Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution by Richard Whittle
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Category: Current Affairs
"Fresh and authoritative ... [Whittle] delivers action-packed details about how the CIA and the Pentagon used armed Predators to hunt for Al Qaeda leaders immediately after 9/11."-"The Washington Post"""The creation of the first weapon in history that can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the ...Show more
The Politics of Myth by Stephen Knight
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In The Politics of Myth, Stephen Knight studies nine figures still vividly alive, all of them appearing in twenty-first century film and television. Analysing how they relate to the major themes of Power, Resistance and Knowledge, he shows how fact and fiction mix to help us explore and understand the c ...Show more
China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business by Edward Tse
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In China's Disruptors, Edward Tse takes an unprecedented inside look at rapidly emerging Chinese entrepreneurs and their game-changing impact on both China and the world. In September 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world's biggest ever initial public offering. Since the ...Show more
Modi Effect: Inside Narendra Modi's Campaign to Transform India by Lance Price
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Category: Current Affairs
How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before. Political parties in Britain, Australia and North Ameri ...Show more
No Place to Hide : Edward Snowden the NSA and the Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
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Category: Current Affairs
This is the inside account of the events documented in Laura Poitras Citizenfour. Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide is the story of one of the greatest national security leaks in US history. In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian w ...Show more
In the Skin of a Jihadist: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle
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Twenty year-old Melanie, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an Islamist brigade on Facebook. In forty-eight hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her day and night, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria to enjoy a life of paradise - and join his jihad. Anna Erelle is the undercov ...Show more
Someone is Hiding Something - What Happened to Flight Mh370? by Richard Belzer; David Wayne; George Noory
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Category: Current Affairs
A year after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, no sign of the plane has been found - no debris, no bodies and no black box. Richard Belzer, George Noory and David Wayne want to know why. As well as scrutinizing the theories for the disappearance put forward by governments and circulatin ...Show more
China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest? by Randall Peerenboom
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Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today. On the one hand a rising superpower predicted to have the largest economy in the world by mid century, on the other hand a brutal, anachronistic and authoritarian regime, a threat to geo-stability and to the economies of the industrial world. So which ...Show more