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times (UK)

Author : Ted Allbeury
Publisher : Mulholland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444781878

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Ted Bailey thought his days as an Intelligence Operative were long gone. He certainly wasn't expecting to be blackmailed back into action, especially not by his own side. But then Bailey is the only person left who ever encountered Berger, the KGB's most ruthless master-spy. Berger is running a major operation on US soil and both the CIA and SIS are desperate to track him down. So Bailey returns to the arena of international espionage and finds that little has changed. The spy game is just the same, even after twenty-five years. There's the same brutality. The same cold fear. The same violence and death. And the same choice of enemies. 'The best cold war espionage novels never really lose their punch: Allbeury, like le Carré, is a master of the genre.' - Publishers Weekly

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551995588

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A colony of Canadian and American writers and filmmakers, exiled by McCarthyist witch-hunts at home, find themselves in London, England, where they evolve a society every bit as merciless, destructive, and close-minded as that from which they have fled. The bonds of the group are strained when Norman Price, an academic turned hack writer, befriends an enigmatic German refugee. Ostracized by his colleagues, Norman soon perceives how easily conviction devolves into tyranny. Believing that “all alliances are discredited,” he enters a moral nightmare in which his choice of enemies is no longer clear. With relentless irony and biting accuracy, Mordecai Richler maps out a surreal territory of doubt, describing not only one man’s personal dilemma but the moral condition of modern society.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:231763099

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A Choice of Enemies by Mordecai Richler Pdf

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0436195909

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A Choice of Enemies by George V. Higgins Pdf

Author : M. A. Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:1301797228

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Choice of Enemies by M. A. Richards Pdf

The first in a series of espionage novels featuring Nathan Monsarrat, a retired Central Intelligence Agency deep cover operative with an extensive knowledge of black gold and expertise in weapons. women, and Benjamins. Now a dean at a small college in Massachusetts, Nathan is visited by his former Agency mentor and given a blunt choice: either travel to Afrcia to lay the groundwork for a coup d'état, or condemn the woman who saved his life to a brutal execution. Out of options, he returns to the Niger Delta where he discovers the Agency plans to reward his services with an oil soaked grave.

Author : Osha Gray Davidson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469646619

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The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition by Osha Gray Davidson Pdf

C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ellis and Atwater met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been exploited by the South's rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry. Now a major motion picture, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. View the movie trailer here: https://youtu.be/eKM6fSTs-A0

Author : Reinhold Kramer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773577954

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Mordecai Richler by Reinhold Kramer Pdf

Based on never-before published material from the Richler archives as well as interviews with family members, friends, and acquaintances, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain shows how Richler consistently mined his remarkable life for material for his novels. Beginning with the early clashes with his grandfather over Orthodox Judaism, and exposing the reasons behind his life-long quarrel with his mother, Kramer follows Richler as he flees to Ibiza and Paris, where he counted himself as one of the avant-garde who ushered in the 1960s. His successes abroad gave him the opportunity to remain in England and leave novel-writing behind — but he did neither. More than a biography, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain is the story of a Jewish culture finding its place within a larger stream, a literary culture moving into the colloquial, and a Canada torn between nationalism and cosmopolitanism.

Author : Arthur C. Brooks
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780062883773

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Love Your Enemies by Arthur C. Brooks Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right? Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against American, creating a “culture of contempt”—the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless and defective. Maybe, like more than nine out of ten Americans, you dislike it. But hey, either you play along, or you’ll be left behind, right? Wrong. In Love Your Enemies, social scientist and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller From Strength to Strength Arthur C. Brooks shows that abuse and outrage are not the right formula for lasting success. Brooks blends cutting-edge behavioral research, ancient wisdom, and a decade of experience leading one of America’s top policy think tanks in a work that offers a better way to lead based on bridging divides and mending relationships. Brooks’ prescriptions are unconventional. To bring America together, we shouldn’t try to agree more. There is no need for mushy moderation, because disagreement is the secret to excellence. Civility and tolerance shouldn’t be our goals, because they are hopelessly low standards. And our feelings toward our foes are irrelevant; what matters is how we choose to act. Love Your Enemies offers a clear strategy for victory for a new generation of leaders. It is a rallying cry for people hoping for a new era of American progress. Most of all, it is a roadmap to arrive at the happiness that comes when we choose to love one another, despite our differences.

Author : George V. Higgins
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0881841218

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A Choice of Enemies by George V. Higgins Pdf

Bernie Morgan, longtime Speaker of the Massachusetts House, is determined to thwart his political enemies and plan a memorable end to his career

Author : Leila Aboulela
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781474600118

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The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela Pdf

The new novel from three times Orange Prize longlisted Leila Aboulela Natasha Wilson knows how difficult it is to fit in. Born to a Russian mother and a Muslim father, she feels adrift in Scotland and longs for a place which really feels like home. Then she meets Oz, a charismatic and passionate student at the university where Natasha teaches. As their bond deepens, stories from Natasha's research come to life - tales of forbidden love and intrigue in the court of the Tsar. But when Oz is suspected of radicalism, Natasha's own work and background suddenly come under the spotlight. As suspicions grow around her, and friends and colleagues back away, Natasha stands to lose the life she has fought to build.

Author : Tijan
Publisher : Entangled: Amara
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649377760

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Enemies by Tijan Pdf

Stone Reeves was my neighbor, and I’ve hated him since sixth grade. Gorgeous and charismatic, he became the town’s football god, while I became the town’s invisible girl. He went to a Division 1 school for football, while my father was fired by his father. His team won the National Championship, while my mother died the same day. He was a first round pick for the NFL ... ... while I made the worst decision of my life. Now I’m in Texas trying to pick up the pieces of my life. But, Stone is here. Stone is everywhere. It doesn’t matter that disaster has struck my life again. It doesn’t matter that he’s the one trying to console me. It doesn’t matter that he’s the nation’s newest football obsession. Because for me, he always has been and always will be my enemy.

Author : Shelby Bach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442497894

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Of Enemies and Endings by Shelby Bach Pdf

Rory and her friends are determined to stop the Snow Queen once and for all in this thrilling conclusion to the Ever Afters series, which Kirkus Reviews calls a “fast-paced combination of middle school realism and fairy-tale fantasy.” How will this tale end? The whole fairy-tale world is on high alert. The Snow Queen and her minions are targeting Characters, and Ever After School is the only safe refuge left. Rory Landon knows a final confrontation is inevitable, and she worries about the safety of her family and friends—particularly Chase, who has been acting very strange lately. Will Rory be able to count on Chase when she needs him most? Is she strong enough to put an end to the Snow Queen’s terrible reign once and for all? Only one thing is certain: it’s time for Rory to find out if her tale ends in happily-ever-after.

Author : Baltasar Gracián
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141398280

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How to Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracián Pdf

'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracián shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658). Gracián's work is available in Penguin Classics in The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence.

Author : Francine Pascal
Publisher : Sweet Valley
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553493884

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Best of Enemies by Francine Pascal Pdf

After Melissa and Will break up, Melissa begins dating a dangerous college student who encourages her to drink.