Before and After the Fall. World Politics and the End of the Cold War, New ed, Paperback - ***

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

Presents analysis of ten documentary films about nuclear issues made since the end of the Cold War. Argues that public fascination with radioactive...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

The Human Factor tells the dramatic story about the part played by political leaders - particularly the three very different personalities of Gorba...

Reducere. In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking ...

Reducere. In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western eco...

Reducere. On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbach ...

DescriptionFrom its inception, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) provoked controversy. Today it is widely regarded as hav...

Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

Publisher: VDM VerlagAuthor(s): Antonio GarrastazuNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 151 x 226 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Reducere. As secretary of state, James A. Baker III played a critical role on the world stage in the final years of the Cold War as the Soviet Union unravele...

The first study of Israeli foreign policy towards the Middle East and selected world powers, including China, India, the European Union and the US ...

A detailed examination of the events before and after the Battle of Angola, with several chapters covering the colonial struggle between Africa and...

Reducere. A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the sun set slowly on th...

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, this reader assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of internati...

Reducere. Locus Awards2012 Nebula Award Winner2012 Locus Award Winner2013 Hugo Nominee2013 Sturgeon Award Nominee In the year 2035, all that is left of human...

This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It p...

Reducere. Competitive authoritarian regimes in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse proliferated ...

Back in the 1950s during the "Cold War" every new day beckoned the possibility of the end of the world. Kids grew up in the shadow of bomb shelters...

The internationally bestselling account of the transformative period that followed the Armistice in November 1918.

Publisher: Pulse PublicationsAuthor(s): Ronald CameronIllustration(s): 29ill.7M.Number of pages: 88Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 211 x 297 x 21...

Encompassing both tragedy and humour, it brings immediacy and intimacy to a moment of deep historical transformation - with consequences that echo ...

The extraordinary story behind the critically-acclaimed drama, Mrs Wilson.

The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and Zbigniew Herbert. Analyzing...

DescriptionAfrica finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role ...

The characters who defined the inter-war years are considered in terms of the connections between them, including stories about the inter-war traje...

DescriptionPoland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about e...

Reducere. Carol Weis bares herself (sometimes literally) in her debut memoir, where she unveils her two lives, before and after, in a collection of alternati...

Reducere. Carol Weis bares herself (sometimes literally) in her debut memoir, where she unveils her two lives, before and after, in a collection of alternati...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the operations written by Nazi scientists and Allied forces *Includes online resources and a bi...