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Iran
The Essential Guide to a Country on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
On June 24, 2005, after nearly ten years of supporting liberal reform, the people of Iran surprised the world by electing the conservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as their new president. Soon after, the new president announced Iran would restart its uranium enrichment program, drawing...
Binge
What Your College Student Won't Tell You
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
In Binge, Barrett Seaman reveals what every parent, student, and educator needs to know about the college experience. Seaman spent time with students at twelve highly regarded and diverse colleges and universities across North America. During his two years of research, he immersed himself in the...
The Slot Swing
The Proven Way to Hit Consistent and Powerful Shots Like the Pros
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Top golfing instructor Jim McLean shares the secret to a better swing and a better game
It's what every great golfer knows and every struggling player wants to know: how to find "the slot," the perfect channel through which the shaft and club head can meet the ball on the downswing...
The Case Against Israel's Enemies
Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Israel takes on the greatest threats faced by Israel today
In addition to Hamas, which provoked the recent war and Gaza with its rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, Alan Dershowtiz argues that Israel's most dangerous enemies include Jimmy...
Swim against the Current
Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
America’s most irascible and hilarious curmudgeon turns a kind and benevolent eye toward brave, hardy, and hardworking souls around the country who have found ways to break free from corporate tentacles; redefine success in business, politics, and life in general; and blaze new pathways toward a...
Kofi Annan
A Man of Peace in a World of War
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
In this thoughtful, balanced biography, former Los Angeles Times foreign and diplomatic correspondent Stanley Meisler traces Kofi Annan’s unconventional rise from optimistic student to striving personnel and budget specialist in the United Nations bureaucracy to full-time manager of the world’s...
The Prosperity Agenda
What the World Wants from America--and What We Need in Return
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Following the devastating 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, the Bush administration pledged more than $500 million for earthquake relief and sent American helicopters and soldiers to help. Immediately afterward, polls showed that the number of Pakistanis with a favorable opinion of the United States had...
by Eleanor Clift
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
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Victory in Tripoli
How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected U.S. president was forced to confront an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim terrorists sworn to carry out jihad against all Western powers. As timely and familiar as these events may seem, they occurred more than two centuries...
It's Getting Ugly Out There
The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Very little of my backstory qualifies as Hallmark Card material, but it may help you to make sense of the way I see and interpret what's going on around me. -Jack Cafferty For the millions who watch the "Cafferty File" on CNN's The Situation Room, Jack Cafferty stands for common sense-the...
Great Feuds in Mathematics
Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Praise for Hal Hellman
Great Feuds in Mathematics
"Those who think that mathematicians are cold, mechanical proving machines will do well to read Hellman's book on conflicts in mathematics. The main characters are as excitable and touchy as the next man. But Hellman's stories also...
War Front to Store Front
Americans Rebuilding Trust and Hope in Nations Under Fire
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
As the top-ranking official at the U.S. Department of Defense in charge of economic rebuilding, Brinkley and his organization of hundreds of business volunteers struggled against bureaucratic policies to revolutionize foreign aid by leveraging America's strength—its private sector. In doing so,...
The Court of the Last Tsar
Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Praise for The Court of the Last Tsar
"Any book by Greg King is a book to be kept and savored. He has not only given us a fresh, clear-eyed, and often startling new look at the life of the last Romanovs, but also lived up to the promise of his title. He has shown us how the whole enterprise...
How I Got My Wiggle Back
A Memoir of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The dramatic personal story of Anthony Field, founder and costar of the world's most popular children's musical group, The Wiggles
With their distinctive look, catchy music, and upbeat message, the Wiggles have performed their way into the hearts and homes of millions of kids and their parents...