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Act of Congress
How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't
Written by Robert G. Kaiser
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $27.95
How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't
Written by Robert G. Kaiser
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $27.95
An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and doesn’t—that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008.
The founding fathers expected Congress to be the most important branch of government and gave it the most power. When Congress is broken—as...
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Act of Congress
How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't
Written by Robert G. Kaiser
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99
How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't
Written by Robert G. Kaiser
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99
An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and doesn’t—that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008.
The founding fathers expected Congress to be the most important branch of government and gave it the most power. When Congress is broken—as...
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hardcover.
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $16.00
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $16.00
NOW AN HBO DOCUMENTARY
In Manhunt, Peter Bergen delivers a taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where American forces came startlingly close to capturing him...
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Light without Fire
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The story of America’s first Muslim institution of higher education, Zaytuna College
In the fall of 2010, anti-Muslim furor in the United States reached a breaking point, capping a decade in which such sentiment had surged. Loud, angry crowds gathered near New York’s Ground Zero to protest plans to build...
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Light without Fire
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The Making of America's First Muslim College
Written by Scott Korb
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $25.95
The story of America’s first Muslim institution of higher education, Zaytuna College
In the fall of 2010, anti-Muslim furor in the United States reached a breaking point, capping a decade in which such sentiment had surged. Loud, angry crowds gathered near New York’s Ground Zero to protest plans to build...
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hardcover.
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Brokers of Deceit
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Written by Rashid Khalidi
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States... Read more >
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Written by Rashid Khalidi
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Brokers of Deceit
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Written by Rashid Khalidi
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States... Read more >
How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
Written by Rashid Khalidi
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $25.95
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States... Read more >
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hardcover.
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While America Sleeps
A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era
Written by Russ Feingold
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
CHAMPION OF PROGRESSIVES AND LIBERALS, FORMER SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD EXPLAINS FROM HIS UNIQUE VIEW WHERE AMERICA WENT WRONG AFTER 9/11 AND HOW WE CAN REVERSE OUR MISSTEPS.
Known for sticking to his convictions and revered across party lines, Russ Feingold draws extensively on his time as a member of the Senate Foregin... Read more >
A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era
Written by Russ Feingold
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
CHAMPION OF PROGRESSIVES AND LIBERALS, FORMER SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD EXPLAINS FROM HIS UNIQUE VIEW WHERE AMERICA WENT WRONG AFTER 9/11 AND HOW WE CAN REVERSE OUR MISSTEPS.
Known for sticking to his convictions and revered across party lines, Russ Feingold draws extensively on his time as a member of the Senate Foregin... Read more >
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Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $15.00
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at... Read more >
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $15.00
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at... Read more >
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State vs. Defense
The Battle to Define America's Empire
Written by Stephen Glain
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
The Battle to Define America's Empire
Written by Stephen Glain
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
A masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of conflict, helped fuel Islamist terror, and now threatens to bankrupt the nation.
For most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy, and the United States...
The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
Or, Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible
Written by John R. Macarthur
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $16.95
The publisher of Harper’s Magazine presents “an able, witty, and suitably pissed-off guide” (Bookforum) to American politics
Barack Obama swept into the White House in January 2009 still floating—or so it appeared to millions of his admirers—high above the crude realities of contemporary American political life. Old-fashioned landmarks—party loyalty, ideology... Read more >
Or, Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible
Written by John R. Macarthur
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $16.95
The publisher of Harper’s Magazine presents “an able, witty, and suitably pissed-off guide” (Bookforum) to American politics
Barack Obama swept into the White House in January 2009 still floating—or so it appeared to millions of his admirers—high above the crude realities of contemporary American political life. Old-fashioned landmarks—party loyalty, ideology... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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September Morning
Ten Years of Poems and Readings from the 9/11 Ceremonies New York City
Edited by Sara Lukinson
Foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg
Format: Hardcover, 156 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $24.95
September Morning: Ten Years of Poems and Readings from the 9/11 Ceremonies New York City is a powerful and tenderhearted collection of some of the most beautiful and moving poems, readings, and family memories written about love and loss, remembrance and compassion, all culled from the memorial ceremonies held each year... Read more >
Ten Years of Poems and Readings from the 9/11 Ceremonies New York City
Edited by Sara Lukinson
Foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg
Format: Hardcover, 156 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $24.95
September Morning: Ten Years of Poems and Readings from the 9/11 Ceremonies New York City is a powerful and tenderhearted collection of some of the most beautiful and moving poems, readings, and family memories written about love and loss, remembrance and compassion, all culled from the memorial ceremonies held each year... Read more >
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How Barack Obama Won
A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
Written by Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $9.99
This detailed overview and analysis of the results of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential win gives us the inside state-by-state guide to how Obama achieved his victory, and allows us to see where the country stood four years ago.
Although much has changed in the nearly four years since, How Barack Obama... Read more >
A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election
Written by Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $9.99
This detailed overview and analysis of the results of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential win gives us the inside state-by-state guide to how Obama achieved his victory, and allows us to see where the country stood four years ago.
Although much has changed in the nearly four years since, How Barack Obama... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America
Or, Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible
Written by John R. Macarthur
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $16.95
The publisher of Harper’s Magazine presents “an able, witty, and suitably pissed-off guide” (Bookforum) to American politics
Barack Obama swept into the White House in January 2009 still floating—or so it appeared to millions of his admirers—high above the crude realities of contemporary American political life. Old-fashioned landmarks—party loyalty, ideology... Read more >
Or, Why A Progressive Presidency Is Impossible
Written by John R. Macarthur
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $16.95
The publisher of Harper’s Magazine presents “an able, witty, and suitably pissed-off guide” (Bookforum) to American politics
Barack Obama swept into the White House in January 2009 still floating—or so it appeared to millions of his admirers—high above the crude realities of contemporary American political life. Old-fashioned landmarks—party loyalty, ideology... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Price of Civilization
Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
Written by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $18.00
Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
Written by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $18.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery.”—The American Prospect
In this forceful and impassioned book, Jeffrey D...
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unabridged audio CD and an
unabridged audiobook download.
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The Eleventh Day
The Full Story of 9/11
Written by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $18.00
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation’s history. But what exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? And what remains unresolved? Here is the first panoramic, authoritative account of that tragic day—from the first brutal... Read more >
The Full Story of 9/11
Written by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $18.00
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation’s history. But what exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? And what remains unresolved? Here is the first panoramic, authoritative account of that tragic day—from the first brutal... Read more >
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eBook.
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Real Common Sense
Using Our Founding Values to Reclaim Our Nation for the 99%
Written by Brian Kahn
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $14.95
Real Common Sense insists that America, plagued with consumerism and private interests, has strayed from its Founding principles and the vision for America of our forefathers. Brian Kahn exposes the deceptions of the extreme Right and reminds us of the real Tom Paine who would be baffled to have "inspired" this... Read more >
Using Our Founding Values to Reclaim Our Nation for the 99%
Written by Brian Kahn
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $14.95
Real Common Sense insists that America, plagued with consumerism and private interests, has strayed from its Founding principles and the vision for America of our forefathers. Brian Kahn exposes the deceptions of the extreme Right and reminds us of the real Tom Paine who would be baffled to have "inspired" this... Read more >
Real Common Sense
Using Our Founding Values to Reclaim Our Nation for the 99%
Written by Brian Kahn
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $14.95
America's extreme Right falsely claims the Founding Fathers as allies for their radical agenda. Pundit Glenn Beck has gone so far as to use the title of Tom Paine’s famous 1776 pamphlet Common Sense for his own book—a book that attacks the political, social and economic rights which Paine and the... Read more >
Using Our Founding Values to Reclaim Our Nation for the 99%
Written by Brian Kahn
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $14.95
America's extreme Right falsely claims the Founding Fathers as allies for their radical agenda. Pundit Glenn Beck has gone so far as to use the title of Tom Paine’s famous 1776 pamphlet Common Sense for his own book—a book that attacks the political, social and economic rights which Paine and the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $26.00
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America... Read more >
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $26.00
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America... Read more >
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Read by Mark Deakins
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $40.00
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Holy War, Inc., this is the definitive account of the decade-long manhunt that killed the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden.
Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multidimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over... Read more >
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Read by Mark Deakins
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $40.00
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Holy War, Inc., this is the definitive account of the decade-long manhunt that killed the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden.
Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multidimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over... Read more >
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Read by Mark Deakins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $20.00
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Holy War, Inc., this is the definitive account of the decade-long manhunt that killed the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden.
Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multidimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over... Read more >
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Read by Mark Deakins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $20.00
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Holy War, Inc., this is the definitive account of the decade-long manhunt that killed the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden.
Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multidimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over... Read more >
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Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $25.00
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its... Read more >
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $25.00
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its... Read more >
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $11.99
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Read by Rachel Maddow
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $35.00
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its... Read more >
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Read by Rachel Maddow
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $35.00
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
"One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its... Read more >
