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Terrorists in Love

The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals

by Ken Ballen
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011

Imagine a world where a boy’s dreams dictate the behavior of warriors in battle; where a young couple’s only release from forbidden love is death; where religious extremism, blind hatred, and endemic corruption combine to form a lethal ideology that can hijack a man’s life forever. This is the...
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Last Days in Babylon

The History of a Family, the Story of a Nation

by Marina Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006

Marina Benjamin grew up in London feeling estranged from her family's exotic Middle Eastern ways. She refused to speak the Arabic her mother and grandmother spoke at home. She rejected the peculiar food they ate in favor of hamburgers and beer. But when Benjamin had her own child a few years ago,...
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The Snake Eaters

Counterinsurgency Advisors in Combat

by Owen West
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

WHEN A DOZEN UNPREPARED AMERICAN ARMY RESERVISTS ARE DROPPED OFF on an isolated Iraqi outpost with orders to be its military advisors, they have no idea that what they will really be doing is fighting. With no training to fall back on, this group—including a guitarist, a DEA agent, a plumber, and...
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The Ballad of Little River

A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural Sou

by Paul Hemphill
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

Except for a massacre of five hundred settlers by renegade Creek Indians in the early 1800s, not much bad had happened during two centuries in Little River, Alabama, an obscure Lost Colony in the swampy woodlands of To Kill a Mockingbird country. "We're stuck down here being poor together" is how...
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The First Air War

1914-1918

by Lee Kennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999

"In this fascinating book, Lee Kennett tells of (World War I fliers and) their experiences on all fronts and skillfully places them in proper context" (Edward M. Coffman, author of The Old Army"). "A welcome and long overdue addition to the literature of military aviation."--Richard P. Hallion, Lindbergh Professor, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
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Holy War, Inc.

Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

by Peter L. Bergen
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2001

On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flame, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil....
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by Allan R. Millett
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 1992

Eight scholars - Alan R. Millett, Paul Kennedy, Earl F. Ziemke, Alvin D. Coox, Williamson Murray, Brian Sullivan, Steven Ross and Calvin L. Christman - examine the methods used by the major powers of World War II to evaluate their own and their enemies' military capacity.
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by Peter Maslowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998

A chronicle of the frontline photographers of World War II recounts the sometimes harrowing exploits of the American Military Photographers, men armed with cameras who accompanied the Army, Marines, Air Force, and Navy into battle.
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The Return

Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev

by Daniel Treisman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Russia has long been a source of puzzlement— and sometimes alarm—for Western observers. Since shaking off communism two decades ago, the country has seemed wobbly at best, thoroughly corrupt and threatening at worst. But in recent years, as noted scholar Daniel Treisman shows in this compelling...
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The Most Noble Adventure

The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe

by Greg Behrman
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007

In this landmark, character-driven history, Greg Behrman tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild World War II-ravaged Western Europe. With nuanced, vivid prose, Behrman recreates the story of a unique American enterprise that...
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Tatuajes en el corazon

El poder de la compasión sin límite

by Gregory Boyle
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 9, 2010

¿Cómo luchar contra la desesperanza e interactuar con el mundo con un corazón bondadoso? ¿Cómo superar la vergüenza y tener fe a pesar del fracaso? Sin importar en dónde vivamos o cuáles sean nuestras circunstancias, todos necesitamos un amor ilimitado y restaurador. Magnífico y reconfortante,...
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by Chris Hedges
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and...
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Beating Back the Devil

On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of

by Maryn McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008

The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease like Ebola. These doctors run toward it. Their job is to stop epidemics from happening. They are the disease detective corps of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal agency that tracks and tries...
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Fast Movers

Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience

by John Sherwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001

The war in the skies above Vietnam still stands as the longest our nation has ever fought. For fourteen years American pilots dropped bombs on the Southeast Asian countryside -- eventually more than eight million tons of them. In doing so, they lost over 8,588 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters....
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