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.The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century
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by: Thomas Friedman

July 05, 2007
While many people in the West have become familiar with words like outsourcing, offshoring and globalisation, some questions remain: what exactly do these words mean? When did globalisation as we know it begin? What are the forces that drive globalisation and what will the future of a globalised world look like? Thomas Friedman, the three-time Pulitzer prize winner, addresses these questions in an honest, informed way by arguing that the world has become flatter in the last 20 years.

The author begins by outlining the forces that led to globalisation or a flattening of the world: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; development of the internet and web browsers; offshoring; outsourcing; uploading (read Blogging, Youtube and the MySpace ... Read More:
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.International Relations Since 1945: A Global History
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by: John W. Young, John Kent

December 11, 2003
While many people in the West have become familiar with words like outsourcing, offshoring and globalisation, some questions remain: what exactly do these words mean? When did globalisation as we know it begin? What are the forces that drive globalisation and what will the future of a globalised world look like? Thomas Friedman, the three-time Pulitzer prize winner, addresses these questions in an honest, informed way by arguing that the world has become flatter in the last 20 years.

The author begins by outlining the forces that led to globalisation or a flattening of the world: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; development of the internet and web browsers; offshoring; outsourcing; uploading (read Blogging, Youtube and the MySpace ... Read More:
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.Life on Air: A History of Radio Four
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by: David Hendy

September 25, 2008
While many people in the West have become familiar with words like outsourcing, offshoring and globalisation, some questions remain: what exactly do these words mean? When did globalisation as we know it begin? What are the forces that drive globalisation and what will the future of a globalised world look like? Thomas Friedman, the three-time Pulitzer prize winner, addresses these questions in an honest, informed way by arguing that the world has become flatter in the last 20 years.

The author begins by outlining the forces that led to globalisation or a flattening of the world: the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; development of the internet and web browsers; offshoring; outsourcing; uploading (read Blogging, Youtube and the MySpace ... Read More:
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.The Cold War
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by: John Lewis Gaddis

January 25, 2007
Silly, jingoistic, pulp history shot through with half truths, unsupported and unsupportable claims and distortions. John Lewis Gaddis is a history professor at Yale University but how he can draw so many stupid conclusions from the Cold War is beyond me. Nobody in their right mind would say that Joe Stalin was a good guy, nor would they be likely to say his successors were freedom loving liberals either but the standard neo-con treatment these days is to score points with heavy handed jingoism rather than presenting history as it happened. I'm sorely tempted to call it propaganda.

The layout of the book is extremely poor and jumps from one thing to another without any real semblance of method. You will find yourself reading about Stalin one ... Read More:
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.Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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by: Anna Funder

June 17, 2004
I picked this up after watching "The Lives of Others." The book is well written, mixing evocative (sometimes over-elaborate) reflections with a much more sparse style when retelling some of the scarcely believable stories of the misery of life in the GDR. Some of her observations are very sharp, such as her objection to items which are still of live interest being put on display in a museum. I thought the ending was disappointing. However, books like this are often nothing more than expanded magazine articles, a charge that cannot be made here. Recommended.
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.The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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by: Robert J. McMahon

March 27, 2003
The VSI series doesn't always work for me. If I invest time to read any non-fiction book, I expect it to better than a few internet articles.

This book is a summary of facts with a few interesting angles that cover the geo-politics and strategies mainly from the Western perspective.

But the problem with some of these VSI's is because they are so short, the authour doesn't have scope to include some real meaty stuff or delve into their own opinions.

It's just summary history, but a good Wikipedia article is the same!
At 167 pages, there's at least 4 hours reading for me. So if my objective is just to get information and an education of the cold war, are my better off going for this VSI or to Wikipedia or google video, ... Read More:
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.The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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by: Ilan Pappe

September 07, 2007
A real eye opener.

This book may be a little difficult for some to come to terms with and for others even more difficult to accept. It is something that has been placed in the psyche of us in Europe after the horrors of the holocaust that any criticism of the state of Israel or Zionism is equal to anti semitism. That the state of Israel was created out of the ashes of the second world war in order to provide a safe and free land for Jews the world over and a place of return for the Jews to their historical homeland.

This book dispels the myth. Pappe rather presents the establishment of the state of Israel as being not only created by men whose ideology was every equal of the extreme nationalism that European Jews had suffered under but also created out of ... Read More:
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.A Long Long War: Voices from the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969-98
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by: Ken Wharton

April 15, 2008
Of all the books on this subject.This one,is worth 5 stars,and more,all day long.I served in N.I,at the time the book talks about,and even now,I sit with my own thoughts on the things that went on in a time that can only be decribed as dark.And yes the Parachute Regiment did serve there,but its not about them alone,it's for all who took part in it.As one review said.!There was no beating of drums when the lads came home!And the politicians,have no more idea now,than they did then,of what it was all about.They expect you to do the job,with only three wheels on the wagon.
To all that gave the reviews on this book.Thanks,and I give you all 5 stars each,for showing just where it all fits together.
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.Vietnam, Korea and US Foreign Policy, 1945-75 (Heinemann Advanced History)
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by: Christine Bragg

January 10, 2006
An esential purchase for anyone taking the Edexcel module Containing Communism? The USA in South East Asia which this book was specifically written for.


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.Mastering Modern World History (Palgrave Master)
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by: Norman Lowe

September 09, 2005
Having recently ploughed through a dense 1000 page narrative history of the twentieth century, I had found it hard to see the wood for the trees. I was therefore very pleased to come across this much shorter book which marshalls the key facts much more clearly, with main concepts highlighted for quick reference. Not only does this make the book easy to digest on first reading, but it also greatly aids subsequent review: ideal for exams. How I wish I had been taught history this way at school!
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