From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical confli
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From the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, this follow-up to How to Lose a Battle and How to Lose a War presents a history of the great military disasters and ill-advised battle p
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Working the Sea is the story of a Maine fisherman’s life, a collection of memories and teachings from a master storyteller. Author Wendell Seavey, who grew up in the 1940s in the fishing village that
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Klink's single-handed circumnavigation below the Antarctic Convergence is the topic of this title, first published in 2000 and here presented in English translation for the first time. Told in an acce
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A collection of poetry that evokes the experience of living in the Caribbean - and of leaving for other lands. It conjures up the sights and sounds, tastes and tales of the Caribbean; the experience o
When István Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to polit
With its distinctive investigative approach to learning, this best-selling laboratory manual is now more engaging than ever, with full-color art and photos throughout. The lab manual encourages studen
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