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Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins ... - John Kroger - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=NX_HQTdLHrAC&pg=
Convictions is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States attorneys, the federal prosecutors who possess sweeping authority to investigate and prosecute the…
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The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow ... - Andrew Nagorski - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=ubWQW24RiqsC&pg=PA36#v=onepage
The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II -- the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. From the time Hitler launched his assault on Moscow on September…
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Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America - David Biale - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=K8s0I4_N1BIC&dq=erotic+in+israel&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce's hip eroticism to Woody Allen's little man with the big libido (and even bigger sexual neurosis). Does Judaism in fact liberate or repress sexual desire? David Biale…
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Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World - Michael R. Rose - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=gaiyN1qoWU4C
Extending the human life-span past 120 years. The "green" revolution. Evolution and human psychology. These subjects make today's newspaper headlines. Yet much of the science underlying these topics stems from a book published nearly 140 years ago--Charles…
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A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility - Taner Akcam - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=-etxMiFnkXAC
A landmark assessment of Turkish culpability in the Armenian genocide, the first history of its kind by a Turkish historian In 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one million Armenians were killed through starvation, forced marches, forced exile,…
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The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency - Charles R. Lister - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=S6eKCwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists to establish a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. That Syria's ongoing civil war is so brutal and…
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Bosnia: A Short History - Noel Malcolm - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Cvk6oMf9R7AC&redir_esc=y
This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia,…
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Critical Mass: The Dangerous Race for Superweapons in a Fragmenting World - William E. Burrows - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=AIzGDu866xUC&q=Badush+dam&dq=Badush+dam&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdyNq2iZvKAhVFQhQKHUuRDd44ChDoAQh
The spread of superweapons - nuclear, chemical, and biological - and the means to deliver them is now out of control and is the single greatest danger facing the world. Critical Mass is the first comprehensive look at how this happened, where current and…
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Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line - William M. Adler - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=wwEtxOwQpTMC&dq=%22Universal+Manufacturing%22+%22Philadelphia+&+Reading%22&hl=de&source=gbs_nav
Following the flight of one woman's factory job from the United States to Mexico, this compelling work offers a provocative and fresh perspective on the global economy -- at a time when downsizing is unraveling the American Dream for many working families.…
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The Great American Broadcast: A Celebration of Radio's Golden Age - Leonard Maltin - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=hu8aAQAAIAAJ&q=(He+and+the+band+were+back+on+the+air+daily+at+2+:00+P.M.)+Other+acts+on+the+sta
"Leonard Maltin, one of America's leading authorities on film and an ardent radio buff, takes us along for a fascinating oral history of radio's golden age from its beginnings through its heyday to the bittersweet end of an era. The Great American…