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Three Cups Of Tea»rank: 2par: Greg Mortenson
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom»rank: 5par: Simon Winchester
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The Art of War»rank: 111par: Sun Tzu
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Art of War is the Swiss army knife of military theory--pop out a different tool for any situation. Folded into this small package are compact views on resourcefulness, momentum, cunning, the profit motive, flexibility, integrity, secrecy, speed, positioning, surprise, deception, manipulation, responsibility, and practicality. Thomas Cleary's translation keeps the package tight, with crisp language and short sections. Commentaries from the Chinese tradition trail Sun-tzu's words, elaborating and picking up ... |
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What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception»rank: 335par: Scott McClellan
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Art of War is the Swiss army knife of military theory--pop out a different tool for any situation. Folded into this small package are compact views on resourcefulness, momentum, cunning, the profit motive, flexibility, integrity, secrecy, speed, positioning, surprise, deception, manipulation, responsibility, and practicality. Thomas Cleary's translation keeps the package tight, with crisp language and short sections. Commentaries from the Chinese tradition trail Sun-tzu's words, elaborating and picking up ... |
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Post American World»rank: 545par: Fareed Zakaria
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Art of War is the Swiss army knife of military theory--pop out a different tool for any situation. Folded into this small package are compact views on resourcefulness, momentum, cunning, the profit motive, flexibility, integrity, secrecy, speed, positioning, surprise, deception, manipulation, responsibility, and practicality. Thomas Cleary's translation keeps the package tight, with crisp language and short sections. Commentaries from the Chinese tradition trail Sun-tzu's words, elaborating and picking up ... |
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Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda»rank: 5194par: Romeo Dallaire
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:lt was one of the fastest, most efficient, most evident genocides of modern history. And it could have been avoided. But the United States and France were content to sit back and watch as Hutu extremists slaughtered 800,000 Rwandans in ethnic pogroms in 1994. Roméo Dallaire, then a brigadier general in the Canadian Forces, was the commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda and witnessed first-hand the 'unfolding apocalypse,' ... |
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Guns Germs And Steel»rank: 369par: Jared Diamond
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. ln Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the lce Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has ... |
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Collapse»rank: 7416par: Jared Diamond
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, ... |
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Descent Into Chaos»rank: 2565par: Ahmed Rashid
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, ... |
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Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World»rank: 481par: Patrick J. Buchanan
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, ... |