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Pages: 347
Authors: Alison Des Forges
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-17 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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A Rwandan proverb says “Defeat is the only bad news.” For Rwandans living under colonial rule, winning called not only for armed confrontation, but also for
Remaking Rwanda
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: Scott Straus
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-18 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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In the mid-1990s, civil war and genocide ravaged Rwanda. Since then, the country’s new leadership has undertaken a highly ambitious effort to refashion Rwanda
The Cohesion of Oppression
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Catharine Newbury
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Focusing on Kenya and Tanzania, this important study suggests that the solution to third world hunger lies in the interaction of political development and the m
Embracing Defeat
Language: en
Pages: 692
Authors: John W Dower
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-07-04 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well
Failure Is Not an Option
Language: en
Pages: 427
Authors: Gene Kranz
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-23 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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The author, flight director in NASA's Mission Control, tells of the challenges in space flight from the very early years to the current time and of "his own bol