A Foreign Country

Pete Hoekstra, the former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, tells the real story behind the tragic events in Bengha...

Reducere. Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was thre...

Reducere. DescriptionWow Geography just got a whole lot interesting with amazing concepts outlined to make learning fun. The idea is to get a child used to t...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 How did a country that liberated itself from seventy years of Soviet rule end up as one of the biggest threats to t...

Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's bestselling comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s is the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a bible -...

Reducere. He was a child of royalty, born and raised to defend tradition. But his African name--Rolihlahla, meaning "tree shaker"--hinted at a very different...

Reducere. The Republic of Moldova between East and West. Vectors and agents of change that determine political attitudes (1991-2016) In a country where fake ...

Reducere. Have you ever dreamt of living in a foreign country?Follow two intrepid Minnesota retirees as they learn what it takes to live like a local in Fran...

Being located between the Black and Caspian seas, Azerbaijan has always been the juncture of Eurasia--with a traditional reputation as a crossroads...

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens immerses you in the simple joys of a long-ago country-village Christmas, featuring a grandmo...

DescriptionGraham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our ...

Reducere. Joyce and Marshall each think the other is killed on September 11--and must swallow their disappointment when the other arrives home. As their bitt...

Reducere. Children naturally like to hear about other children. They can identify with another child wherever the other child happens to live. This allows th...

Reducere. Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country fro...

Reducere. Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl delivers a treat as delicious as oatmeal cookies hot out of the oven - a memoir of a happy childh...

Do you know a bit of English, and want to improve without a teacher? Whether you're a student, a traveller, or you just want to learn basic English...

As National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017) guided U.S. foreign policy at a critical juncture of the Co...

Whispers of War: An Afghan Freedom Fighter's Account of the Soviet Invasion is the real-life tale of a young political leader, Masood Khalili. Son ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry. Their 1947 discovery of crude oil in Leduc, Alberta transformed the in...

Reducere. The mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for "...

Reducere. Alone on a foreign shore. Enemies all around. Unsure of who your friends are. Dangerous missions that have to be successful. Can YOU overcome your ...

Reducere. DescriptionNader Shah, ruler of Persia from 1736 to 1747, embodied ruthless ambition, energy, military brilliance, cynicism and cruelty. His reign ...

"A master American novelist." --Vanity Fair"A gripping international thriller" about a Foreign Service officer--and the son who turns to terrorism ...

A powerful wake-up call to all AmericansWith only 6 percent of the world's population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph RothTranslator: Michael HofmannIntroduction by: Michael HofmannAt one time an underground hero in the world of journ...

On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presidential election, to the surprise of many across the globe. Now that Trump is Commander-in-...

Reducere. Leviticus is often seen as one of the most uninviting books of the Old Testament. Who wants to read about blood sacrifice, infectious diseases, or ...

Reducere. This book is about an idea--namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine--which in turn morphed into a pol...

'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called 'path breaking, ' 'seminal, ' 'essential, ' a 'must read.' How the Irish Became ...

DescriptionWhy has Libya fallen apart since 2011? The world has largely given up trying to understand how the revolution that toppled Muammar Gadda...

During the 1930s Mexico was undergoing a healing process after three decades of revolutionary turmoil and reform. In this climate, the coming of Wo...

In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a ...

Dan Smoot's "Invisble Government" sold about 1 million copies through self-publishing alone, but it did not appear on the New York Times "Best Sell...

Reducere. Susan Travers dreamed of an adventurous life, but had little chance of it until the Second World War destroyed her cafe society world and freed her...

Mongolia is landlocked between its neighbors China and Russia in the heart of Asia. For centuries after the disintegration of Genghis Khan s empire...

Reducere. Tucked into the rugged Canadian wilderness of Muskoka's majestic lake country, Merilee Sutcliffe's peaceful town seems worlds away from the escalat...

In 1947, grocer Johnny Lombardi went on air for the first time to share the sounds of "sunny Italy" with the radio listeners of Toronto. Meanwhile,...

Reducere. Miss Kira Melbourne is anything but a proper English rose. Her exotic beauty, courtesy of her foreign mother, has marked her as an outsider, and he...

Reducere. THE RIVETING NEW THRILLER FROM FORMER GREEN BERET AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JASON KASPER"David Rivers is back with a vengeance in the Shadow...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen President Donald Trump visited Beijing, he showed a video of his granddaughter Arabella Kushner speaking Mandarin to the Chinese le...

Reducere. From #1 New York Times bestselling author and ``queen of royal fiction`` (USA TODAY) comes a riveting and scandalous love triangle between a young ...

Reducere. When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with ...

Reducere. "But the country could not accept the bridge and the bridge could not accept the country."This quotation, from the short story "The Bridge on the Z...

Reducere. The Clever Teens' Guide to Nazi Germany: The perfect guide for background reading or revision. Following its defeat in World War One, Germany was a...

Reducere. Would you like to learn Spanish? Do you Want to acquire more Spanish speaking skills? Would you like to have a course that gives you the basis to b...

Reducere. In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupery's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitze...

Reducere. Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling busines...

Reducere. What awaits us in the 2020s and 2030s? Will the country continue down the path of state capture, corrupt leadership and economic downturn? Or can S...

Reducere. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer's account of a long, painful, ecstatic--and unrecipr...

Here, at the corner of a country that feels both foreign and familiar, three orphaned, stateless youth have built a simple life out of recreation a...

Reducere. Two apparently accidental deaths at the Marconi telegraph station. The drowning of a local girl. Two cases that involve Charles, Lord Sheridan, and...

In 1989, deep in the South American jungles of Suriname, a former commando and Falklands War veteran discharged from the SAS found himself with a g...

Reducere. West Indian poet Ian McDonald journeys down the generations of his family, describing with a loving and fascinated eye his ancestors, including war...

Reducere. Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Cecilia Rossi. THE LAST INNOCENCE and THE LOST ADVENTURES ...

Reducere. DescriptionSir Josse d'Aquin is summoned to assist the beleaguered King John in the 17th - and final - Hawkenlye mystery. September, 1216. A foreig...

Reducere. It takes a particular blend of curiosity and courage to dive into a culture foreign to your own. In Across Japan, photographer Eren Sarigul takes u...

Chekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation. Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Ch...

Reducere. In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, former Chief of CIA counterintelligence James M. Olson offers a wake-up call for the American pu...

Better analysis for more accurate international financial valuation International Financial Statement Analysis, 4th Edition provides the most up-to...

Reducere. DescriptionThis collector's edition comprises episodes 5-8 of the Dino lernt Deutsch story series for German learners: "Ahoi aus Hamburg", "Pl tzli...

Reducere. "Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this sweepi...

Reducere. Description"If they thought you could hurt them, you would already be dead." Imagine having those words spoken to you by an FBI agent. This true an...

Reducere. Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neig...

And just like that I've a new moniker - widow. Instantly I'm exiled to a strange foreign country. What I had believed to be a lifetime visa to happ...

Driven from her Cornish home with the man fate has brought to save her, Jane must learn how to survive amidst intrigue, mystery, abduction and revo...

Reducere. Our foreign exchange student is a prince.A real-life prince. Like of a country. And he's not one of those ugly ones with big teeth that girls only...

Reducere. Easy recipes and whimsical illustrations share the beauty of food and culinary history from around the globe with young readers in this cookbook wi...

DescriptionSince the 1980 military coup in Turkey, much of the history and politics of the country can be described as a struggle between democracy...

Reducere. Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by ...

Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...