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La gran crónica de la Revolución Iraní y de la reconfiguración del Oriente Próximo que hoy conocemos En 1977, Irán tenía el quinto ejército más grande del mundo, una floreciente capital en expansión, enormes ingresos petroleros y una policía que silenciaba toda oposición al régimen. Catorce meses después, el Sha huía al exilio derrocado por una revolución religiosa liderada por el ayatolá Jomeini. ¿Cómo Estados Unidos, con vastos recursos y miles de militares en la región iraní, no lo vio venir? Con un estilo vibrante, Anderson reconstruye la revolución histórica que prefiguró los futuros conflictos entre las masas religiosas y las élites en todo el mundo.

Winner of the 2025 Kirkus Prize • Finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • Named a Best Book of 2025 by Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Globe and Mail, and Vanity Fair From the author of the acclaimed international bestseller Lawrence in Arabia, a stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times and the dawn of the age of religious nationalism. On November 16th, 1977, at a state dinner in the White House, President Jimmy Carter toasted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, King of Kings, Light of the Aryans, Shadow of God on Earth, praising his “enlightened leadership” and extolling Iran as “a stabilizing influence in that part of the world.” Iran had the world’s fifth largest army and was awash in billions of dollars in oil revenues. Construction cranes dotted the skyline of its booming capital, Tehran. The regime’s feared secret police force SAVAK had crushed communist opposition, and the Shah had bought off the conservative Muslim clergy inside the country. He seemed invulnerable, and invaluable to the United States as an ally in the Cold War. Fourteen months later the Shah fled Iran into exile, forced from the throne by a volcanic religious revolution led by a fiery cleric named Ayatollah Khomeini. How could the United States (and other Western allies), which had one of the largest CIA stations in the world and thousands of military personnel in Iran, have been so blind? The spellbinding story Scott Anderson weaves is one of a dictator oblivious to the disdain of his subjects and a superpower blundering into disaster. The Shah emerges as a fascinating, Shakespearean character – a wannabe Richard III unaware of the depth of dissent to his rule, indecisive like Hamlet when action was called for, and at the end Lear-like as he raged against his fate. The Americans made terrible decisions at almost every juncture, from a secret pact designed by Kissinger and Nixon, to dismissing reports from the one diplomat who saw how hated the Shah was by the Iranian people (unlike almost all his colleagues, he spoke Farsi), to Jimmy Carter allowing the Shah to come to America for medical treatment, which set off the hostage crisis which forever damaged American influence in the world. Scott Anderson tells this astonishing tale with the narrative brio, mordant wit, and keen analysis that made his bestselling Lawrence in Arabia one of the key texts in understanding the modern Middle East. Based on voluminous research and dozens of interviews, King of Kings is driven by penetrating portraits of the people involved – the Iranian-American doctor who convinced American officials Khomeini was a moderate; the American teacher who learned of Khomeini’s influence long before the cleric was even mentioned in official reports; the Shah’s court minister who kept a detailed diary of all their interactions; the Shah’s wife Farah who still mourns her lost kingdom; the hypocritical and misguided Jimmy Carter; and the implacable Khomeini who outmaneuvered his foes at every turn. The Iranian Revolution, Anderson convincingly argues, was as world-shattering an event as the French and Russian revolutions. In the Middle East, in India, in Southeast Asia, in Europe, and the United States, the hatred of economically-marginalized, religiously-fervent masses for a wealthy secular elite has led to violence and upheaval – and Iran was the template. King of Kings is a bravura work of history, and a warning.

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From East Tennessee, the Scott family faces Civil War confl icts. One brother and his son decide to fi ght for the Southern Cause, while four other brothers escape into Kentucky to join the Union Army, fi ghting against slavery and preserving the Union. Th e Scott family adheres to the Presbyterian faith as Covenanters, embracing Native American perspectives, combining those values to provide guidance through a most challenging time. Th e family members who remain in East Tennessee are subjected to suff ering from the plundering bushwhackers who see the Scott family allegiance to the Union as cause for punishment. Th at retribution also applies to slaves with whom the Scotts live as farmers, loggers and millers, all working the land of others. How THE SCOTT BOYS approach the decision to fi ght, how they react during events, and how they face the fears and the mental challenges of war are presented with the realization that none of us knows for certain what those feelings were like in 1860. Follow each brother through the war during battle, in prison, marching, and dealing with the harshness of exposure to the weather. Many of the characters portrayed are real life men and women. Th e locations are all actual.

This story is told by man from Earth named Ivan Dixon. Ivan tells his story in the first person of an accidental meeting with an alien race that has provided planetary protection for Earth for a very long time. Understandably, Ivan would accept the job of coordinating the protection of this, and several other worlds, from invasion or extermination. During his journey, Ivan will make new friends and save planetary civilizations, all with the help of a member of a machine race and a highly advanced interstellar ship. Written from Ivan’s perspective, the man from Earth will play matchmaker to a good friend desperately in need to exercise and prove his abilities. Also, Ivan’s new duties will take him to unexplored worlds and push him to work through dangerous alien contacts. Nothing can prepare the human for what he’ll encounter, but he will have the support of Tar, his android mentor, and an intelligent saucer with few if any limitations. Written for all age groups.

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia—the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War—and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world. “Enthralling … captivating reading.” —The New York Times Book Review At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear—to some—that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA. Chronicling the fascinating lives of four agents, Scott Anderson follows the exploits of four spies: Michael Burke, who organized parachute commandos from an Italian villa; Frank Wisner, an ingenious spymaster who directed actions around the world; Peter Sichel, a German Jew who outwitted the ruthless KGB in Berlin; and Edward Lansdale, a mastermind of psychological warfare in the Far East. But despite their lofty ambitions, time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by a combination of ham-fisted politicking and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government.

Geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring technologies have been used to inform safety, operational, and treatment decisions for unstable slopes. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program''s NCHRP Synthesis 554: Advances in Unstable Slope Instrumentation and Monitoring documents and synthesizes the state of practice for implementation and use of advancements in unstable slope instrumentation and monitoring by state departments of transportation over approximately the last decade. The types of instrumentation and monitoring technologies range from devices installed on or in slopes to remote-sensing methods from ground, aerial, or satellite-based systems.

»Manchmal fließt die Geschichte der Menschheit bedächtig vor sich hin, manchmal bewegt sie sich sehr schnell.« Diesen Satz formulierte Muammar al-Gaddafi 2002 gegenüber Scott Anderson. Tatsächlich hat sich die Geschichte im Nahen Osten überschlagen, seit die USA 2003 im Irak einmarschiert sind: 2011 weckte der Arabische Frühling Hoffnungen, doch bald versanken Länder wie Syrien und der Irak im Chaos, von dem wiederum der Islamische Staat profitierte. Millionen Menschen flohen aus Syrien in Nachbarstaaten und nach Europa. Anhand der Erlebnisse von sechs Menschen schildert Anderson die Geschichte einer zerbrechenden Region. Er begleitet den jungen Iraker Wakaz, der sich vorübergehend dem IS anschließt, Laila, die Witwe eines prominenten ägyptischen Menschenrechtsanwalts, deren Sohn innerhalb kurzer Zeit von drei Regimes inhaftiert wird, und Majd, den seine Flucht von Homs über das Mittelmeer bis nach Dresden führt. Illustriert wird Andersons Großreportage mit Aufnahmen des renommierten Fotografen Paolo Pellegrin. Ein einmaliges zeitgeschichtliches Dokument.

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a piercing account of how the contemporary Arab world came to be riven by catastrophe since the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq. In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as New York Times bestselling author Scott Anderson shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before. In this gripping account, Anderson examines the myriad complex causes of the region’s profound unraveling, tracing the ideological conflicts of the present to their origins in the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 and beyond. From this investigation emerges a rare view into a land in upheaval through the eyes of six individuals—the matriarch of a dissident Egyptian family; a Libyan Air Force cadet with divided loyalties; a Kurdish physician from a prominent warrior clan; a Syrian university student caught in civil war; an Iraqi activist for women’s rights; and an Iraqi day laborer-turned-ISIS fighter. A probing and insightful work of reportage, Fractured Lands offers a penetrating portrait of the contemporary Arab world and brings the stunning realities of an unprecedented geopolitical tragedy into crystalline focus.

„Fascinantă – cea mai bună lucrare de istorie militară din ultimii ani și o analiză edificatoare a disputelor care continuă să mocnească amenințător și azi. O carte extraordinară sub toate aspectele." – The New York Times O relatare palpitantă și revelatoare a uneia dintre cele mai zbuciumate și legendare perioade din istoria secolului al XX-lea – Revolta Arabă și „marele joc" secret de a controla Orientul Mijlociu. CARTE INCLUSĂ PE LISTA CELOR MAI BUNE TITLURI ALE ANULUI DE New York Times • Christian Science Monitor • NPR • Seattle Times • St. Louis Dispatch • Chicago Tribune • American Library Association Bazată pe cercetări extinse și intense, muncă asiduă în arhive, Lawrence în Arabia aduce o nouă perspectivă asupra modului în care s-a configurat lumea Orientului Mijlociu. Cu o acțiune de proporții epice, portretizări expresive, accente critice în condamnarea distrugerilor provocate de comploturile coloniale europene, volumul surprinde strălucit felul în care nesăbuința trecutului declanșează suferința prezentului. Printre numeroasele istorii individuale din Primul Război Mondial care vor fi povestite și repovestite în cadrul centenarelor commemorate între 2014 și 2018, cea a lui T.E. Lawrence iese în evidență... Cartea lui Anderson nu putea fi mai oportună. Acum, când atenția întregii lumi se concentrează asupra Siriei și Egiptului, este uluitor să privești în urmă cu o sută de ani și să vezi un tablou asemănător.... Apelând la o distribuție bogată, Anderson reușește să exploreze haosul din Orientul Mijlociu de la începutul secolului al XX-lea dintr-o varietate de perspective distincte și revelatoare totodată. O mărturie captivantă, de o mare complexitate și profunzime. – The New York Times Book Review Vastă, hipnotică și – să îndrăznim să o spunem – cinematografică în detaliu, Lawrence în Arabia ilustrează modul în care biografia și istoria se potențează reciproc. – The Wall Street Journal Absorbiți de măcelul ce avea loc în tranșeele Europei în Primul Război Mondial, combatanții occidentali acordau prea puțină importanță teatrului de luptă din Orientul Mijlociu. Ca urmare, conflictul de aici a fost influențat surprinzător de mult de o mână de aventurieri și ofițeri de rang mărunt aflați departe de marile coridoare ale puterii: Curt Prüfer – universitar tern, atașat pe lângă Ambasada Germană din Cairo, Aaron Aaronsohn – renumit agronom provenit din România și sionist înflăcărat. William Yale – descendent scăpătat al unei familii aristocratice americane. În centrul acestui cerc se afla Lawrence – la începutul lui 1914, doar un arheolog care lucre la săpături prin deșerturile Siriei. În 1917 ajunsese deja cea mai romantică figură din Primul Război Mondial, luptându-se atât cu inamicii Marii Britanii, cât și cu propriul guvern pentru a-și transforma în realitate viziunea sa asupra destinului poporului arab. Drumurile încrucișate ale acestor patru personaje – intrigile pe care le-au pus la cale, bătăliile pe care le-au purtat, trădările pe care le-au suferit sau le-au uneltit ei înșiși – oglindesc grandoarea, complexitatea și tragedia războiului din deșert.

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Death seems to Robert "Ziggy" Zigstrom to be the only option left in his worthless life. He''s been kicked out of the Navy, served time in the brig, lost his job, and worst of all, lost his woman. Then in the middle of a suicide attempt in his beat up trailer in the California desert, he is rescued by a crippled up ex-hit man who just may give Ziggy a new shot at life

Olivia is just three when her father leaves home and never returns. A few years later, Olivias mother takes her to live with her grandmother. But when her aunt invites Olivia and her grandma to visit them in Vermont, everything changes forever. After Olivia and her friend, Nicholas, cross a footbridge into Kids World, they attempt to adjust to life in a strange land where everything is run by a computer. After their adventure leads them to make new friends, Olivia and Nicholas trudge back and forth across the bridge between the two worlds, soon discovering life lessons in their former reality. As they are led to create Net Force Ten--a task force for the betterment of all kind--a mirrored entity begins its quest to take over the galaxy, the Internet, and anything else in its way. While Net Force Ten rises up to meet its greatest challenge ever, Olivia, Nicholas, and other members must either become heroes or surrender to an entity determined to achieve dominance. In this young adult sci-fi adventure, a band of unlikely heroes must bravely face a new frontier while battling an evil being who wants nothing more than to take over the galaxy.

Don''t chase business—bring new customers to you! Outdated sales tactics have you chasing leads and fishing for new business. In today''s competitive world, nobody has time for that! Inbound Marketing For Dummies is a one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about inbound marketing techniques that attract the attention of your target audience. Whether you have a small or large business, this approachable text offers insight into creating, executing, promoting, and measuring inbound marketing tactics through easy-to-follow instructions on setting up and implementing a new strategic approach. With the information in this book, you can increase brand awareness, enhance brand loyalty, engage with target audience members, and attract new buyers all by leveraging your website, social media, blog, and other resources that are, most likely, already at your fingertips. A breath of fresh air brought on by the Digital Age, inbound marketing is a holistic, data-driven marketing approach that calls upon digital-based resources, such as your website, social media platforms, blogging, search engine optimization, etc., to establish your company as an authority in its industry—and to help customers find you, instead of require your sales team to chase after each and every customer. Build a reliable inbound marketing team Develop deeper relationships with your customers Convert inbound traffic into revenue Combine inbound and outbound marketing strategies to optimize your business'' resources Inbound Marketing For Dummies is an essential guide for anyone looking to leverage tried and true inbound marketing strategies within their business.

Peanut Butter is a sad little fish. His best friend, Honey, just moved away. The two friends were perfect together, just like a peanut butter and honey sandwich. Now Honey is gone, and Peanut Butter needs a new friend-but how will he find one? Peanut Butter sets out on a thrilling adventure deep in the ocean to find a new best friend. He starts his journey by seeking out only the most beautiful fish in the sea and rejecting all others. Along the way, he encounters colorful characters like sharks, an angelfish, a moon snail, and many more. Peanut Butter soon realizes that if he wants real friendship, he'll have to look deeper and discover the beauty within other fish. If he can do that, perhaps he'll finally find the perfect friend. Join Peanut Butter on his big adventure, and share in the discovery of a vibrant undersea community. More importantly, swim along with him as he learns about the importance of true friendship.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography • A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East “A fascinating book, the best work of military history in recent memory and an illuminating analysis of issues that still loom large today."—The New York Times "Brilliant. . . . A dazzling accomplishment that combines superb historical research with a compelling narrative.” —The Seattle Times The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T. E. Lawrence, “a sideshow of a sideshow.” As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. At the center of it all was Lawrence himself. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in Syria; by 1917 he was riding into legend at the head of an Arab army as he fought a rearguard action against his own government and its imperial ambitions. Based on four years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabia definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, The Seattle Times , St. Louis Post-Dispatch , Chicago Tribune

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A collection of the very best in contemporary first-person journalism compiled by the award-winning former Washington Post reporter and author. Great journalists, at one time or another, have all been characters in their own stories: people with personalities that shaped what they saw and reported, and were touched and changed by the experiences about which they wrote; and innovators who borrowed the storytelling techniques of fiction. The Beholder''s Eye showcases the very best of an increasing trend toward personal narrative: Mike Sager stalking Marlon Brando in the Tahitian jungle; J. R. Moehringer''s quest to discover the true identity of an old boxer; Bill Plaschke''s story about a woman with cerebral palsy who runs an obscure Los Angeles Dodgers Web site; Scott Anderson''s story of his lifetime of covering war after war; Harrington''s own tale of his interracial family''s struggle to persevere; and many others. Written by reporters who were willing to reveal themselves in order to bring readers insights that were deeper than supposedly objective third-person stories, their articles are an invaluable resource for aspiring journalists, students, and teachers of the craft of writing, and any reader with an appreciation for masterful storytelling. "Aims to dispel the old journalistic cliché: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ''self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.'' He couldn''t have put together a better lineup of writers to make the point that it doesn''t have to be . . . Not just some of the country''s finest personal journalism, but some of its finest journalism, period."— Kirkus Reviews

David Richards is a mid-level diplomat assigned to the sleepy, backwater Middle Eastern kingdom of Kutar in 1983. He spends his days on minor development projects and his nights seducing ambassador’s wives. But when news of a tribal skirmish reaches the capital, Richards soon finds himself embroiled in a civil war as Colonel Munn, a pint-sized, blustery Texan assigned to Kutar, organizes a preemptive offensive against the rebellious forces. After Munn is immediately routed and the rebellion seizes control of the capitol, Richards holes up in the ramshackle Moonlight Hotel with fellow expatriates, determined to ride out the conflict despite the growing chaos and destruction that are heading towards them. This is a stunning and thrilling novel of war and survival from an acclaimed war correspondent. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Scott Anderson''s Lawrence in Arabia.

Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior fundamentally questions the way most criminologists attempt to explain, let alone ameliorate the problem of human criminal behavior. Written by a respected expert in forensics, who also brings a much-needed biological background to the task, this resource champions contemporary biological theory by introducing criminologists to areas of research they might not otherwise encounter. It discusses basic biological concepts such as natural selection and evolution in relation to behavior, and considers patterns of inheritance, sex-linked traits, and propensities toward aggression; explores studies on hormonal effects, as well as brain chemistry, and delves deeply into organic brain dysfunction; and looks at investigations into fetal conditions and birth-related difficulties, as well as research on nutrition and food allergies. While steeped in scientific research, the material does not require a scientific background

"The onslaught in Lebanon during the months of July and August 2006 resulted in not only the deaths of over 600 Lebanese civilians but also an almost complete destruction of the country's infrastructure: schools, roads, hospitals and homes. In total Hezbollah launched 2500 rockets into Israel, resulting in the deaths of 36 Israeli civilians, and the wounding of hundreds more. Paolo Pellegrin (Magnum Photos) and journalist Scott Anderson were in Lebanon during the conflict, on assignment for The New York Times. Pellegrin's photographs intimately capture the fear and powerlessness of the Lebanese population in the face of the ceaseless Israeli air strikes, revealing the terror and despair of families and friends witnessing the deaths of their loved ones, whilst around them their homes were destroyed. In particular Pellegrin also documented the aftermath of the attack on the village of Qana in southern Lebanon; many of the victims children, his photographs reveal the immense suffering of the civilians involved. Alongside his work exposing the consequences of indiscriminate attacks on a civilian population is a 3000-word account by Scott Anderson, who accompanied Pellegrin in Lebanon. Pellegrin and Anderson were both wounded in a missile attack by an Israeli drone, which fired on their vehicle as they traveled through the city of Tyre. Along with the civilians of southern Lebanon, they were stranded for weeks under heavy bombing and air strikes by the IDF. The attack at Qana, also the second one to strike the village in living memory, soon after prompted the singer Patti Smith to respond in the form of a song, entitled 'Qana', the words and music of which will form her contribution to the book." -- Amazon.com.

This is a practical approach to the theory of visual language, takingthe basics of line, shape, tone, colour, texture, form, scale, spaceand light and discussing how to use them. The first half of the booktalks about how artists can use these elements to create their ownvisual language and how this can be applied to develop their own work.This text is illustrated with the ceramic work of David Cohen. Thesecond half of the book is divided into sections, each written by aprominent crafts person, expounding on how they have developed and usedtheir own visual language. These craftspeople are: Alison Kinnaird(glass engraver), Jack Cunningham (jeweller), John Creed (metalworker), Graham Stewart (silversmith) and Anna King (weaver).

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Provides core information, in technical language, on the science and potential clinical applications of stem cells.