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E-book Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Among the top ten oil exporters in the world and a founding member of OPEC, Venezuela currently supplies 11 percent of U.S. crude oil imports. But when the country elected the fiery populist politician Hugo Chavez in 1998, tensions rose with this key trading partner and relations have been strained ever since. In this concise, accessible addition to Oxford's What Everyone Needs to Know® ser…
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- 9780199783298
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- 2015
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- 987 SAL v
E-book Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so pow…
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- 9780190620370
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- 385 halaman
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- 972.91 SWE c
E-book China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®
In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legac…
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- 9780190659080
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- 187 halaman
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- 951 WAS c
E-book Brazil: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are models for much of the world ('la bolsa familia,' which provides a guaranteed income to poor families). And, after decades of authoritarian rule, …
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- 9780190224523
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- 257 halaman
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- 981 ROE b
E-book North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gather…
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- 9780195307542
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- 161 halaman
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- 970 PER n
E-book Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: the only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. In this concise introduction, Andrew Finkel, who has spent twenty years in Turkey writing about the country for publications such as…
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- 9780199733040
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- 225 halaman
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- 956.1 FIN t
E-book Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct civilization today despite its status as a major Islamic state with broad regional influence and its deep integration into the global economy through its vast energy reserves. Yet the close attention paid to Iran in recent decades stems from the impact of the 1979…
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- 9780190232955
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- 225 halaman
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- 935 AXW i
E-book Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®
When Greece's economic troubles began to threaten the stability of the European Union in 2010, the nation found itself in the center of a whirlwind of international finger-pointing. In the years prior, Greece appeared to be politically secure and economically healthy. Upon its emergence in the center of the European economic maelstrom, however, observers and critics cited a century of economic …
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- 9780199948796
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- 265 halaman
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- 949.5 KAL m
E-book Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know®
For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention, former special envoy to Sudan and director of USAID Andrew Natsios provides a timely introduction to the country at this pivotal moment in its h…
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- 9780199764198
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- 234 halaman
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- 962.4 NAT s
E-book Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know®
No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held in continual house arrest and human rights were denied to nearly all. Yet events in Myanmar since t…
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- 9780199981687
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- 289 halaman
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- 959.1 STE b
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