Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: For Beginners On Sale: February 10, 2009 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-934389-36-2 (1-934389-36-6)
Democracy for Beginners looks at democracy's rich history in its varied forms, and at some of the challenges democracies face today.
Beginning with the rise of democracy in fifth-century Athens and ending with an exploration of what the future might hold—for example the notion of "e-democracy"—Democracy for Beginners is an important resource...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau On Sale: August 4, 2009 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-52018-8 (0-385-52018-2)
Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Award For Nonfiction, given by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2008 One of the Washington Post’s best books of 2008 A Seattle Times best nonfiction book of 2008 One of the Christian...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: September 9, 2003 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3404-8 (1-4000-3404-3)
Winner of the Samuel P. Huntington Prize for best book published in 2002 in the field of national security studies.
The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies contends that politicians should declare a military operation's objectives and then step aside and leave the business of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: February 26, 2013 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7855-1 (0-8129-7855-2)
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
Inthis timely and important book, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men across the Middle East are working within...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: April 27, 2010 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6695-7 (1-4000-6695-6)
Over the centuries and throughout the world, women have struggled for equality and basic rights. Their challenge in the Middle East has been intensified by the rise of a political Islam that too often condemns women’s empowerment as Western cultural imperialism or, worse, anti-Islamic. In Paradise Beneath Her Feet, Isobel Coleman...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: October 9, 2001 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-75835-5 (0-375-75835-6)
In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: October 18, 2005 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7170-5 (0-8129-7170-1)
From ancient times to the present day, here are indispensable insights on political power and leadership as expressed in the novels, plays, and poetry of the world’s greatest artists and intellectuals. Adapted from a course taught at Harvard by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles, Political Leadership features scenes, stories, and speeches...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: June 26, 2007 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-5421-3 (1-4000-5421-4)
"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.
Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive...
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Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Crown Forum On Sale: October 5, 2004 Price: $27.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-5418-3 (1-4000-5418-4)
In How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which is sure to ignite impassioned debate, Ann Coulter offers her most comprehensive analysis of the American political scene to date. With incisive reasoning, refreshing candor, and razor-sharp wit, she forcefully argues just why she believes liberals have got it so...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books On Sale: January 2, 2007 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-55643-642-0 (1-55643-642-4)
The HIV/AIDS hypothesis remains highly controversial, despite the best efforts of medical and insurance establishments, the government, and the media to promote its acceptance. Rebecca Culshaw spent years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interactions with the immune system. Rarely do researchers bite the hand that funds...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: August 14, 1997 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-4709-5 (0-8070-4709-0)
Named one of a hundred “visionaries who could change your life” by the Utne Reader, Herman Daly has probably been the most prominent advocate of the need for a change in economic thinking in response to environmental crisis. An iconoclast economist who has worked as a renegade insider at the World...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books On Sale: April 4, 2006 Price: $11.95 ISBN: 978-1-59017-207-0 (1-59017-207-8)
Winner, 2006 Carey McWilliams Award, given by the American Political Science Association
At the beginning of May 2005, just before the British elections, the London Times published the so-called Downing Street memo, the leaked secret minutes of a July 2002 meeting of senior British foreign policy and security officials. The memo suggested...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books On Sale: August 17, 1999 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-1-56098-773-4 (1-56098-773-1)
Presenting the full story of the CORONA spy satellites’ origins, Eye in the Sky explores the Cold War technology and far-reaching effects of the satellites on foreign policy and national security. Arguing that satellite reconnaissance was key to shaping the course of the Cold War, the book documents breakthroughs in intelligence...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books On Sale: May 22, 2007 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-59017-238-4 (1-59017-238-8)
Who rules Iran, and how secure is their grip on a young and restless society? How should the world respond to allegations that the Islamic Republic is building nuclear weapons and supporting terrorists?
Christopher de Bellaigue traces Iran’s political upheavals since the early 1990s, from the failures of the reformist efforts...
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Format: Paperback, 976 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics On Sale: April 4, 2000 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-553-21464-2 (0-553-21464-0)
From America’s call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America–first published in 1835–enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. For today’s readers, de Tocqueville’s concern about the effect of majority rule on the rights of individuals remains...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart On Sale: April 17, 2012 Price: $21.00 ISBN: 978-0-7710-2649-2 (0-7710-2649-8)
Global warming, energy shortages, overpopulation – it’s no wonder that as a society, we’re in an apocalyptic mood. Out of an endless stream of gloomy prognoses for humanity’s future, we have emerged with little inspiration and few concrete ideas for change. Our Way Out is the first time that our most...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau On Sale: September 21, 2010 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-52391-2 (0-385-52391-2)
Finalist, 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (winner to be announced March 10th, 2011)
Winner, 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
Nothing to Envyfollows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim...
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Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau On Sale: December 29, 2009 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-52390-5 (0-385-52390-4)
Finalist, 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (winner to be announced March 10th, 2011)
Winner, 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
Nothing to Envyfollows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 12, 2002 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-70126-9 (0-375-70126-5)
Award-winning reporter Sally Denton bestselling presidential biographer Roger Morris here give us an eye-opening portrait of Las Vegas–a city that has become emblematic of America’s future.
Exposing the city’s surprising links to Mormon bankers, the CIA, and several presidents, they reveal a dangerous relationship between politics, business, and crime. And through this...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: January 1, 1990 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-34806-4 (0-553-34806-X)
Based on 15 years of research by Dr. Dychtwald, a leading expert on aging, this is the first comprehensive analysis of the consequences of the aging baby-boomer population on society. Examining the choices and challenges for the future, Age Wave discusses topics such as the "cyclic life-style," "reinventing the family," "elderpower...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press On Sale: June 28, 2011 Price: $12.00 ISBN: 978-1-57826-308-0 (1-57826-308-5)
Organizations involved in the myriad causes related to Africa were asked a seemingly simple question: “Why save Africa?” The result is a collection of compelling perspectives from around the world.
Why Save Africa? is made up of short essays from large, internationally recognized non-profits; small grassroots charities; and everything in between...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: September 4, 2012 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-94645-4 (0-307-94645-2)
One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.
In a matter of just three years, a bitter...
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Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Doubleday On Sale: January 10, 2012 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-53519-9 (0-385-53519-8)
One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.
In a matter of just three years, a bitter...
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Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Crown Forum On Sale: March 26, 2013 Price: $27.50 ISBN: 978-0-7704-3578-3 (0-7704-3578-5)
As president of the Heritage Foundation since 1977, Ed Feulner has shaped it into the most influential conservative think tank in the nation. Under his stewardship, the Foundation has influenced politics and policy by offering conservative solutions to key issues including national security, health care, welfare reform, and immigration. Leading the...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: EVOLVER EDITIONS On Sale: July 12, 2011 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-58394-397-7 (1-58394-397-8)
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme–but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to...
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