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Disunited Nations has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

By the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local...

In late March of 1943, four commandos arrive in northern Norway with a mission of establishing a base for sabotage operations. Before they can unload their cutter, they are betrayed, as a German Schnell boat arrives and turns the quiet fjord into a battle zone. Only one man, Jan Baalsrud, surrvives the attack. This is the story of his perilous journey to freedom. Wounded, the dauntless soldier swims icy fjord waters, climbs snow-laden granite peaks, endures violent snowstorms and is hurled off a mountain by an avalanche.

One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization, foreign aid, human rights, immigration, and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity, whatever country they may be in. Every issue is considered from an ethical perspective.

#1 New York Times Bestseller! America's top politicians have discovered the scam to end all scams. Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption—and winning—for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act...

Surge is an insider's view of the most decisive phase of the Iraq War. Using newly declassified documents, unpublished manuscripts, interviews, author notes, and published sources, Surge explains how President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ambassador Crocker, General Petraeus, and other U.S. and Iraqi political and military leaders shaped the surge from the center of the maelstrom in Baghdad and Washington.

Selected in 2005 by the army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, better known as 5-73 CAV, was formed from 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The members of the squadron were hand-selected by the squadron command team, Lieutenant Colonel Poppas and Command Sergeant Major Edgar. With just more than 400 paratroopers, they were half the size of a full-strength battalion and the smallest unit in the Panther Brigade.

Codenamed Operation Telic, the British component of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the largest gathering of British troops since the Second World War. While the British public prepared for the worst as its soldiers were facing weapons of mass destruction, most servicemen and women were under no illusion that they were invading Iraq to rid the people of Saddam Hussein.

The Future of Capitalism has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

At the beginning of the 21st century, China is poised to become a major global power. And though much has been written of China's rise, a crucial aspect of this transformation has gone largely unnoticed: the way that China is using soft power to appeal to its neighbors and to distant countries alike.

For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse?

In May 2010, an intelligence analyst in the US Army's 10th Mountain Division was arrested on suspicion of leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous "Collateral Murder" gunsight video and 260,000 State Department cables. After nine months in solitary confinement, the suspect now awaits court-martial in Fort Leavenworth. He is 24, comes from Crescent, Oklahoma, and his name is Bradley Manning.

På måndagsmorgonen den 9 januari 1967 anträffades tre män döda i Handens centrum strax sönder om Stockholm. Det var två polismän och en nattvakt. Alla hade skjutits till döds. Dådet väckte avsky och bestörtning och kraven från press och allmänhet var enhälliga. Brottet måste klaras upp! I Nordisk kriminalkrönika berättar poliser själva om sina mest uppmärksammade, omskakande, och svåra fall. Nordisk Kriminalkrönika är ett historiskt verk. Berättelserna och samlingarna är uttryck för den samtid som de skrevs i, och kan i enstaka fall ha föråldrat eller kontroversiellt innehåll.

Den 9 augusti 1984 lämnade Alf ett av vårt lands mest beryktade fängelser för en 48-timmars permission. Det skulle dock dröja betydligt längre, närmare ett halvt år, innan han återvände dit. Då med ytterligare sex års fängelse att lägga till de två år han höll på att avtjäna. För att få reda på vad detta berodde på får vi vända oss mot den stad dit Alf åkte, nämligen Malmö. I Nordisk kriminalkrönika berättar poliser själva om sina mest uppmärksammade, omskakande, och svåra fall. Nordisk Kriminalkrönika är ett historiskt verk.

En högsommardag i början på juli 1973 försvann en 39-årig tvåbarnsmamma spårlöst från sitt hem i Trollbäcken - en villaförort ett par mil söder om Stockholm. En dryg månad senare anträffades hon mördad och nedgrävd i ett grustag tre mil från hemmet. Ett par veckor senare kunde gärningsmannen gripas, främst tack vare en överväldigande teknisk bevisning. I Nordisk kriminalkrönika berättar poliser själva om sina mest uppmärksammade, omskakande, och svåra fall. Nordisk Kriminalkrönika är ett historiskt verk.

May 2, 2011 marked the completion of a mission that had begun even before the devastating day of September 11, 2001. Brought to Justice is a riveting, dramatic, informed and sometimes surprising illustrated portrait of Osama bin Laden and America's efforts to find him and track him down. At...

"Vi befinner oss i den lilla byn Näset i Tornedalen ungefär mitt emellan Haparanda och Övertorneå. Det är torsdagen den 14 november 1975 och höstmörkret vilar tungt över dalen och det lilla samhället. Kung Bore skulle komma att spela en avgörande roll i nattens kommande händelser i den lilla byn, var det naturligtvis ingen som kunde förutse." I det lilla samhället Näset känner alla varandra. Det bor några hundra personer där, och det är sällan det händer något uppseendeväckande. På den lilla orten hyrde det dåtida postverket en liten utbyggnad i fru Karlssons villa, vari postkontoret låg.