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Waste

Waste

Combining frontline investigation with startling new data, Tristram Stuart’s Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis – and what we can do to fix it.
SZL 600.70
We Came in Dhows

We Came in Dhows

From the introduction: “This volume has been designed as a companion to Through Open Doors: A View of Asian Cultures in Kenya. Although that book describes the historical background of the various Asian communities [in] Kenya, it has little information about individual people. This book is all about
SZL 4,688.64
Wealth and Poverty of Nations,The

Wealth and Poverty of Nations,The

The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots, and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poor countries is widening. In this engrossing and important new work, eminent historian David Landes explores the complex, fascinating and often startling causes of the wealth and
SZL 776.63
Weapon Wizards, The

Weapon Wizards, The

From drones to satellites, missile defense systems to cyber warfare, Israel is leading the world when it comes to new technology being deployed on the modern battlefield. The Weapon Wizards shows how this tiny nation of 8 million learned to adapt to the changes in warfare and become the new prototyp
SZL 846.93
WHAT WOULD MARTIN SAY?

WHAT WOULD MARTIN SAY?

When the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the world lost one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth century. We would all benefit from hearing Martin’s voice, if only he were alive today. . . .
SZL 436.60
WHERE POWER LIES PRIME MINISTERS V THE MEDIA

WHERE POWER LIES PRIME MINISTERS V THE MEDIA

Britain has one of the oldest and most developed democracies on earth. It is admired and copied the world over. Yet at home British politics is frequently viewed with a mixture of derision and contempt. Why? Our democratic system may be mature but the politicians we elect and the media we rely on to
SZL 227.18
WHERE SOLDIERS FEAR TO TREAD

WHERE SOLDIERS FEAR TO TREAD

“If you’ve ever sent 20 bucks off to a relief organization, you owe it to yourself to read this book.” Michael Maren The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity. “There is going to be shooting here and it is a toss-up who is going to get the boy’s first round. The
SZL 454.18
White Man’s Burden,The

White Man’s Burden,The

From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world
SZL 937.77
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire

Now available in paperback?a provocative new look at biology, evolution, and human behavior ?as disturbing [as it is] fascinating? (Publishers Weekly).
SZL 586.08
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BLACKWELL’S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD
SZL 527.44
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race L/P

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race L/P

FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BLACKWELL’S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD
SZL 542.05
Why Israel Can’t Wait

Why Israel Can’t Wait

Israel is small enough that one nuclear bomb could destroy the modern Jewish state. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran’s nuclear program leaves Israel poised on the edge of an abyss, and once Iran gets the atom bomb, war is inevitable. In June 2009, Israel conducted its biggest civil defens
SZL 424.95
WHY SPY? ESPIONAGE IN THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY

WHY SPY? ESPIONAGE IN THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY

What motivates someone to risk his or her life in the shadowy, often dangerous world of espionage? What are the needs and opportunities for spying amid the “war on terrorism”? And how can the United States recruit spies to inform its struggle with Islamic fundamentalists’ acts of anti-Western jihad?
SZL 688.57
Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions – warlords – around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the scale is Malawi
SZL 1,169.20
Why Women Should Rule the World

Why Women Should Rule the World

If women ruled the world, politics would be more collegial, businesses would be more productive, and communities would be healthier. More women should lead—not because they are the same as men, but precisely because they are different. Reflecting on her own tenure as White House press secretary and
SZL 586.08
Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller

Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller

Cheap oil = Foreign imports. Huge houses. Big cars. Binge flying. Expensive oil = Local food. Local industry. Small cars. Fewer flights.
SZL 260.85
Winner Take All

Winner Take All

Our planet’s resources are running out. The media bombards us with constant warnings of impending shortages of fossil fuels, minerals, arable land, and water and the political Armageddon that will result as insatiable global demand far outstrips supply. But how true is this picture?
SZL 512.82
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

*The New York Times bestseller*
SZL 835.09
World on Fire

World on Fire

Amy Chua’s remarkable book explores the tensions of the post-Cold War globalising world. As global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and democracy in developing nations can turn ugly and violent. Chua shows hoe free markets have concentrated disproportionate, often spectacular wealth in the hand
SZL 454.18
World War IV

World War IV

For almost half a century—as a magazine editor and as the author of numerous bestselling books and hundreds of articles—Norman Podhoretz has helped drive the central political and intellectual debates in this country. Now, in this provocative and powerfully argued book, he takes on the most controve
SZL 407.37
World Without Mind

World Without Mind

Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence.
SZL 454.18
Writing On The Wall, The: China and the West in the 21st Century

Writing On The Wall, The: China and the West in the 21st Century

An incisive and thoroughly accessible account of China’s emergence as an economic power and its developing relationship with the West China constitutes a fifth of the world’s population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace
SZL 424.95
Yom Kippur War, The

Yom Kippur War, The

An updated edition that sheds new light on one of the most dramatic reversals of military fortune in modern history.
SZL 879.12
Best Intentions, The ( Kofi Annan)

Best Intentions, The ( Kofi Annan)

During his first term as secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan was one of the most widely admired men in the world. In 2001, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Then the UN failed to stop war in Iraq and genocide in Darfur, and the institution was engulfed by the Oil-for-Food scandal. By the
SZL 586.08
Deals that Made the World, The

Deals that Made the World, The

What if the way we understand our world is wrong? What if it isn’t politicians and events that shape our lives, but secret deals made by people you’ve never heard of?
SZL 527.44
Future Crimes: Inside The Digital Underground and the Battle For Our Connected World

Future Crimes: Inside The Digital Underground and the Battle For Our Connected World

NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
SZL 717.99
New Arab Wars, The

New Arab Wars, The

Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, and civil wars. Egypt’s epochal transition to democracy ended in a violent military coup. Yemen and Libya collapsed into civil war, while Bahrain
SZL 630.11
PLUNDERED PLANET, THE

PLUNDERED PLANET, THE

Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world’s
SZL 571.47
Resilience Dividend: Managing disruption, avoiding disaster, and growing stronger in an unpredictable world

Resilience Dividend: Managing disruption, avoiding disaster, and growing stronger in an unpredictable world

New York. Athens. Wenzhou. Boston. Oslo. Dhaka. New Orleans. Nairobi. In recent years, dozens of cities across the globe have been hit by large-scale catastrophes of every kind: natural disaster, geopolitical conflict, food shortages, disease and contagion, terrorist attacks. If you haven’t been dir
SZL 1,139.97
Top Ten Distinctions Between Millionaires And the Middle Class

Top Ten Distinctions Between Millionaires And the Middle Class

If you’re ready to take the journey to wealth and personal fulfillment, here’s your ticket. In this life-changing little book, entrepreneur and inspirational speaker Keith Cameron Smith shows you how to think like a millionaire and reap the benefits of a millionaire mindset. The key to moving beyond
SZL 805.86