Political Science : Leadership

There were moments in Ariel Sharon's astonishingly successful military career when he had an incredible way of pulling victory from the jaws of defeat. This is a biography of this controversial world leader, whose massive stroke and subsequent coma in January 2006 further complicated the already precarious scenario in the Middle East. more...

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In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tragedy of discord, destruction, and despair. more...

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Over the centuries, Britain has received and absorbed large numbers of people from other countries and many Britons went abroad to the colonies as rulers, administrators, soldiers, business people, etc., to represent the Empire. But it is only in the last forty years that Britain has received in significant numbers from the former colonies workers and their dependants whose colour differs from that of the indigenous population. The main sources of this immigration are the New Commonwealth countries (including Pakistan) of the Indian subcontinent and the West Indies. The estimated present-day number of ethnic minorities is about 5 per cent of the total population of 54 million. Of these, almost 50 per cent are now British born. Thus, half of the ethnic minority population is not ‘immigrant’ but native born British and most of the others now have British nationality. more...

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This A-Z biographical dictionary profiles Britain's prime ministers, foreign secretaries, home secretaries, and Chancellors of the Exchequer, from 1730 through the present. more...

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During the course of the Twentieth Century, nineteen men and one woman - from Robert Cecil, Third Marquis of Salisbury to Tony Blair - have occupied the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. more...

Price: $108.60