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Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul M. Kennedy
Category: General Biography
About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection - The Rebellion Vol. 1 by John Wagner (Text by); Paul Alden (Text by); Randy Stradley (Text by); Darko Macan (Text by); Cam Kennedy (Illustrator); Raul Trevino (Illustrator); Davide Fabbri (Illustrator); Dave Gibbons (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels
When Death Star falls, what will happen next for the galaxy? Find out in this collection of tales set in the immediate aftermath of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope Stinging from defeat, Darth Vader is consumed with tracking down the Force-strong young pilot who destroyed his battle station. What would ...Show more
Still Standing by Chrissie Foster, Paul Kennedy
Category: Biography
There are few more moving experiences than for the silenced to be heard. Chrissie Foster is the mother who brought the rich and powerful Catholic Church to its knees over its global abuse of children, including two of her daughters, Emma and Katie. Like the Boston Globe's Spotlight team, she built an un ...Show more
Storm Cloud: Melbourne Storm's Demise and Resurrection by Paul Kennedy
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Melbourne Storm was created in 1998 and situated in the heartland of a rival football code, it won three NRL premierships from five Grand Finals in its first twelve seasons and produced the best players in the game. It was the envy of clubs everywhere. But in 2010 Storm's famed winning culture was expos ...Show more
The Parliament of Man - The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations by Paul Kennedy; Paul M. Kennedy
Category: POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT
The Parliament of Man is the first definitive history of the United Nations, from one of America's greatest living historians.Distinguished scholar Paul Kennedy, author of the bestselling The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, gives us a thorough and timely account that explains the UN's roots and functions ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy
Category: History
Paul Kennedy's now classic book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the waves', he suggests instead that the country's fortunes as a significant maritime force have always been bound up w ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
Category: History
Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might among the great powers of the world. Kennedy begins with Europe's dramatic return to the forefront of world domination at the expense of China and the Muslim world and br ...Show more
The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood; Paul Kennedy; Anthony Grafton (Foreword by)
Category: Popular History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
This study of the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648), was first published in 1938. Beginning as a conflict between Protestants and Catholics, the War gradually became transformed into a struggle to determine whether the Hapsburgs would gain control of all Germany.
WHY THE LEFT LOSES THE DECLINE OF THE CENTRE-LEFT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE by Rob Mawraing (Contribution by); Paul Kennedy (Contribution by)
Category: Politics
Social democracy is on the back-foot, and increasingly centre-left political parties are struggling to win office. Bringing together a range of leading academics and experts on social democratic politics and policy, Why the left loses offers an international, comparative view of the changing political l ...Show more