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1985: A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer--invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. It's an offer they can't pass up...if it's genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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Paperback edition.
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xii, 162 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
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English
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Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people--people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal. Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world,...
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Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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First U.S. edition.
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264 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Four people are born every second of every day. Conservative estimates suggest that there will be ten billion people on Earth by 2050. That is billions more than the natural resources of our planet can sustain without big changes in how we use and manage them. So what happens when vast population growth endangers the world's food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or environment? Or the planet's biodiversity? What happens if some...
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Oxford University Press
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[2018]
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x, 191 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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December 17, 2016 marked the sixth anniversary of the outbreak of the Arab uprisings. In the six years since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia, igniting the uprisings which continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that were unimaginable before. In spite of the early hype about the "Arab Spring" and the prominence observers gave to calls for the downfall of regimes and an end to their abuses, most of the protests...
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