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      <title>Guilty by Ann Coulter</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307353474&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307353474&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307353474&quot;&gt;Guilty&lt;/a&gt; Liberal &quot;Victims&quot; and Their Assault on America&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=41963&quot;&gt;Ann Coulter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 320 pages | Three Rivers Press | Current Affairs | &lt;b&gt;$16.00&lt;/b&gt; | November 10, 2009 | 978-0-307-35347-4 (0-307-35347-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who are the victims here?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To hear liberals tell it, you&amp;#8217;d think they do nothing but suffer at the hands of ruthless entities like the &amp;#8220;Republican Attack Machine&amp;#8221; and Fox News.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Really?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#8217;s just another instance of the Big Lie, of course. In &lt;i&gt;Guilty&lt;/i&gt;, Ann Coulter explodes this myth to reveal that when it comes to bullying, no one outdoes the Left. For instance:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8226;  The myth of the Republican Attack Machine: The most amazing thing liberals have done is create the myth of a compliant right-wing media with Republicans badgering baffled reporters into attacking Democrats. It&amp;#8217;s so mad, it&amp;#8217;s brilliant. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8226;  &amp;#8220;Brave&amp;#8221; liberals: In addition to being beautiful, compassionate tribunes of the downtrodden, liberals are brave. I know that because they&amp;#8217;re always telling me how brave they are. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8226;  Obambi&amp;#8217;s luck: While B. Hussein Obama piously condemned attacks on candidates&amp;#8217; families, his media and campaign surrogates ripped open the court-sealed divorce records of his two principal opponents in his Senate race in Illinois.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One recurring truth about liberals, says Coulter, is that &amp;#8220;they viciously attack all while wailing that they are the true victims.&amp;#8221; With &lt;i&gt;Guilty&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#8211;a shockingly specific catalog of offenses that liberals would rather we forget&amp;#8211;Ann Coulter presents exhibits A through Z.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill by Gloria Degaetano</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307429452&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307429452&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307429452&quot;&gt;Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill&lt;/a&gt; A Call to Action Against TV, Movie &amp; Video Game Violence&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=51592&quot;&gt;Lt. Col. Dave Grossman&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=46215&quot;&gt;Gloria Degaetano&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 208 pages | Crown | Family &amp; Relationships - Parenting; Current Affairs | &lt;b&gt;$22.95&lt;/b&gt; | November 4, 2009 | 978-0-307-42945-2 (0-307-42945-8)&lt;p&gt;There is perhaps no bigger or more important issue in America at present than youth violence. Jonesboro; Paducah; Pearl, Mississippi; Stamps, Arkansas; Conyers, Georgia; and, of course, Littleton, Colorado. We know them all too well, and for all the wrong reasons: kids, some as young as eleven years old, taking up arms and, with deadly, frightening accuracy, murdering anyone in their paths. What is going on? According to the authors of &lt;b&gt;Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill&lt;/b&gt;, there is blame to be laid right at the feet of the makers of violent video games (called &quot;murder trainers&quot; by one expert), the TV networks, and the Hollywood movie studios--the people responsible for the fact that children witness literally thousands of violent images a day.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Authors Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano offer incontrovertible evidence, much of it based on recent major scientific studies and empirical research, that movies, TV, and video games are not just conditioning children to be violent--and unaware of the consequences of that violence--but are teaching the very mechanics of killing. Their book is a much-needed call to action for every parent, teacher, and citizen to help our children and stop the wave of killing and violence gripping America's youth. And, most important, it is a blueprint for us all on how that can be achieved.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In Paducah, Kentucky, Michael Carneal, a fourteen-year-old boy who stole a gun from a neighbor's house, brought it to school and fired eight shots at a student prayer group as they were breaking up. Prior to this event, he had never shot a real gun before. Of the eight shots he fired, he had eight hits on eight different kids. Five were head shots, the other three upper torso. The result was three dead, one paralyzed for life. The FBI says that the average, experienced, qualified law enforcement officer, in the average shootout, at an average range of seven yards, hits with less than one bullet in five. How does a child acquire such killing ability? What would lead him to go out and commit such a horrific act?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Breakthrough by Gwen Ifill</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767928908&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780767928908&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767928908&quot;&gt;The Breakthrough&lt;/a&gt; Politics and Race in the Age of Obama&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=80107&quot;&gt;Gwen Ifill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 320 pages | Anchor | Current Affairs - Political; History - United States - 20th Century; History - United States - 21St Century | &lt;b&gt;$15.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 27, 2009 | 978-0-7679-2890-8 (0-7679-2890-3)&lt;p&gt;In &lt;i&gt;The Breakthrough&lt;/i&gt;, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama&amp;#8217;s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ifill argues that the Black political structure formed during the Civil Rights movement is giving way to a generation of men and women who are the direct beneficiaries of the struggles of the 1960s. She offers incisive, detailed profiles of such prominent leaders as Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and U.S. Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama (all interviewed for this book), and also covers numerous up-and-coming figures from across the nation. Drawing on exclusive interviews with power brokers such as President Obama, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, his son Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational conflict, the race/ gender clash, and the &quot;black enough&quot; conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Breakthrough &lt;/i&gt;is a remarkable look at contemporary politics and an essential foundation for understanding the future of American democracy in the age of Obama.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
      <dc:date>2009-10-27T00:30:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Failure Factory by Bill Gertz</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307338082&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307338082&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307338082&quot;&gt;The Failure Factory&lt;/a&gt; How Unelected Bureaucrats Are Undermining U.S. Security&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=58208&quot;&gt;Bill Gertz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 304 pages | Three Rivers Press | Current Affairs - International | &lt;b&gt;$16.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 27, 2009 | 978-0-307-33808-2 (0-307-33808-8)&lt;p&gt;The U.S. government is in crisis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The real power in America has shifted to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and national-security reporter Bill Gertz exposes this group of astonishingly powerful leaders&amp;#8211;and their enablers in the political class&amp;#8211;and its devastating effect on America&amp;#8217;s national security. Gertz names names of those who actively subvert official U.S. policy&amp;#8211;including not only liberal Democrats but also a number of so-called Republicans who have joined this insidious &amp;#8220;Blame America First&amp;#8221; crowd. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Based on scores of exclusive interviews and displaying the groundbreaking reporting that has made Bill Gertz&amp;#8217;s previous books smash bestsellers, &lt;i&gt;The Failure Factory&lt;/i&gt; offers a chilling look at the threats to our national security that exist within our own government.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8220;Mr. Gertz makes some extremely important points.&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8220;The hottest reporter in town . . . [Gertz] breaks dozens of stories every year.&amp;#8221;     &amp;#8211;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Peter Mansbridge One on One by Peter Mansbridge</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307357847&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307357847&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307357847&quot;&gt;Peter Mansbridge One on One&lt;/a&gt; Favourite Conversations and the Stories Behind Them&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=101567&quot;&gt;Peter Mansbridge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 352 pages | Random House Canada | Current Affairs | &lt;b&gt;$28.95&lt;/b&gt; | October 20, 2009 | 978-0-307-35784-7 (0-307-35784-8)&lt;p&gt;From one of Canada&amp;#8217;s most respected and recognizable journalists comes a collection of the best interviews with the leading thinkers and cultural icons of our time, from the country&amp;#8217;s most trusted interview show.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;An extraordinary selection from Newsworld&amp;#8217;s &lt;i&gt;Mansbridge One on One&lt;/i&gt;, including politicians, journalists, arts and sports figures and newsmakers behind the biggest issues of the past decade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Canadians have long relied on award-winning anchor and journalist Peter Mansbridge to inform and enlighten us, whether at the helm of &lt;i&gt;The National&lt;/i&gt; or on &lt;i&gt;Mansbridge One on One&lt;/i&gt;, his weekly interview show. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this, his first book, he collects the most illuminating and timely interviews from the past ten years, book-ending each with his behind-the-scenes recollections and anecdotes. Mansbridge acts as our guide as we get the inside story from prominent figures from all walks of life, including world leaders, music legends and sports heroes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Among the more than 40 interviewees included in the book are:&lt;br&gt;Bill Clinton&lt;br&gt;Sidney Crosby&lt;br&gt;Bill Gates&lt;br&gt;Diana Krall&lt;br&gt;Benjamin Netanyahu&lt;br&gt;Barack Obama&lt;br&gt;Shimon Peres&lt;br&gt;Desmond Tutu&lt;br&gt;Brian Wilson&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Peter Mansbridge One on One by Peter Mansbridge</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307372864&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307372864&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307372864&quot;&gt;Peter Mansbridge One on One&lt;/a&gt; Favourite Conversations and the Stories Behind Them&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=101567&quot;&gt;Peter Mansbridge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Canada | Current Affairs | &lt;b&gt;$&lt;/b&gt; | October 20, 2009 | 978-0-307-37286-4 (0-307-37286-3)&lt;p&gt;From one of Canada&amp;#8217;s most respected and recognizable journalists comes a collection of the best interviews with the leading thinkers and cultural icons of our time, from the country&amp;#8217;s most trusted interview show.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;An extraordinary selection from Newsworld&amp;#8217;s &lt;i&gt;Mansbridge One on One&lt;/i&gt;, including politicians, journalists, arts and sports figures and newsmakers behind the biggest issues of the past decade.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Canadians have long relied on award-winning anchor and journalist Peter Mansbridge to inform and enlighten us, whether at the helm of &lt;i&gt;The National&lt;/i&gt; or on &lt;i&gt;Mansbridge One on One&lt;/i&gt;, his weekly interview show. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this, his first book, he collects the most illuminating and timely interviews from the past ten years, book-ending each with his behind-the-scenes recollections and anecdotes. Mansbridge acts as our guide as we get the inside story from prominent figures from all walks of life, including world leaders, music legends and sports heroes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Among the more than 40 interviewees included in the book are:&lt;br&gt;Bill Clinton&lt;br&gt;Sidney Crosby&lt;br&gt;Bill Gates&lt;br&gt;Diana Krall&lt;br&gt;Benjamin Netanyahu&lt;br&gt;Barack Obama&lt;br&gt;Shimon Peres&lt;br&gt;Desmond Tutu&lt;br&gt;Brian Wilson&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Terminal Spy by Alan S. Cowell</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767928168&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780767928168&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767928168&quot;&gt;The Terminal Spy&lt;/a&gt; After sipping tea in a London hotel, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer and vocal foe of the Kremlin, fell ill and was rushed to the hospital, fatally&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=84966&quot;&gt;Alan S. Cowell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 448 pages | Broadway | Current Affairs - International; Current Affairs | &lt;b&gt;$16.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 20, 2009 | 978-0-7679-2816-8 (0-7679-2816-4)&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;A story that is at once real-life thriller and an immensely sinister cautionary tale about the new Russia.&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211;&lt;i&gt;Star Tribune&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London&amp;#8217;s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian &amp;#233;migr&amp;#233; and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin, fell ill and within days was rushed to the hospital. Fatally poisoned by a rare radioactive isotope slipped into his drink, Litvinenko issued a dramatic deathbed statement accusing Putin himself of engineering his murder.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Alan S. Cowell, then London Bureau Chief of the&lt;i&gt; New York Times&lt;/i&gt; who covered the story from its inception, has written the definitive story of this assassination&amp;#173; and of the profound international implications of this first act of nuclear terrorism.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#8220;Absorbing.&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211;&lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8220;Cowell plays out the Byzantine possibilities behind this killing with heroic clarity.&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211;&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8220;Doggedly reported and dramatically written . . . Cowell tells the story with literary panache but doesn&amp;#8217;t let his stylish prose eclipse the substance of a sordid tale. The sections about espionage and the assassination are worthy of Tom Clancy, but the author&amp;#8217;s political analysis is equally riveting . . . A well-told true-crime tale mixed with expert political/historical analysis.&amp;#8221; &lt;br&gt;&amp;#8211;&lt;i&gt;Kirkus Reviews&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>The 10 Big Lies About America by Michael Medved</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307394071&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307394071&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307394071&quot;&gt;The 10 Big Lies About America&lt;/a&gt; Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=20233&quot;&gt;Michael Medved&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 288 pages | Three Rivers Press | Current Affairs | &lt;b&gt;$15.00&lt;/b&gt; | October 13, 2009 | 978-0-307-39407-1 (0-307-39407-7)&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It ain&amp;#8217;t so much the things we don&amp;#8217;t know that get us into trouble,&amp;quot; nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. &amp;quot;It&amp;#8217;s the things we know that just ain&amp;#8217;t so.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this bold &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; bestseller, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country&amp;#8211;in spite of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Big Lies exposed and dissected include:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8226;  America was founded on genocide against Native Americans.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8226;  The United States is uniquely guilty for the crime of slavery and built its wealth on stolen African labor.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8226;  Aggressive governmental programs offer the only remedy for economic downturns and poverty.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8226;  The Founders intended a secular, not Christian, nation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Each of the ten lies is a grotesque, propagandistic misrepresentation of the historical record. Medved&amp;#8217;s witty, well-documented rebuttal supplies the ammunition necessary to fire back the next time somebody tries to recycle destructive distortions about our nation.&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Fourth Star by David Cloud</title>
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      <title>The Fourth Star by David Cloud</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385667265&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385667265&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385667265&quot;&gt;Canada and Other Matters of Opinion&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=35441&quot;&gt;Rex Murphy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Current Affairs | &lt;b&gt;$26.95&lt;/b&gt; | October 6, 2009 | 978-0-385-66726-5 (0-385-66726-4)&lt;p&gt;A cornucopia of comment from Canada&amp;#8217;s most opinionated man &amp;#8212; a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Canada&amp;#8217;s most distinctive commentator presents his fearless and thought-provoking views on a head-spinning range of subjects, from Dr. Johnson&amp;#8217;s greatness to Bono&amp;#8217;s gratingness, from doubts about Obama to utter belief in Don Cherry, from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn&amp;#8217;s outstanding oeuvre to &amp;#8212; well, Pamela Anderson.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The topics are as eclectic and wide ranging as the intelligence that put them together. The perspective is thoroughly Canadian, and so are many of the recurring topics and themes: of our domestic politics and our military involvements abroad, of our national identity, of human rights and human decency. You&amp;#8217;ll find assessments of the reputations of Paul Martin, Conrad Black, Adrienne Clarkson, and Tim Hortons; tough but affectionate views of Newfoundland &amp;#8212; of course &amp;#8212; but also from Rex Murphy&amp;#8217;s constant travels across Canada.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But all the world is here, in all its glory and folly. The hard-hitting attacks on politicians, celebrities, those who would ban smoking, and anyone who uses the expression &amp;#8220;global warming denial&amp;#8221; will have you cheering or tearing your hair out, depending. You will be informed, infuriated perhaps, but always fascinated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307701756&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307701756&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307701756&quot;&gt;Crude World&lt;/a&gt; The Violent Twilight of Oil&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=18389&quot;&gt;Peter Maass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Read by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=72284&quot;&gt;Dominic Hoffman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unabridged Audiobook Download&lt;/b&gt; | Random House Audio | Current Affairs | &lt;b&gt;$22.00&lt;/b&gt; | September 22, 2009 | 978-0-307-70175-6 (0-307-70175-1)&lt;p&gt;A stunning and revealing examination of oil's indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the &quot;resource curse&quot;&amp;mdash;the power of oil to exacerbate existing problems and create new ones. In &lt;i&gt;Crude World,&lt;/i&gt; Peter Maass presents a vivid portrait of the troubled world oil has created. He takes us to Saudi Arabia, where officials deflect inquiries about the amount of petroleum remaining in the country's largest reservoir; to Equatorial Guinea, where two tennis courts grace an oil-rich dictator's estate but bandages and aspirin are a hospital's only supplies; and to Venezuela, where Hugo Ch&amp;aacute;vez's campaign to redistribute oil wealth creates new economic and political crises.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Maass, a &lt;i&gt;New York Times Magazine&lt;/i&gt; writer, also introduces us to Iraqi oilmen trying to rebuild their industry after the invasion of 2003, an American lawyer leading Ecuadorians in an unprecedented lawsuit against Chevron, a Russian oil billionaire imprisoned for his defiance of Vladimir Putin's leadership, and Nigerian villagers whose livelihoods are destroyed by the discovery of oil. Rebels, royalty, middlemen, environmentalists, indigenous activists, CEOs&amp;mdash;their stories, deftly and sensitively presented, tell the larger story of oil in our time.&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Crude World&lt;/i&gt; is a startling and essential account of the consequences of our addiction to oil.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why We Hate Us by Dick Meyer</title>
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      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307406637&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307406637&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307406637&quot;&gt;Why We Hate Us&lt;/a&gt; American Discontent in the New Millennium&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=80017&quot;&gt;Dick Meyer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 288 pages | Three Rivers Press | Current Affairs | &lt;b&gt;$15.00&lt;/b&gt; | September 22, 2009 | 978-0-307-40663-7 (0-307-40663-6)&lt;p&gt;Americans are as safe, well fed, securely sheltered, long-lived, free, and healthy as any human beings who have ever lived on the planet. But we are down on America. So why do we hate us? According to Dick Meyer, the following items on this (much abbreviated) list are some of the contributors to our deep disenchantment with our own culture:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cell-phone talkers broadcasting the intimate details of their lives in public spaces&lt;br&gt;Worship of self-awareness, self-realization, and self-fulfillment&lt;br&gt;T-shirts that read, &amp;#8220;Eat Me&amp;#8221;&lt;br&gt;Facebook, MySpace, and kids being taught to market themselves&lt;br&gt;High-level cheating in business and sports&lt;br&gt;Reality television and the cosmetic surgery boom&lt;br&gt;Multinational corporations that claim, &amp;#8220;We care about you.&amp;#8221;&lt;br&gt;The decline of organic communities&lt;br&gt;A line of cosmetics called &amp;#8220;S.L.U.T.&amp;#8221;&lt;br&gt;The phony red state&amp;#8211;blue state divide&lt;br&gt;The penetration of OmniMarketing into OmniMedia and the insinuation of both into every facet of our lives&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You undoubtedly could add to the list with hardly a moment&amp;#8217;s thought. In &lt;i&gt;Why We Hate Us&lt;/i&gt;, Meyer absolutely nails America&amp;#8217;s early-twenty-first-century mood disorder. He points out the most widespread carriers of the why-we-hate-us germs, including the belligerence of partisan politics that perverts our democracy, the decline of once common manners, the vulgarity of Hollywood entertainment, the superficiality and untrustworthiness of the news media, the cult of celebrity, and the disappearance of authentic neighborhoods and voluntary organizations (the kind that have actual meetings where one can hobnob instead of just clicking in an online contribution).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Meyer argues&amp;#8212;with biting wit and observations that make you want to shout, &amp;#8220;Yes! I hate that too!&amp;#8221;&amp;#8212;that when the social, spiritual, and political turmoil that followed the sixties collided with the technological and media revolution at the turn of the century, something inside us hit overload. American culture no longer reflects our own values. As a result, we are now morally and existentially tired, disoriented, anchorless, and defensive. We hate us and we wonder why.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Why We Hate Us&lt;/i&gt; reveals why we do and also offers a thoughtful and uplifting prescription for breaking out of our current morass and learning how to hate us less. It is a penetrating but always accessible Culture of Narcissism for a new generation, and it carries forward ideas that resounded with readers in bestsellers such as On Bullshit and Bowling Alone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</description>
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