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Icon of Evil
Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verve and extraordinary access to primary sources in several languages, Icon of Evil is the definitive account of...
Stuff White People Like
A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees.
They believe they’re...
Going Up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the...
To Move the World
JFK's Quest for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
An inspiring look at the historic foreign policy triumph of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—the crusade for world peace that consumed his final year in office—by the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Civilization, Common Wealth, and The End of Poverty
The last great campaign...
by Paul Lettow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) has puzzled scholars and commentators. Some have claimed that it was a purely political maneuver, while others have explained it as a ruse conjured up by presidential advisers to weaken Soviet resolve.
These assumptions, however, fail to...
The Day the Earth Caved In
An American Mining Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
The Day the Earth Caved In is an unprecedented and riveting account of the nation’s worst mine fire, beginning on Valentine’s Day, 1981, when twelve-year-old Todd Domboski plunged through the earth in his grandmother’s backyard in Centralia, Pennsylvania. In astonishing detail, award-winning...
Bill of Wrongs
The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Throughout her long career of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” the cause closest to Molly Ivins’s heart was working to protect the freedoms we all value. Sadly, today we’re living in a time when dissent is equated with giving aid to terrorists, when any of us can...
unSpun
Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The founders of FactCheck.org teach you how to identify and debunk spin, hype, and fake news in this essential guide to informed citizenship in an age of misinformation.
Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading...
Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful...
Monsoon
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal...
Reversal of Fortune
Inside the Von Bulow Case
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Defense attorney and Harvard law professor provides an insider's account of the trial, appeal, subsequent retrial, and acquittal in the murder case of Claus von Bulow, profiling the people involved.
NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
Comeback America
Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
He's one of America's most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded, innovative, inspiring guide to help us avoid the approaching economic abyss and put the country back on track again.
As comptroller...
The Glass Palace
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES
“A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland— a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our globalized culture, as it was when the sun...
Declaring Independence
The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
• A 2006 survey revealed that two thirds of Americans consider themselves “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S.”
• In recent polls, 60 to 80 percent of registered voters say they want an independent presidential candidate.
• Independent voters now constitute the largest...