Fire in America or Afghanistan

Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire

Author: Stephen J Pyn

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

Go to: Lei e Negócio das Indústrias de Entretenimento:Quinta Edição

Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace

Author: Chris Johnson

With the re-building of the failed Afghan state now at the center of the new international intervention, this book explores how the perceptions of outsiders have been at odds with Afghans' own understandings of their country. It shows how the lack of understanding that characterized past policies remains highly problematical. By continuing to indulge in a superficial, selective portrayal of the country, the international community risks manufacturing a state that does not exist, and policies that will not work.

The Washington Post - Peter Bergen

For an authoritative account of modern Afghan history, we must turn instead to Gilles Dorronsoro's Revolution Unending. Deftly translated from the French by John King, it explains that conflict between the various ethnic groups in Afghanistan was never inevitable.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
1	The mirage of peace	1
2	Identity and society	23
3	Ideology and difference	63
4	One size fits all - Afghanistan in the new world order	84
5	The makings of a narco state?	110
6	State	135
7	Bonn and beyond, part I : the political transition	155
8	Bonn and beyond, part II : the governance transition	180
9	Concluding thoughts	209