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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Robert Jay Lifton, an American psychiatrist and author, describes his life, including his decision to stay in Hong Kong after his service in the Korean War to interview and learn about people who were subjected to Chinese thought reform, shares his thoughts on the human consequences of nuclear weapons, and discusses his friendships with intellectuals, writer, and artists of the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Presents research by ecologist, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians to show how the formation of a global network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise in Europe, devastated imperial China, disrupted Africa, and made Mexico City the center of the world.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"By the New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot, former USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton tells the thrilling story of how fighter pilots have ruled the skies for 100 years, from the Red Baron to today's supersonic jets"--
"By the USAF F-16 legend behind the bestselling memoir Viper Pilot, this is the first comprehensive history of fighter pilots and air combat--a unique, riveting look at the aces of the sky, their machines, their most daring...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past century, humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonald's than from...
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