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"Twilight in the Desert" reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book, veteran oil industry analyst Matthew Simmons draws on his three-plus decades of insider experience and more than 200 independently produced reports about Saudi petroleum resources and production operations. He uncovers a story about Saudi Arabia's troubled oil industry, not to mention its political and societal instability, which differs sharply from the globally accepted Saudi version. It's a story that is provocative and disturbi...
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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics)

By: Tocqueville, Alexis de

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Publisher: Penguin Classics: July 2003

Seller ID: 131130

ISBN: 0140447601

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, made a nine-month journey throughout America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the life and institutions of the evolving nation. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing that the egalitarian ideals it enshrined reflected the spirit of the age and even divine will. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America and an indispensable authority on ...
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The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace

By: Zinn, Howard

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Publisher: Beacon Press: September 2002

Seller ID: 129453

ISBN: 0807014079

Binding: Trade Paperback

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There is no easy way out of the spiraling morass of terror and brutality that confronts the world today. It is time now for the human race to hold still, to delve into its wells of collective wisdom, both ancient and modern.--Arundhati Roy "The Power of Nonviolence, " the first anthology of alternatives to war with a historical perspective, with an introduction by Howard Zinn about September 11 and the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks, presents the most salient and persuasive arguments for peace in the last 2,500 years of human history. Arranged chronologically, covering the major co...
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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America (Penguin Classics)

The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace