Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Barnett R. Rubin
Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan ...
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The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Mark J. Plotkin
The Amazon is a land of superlatives. The complex ecosystem covers an area about the size of the continental U.S. The Amazon River discharges 57 million gallons of water per second--in two ...
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Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know®
David Day
Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered ...
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The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
James Gelvin
Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand ...
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The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall
As the threat of global climate change becomes a reality, many look to the Arctic Ocean to predict coming environmental phenomena. There, the consequences of Earth's warming trend are most ...
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Brazil: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Riordan Roett
Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class ...
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Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
David Steinberg
It is unlikely that any country in Asia in recent years has undergone such internal policy shifts in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the ...
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Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Jonathan Zimmerman
Universities are usually considered bastions of the free exchange of ideas, but a recent tide of demonstrations across college campuses has called this belief into question, and with ...
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China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® (3 ed.)
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know® , Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to the ...
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Colombia: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Richard D. Mahoney
Even to experts, Colombia is one of the most confusing countries in the Americas. Its democratic tradition is among the richest and most long-standing in the hemisphere, with only eleven ...
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The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know®
James Ker-Lindsay
For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the ...
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Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Michael J. Gerhardt
Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know® is the step back and deep reflection on the law of impeachment that everyone needs now. Written in an accessible and lively question-and-answer ...
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India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Mira Kamdar
India is fast overtaking China to become the most populous country on Earth. By mid-century, its 1.7 billion people will live in what is projected to become the world’s second-largest ...
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Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Michael Axworthy
Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct civilization today despite its status as a major ...
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Dov Waxman
No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the ...
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Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Tim Judah
On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of ...
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Mexico: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Roderic Ai Camp
Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It has become an intimate part of life in ...
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Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Bruce K. Rutherford and Jeannie Sowers
With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism have combined to produce a region in ...
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Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Stathis Kalyvas
Just a few years ago, Greece appeared to be a politically secure nation with a healthy economy. Today, Greece can be found at the center of the economic maelstrom in Europe. Beginning in ...
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The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know®
James L. Gelvin
Since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, galvanizing the Arab uprisings that continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that ...
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