Fareed Zakaria
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestseller, revised and expanded with a new afterword: the essential update of Fareed Zakaria's international bestseller about America and its shifting position in world affairs. Fareed Zakaria's international bestseller The Post-American World pointed to the "rise of the rest"--The growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, and others -- as the great story of our time, the story that will undoubtedly shape the future of global...
7) Road to 9/11
Publisher
Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"...this dramatic documentary chronicles the deep historical roots of Al-Qáida, examining the years of political oppression, economic stagnation, religious fanaticism, and violence that gave rise to the attacks of September 11. 2002. It features rare footage, and insightful commentary by leading scholars and journalists including Bernard Lewis, Fareed Zakaria, Thomas Friedman, Irshad Manji, Azar Nafisis, Kanan Makiya, Fawaz Gerges, and David Fromkin."...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Antisemitism in the US and Europe is rising and worsening, like a virus, it is mutating and evolving across cultures, borders and ideologies making it all but impossible to stop. Explore its infectious behavior and examine the increasing violence, which, when reviewed holistically, paints a terrifying portrait of how this kind of global hatred begins and how easily it disseminates.
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Publisher
Anansi
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
On June 17, 2011, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CNN's Fareed Zakaria squared off against leading historian Niall Ferguson and world-renowned Chinese economist David Daokui Li to debate the biggest geopolitical issue of our time: Does the 21st century belong to China?