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"...the Indo-Pacific region is a beautiful constellation of nations, each its own bright star, satellites to none-and each one, a people, a culture, a way of life, and a home."-President Donald J. Trump (2017)US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific and Foreign Threats to the 2020 Elections, a collection of documents released during the final days of the Trump administration, offers unique insight in the US-China challenge and the different views within the US intelligence community.- US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific (2018), declassified in January 2021, identifies America's top security challenge: "How to maintain US strategic primacy in the Indo-Pacific region and promote a liberal economic order while preventing China from establishing new, illiberal spheres of influence."- US Strategic Approach to the People's Republic of China (2020) describes the US-China challenges.- Politicization by the Intelligence Community in the 2020 US Elections (January 2021) by the Ombudsman with the Office of the DNI, accuses the CIA of applying a double standard when assessing Chinese vs. Russian election influence.- Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Elections (January 2021), a letter by John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, poses that China sought to interfere in the 2020 US elections.

"This is the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the great German inflation from 1914 to 1923." -Henry HazlittThe Economics of Inflation: A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany (1931), by Costantino Bresciani-Turroni is a widely-regarded study of the rise of hyperinflation in Germany between the two world wars. It is often considered unsurpassed or the clarity of its description of the effects of monetary expansion. Moreover, the data and statistical analysis it provides take the reader well beyond such fundamental knowledge to provide a critical understanding of the origins of the global disasters-the Great Depression, the rise of Fascism, and the Second World War-that ensued.Readers interested in history and finance will find this a fascinating study.

"The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election." -US Senate Intelligence Committee (August 18, 2020) Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence: US Senate on Russian Active Measures, Campaigns, and Interference in the 2016 US Election is a five-volume, 1,300 page investigation, that was undertaken by this US Senate Committee (separately from The Mueller Report, 2019, also available from Cosimo Reports).The five volumes are: - Volume I-Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure (July 25, 2019) - Volume II-Russia's Use of Social Media (October 8, 2019)- Volume III-US Government Response to Russian Activities (February 6, 2020)- Volume IV-Review of the Intelligence Community Assessment (April 21, 2020)- Volume V-Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities (August 18, 2020)Even though parts of specifically report Volume IV are redacted, this whole set offers valuable insights to students of political science, historians and anyone interested in foreign interference in US elections and the inner workings of US politics.

"The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election." -US Senate Intelligence Committee (August 18, 2020) Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence: US Senate on Russian Active Measures, Campaigns, and Interference in the 2016 US Election is a five-volume, 1,300 page investigation, that was undertaken by this US Senate Committee (separately from The Mueller Report, 2019, also available from Cosimo Reports).The five volumes are: - Volume I-Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure (July 25, 2019) - Volume II-Russia's Use of Social Media (October 8, 2019)- Volume III-US Government Response to Russian Activities (February 6, 2020)- Volume IV-Review of the Intelligence Community Assessment (April 21, 2020)- Volume V-Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities (August 18, 2020)Even though parts of specifically report Volume IV are redacted, this whole set offers valuable insights to students of political science, historians and anyone interested in foreign interference in US elections and the inner workings of US politics.

"The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election." -US Senate Intelligence Committee (August 18, 2020) Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence: US Senate on Russian Active Measures, Campaigns, and Interference in the 2016 US Election is a five-volume, 1,300 page investigation, that was undertaken by this US Senate Committee (separately from The Mueller Report, 2019, also available from Cosimo Reports).The five volumes are: - Volume I-Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure (July 25, 2019) - Volume II-Russia's Use of Social Media (October 8, 2019)- Volume III-US Government Response to Russian Activities (February 6, 2020)- Volume IV-Review of the Intelligence Community Assessment (April 21, 2020)- Volume V-Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities (August 18, 2020)Even though parts of specifically report Volume IV are redacted, this whole set offers valuable insights to students of political science, historians and anyone interested in foreign interference in US elections and the inner workings of US politics.

In December 2019, the US House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Democrat Jerry Nadler, issued their final report, Impeachment of Donald J. Trump, presenting two articles of impeachment: Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress. This report also contains the views of the dissenting minority.

Since there was little understanding of how to impeach President Nixon, as the last impeachment was in 1868, the US House Committee on the Judiciary assembled a staff of lawyers to research the history of impeachment and how this could be applied to Nixon. The result of this investigation was Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment.

Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping: CIA Profiles of Two Chinese Leaders is a combination of two profiles of Chinese leaders prepared by the CIA: Chou En-Lai: An Assessment (1972) declassified in 2008, and Teng Hsiao-p'ing: A Profile (1974), declassified in 2009. Due to the classified nature of these reports, several pages are still not released.

US Agencies' Efforts to Address Islamic Extremism offers a clear context about the dangers of Islamic extremism since the beginning of this century.

Leading Marines, first published in 1995 and updated in 2014, is the US Marines' main publication describing its leadership philosophy.

Translated by Dr. Philip Khûri Hitti in 1916, The Origins of the Islamic State, or the Kitâb Futû¿ al-Buldân in Arabic, was an unparalleled source of Islamic history and culture in the early 20th century, and is still renowned today as one of the greatest accounts of Arabic history. This book is coveted for its historical tracing of events to the source, despite the work being incomplete as much of the original manuscripts were lost after the sixteenth century. This made the work especially difficult to translate, but even so, it remains one of the most well-documented accounts of Muslim history. The work covers the conquest of nations such as Arabia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Africa, and Persia. The Futû¿ al-Buldân is widely-recognized as author al-Biladuri's chief surviving work, and was oft used by later historians to write their own Arabic histories.AHMAD BIN YAHYA BIN JABIR AL BILADURI (d. 892) was a Persian historian from the Ninth Century, considered today as a reliable source of early Arabic and Islamic history, particularly of the Muslim expansion. He lived at the court of the caliphs Al-Mutawakkil and Al-Musta'in in Baghdad, and served as tutor to al-Mutazz's son. He died in 892 from an overdose of the drug baladhur (from which Al Biladuri's name is derived).

Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria, originally published in November 1916, is a beautiful book that includes explanations of Babylonian and Assyrian legends and myths as well as the myths themselves. Lewis Spence, in the Preface, describes his purpose in writing the book as providing the reader with "the treasures of romance latent in the subject, the peculiar richness of which has been recognized since the early days of archaeological effort in Chaldea." Presented here with original illustrations and bookplates of paintings, drawings, and pictures concerning the myths, this book is a classic addition to any library. LEWIS SPENCE (1874-1955) was a Scottish journalist who recorded Scottish folklore, myths and legends from around the world, histories and legends about the lost world of Atlantis, and works on the occult. Spence graduated from Edinburgh University and was the editor of three magazines, The Scotsman, The Edinburgh Magazine, and The British Weekly. He also founded the Scottish National Movement, now known as the Scottish National Party.

In this single volume, readers will find two of John Dewey's insightful essays on education in America. He considered proper education to be fundamental to a functioning democracy. The problem, according to Dewey in The School and Society, with the old education model was that elementary schools did not encourage exploration and curiosity in their students.In The Child and the Curriculum, Dewey expands upon his definition of the ideal teaching method. A child's life, he says, is an integrated whole. A child will flow from one topic to another, taking a natural interest in subjects and dealing with a world of direct experience. School, on the other hand, addresses a world disconnected from a child's life. A more reasonable approach would be to strive to integrate their experience with the vast body of knowledge that society wishes them to know. By honoring the individual, both the student and the subject matter will come together in a process that produces a mature adult.American educator and philosopher JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952) helped found the American Association of University Professors. He served as professor of philosophy at Columbia University from 1904 to 1930 and authored numerous books, including How We Think (1910), Experience and Nature (1925), Experience and Education (1938), and Freedom and Culture (1939).

Stabilizing and securing Pakistan's border with Afghanistan is a key goal of the Global War on Terror, and vital if the threat from Al Qaeda to the United States and the world is to be mitigated. Despite the effort of more than six years and expenditures of billions of dollars-some of it in aid to Pakistan for its own efforts in this measure-the goal remains unmet.This frank report, from the United States Government Accountability Office, assesses the current lack of a comprehensive plan for achieving this important objective and lays out a plan for moving forward. From the military element of such an effort-including the training and equipping of frontier corps-to the law-enforcement challenges of implementing border security to how diplomacy and economic development can help.Anyone who wishes to more fully understand the prosecution of the Global War on Terror will find this essential and informative reading.

Speculation is no simple business..Indeed, speculation requires broader knowledge, closer attention, sounder judgment than the average business. Published in 1930, on the heels of America's greatest depression, Philip L. Carret's classic is a perceptive and complete examination of speculation and its vital role in our economy. Carret, a Wall Street legend and founder of one of the first mutual funds, was one of the greatest minds tackling the intricacies of business, finance, and speculation. With clarity and precision, he presents the history of the profession, the relationship between speculation and business, and the fundamentals-bonds, securities, derivatives, and stocks, as well as the more complex areas of analysis, margins, and arbitrage. Not one detail is overlooked. In the final chapter, Carret distills the essence of his wisdom into 10 Commandments for Speculators. There is brilliance in their simplicity-in fact, it is clear why Warren Buffett once called Carret one of the greatest investors of all time. Even now it is hard to imagine success without a commitment to these rules.