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How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere

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How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhereby

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Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the Indo-Pacific and the Challenge to American Power

Added to listPolitics Maritimewith 9 books.

Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the Indo-Pacific and the Challenge to American Powerby

Humphrey Hawksley

Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion

Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Sea

The New Battle for the Atlantic

In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

The Struggle for Sea Power

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Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind

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Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the Indo-Pacific and the Challenge to American Power

Added to listBooks I Ownwith 715 books.

Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the Indo-Pacific and the Challenge to American Powerby

Humphrey Hawksley

Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion

The New Battle for the Atlantic

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System

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10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less

Added to listPolitics Political Theorywith 100 books.

10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Lessby

Garett Jones

10% Less Democracy

The Myth of the Powerless State

The Technological Republic

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Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism

An Outline of a Theory of Civilization

The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State

Public Opinion

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10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less

10% Less Democracyby

Garett Jones

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War Plan Orange

Added to listHistory World War Iiwith 12 books.

War Plan Orangeby

Edward S. Miller

Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War

Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes

War Plan Orange

Victors' Justice: Tokyo War Crimes Trial

American Appeasement: United States Foreign Policy and Germany, 1933-1938

The War Lords of Washington

Uncommon Farm Animals

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War Plan Orange

War Plan Orangeby

Edward S. Miller

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Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Sea

Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Seaby

James Manicom

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Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Sea

Added to listPolitics Maritimewith 8 books.

Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Seaby

James Manicom

Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan, and Maritime Order in the East China Sea

The New Battle for the Atlantic

In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

The Struggle for Sea Power

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Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind

Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom : Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1851

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First Among Equals

Added to listPolitics Internationalwith 49 books.

First Among Equalsby

Emma Ashford

First Among Equals

Disaster Diplomacy: How Disasters Affect Peace and Conflict

Justice beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory

The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change

Global Discontents

Realpolitik: A History

Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence

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First Among Equals

First Among Equalsby

Emma Ashford

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The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon

Added to listPolitics Defense Natsecwith 48 books.

The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddonby

Ankit Panda

The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon

The Fragile Balance of Terror

Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation

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Running The World

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

The Government of Emergency

Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861

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The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon

The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddonby

Ankit Panda

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The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far North

Added to listPolitics Maritimewith 7 books.

The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far Northby

Magnus Fredrik Nordenman

Sea Power

The New Battle for the Atlantic

Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom : Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1851

Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

The Struggle for Sea Power

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Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind

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The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far North

Added to listBooks I Ownwith 714 books.

The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far Northby

Magnus Fredrik Nordenman

The New Battle for the Atlantic

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System

Enemies: A History of the FBI

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The New Battle for the Atlantic: Emerging Naval Competition with Russia in the Far North

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The New Battle for the Atlanticby

Magnus Fredrik Nordenman

Dense in military operational facts, and could have used more narrative to convey them -- but an authoritative text on the security importance of the North Atlantic as a unique theater and commercial chokepoint in its own right.

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Dense in military operational facts, and could have used more narrative to convey them -- but an authoritative text on the security importance of the North Atlantic as a unique theater and commercial chokepoint in its own right.

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Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization

Added to listEconomics Commoditieswith 7 books.

Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilizationby

Tim Queeney

Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization

The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism

The War Below

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization

Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilizationby

Tim Queeney

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MOVEMENT

Added to listHistory New Yorkwith 21 books.

Nicole Gelinas

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

MOVEMENT

Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry

Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office

Reclaiming Gotham: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America s Tale of Two Cities

Hidden History of Queens

New York Politics: A Tale of Two States

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MOVEMENT

Nicole Gelinas

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The Fragile Balance of Terror

Added to listPolitics Defense Natsecwith 47 books.

The Fragile Balance of Terrorby

The Fragile Balance of Terror

Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation

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Running The World

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

The Government of Emergency

Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861

Understanding War: History And Theory Of Combat

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The Fragile Balance of Terror

The Fragile Balance of Terrorby

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The Myth of the Powerless State

Added to listPolitics Political Theorywith 99 books.

The Myth of the Powerless Stateby

Linda Weiss

The Myth of the Powerless State

The Technological Republic

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Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism

An Outline of a Theory of Civilization

The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State

Public Opinion

The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall

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The Myth of the Powerless State

The Myth of the Powerless Stateby

Linda Weiss

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Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance

Added to listPolitics Science And Technologywith 25 books.

Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominanceby

Michael B. Adas

Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance

Why Nothing Works

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet

After Apollo?: Richard Nixon and the American Space Program

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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