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In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain. So great was the threat that by 1987 the UN had succeeded in coordinating an international treaty to phase out emissions, which over the following 15 years has been implemented. It has been hailed as an outstanding success. It needed the participation of all the parties: governments, industry, scientists, campaigners, NGOs, and the media, and it is a model for future treaties. This volume provides the authoritative and comprehensive history of the whole process from the earliest warning signs to the present. It is an invaluable record for all those involved and a necessary reference for future negotiations to a wide range of scholars, students, and professionals. ... Read more

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EXCELLENT book for understanding Montreal Protocol
This book providers the reader with wonderful insights to the development and the Montreal Protocol and amendments. It is a carefully crafted and detailed book for those seeking to learn how this dynamic international environmntal regime was developed and operates today. For any reader interested in knowing how a successful international environmental treaty can be made to work, this is the book. I highly recommend it for any student of environmental or international law. The book is especially ensightful as to how science is a driver for international climate policy. The book may also serve as a primer to the onging nexus of ozone depletion and climate change politics and science.

Student of Climate Change
As a student that is focusing my career on the issue of climate change, I found this book on ozone layer protection to be an extremely valuable resource.This book holds the general formula for how to deal with all global environmental concerns.Andersen and Sarma chronicle the way the world realized, rallied, fought, and in the end cooperated to save the world from impending disaster.The layout of the book makes it extremely accessible for focused readers- it designates chapters to tell the contributions of scientists, diplomats, businesspeople and engineers, media, and NGOs.The authors were deeply involved with all of these groups, enabling them to tell the inside story in each of these chapters.Their lessons are punctuated by exciting stories written by integral players in each of their fields.The reader will undoubtedly learn much by reading the chapter that relates most closely to him, and when he reads the entire book he'll find a story that is astonishing and inspiring.In asking Andersen and Sarma to write this book, the United Nations Environment Programme entrusted the right authors to portray their most impressive success story to date, and the result is a huge success. ... Read more

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Thank you for your efficient and timely delivery. I always depend on Amazon for reliable and quality delivery. However, this time, it really was amazing; I received the books on time. ... Read more

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* The most authoritative and up-to-date review of the development of the world's cities and other human settlements
* The first global assessment of urban slums, the challenges they present and the ways to improve the lives of slum dwellers
* Statistical annexes provide essential information on demographic, spatial & economic, housing, and environment & infrastructural indicators

This is the only reliable and comprehensive assessment of the world's cities, and an essential tool and reference for academics, researchers, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world. The 2003 report addresses the growing problems presented by slums in an increasingly globalized world. Using extensive case studies, it analyzes the factors behind the creation of slums and reviews the policies taken towards them. It demonstrates that to meet the UN's Millennium Goals of significantly improving the lives of over 100 million slum dwellers by 2020, policies must go beyond traditional infrastructural approaches to create livelihoods, and hope, for the urban poor. ... Read more

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The Nobel lecture given by the 2001 Nobel Peace Laureate Kofi Annan provides a plan and a hope for the future. ... Read more

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Published on the celebration of the United Nations' sixtieth anniversary. When it was completed in 1952 on a site on New York's East River, the United Nations building stood as a symbol of world humanitarianism, a beacon of unity after the Second World War. One of the most historic commissions of the twentieth century was seen through by architect Wallace Harrison, whose triumph put him on the cover of Time magazine.

Today, more than fifty years later, the building is regarded as one of the pinnacles of mid-century modernism. Its magnificent public spaces and assembly halls, as well as its artworks by Picasso, Chagall, and many others, make it one of the most visited sites in New York.

This publication presents a portrait of this fascinating building, through specially commissioned photography and illuminating essays that bring alive the historic events, speeches, and gatherings that have been central to the world's development since 1945. 200 illustrations in color and black and white. ... Read more

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A dispute exists over the legitimacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The debate centers around the question whether the invasion was an unprovoked assault on an independent country that may have breached international law, or if the United Nations Security Council authorized the invasion whether the conditions set in place after the Gulf War allowed the resumption if Iraq did not uphold to the Security Council resolutions. Those arguing for its legitimacy often point to Congressional Joint Resolution 114 and UN Security Council resolutions, such as Resolution 1441 and Resolution 678. Those arguing against its legitimacy also cite some of the same sources, stating they do not actually permit war but instead lay out conditions that must be met before war can be declared. Furthermore, the Security Council may only authorise the use of force against an "aggressor" in the interests of preserving peace, whereas the 2003 invasion of Iraq was not provoked by any aggressive military action. ... Read more

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Phenomenal!
You know a photographer's work is significant when it makes you look at things you've seen before, a little differently.I grew up in Ghana and have traveled through a good portion of the country.Milligan's work is by far the most compelling and most flattering portrait of my native land, irrespective of medium.his photos communicate more than music or spoken narrative and some of his images are more dynamic than motion film.His feat is all the more remarkable when you take into account that most people in that part of the world are camera-shy. A great tribute to a beautiful country and a fantastic addition to any library.Simply amazing. ... Read more

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This beautifully designed and collectable book reproduces the best of hundreds of posters issued over the years by the United Nations, since the organization’s inception in 1946.

From its beginning, the UN addressed the world through the medium of posters. Heralding the call to disarmament, the demand for human rights, the plight of refugees, and countless other civic and humanitarian causes, the UN’s posters are widely recognized for their bold design, artful composition and skillful rendering.

Including rare specimens from the organization’s early days—including two posters produced the UN’s predecessor organization, the League of Nations—the book pictures prizewinners from various competitions and those adapted from work by such well-known artists as Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, Hans Erni, Peter Max, and Robert Rauschenberg. Also included are biographies of select artists and a preface by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. ... Read more

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Posters for the people
With an organization as diverse as the UN you would expect their posters to vary enormously in creativity and appeal and the one hundred and fifty in the book certainly reflect this.Those included are probably a good cross-section of what has been published by various UN agencies.I think it's worth remembering that the agencies are situated in various cities round the world and they reflect poster styles of different cultures.This most likely explains why there is no real design style to any of the work shown.

Surely as a world organization it should be possible to create some sort of `brand feel' to all this work, a simple idea might be to have a colored strip across the top or bottom of every UN poster (say: about ten percent of the total depth) which has some sort of color design and the UN logo.

Although most of the posters have colorful imagery, either as graphics or photos I don't think many are what might be called eye-catching award winners.So many of them have interesting images but use very ordinary designs and typography and as you look through the book there seems an even blandness that is only broken by something truly creative and eye-catching.To the other extreme there are a few that are just awful, in particular two that show all the members of the Security Council and General Assembly in group photos.

The book will have a mild interest for graphic designers though I bet most copies were bought by the various agencies whose posters are featured.

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Title: El gobierno se metió en un avispero. (la visita de Kofi Annan a México)(TT: The government is in trouble) (TA: Kofi Annan's visit to Mexico)
Author: Agustín Gutiérrez Canet
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: July 16, 1998
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: v45Issue: n2352Page: p11(1)

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How Canada's campaign to ban land-mines led to foreign policy initiatives that focused on the security of civilians in situations of armed conflict. ... Read more

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Evolution of Man Demands Attention to Global Human Security

In the mid-1990's the United Nations (learn to respect them, they stink at the details but work at the strategic level) declared human security to be a just cause for intervention.Since then a number of extremelythoughtful works have documented the links between failed states (where human security is non-existent) and direct threats to the homelands of the advanced Western states.See my various lists, especially the list on Stategy & Force Structure.

This book, by an extraordinary duo including the man who may well be Canada's foremost authority in this arena, provides the first and as best I can tell only comprehensive discussion of why human security in every clime and place matters locally, that is, to the future of your children.

It places special emphasis on the importance of multi-cultural (i.e. not bully boy unilateral "we are the light and might makes right) approaches and large investments (commensurate with what we waste now on B2 bombers and nuclear carriers) in peacekeeping and stabilization operations which provide a vastly greater return on investment than funds wasted lining the pockets of military-industrial complex managers. ... Read more

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The definitive story of the twentieth century's greatest refugee crises, told by the woman who led the international response.

Sadako Ogata recounts her experiences, and the lessons she learned, as UN high commissioner for refugees during the 1990s. A tireless advocate for the victims of war, Ogata tells the on-the-ground story of four crises in which she directed relief: Iraq, the Balkans, the African Great Lakes region, and Afghanistan. She explores issues of refugee protection and humanitarian assistance; coordination between humanitarian organizations, NATO, and other militaries; and the global political and strategic climate in which these crises occurred. With an eye to the future, she asks the world community to assess the limits of humanitarian action and to work toward real political solutions when conflicts arise.

No one is in a better position to tell this essential post-Cold War story than Ogata, who personally traveled to crisis spots, often placing herself in harm's way, to lead the world in confronting the tragedy of the displaced. 9 maps, 16 pages of illustrations. ... Read more

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Very Diplomatic and a Well Organized Book by the UNHCR Chief
My main impression of this book is that it is well organized and well written. Saying that, it would have been nice to see a longer book. The book is an insider's view of the refugee problems as described by the chief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), all written by the former commisioner Ogata Sadako. She gained some prominance in Japanese politics and academic circles, and at the UN, and then became better known as the UN's face for a decade dealing with the refugee problem from 1991 to 2000.

The Japanese press still refer to her with some amazement because she has a PhD and was the UNHCR commissioner for many years but - did it as a woman. I would say that being a woman was less important in the US, and especially at the UN where diversity is a goal. In any case she was well connected in Japan and came from a family with long political roots. Her grandfather was a former minister and her great grandfather a former PM. In Japan she had a very successful academic career and was the Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. She is now living in New York, in her seventies, and still active in the US and Japan. She has written about a half dozen prior books on refugee problems.

The book is not really biographical, although it does descibe some of the things that she did over the decade or so at the UN. The book is better characterized as an analysis of the four main refugee problems in the 1990s. Right at the front she has a two page long four column matrix or spread sheet that shows year by year - starting around 1988 - the major refugee problems of the world and its four crisis spots - each being one of four vertical columns of the matrix: Iraq and the Kurds column 1, the Balkans column 2, the Great Lakes region of central Africa column 3, and Afghanistan column 4. The matrix has horiizontal divisions, year by year scrolling down from 1988, and each matrix square has a brief desciption of what important event took place in one of those four areas, and desribes very briefly the refugee crisis. For example, under Iraq and on row 1991, there is a note that 1.8 millions Kurds were displaced in Iraq and mainly fled north, etc. Many areas in that matrix are blank, about half the squares are blank.

I describe this matrix in detail since it serves as the outline for the book. The main part of the book is essentially four chapter one on each of the four crisis areas. So, along with this matrix or spread sheet at the front of the book, we have a very short forward by Kofi Annan, then an introduction by the author, also relatively short. This introduction is followed by the four long chapters, each dealing with one of the four refugee problem areas of the matrix, and in the same order, i.e.: one chapter on Iraq, one on the Balkans, etc. Each chapter has an analysis, maps, some references to photographs, local politics and history, UN help, refugee movements, casualties, money spent, the timelines, etc.

She tries to explain the reasons for each of the four major crisis, and she descibes the flow of refugees and what help was provided by the UN. Some of these problems are almost unsolveable and can last years or decades. She likens the UN role to that of a fire department, just responding to one crisis after another, usually after the crisis is well underway. For example, the African Great Lakes problems involving the Burundi- Rywanda counties and its crisis actually goes back decades of fighting betweem the Hutu and the Tutsi. The countries are land locked and difficult to reach, and had a high level of chaos and fighting, making the situation difficult to deal with effectively.

The author includes maps showing the politics and the movement of the refugees, other more general maps, and some photographs. A few of the latter are with various UN workers or other well known public figures. She ends the book with a short chapter on her thoughts about US-Japanese cooperation, and some diplomatic remarks about the negative role of nationalism in both countries as a barrier to helping the world's poor.

She follows this with copies of two short speaches: A Brief to the Security Council in 2000, and her 1999 Mansfield Lecture. The latter is a bit longer and more revealing. The appendix contains a number of tables and notes on the refugee aid and similar items.

The book has a definite feel of being reserved, but well organised, and limited in what she says. She is very proper and diplomatic, and makes no strong demands or appeals. The book is educational, very well organised, and an interesting read, but a little short, 5 stars.

A one-woman eulogy to herself
The word one reads most in this book is 'I' and the 'I' in question is the irritating author of this pedestrian and badly written book.

As someone who works in this field and who has worked for the UN in the past I was looking for an insightful analysis of the role UNHCR has played in the unfolding of some of the worse humanitarian disasters of the past 50 years.

I was (naively) hoping that I would get something balanced, self-critical and, above all READABLE.

What you get instead is a prosaic list of world events in which UNHCR had some, naturally exemplary, role to play.The energetic 'I' of Ms Ogata leaps aimlessly round the dry pages of this awful book claiming to save the planet and the world's dispossessed.

It is not an anlysis on UNHCR.In fact UNHCR does not even get a look in. Ms Ogata IS UNHCR.

Besides being poorly written, Ms Ogata's egomanic antics are just irritating most of the time - Immagine a whiny mosquit buzz as you try to decipher between the lines.However, the book loses all credibility and becomes laughable when she manages to describe the conflict in the Balkans and totally skip over the inconvenient hiccough of Srebenica.

Im now finishing this book for amusement's sake.Im looking forwards to getting to the "Great Lakes" section just to see how Ogata manages to skirt around 800,000 dead!

If you want an insight into the problems of the UN, read this book. When you realise what the egos of the people leading the various agencies are like, all falls quickly into place.

However, dont bother to buy it, get it second hand.Even better, borrow it from the library.
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Title: EU impone su candidato. (el nuevo secretario general de la Organización de Naciones Unidas Kofi Annan)(TT: The US imposes its candidate) (TA: the new General Secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan)
Author: Marcos Cueva Perus
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: January 2, 1997
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
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Chapters: Anti-Globalization Movement, Kofi Annan, World Government, World Music, Universalism, International Auxiliary Language, Supranationalism, Bilderberg Group, Internationalization and Localization, Soft Power, Criticisms of Globalization, World Economic Forum, Global Governance, Washington Consensus, Proto-Globalization, Offshoring Research Network, Global Citizenship, Impact of Globalization on Women in China, Globalization and Disease, Anti-Globalization and Antisemitism, World Currency, Middle East and Globalization, Global Justice, International Education, Food Miles, Westernisation, Transformation of Culture, Social Effects of H5n1, Game 39, Economic Restructuring, Race to the Bottom, Nafta's Impact on the Environment, 3rd Summit of the Americas, Precarity, United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Globalisation in India, Non-Violation Nullification of Benefits, Mcjob, Tellus Institute, Globalization Index, Conceptual Economy, Contingent Workforce, Inter Press Service, Democratic World Federalists, Globalization of Wine, Decent Work, Bbc Box, Collegium International, Precarious Work, International Business, World Health Imaging, Telemedicine, and Informatics Alliance, Glocalisation, Globality, New International Economic Order, Global Labour University, World Music Awards, Planetary Phase of Civilization, World Federalist Movement, Tianchao Daguo, Caput Mundi, E-Parliament, Public Eye Awards, Democratic Mundialization, Summers Memo, Golden Arches, Trade in Services Statistics, Globally Integrated Enterprise, Advanced Leveraging Translation Memory, Cross-Border Leasing, Transnational Feminist Network, Euromayday, Policy Laundering, the Globalist, Commonwealth Business Council, International Simultaneous Policy Organization, International Trade Awards, Global Policy Institute, Social Forum, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention, Südwind Agentur, Cultural Intelligence, Archaic G...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=46313 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kofi Annan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mitch Kapor, Carly Fiorina, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Michael Kaiser, Alan Mulally, Gideon Gartner, William Clay Ford, Jr., Robert Metcalfe, Randal Pinkett, Thad Allen, Sumantra Ghoshal, Larry Constantine, David W. Mullins, Jr., Robert Thirsk, Peter Tertzakian, Luis Alvarez Renta, William A. Porter, Jeff Stibel, Joseph Nacchio, Henry Mintzberg, Deep Joshi, Kamal Quadir, Dennis Meadows, Peter Senge, Carl Yankowski, Amar Gupta, Harvey E. Johnson, Jr., Jamie Mccourt, Soulaymane Kachani, Daniel Dilorenzo, Ellen Bard, John W. Thompson, Philip M. Condit, Robin Chase, Robert Varkonyi, Narendra Patni, Barry Richmond, John E. Potter, Daryl Morey, Erik Brynjolfsson, Saul Shapiro, John Kotter, Bruce S. Gordon, Eric Beinhocker, Shuman Ghosemajumder, Martha Samuelson, Laurel Powers-Freeling, Tony Purnell, Marti G. Subrahmanyam, John S. Reed, Daniel Carp, Ron Williams, Jaime Rosenthal, Marshall Van Alstyne, Edward B. Roberts, Yu Hu, Judy Lewent, Rafael Del Pino, Calie Pistorius, Gary Loveman, Yannis Bakos, James Rhyne Killian, Nabiel Makarim, Ploypailin Jensen, Robert A. Swanson, Kenan Sahin, Nancy Killefer, F. Duane Ackerman, Brian Shin, Hannes Smárason, Sadeq Sayeed, Magdalena Barreiro, Phil Lapsley, Clay Johnson Iii, Preetish Nijhawan, Greg Hawkins, Adi Godrej, Milen Veltchev, W. Frank Blount, Robert Hamada, Lisa Endlich, Gerhard Schulmeyer, Thornton Wilson, Lorenzo Mendoza, James C. Foster, Ronald L. Turner, Thomas P. Gerrity, D. R. Mehta, Bill Taylor, Keiji Tachikawa, José Tribolet, Vance D. Coffman, Colby Chandler, Justin Jaschke. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 370. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (Hebrew:·), also Binyamin Netanyahu, born 21 October 1949) is the ninth and current Prime Minister of Israel, serving since March...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=56472 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 665 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Indigenous peoples' contributions hailed.(Kofi Annan speaks out)
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Title: U.N.'s Annan ends historic term filled with straight talk, scandal and success.(NATIONAL REPORT)(Kofi Annan )
Author: Kevin Chappell
Publication: Jet (Magazine/Journal)
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi, Ghana in what was then the British colony of the Gold Coast. He is a twin, a respected status in Ghanaian culture. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shares the middle name 'Atta', which in Fante and Akan means 'twin'. Annan's family was part of the country's elite; both of his grandfathers and his uncle were tribal chiefs. Annan is married to Nane Maria Annan, née Lagergren, a Swedish lawyer and artist who is the half-niece of Raoul Wallenberg. He has two children, Kojo and Ama, from his previous marriage to Titi Alakija, a Nigerian, whom he divorced in the late 1970s. Annan also has one stepchild, Nina Cronstedt de Groot, Nane's daughter from a previous marriage. Annan and his wife with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the World Economic Forum. In the Ghanaian tradition, there are no family names that children inherit from their parents. Children are named according to the day of the week on which they were born, and according to how many of their siblings came before them. Kofi in Akan is the name that corresponds with Friday. Annan is the name that corresponds with the fourth-born child. The middle name, Atta, indicates that he is a twin. In his earlier years at the UN, Annan's last name had widely been mispronounced as rhyming with "anon"; Annan has let it be known that his name rhymes with "cannon". From 1954 to 1957, Annan attended the elite Mfantsipim school, a Methodist boarding school in Cape Coast founded in the 1870s. Annan... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16844 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Kofi Annan, Václav Havel, Médecins Sans Frontières, Hamid Karzai, Rajiv Gandhi, Mary Robinson, Gro Harlem Brundtland, M. S. Swaminathan, Muhammad Yunus, Olusegun Obasanjo, Unicef, Sirindhorn, Sam Nujoma, Indira Gandhi Prize, Trevor Huddleston, Parliamentarians for Global Action, Sadako Ogata, Shridath Ramphal, Saburo Okita, Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 253. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975, and was a peanut farmer and naval officer. As president, Carter created two new cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II). Throughout his career, Carter strongly emphasized human rights. He returned the Panama Canal Zone to Panama and faced criticism at home for what was widely seen as yet another signal of US weakness. He took office during a period of international stagflation which persisted throughout his term and eroded his popularity. The final year of his presidential tenure was marked by several major crises, including the 1979 takeover of the American embassy in Iran and holding of hostages by Iranian students, an unsuccessful rescue a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15992 ... Read more

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Chapters: Hideki Tōjō, Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, Saint Nicholas, Kofi Annan, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Queen Silvia of Sweden, Xanana Gusmão, Father Damien, 14th Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Juanes, Ludu Daw Amar, Attacks on Humanitarian Workers, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, Jean-Pierre Hallet, Paul Rusesabagina, Medical Missions in China, Ulises de La Cruz, Sky Tao, Bianca Jagger, Flordemayo, Henri Reynders, Ammar Abdulhamid, Kigeli V of Rwanda, Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Andrée de Jongh, Tsering Dolma Gyaltong, Abie Nathan, Preah Maha Ghosananda, Zilda Arns, Zumbi, Margaret Behan, José Castellanos Contreras, Thích Quảng Độ, Julieta Casimiro, J. B. Webb, Aama Bombo, Mona Polacca, Yanis Kanidis, Bernadette Rebienot, Sára Salkaházi, S. H. Nimal Kumar, Neela Marikkar, Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance, Ivan Vranetić, Karl Gröger, Binh Rybacki, Mariela Castro, Werenfried Van Straaten, Robert Pierce, Per Faye-Hansen, Evhen Tsybulenko, Tomo Križnar, Idris Olagoke Badmus, Bouri Sanhouidi, Reggie Candappa, Masanao Goto, Harald Edelstam, Surma D'bait Mar Shimun, Joseph Foumbi, Yitzhak Gitterman, Claes Nobel, Harold Robles, Jean-Charles Dei, Almira Fales, Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Jeevan Thiagarajah, Manuel Aranda Da Silva, Souleymane Beye, John M. Systermans, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Omer Ismail. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 384. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Haile Selassie I (Ge'ez: , "Power of the Trinity";) (23 July 1892 27 August 1975), born Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. The heir to a dynasty that traced its origins to the 13th century, and from there by tradition back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Haile Selassie is a defining figure ...http://booksllc.net/?id=42120 ... Read more