Democracy.Com: Governance in a Networked World

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Certification

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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the newly independent republics faced many common challenges, including state building and integration into the world community, as well as different regional hurdles. Kazakstan, the site of the Soviet Union's atomic weapons testing for almost half a century, inherited a vast nuclear stockpile that made it the fourth largest nuclear state in the world. 
Having embarked on a course of democracy, Kazakstan acted in response to the public outcry against nuclear testing. In the closed Soviet system, the people of Kazakstan had suffered from the effects of fallout for forty years and were denied information about the testing and its impact on their health. Nursultan Nazarbayev's first act as president of an independent nation showed the world the seriousness and sincerity of its intentions. He shut down the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, where the first Soviet bomb was detonated in 1949. This was followed by a more radical decision: to give up its nuclear arsenal and to declare Kazakstan a nuclear-free nation. Acting with the support and aid of the people of the United States, it destroyed more than a thousand warheads and ICBMs. 
Kazakstan's courageous act has set an example for the future denuclearization and demilitarization of the world. The great hope for peace in the twenty-first century in our multipolar world is through nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. 
This year, Kazakstan is celebrating two major 10-year anniversaries: 10 years of independence and 10 years of a commitment to denuclearization. The years of independence have seen great progress in many areas, despite the difficult regional and economic environment that has tested Kazakstan's chosen path to democracy and capitalism. 
This book describes how the people of Kazakstan reached the decision to rid themselves of nuclear weapons and argues that peace will come to our multipolar world only through nonproliferation and denuclearization. President Nazarbayev sets the record straight on Kazakstan's dauntless decision to lead the way to a secure future for all our children and grandchildren.

Epicenter of Peace

Politics & Social Sciences

Nazarbayev, Nursultan

Politics & Government

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Basic Lymphoedema Management

Dreyer, Gerusa

Addiss, David

Dreyer, Patricia

Noroes, Joaquim

Health, Fitness & Dieting

It is strange that a book could carry endorsement from both Robert McNamara and Daniel Ellsberg, perhaps even more so when a prime minister is added to the mix. What could bring such a combination together is a man with a ready smile and a twinkle in his eye who had lived a life unknown to the general public until his profound yet quiet influence was recognized as he was awarded a Nobel Prize for Economics in 2005. Thomas C. Schelling had liked solving puzzles from his early days and that joy of solving puzzles would lead him to study economics, as the Great Depression had offered the most difficult of all puzzles, then to nuclear strategy when the puzzle became survival in the Cold War. This is his story.

The Strategist: The Life and Times of Thomas Schelling

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert Dodge

Historical

Dr. David Dawson s book Brigham Neurology: The Early Days focuses on the crucial years of Brigham and Women s inception and the following four-and-a-half decades. Its main players are the brilliant and often groundbreaking neurologists and surgeons at the forefront of an exciting new field. Besides a history of the hospital, the reader is introduced to the living and breathing components of the Brigham: the egos and personalities that would go on to shape not only their own local destinies, but the entire burgeoning field of neurological science.

Brigham Neurology: The Early Days: Growth of Neurology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital From 1910 to 1956

Dawson, David M.

History

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