05800cam a2200817 4500 533974188 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780679604839 0679604839 B007MDJY5K Amazon 9e7276e6-0e8e-42e9-9a8c-0076ead620b1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 209683 209683 209683 843759 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kaplan, Robert D. The Revenge of Geography [Libby] : What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate. Random House Publishing Group, 2012. international relations. politics. Reference books. War. Historical. Political Geography. non fiction. culture. society. Nonfiction. Maps. Social Studies. current affairs. World History. International Politics. Geopolitics. Social History. geography. Reference. History. cultural history. world politics. non fiction books. nonfiction books. history books. History book. gifts for teacher. books about history. geography books. historical non fiction. books about history for adults. non fiction history books. political gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4427kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Politics. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of <i>Monsoon</i> and <i>Balkan Ghosts,</i> offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.</b><br /> Bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the recent and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. He then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian Subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia, a visionary glimpse into a future that can be understood only in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms.<br /> <b><br /> Praise for <i>The Revenge of Geography</i></b><br /> “[An] ambitious and challenging new book . . . [<i>The Revenge of Geography</i>] displays a formidable grasp of contemporary world politics and serves as a powerful reminder that it has been the planet’s geophysical configurations, as much as the flow of competing religions and ideologies, that have shaped human conflicts, past and present.”<b>—Malise Ruthven, <i>The New York Review of Books</i><br /> <i><br /></i></b>“Robert D. Kaplan, the world-traveling reporter and intellectual whose fourteen books constitute a bedrock of penetrating exposition and analysis on the post-Cold War world . . . strips away much of the cant that suffuses public discourse these days on global developments and gets to a fundamental reality: that geography remains today, as it has been throughout history, one of the most powerful drivers of world events.”<b>—<i>The National Interest</i><br /></b><br /> “Kaplan plunges into a planetary review that is often thrilling in its sheer scale . . . encyclopedic.”<b>—<i>The New Yorker</i></b><br /> “[<i>The Revenge of Geography</i>] serves the facts straight up. . . . Kaplan’s realism and willingness to face hard facts make <i>The Revenge of Geography</i> a valuable antidote to the feel-good manifestoes that often masquerade as strategic thought.”<b>—The Daily Beast</b>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/9E7/276/E6/RevengeofGeographyWhattheMapTellsUsAb9780679604839.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9E7276E6-0E8E-42E9-9A8C-0076EAD620B1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/9E7/276/E6/RevengeofGeographyWhattheMapTellsUsAb9780679604839.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9E7276E6-0E8E-42E9-9A8C-0076EAD620B1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/9E7/276/E6/RevengeofGeographyWhattheMapTellsUsAb9780679604839.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9E7276E6-0E8E-42E9-9A8C-0076EAD620B1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) T3L