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A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002-07
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $22.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $22.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
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A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002-07
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
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The New York Review Abroad
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
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The New York Review Abroad
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
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Story of My People
Written by Edoardo Nesi
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $19.95
Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.
Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was... Read more >
Written by Edoardo Nesi
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $19.95
Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.
Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was... Read more >
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Story of My People
Written by Edoardo Nesi
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99
Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.
Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was... Read more >
Written by Edoardo Nesi
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $11.99
Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.
Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was... Read more >
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hardcover.
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The Merchant Navy
Written by Richard Woodman
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.95
This title tells the epic story of Britain's merchant shipping, carrying exotic goods from all quarters of the world. At one time, British ships carried half of the world's trade. It reveals how two world wars nearly destroyed our merchant shipping, but convoys battled on to save Britain from starving to... Read more >
Written by Richard Woodman
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.95
This title tells the epic story of Britain's merchant shipping, carrying exotic goods from all quarters of the world. At one time, British ships carried half of the world's trade. It reveals how two world wars nearly destroyed our merchant shipping, but convoys battled on to save Britain from starving to... Read more >
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eBook.
The Merchant Navy
Written by Richard Woodman
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $7.95
This title tells the epic story of Britain's merchant shipping, carrying exotic goods from all quarters of the world. At one time, British ships carried half of the world's trade. It reveals how two world wars nearly destroyed our merchant shipping, but convoys battled on to save Britain from starving to... Read more >
Written by Richard Woodman
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $7.95
This title tells the epic story of Britain's merchant shipping, carrying exotic goods from all quarters of the world. At one time, British ships carried half of the world's trade. It reveals how two world wars nearly destroyed our merchant shipping, but convoys battled on to save Britain from starving to... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Narcoleaks
Written by Wilbert Torre
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
A partir de una exhaustiva clasificación de los cables mexicanos de Wikileaks, el análisis de archivos nacionales y documentos clasificados del departamento de Estado norteamericano, esta investigación aborda con gran rigor y detalle uno de los temas más controvertidos de los tiempos recientes: el papel de Estados Unidos en la guerra... Read more >
Written by Wilbert Torre
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
A partir de una exhaustiva clasificación de los cables mexicanos de Wikileaks, el análisis de archivos nacionales y documentos clasificados del departamento de Estado norteamericano, esta investigación aborda con gran rigor y detalle uno de los temas más controvertidos de los tiempos recientes: el papel de Estados Unidos en la guerra... Read more >
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La Guerra De Los Zetas
Written by Diego Osorno
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
Sin duda, Los Zetas es uno de los grupos más poderosos y sanguinarios del narcotráfico en México. Este libro documenta puntualmente su historia y las complejas redes que lo conforman. Al investigar las particularidades de lo que se podría denominar el «enigma Z», Diego Osorno advierte los riesgos que corre el... Read more >
Written by Diego Osorno
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
Sin duda, Los Zetas es uno de los grupos más poderosos y sanguinarios del narcotráfico en México. Este libro documenta puntualmente su historia y las complejas redes que lo conforman. Al investigar las particularidades de lo que se podría denominar el «enigma Z», Diego Osorno advierte los riesgos que corre el... Read more >
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World Report 2013
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
World Report 2013
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Network
Portrait Conversations
Written by Lincoln Schatz
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $39.95
As the nation grapples with some of the greatest developments and challenges to date, The Network presents a dynamic portrait of the people who help shape America's current technology, policy, and education. Drawing inspiration from Richard Avedon's 1976 photographic portfolio, The Family, The Network consists of generative video portraits of 100... Read more >
Portrait Conversations
Written by Lincoln Schatz
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $39.95
As the nation grapples with some of the greatest developments and challenges to date, The Network presents a dynamic portrait of the people who help shape America's current technology, policy, and education. Drawing inspiration from Richard Avedon's 1976 photographic portfolio, The Family, The Network consists of generative video portraits of 100... Read more >
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hardcover.
Special Forces Sniper Skills
Written by Robert Stirling
Format: eBook, 248 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $9.99
This hard hitting account details the men, weapons and techniques used to coldly eliminate high value targets on the battlefield, in hostage situations, in political assassinations and elsewhere.
Though many books have become best sellers through telling one side of the story - a sniper's experiences, a training manual or a weapons... Read more >
Written by Robert Stirling
Format: eBook, 248 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $9.99
This hard hitting account details the men, weapons and techniques used to coldly eliminate high value targets on the battlefield, in hostage situations, in political assassinations and elsewhere.
Though many books have become best sellers through telling one side of the story - a sniper's experiences, a training manual or a weapons... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Special Forces Sniper Skills
Written by Robert Stirling
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $24.95
This hard hitting account details the men, weapons and techniques used to coldly eliminate high value targets on the battlefield, in hostage situations, in political assassinations and elsewhere.
Though many books have become best sellers through telling one side of the story - a sniper's experiences, a training manual or a weapons... Read more >
Written by Robert Stirling
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $24.95
This hard hitting account details the men, weapons and techniques used to coldly eliminate high value targets on the battlefield, in hostage situations, in political assassinations and elsewhere.
Though many books have become best sellers through telling one side of the story - a sniper's experiences, a training manual or a weapons... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Network
Portrait Conversations
Written by Lincoln Schatz
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $39.95
As the nation grapples with some of the greatest developments and challenges to date, The Network presents a dynamic portrait of the people who help shape America's current technology, policy, and education. Drawing inspiration from Richard Avedon's 1976 photographic portfolio, The Family, The Network consists of generative video portraits of 100... Read more >
Portrait Conversations
Written by Lincoln Schatz
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $39.95
As the nation grapples with some of the greatest developments and challenges to date, The Network presents a dynamic portrait of the people who help shape America's current technology, policy, and education. Drawing inspiration from Richard Avedon's 1976 photographic portfolio, The Family, The Network consists of generative video portraits of 100... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq
Written by Louis Dimarco
Format: eBook, 232 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $9.95
Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare, from sieges to street-fighting, from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed, although strategists have advised against it across the... Read more >
Written by Louis Dimarco
Format: eBook, 232 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $9.95
Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare, from sieges to street-fighting, from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed, although strategists have advised against it across the... Read more >
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hardcover.
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India
A Portrait
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.95
A Portrait
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.95
A monumental biography of the Indian subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.
Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing...
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eBook.
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The Night Wanderers
Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army
Written by Wojciech Jagielski
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $18.95
Fleeing the aggressive reach of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and their brutal leader Joseph Kony, on an average night in northern Uganda tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture. They find refuge on the floors of aid agencies or in the streets. In recent years... Read more >
Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army
Written by Wojciech Jagielski
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $18.95
Fleeing the aggressive reach of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and their brutal leader Joseph Kony, on an average night in northern Uganda tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture. They find refuge on the floors of aid agencies or in the streets. In recent years... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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10 Years That Shook the World
A Timeline of Events from 2001
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $12.95
From 9/11 to the launch of the iPod, from the creation of "Gmail: to the 2004 tsunami, from the Enron Bankruptcy to the killing of Osama bin Laden, 10 Years That Shook the World is the story of an extraordinary decade. For each year, Loretta Napoleoni presents events not as a... Read more >
A Timeline of Events from 2001
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $12.95
From 9/11 to the launch of the iPod, from the creation of "Gmail: to the 2004 tsunami, from the Enron Bankruptcy to the killing of Osama bin Laden, 10 Years That Shook the World is the story of an extraordinary decade. For each year, Loretta Napoleoni presents events not as a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Night Wanderers
Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army
Written by Wojciech Jagielski
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $18.95
Fleeing the aggressive reach of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and their brutal leader Joseph Kony, on an average night in northern Uganda tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture. They find refuge on the floors of aid agencies or in the streets. In recent years... Read more >
Uganda's Children and the Lord's Resistance Army
Written by Wojciech Jagielski
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $18.95
Fleeing the aggressive reach of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and their brutal leader Joseph Kony, on an average night in northern Uganda tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture. They find refuge on the floors of aid agencies or in the streets. In recent years... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
US Army Soldier
Baghdad 2003-04
Written by Kenneth Estes
Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
Format: eBook, 113 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $13.99
Osprey's survey of US Army soldiers' participation in the war in Iraq. In April 2003, after a month of heavy bombardment, Baghdad fell under coalition forces' control. The forces established the Coalition Provisional Authority and in the heart of the city, an 8km square mile "Green Zone" was formed to maintain... Read more >
Baghdad 2003-04
Written by Kenneth Estes
Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
Format: eBook, 113 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $13.99
Osprey's survey of US Army soldiers' participation in the war in Iraq. In April 2003, after a month of heavy bombardment, Baghdad fell under coalition forces' control. The forces established the Coalition Provisional Authority and in the heart of the city, an 8km square mile "Green Zone" was formed to maintain... Read more >
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Tomorrow's War (Science Fiction Wargaming Rules)
Written by Shawn Carpenter and Robby Carpenter
Illustrated by Fabien Esnard-Lascombe, Jesse McGibney and Peter Johnston
Format: Hardcover, 260 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $34.95
A miniatures wargame of gritty futuristic combat, Tomorrow's War projects the tactics and technology of today's military conflicts two hundred years into the future. While robot drones, anti-gravity vehicles, and advanced battle-suit technology have changed the face of warfare, the essentials of combined-arms tactics have remained constant. Using the popular Force... Read more >
Written by Shawn Carpenter and Robby Carpenter
Illustrated by Fabien Esnard-Lascombe, Jesse McGibney and Peter Johnston
Format: Hardcover, 260 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $34.95
A miniatures wargame of gritty futuristic combat, Tomorrow's War projects the tactics and technology of today's military conflicts two hundred years into the future. While robot drones, anti-gravity vehicles, and advanced battle-suit technology have changed the face of warfare, the essentials of combined-arms tactics have remained constant. Using the popular Force... Read more >
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In Ishmael's House
A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
Written by Martin Gilbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $
From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan.
In this captivating chronicle, Martin Gilbert shines new light on a controversial dilemma in the modern world: the troubled relationship between Jews and Muslims. Beginning at the dawn of... Read more >
A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
Written by Martin Gilbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $
From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan.
In this captivating chronicle, Martin Gilbert shines new light on a controversial dilemma in the modern world: the troubled relationship between Jews and Muslims. Beginning at the dawn of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
10 Years That Shook the World
A Timeline of Events from 2001
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $12.95
September 11, 2001, is considered the main event, but the changes of the decade go far beyond the menace of terrorism and the war on terror. The technological revolution, the wide use of the Internet, and the advent of social media are just some of the innovations that grew to define... Read more >
A Timeline of Events from 2001
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $12.95
September 11, 2001, is considered the main event, but the changes of the decade go far beyond the menace of terrorism and the war on terror. The technological revolution, the wide use of the Internet, and the advent of social media are just some of the innovations that grew to define... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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