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Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States

10 best books like Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States (Trita Parsi): Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Diplomacy, The Politics of Genocide, Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life, The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Anatomia de um desastre - Os bastidores da crise econômica que mergulhou o país na pior recessão de sua história, Capitalismo de Laços, An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
AuthorTim Weiner
For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President...
Diplomacy
AuthorHenry Kissinger
ISBN0671510991
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China.

The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy.

Moving from a sweeping overview of history...
The Politics of Genocide
AuthorEdward S. Herman
ISBN1583672125
In this impressive book, Edward S. Herman and David Peterson examine the uses and abuses of the word genocide. They argue persuasively that the label is highly politicized and that in the United States it is used by the government, journalists, and academics to brand as evil those nations and political...
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
AuthorTom Wainwright
ISBN1610395832
What drug lords learned from big business

How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students...
How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
AuthorCatherine Price
Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide for everyone who owns a smartphone.

Is your phone the first thing you reach for in the morning and the last thing you touch before bed? Do you frequently pick it up "just to check," only to look up...
The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World
AuthorDominique Moïsi
ISBN0385523769
The first book to expose and investigate the far-reaching emotional impact of globalization.

In his celebrated 1993 book The Clash of Civilizations, political scientist Samuel Huntington argued that the fundamental source of conflict in the post–Cold War world would not be primarily...
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
AuthorSamuel P. Huntington
ISBN0684844419
"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framework for understanding the realities of global politics in the next century. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is one of the most important books to have emerged since the end...
Anatomia de um desastre - Os bastidores da crise econômica que mergulhou o país na pior recessão de sua história
AuthorClaudia Safatle
Quando Dilma Rousseff foi definitivamente afastada da Presidência da República, em 31 de agosto de 2016, a economia brasileira caminhava para o fundo do poço. As finanças públicas estavam em frangalhos, a recessão batia recordes e a inflação persistia. O desemprego alcançava 12 milhões...
Capitalismo de Laços
AuthorSérgio G. Lazzarini
ISBN9788535242
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1) Assunto atual (após a Lava-Jato) e pouco discutido no meu acadêmico e jornalístico;

2) Destaca trabalhos interessantes anteriores e pouco conhecidos fora do meio acadêmico mais especializado, como os livros: 'Dependência...
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
AuthorRichard A. Posner
ISBN0674003918
President Bill Clinton's year of crisis, which began when his affair with Monica Lewinsky hit the front pages in January 1998, engendered a host of important questions of criminal and constitutional law, public and private morality, and political and cultural conflict.

In a book written...
The Biafra Story
AuthorFrederick Forsyth
ISBN1844155099
The Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s was one of the first occasions when Western consciences were awakened and deeply affronted by the level of the suffering and the scale of the atrocity being played out in the African Continent.
This book which marked Frederick Forsyth's transition from journalist...
In Biafra Africa Died
AuthorEmefiena Ezeani
At the time, Britain and the US were after their own interests, and black lives didn't matter to them.
Biafra epitomizes African ingenuity and inventiveness. In 24 months Biafra lost all her seaports, airports, and land routes, but she refused to surrender, preferring to die fighting, rather...
Ibrahim Babangida: The Military, Power and Politics (PB)
AuthorDan Agbese
ISBN1906704961
To borrow a hackneyed phrase, Nigeria has had a chequered political history before and since independence from British colonial rule on October 1, 1960. Two sets of actors - the civilian politicians and the military politicians - have been on the national political stage since January 15, 1966. General...
His Excellency the Ambassador
AuthorErico Verissimo
Na pequena ilha de Sacramento, república imaginária no Caribe, explode uma revolução. Don Gabriel Heliodoro Alvarado, embaixador em Washington e compadre do tirano, volta ao país natal para defender seu amigo contra as forças rebeldes. Mas os guerrilheiros comunistas triunfam e prendem...
How to Fight
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1941529860
Learn how to relax the bonds of anger, attachment, and delusion through mindfulness and kindness toward ourselves and others.
The Mindfulness Essentials series introduces beginners and reminds seasoned practitioners of the essentials of mindfulness practice. This time Nhat Hanh brings...
How to Relax
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN1941529089
How to Relax is part of The Mindfulness Essentials series of how-to titles by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, introducing beginners and reminding seasoned practitioners of the essentials of mindfulness practice. Pocket-sized, with original two color illustrations by Jason DeAntonis, How to Relax...
Imobilismo em Movimento: Da Abertura Democrática ao Governo Dilma
AuthorMarcos Nobre
No calor das revoltas de junho de 2013, Marcos Nobre publicou Choque de democracia - Razões da revolta, o primeiro trabalho a olhar profundamente para o fenômeno e associá-lo à narrativa da história brasileira. Sucesso instantâneo, o livro eletrônico foi alçado ao topo das listas de mais...
Galantes Memórias e Admiráveis Aventuras do Virtuoso Conselheiro Gomes, o Chalaça
AuthorJosé Roberto Torero
ISBN8573022337
O romance contém as supostas memórias do conselheiro Francisco Gomes da Silva, o Chalaça, fiel secretário particular de D. Pedro I, personagem que viveu os mais importantes fatos do nascente Império brasileiro. Torero recria brilhantemente - e com humor implacável - a vida deste que teria...
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