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The moment came near for the Polish centenarian grandmother to die. From the doctor's statement it appeared she had only a bad quarter of an hour to live. Her attack had been sudden, and the grandchildren she loved to scold could not be present. She had already battled through the great wave of pain,...

About midnight on Tuesday, January 25, 1876, five masked men entered the house of John Whittelsey in Northampton, Massachusetts. Mr. Whittelsey was the cashier of the Northampton National Bank, and was known to have in his possession the keys of the bank building and the combination to the bank vault....

Sociability and need of mutual aid and support are such inherent parts of human nature that at no time of history can we discover men living in small isolated families, fighting each other for the means of subsistence. On the contrary, modern research, as we saw it in the two preceding chapters, proves...

This short volume outlines South Koreas progress and accomplishments toward enhancing its role and reputation as a contributor to international security.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens...

It has been a year of tremendous disruption and challenge across the world: unprecedented uprisings in the Arab world; economic difficulties in the eurozone; the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear crisis in Japan; and the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The New Arab Revolt: What Happened, What It Means, and What Comes Next sets the intellectual stage for understanding the revolutions in the Middle East.

Ten years have passed since the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) last convened an Independent Task Force to address U.S. trade policy. Over the course of the decade, as Americans witnessed dramatic turns of global economic fortune and stagnant or declining wages and benefits at home, their traditional wariness of international trade has cooled to near antipathy.

The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens...

Trivia-on-Book: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace **You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?** Trivia-on-Books is an independently...

You've read and loved The Fault in Our Starsl by John Green, but can you call yourself an avid fan? Take the challenge yourself and share it with your friends and family for a time of fun! **Many read the book, but many don’t like it. Many like the book, but many are not avid...

Trivia-on-Book: Circling the Sun by Paula McLain **You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?** Trivia-on-Books is an independently quiz-formatted...

Trivia-on-Book: Armada​ by Ernest Cline **You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?** Trivia-on-Books is an independently quiz-formatted unofficial...

What does China see in the world’s poorest nation? An opportunity for big business. Congo is known for poverty and conflict, but it is home to an enormous wealth of buried minerals such as copper, whose value is rising on the world market. Already, tens of thousands of Chinese men and women have...