Catalog Search Results
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
MPAA rating: PG.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Former State Department advisor for Afghanistan and Pakistan Vali Nasr delivers a sharp indictment of America's flawed foreign policy and outlines a new relationship with the Muslim world and with new players in the changing Middle East. Vali Nasr argues that the Obama administration had a chance to improve its relations with the Middle East, but instead chose to pursue its predecessor's questionable strategies there. Nasr takes readers behind the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Obsessive and compulsive, Valerie Mayberry is also the FBI's counter-intelligence expert on domestic terrorism. Brett Garrett is a dishonorably discharged ex-Navy SEAL coming off a secret opioid addiction, and is now a gun for hire, working as a security contractor in Eastern Europe. When a high ranking Kremlin official with knowledge of a plan to attack the US must be smuggled out, Mayberry and Garret are thrown together to exfiltrate him and preempt...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
A tour de force of investigative journalism-this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes details never before revealed about the U.S.-led covert sixteen-month manhunt. With unprecedented...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the scientific discovery, conservation, and current understandings of giant pandas to trace their story and reveal how the species reflects changing attitudes toward the natural world and contributes to China's rise to a super-power.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For more than forty years, the United States has reached out to China, helping it develop a booming economy and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that there is little to fear--and everything to gain--from China's rise. But what if the Chinese have had a different plan all along? The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one hundredth...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of twenty-first century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged -- often without the public's full knowledge -- from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry. The United States is currently under attack from multiple adversaries -- yet most Americans have no idea of the dangers threatening us. In this eye-opening book, military and intelligence...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Israel and the Arab World, written from an Israeli viewpoint, examines Israel's geopolitical position in the Middle East and the Arab world. The status of many Palestinians as stateless people and refugees is often in the news. This book explains how this tragedy was created and is being perpetuated. The narrative examines Zionist chauvinism, Arab rejectionism, the long and convoluted search for peace, and the history of asymmetric warfare and terror....
54) The silent man
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Haunted by his harrowing recent missions, CIA agent John Wells is devastated by an attack on Washington that kills his fiancée, an event that takes him to Russia, where he uncovers a devastating plot.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the friendship between all-American girl Jenny and Sarah, the shy daughter of troubled parents, during the height of the Cold War, a bond that is nearly shattered by Jenny's unexpected fame and plane crash death that Sarah learns a decade later might have been a hoax.
56) Executive intent
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The United States has just launched the most powerful weapon in history -- a missile-launching satellite called "Thor's Hammer" that can strike anywhere on the planet in seconds. The world's other major superpowers, Russia and China, are rocked by America's development, and they scramble to respond by gaining control of the seas. But when terrorists hijack Pakistani missiles and fire them at Indian cities, U.S. President Joseph Gardner has only one...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The structure of global politics is shifting rapidly. After decades of rising, China has entered a new and critical phase where it seeks to turn its economic heft into global power. In this deeply informed book, Geoff Dyer makes a lucid and convincing argument that China and the United States are now embarking on a great power-style competition that will dominate the century. This contest will take place in every arena: from control of the seas, where...
58) Call of duty
Author
Series
Op-center volume 21
Language
English
Description
"When the launch of their powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dàyóu, is targeted as the scapegoat and arrested-unable to help his family as they are hunted down by the military. Op-Center's Lt. Grace Lee is sent to China on a solo reconnaissance mission, but when she sees an opportunity to free...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In the past 30 years, more than 600 milion Chinese people have been lifted out of poverty, and the country now possesses massive new wealth. But with a population of more than 1.3 billion people, and not enough resources to sustain them, China's leaders realize that their survival depends on help in meeting the growing needs of its people. After 300 years of relative isolation, China is now reaching out to the rest of the world looking for resources,...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Orem Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. NOTE: WILL REQUIRE A POSTAGE FEE
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can put in a request for us to add it to the collection. Submit Request