Akron Public Library

"This book is designed to provide readers with the background and building blocks they need in order to answer for themselves the critical questions about what is taking place around the world and why. It explains what makes each region of the world tick, the many challenges globalization presents, and the most influential countries, events, and ideas. Its aim is to help readers become more informed, discerning citizens, better able to arrive at sound,...

The author of the bestselling "The Future of Freedom" describes a world in which the U.S. will no longer dominate the global economy. He sees the "rise of the rest" as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world.

Long before September 11, 2001, Steven Simon and Daniel Benjamin warned publicly of a massive terrorist strike against America. They wer not voices from the fringe; they had been the directors of the White House's counterterrorism program. Their warnings were ignored. Now they havee written the definitive book on radical Islam's war against America, from its deep origins to our long struggle ahead.

Offers a brief history of the Cold War and discusses the McCarthy hearings, the Cuban missile crisis, and the American military buildup of the 1980s.

One account, based on questionable scholarship, of Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, who was pope from 1939 to 1958. Today, still accused of failure to condemn Hitler's Final Solution, he is at the same time nearing canonization.