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    The Loom of Time

    Robert D. Kaplan

    A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the…

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    Waste Land

    Robert D. Kaplan

    An urgent exploration of a world in constant crisis, where every regional disaster threatens to become a global conflict, with lessons from history that can stop the spiral-from the New…

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    Waste Land

    Robert D. Kaplan

    A darkly brilliant, wide-angled vision of our chaotic, globalised world, where present crises resonate with past tyrannies-from a bestselling geopolitical expert.

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    The Tragic Mind

    Robert D. Kaplan

    A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy

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    The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

    Robert D. Kaplan

    A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy

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    Adriatic

    Robert D. Kaplan

    In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Revenge of Geography, turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries…

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    Surrender or Starve: The Wars behind the Famine

    Robert D. Kaplan

    Famine in the Horn is both a tool and an aspect of ethnic conflict, with the Ethiopian Amharas pitted against the Eritreans and Tigreans of the north. The overwhelming majority…

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    Surrender or Starve: The Wars behind the Famine

    Robert D. Kaplan

    This book illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for America’s ongoing war on terrorism. Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and…

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    Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea

    Robert D Kaplan

    An eminent journalist’s report on the terrorism-stricken regions of the Horn of Africa examines the factors behind the area’s famine-related problems, citing ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are at…

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    Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese

    Robert D Kaplan

    Describes an off-season journey along the Mediterranean that covers the area’s history, literature, and heritage, describing the mythologies and succeeding medieval civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome.

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    Eastward to Tartary

    Robert D. Kaplan

    Takes the reader on a journey through the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus, describing the history, business, and people.

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    An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future

    Robert D. Kaplan

    The author of Balkan Ghosts describes his journey westward from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in search of the large-scale political, economic, social, and cultural changes affecting America, in an incisive portrait…

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    The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

    Robert D. Kaplan

    The author describes his odyssey through some of the world’s most troubled regions, where ancient cultural rivalries and traditional ethnic barriers threaten to reshape the world. Reprint. 30,000 first printing…

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    Soldiers of God

    Robert D. Kaplan

    The author relates his time spent with Afghanistan’s mujahidin during their fight against Soviet invaders and provides insight into the circumstances that led to the rise of the Taliban.

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    Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World

    Robert D. Kaplan

    An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the world-from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geographyand Balkan Ghosts

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    Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground

    Robert D. Kaplan

    In this extraordinary book, Kaplan allows readers to experience the worldwide American military at sea, in the air, and on land. Throughout, Kaplan conveys not only the vast scope of…

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    The Return of Marco Polo’s World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century

    Robert D. Kaplan

    A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay about changing power dynamics among China, Eurasia, and…

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    Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific

    Robert D. Kaplan

    Originally published in hardcover: [New York]: Random House, an imprint and division of Random House LLC, 2014.

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    Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite

    Robert D. Kaplan

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    Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond

    Robert D. Kaplan

    A veteran correspondent for The Atlantic explores how American imperialism is pursued and how the global war on terrorism is fought worldwide by America’s elite military forces.

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    In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

    Robert D. Kaplan

    Sweeping and replete with alluring detail … [a] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania. -Alison Smale, The New York Times Book Review

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    The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government’s Greatest Humanitarian

    Robert D. Kaplan

    Fromthe New York Times bestselling author of TheRevenge of Geography comes a sweeping yet intimate story ofthemost influential humanitarian you’ve never heard of-Bob Gersony, who spent four decades in crisis…

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    Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

    Robert D. Kaplan

    An elegantly layered exploration of Europe’s past and future … a multifaceted masterpiece. -The Wall Street Journal

    A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revisits places…

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    The Loom of Time

    Robert D. Kaplan

    A sweeping exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach and which may hold the key to the shifting world order of…

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    The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

    Robert D. Kaplan

    Debunking overly optimistic theories of an idyllic post-Cold War world, the author of Balkan Ghosts predicts that war, ethnic conflict, random violence, and fear will be hallmarks of the next…

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    Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

    Robert D. Kaplan

    With a new afterword by the author –Cover.

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    The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate

    Robert D. Kaplan

    In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand…

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    Warrior Politics

    Robert Kaplan

    The author of Balkan Ghosts draws on the historical wisdom of Sun-Tzu, Thucydides, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and other great thinkers to provide valuable guidelines for modern-day world leaders–in both politics and…

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    Lord Jim and Nostromo

    Joseph Conrad

    A unique pairing of two Conrad novels–Lord Jim and Nostromo–celebrates the literary genius of Joseph Conrad, with commentary by Edward W. Said, V.S. Naipaul, Harold Bloom, Virginia Woolf, Robert Penn…

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    The Call of Nepal: My Life In the Himalayan Homeland of Britain’s Gurkha Soldiers

    J P Cross

    From the foreword by Robert D. Kaplan:
    No one is more qualified to talk about the history of Nepal than Colonel John Philip Cross…. In his book, The Call of…

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    Athene Palace

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    A striking combination of social intimacy and distinterested political analysis, this title evokes the elegance and excitement of the dynamic international community in Bucharest before the world had come to…

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    The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

    Joseph Conrad

    This classic novel delves into the grimy world of Mr Verloc, anarchist and spy. First published in 1907 and varyingly received as prescient, elliptical and indecent, it was inspired by…

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    The Centurions

    Jean Larteguy

    Offering a military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency, this wartime novel is about controversial…

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    El Poder Detras de Sus Ojos: Mejore Su Vista Mediante La Terapia de Vision Integral

    Robert-Michael Kaplan,O D Kaplan

    Dr. Robert-Michael Kaplan presents Integrated Vision Therapy–a comprehensive daily program that can actually improve as well as treat the inner causes of poor vision. This holistic approach includes developing non…

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    Taras Bulba

    Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

    Translated by Peter Constantine, this book contains an introduction by Robert D Kaplan.

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    Preventing Illness Among People With Coronary Heart Disease

    Robert M Kaplan,John D Piette,Joseph R Ferrari

    Researchers from various disciplines explore recent advances in drug treatments for coronary artery and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors and in the understanding of how mental health interplays with…

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    Insect Ecology: Behavior, Populations and Communities

    Peter W. Price (Northern Arizona University),Robert F. Denno (University of Maryland, College Park),Micky D. Eubanks (Texas A & M University),Deborah L. Finke (University of Missouri, Columbia),Ian Kaplan (Purdue University, Indiana)

    Combining breadth of coverage with detail, this cohesive introduction to insect ecology couples concepts with examples and practical applications. The sections are structured around a series of key topics, including…

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