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In 2010, David D. Kirkpatrick took up his post in Cairo as the New York Times Middle East Correspondent. Egypt, like its Arab neighbours, was stagnant, an implacable autocracy. Kirkpatrick's experience of the subsequent four years - among the jubilant throngs at Tahrir Square in 2011, beside Mohammed Morsi in the Presidential palace, trapped in Rabaa as Sisi's army opened fire - overturned all his assumptions. Standing alongside Egyptians of a...

Frederick Lanchester formulated a model of combat suggesting the power of a military force was proportional to the product of the individual effectiveness of units in the force and the square of the number of units deployed. Analysis of battles in the American Civil War, and other contemporary wars, demonstrates the importance of superior numbers.

When Dr. David Kirkpatrick's wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2007, their lives -- and marriage -- changed forever. In this clear and honest guide for those loving a partner with dementia.

ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARDavid D. Kirkpatrick, a correspondent for The New York Times, was banned from Egypt for writing this book: the definitive account of the turn back toward authoritarianism in Cairo and across the Middle East. Egypt has long set the paradigm for Arab autocracy. It is the keeper of the peace with Israel and the cornerstone of the American-backed regional order. So when Egyptians rose up to demand democracy ...

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A poignant, deeply human portrait of Egypt during the Arab Spring, told through the lives of individuals'This will be the must read on the destruction of Egypt's revolution and democratic moment' Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of Human Rights Watch'Sweeping, passionate ... An essential work of reportage for our time' Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our FamiliesIn 2011, Egyptians...

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A Gospel for the Poor adopts a transnational perspective to tell the story of how a Cold War generation of progressive Latin Americans, including seminal figures such as Ecuadorian René Padilla and Peruvian Samuel Escobar, developed, named, and exported their version of social Christianity to an evolving coalition of global evangelicals.

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ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARA candid narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, and the truth about America's role in that failure and the subsequent military coup that put Sisi in power--from the Middle East correspondent of the New York Times.In 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages, and social classes shook off millennia of autocracy, then elected a Muslim Brother as president. The 2013 military coup replaced hi...

An unflinching memoir that honours the girls and women that influenced Kirkpatrick as they are forced to deal with life crisises that are often kept out of sight in modern society birth, illness war and death.

Von dem Moment an, an dem die Familie Grace in ein altes, abgelegenes Haus eingezogen ist, passieren sehr seltsame Dinge. Als Jared (Freddie Highmore, Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik) die Vorfälle untersucht, entdeckt er Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch der magischen Geschöpfe und damit das unglaubliche Geheimnis des Spiderwick-Anwesens: Eine geheime Welt voller phantastischer Kreaturen versteckt sich in unserer eigenen! Bei ihrem Versuch, die Ge...

Von dem Moment an, an dem die Familie Grace in ein altes, abgelegenes Haus eingezogen ist, passieren sehr seltsame Dinge. Als Jared (Freddie Highmore, Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik) die Vorfälle untersucht, entdeckt er Arthur Spiderwicks Handbuch der magischen Geschöpfe und damit das unglaubliche Geheimnis des Spiderwick-Anwesens: Eine geheime Welt voller phantastischer Kreaturen versteckt sich in unserer eigenen! Bei ihrem Versuch, die Ge...

The inside story of the greatest business and social phenomenon of our age. With exclusive inside access to all the company's leaders David Kirkpatrick tells of the vision, the tenacity, the refusal to compromise, and the vision Zuckerberg has to remake the internet. A brilliant and fascinating cast of characters created Facebook and Kirkpatrick has interviewed all of them. Never before have Zuckerberg and his closest colleagues told what real...

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