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The Return of History and the End of Dreams
Written by Robert Kagan
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $19.95
Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. Nation-states remain as strong as ever, as do the old, explosive forces of ambitious nationalism. The world remains “unipolar,” but international...
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The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $27.95
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.
Just in time for the 2008 presidential election—where the future of the Court will be...
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The Looming Tower
Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $15.95
National Book Award FinalistA Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the YearA gripping narrative that spans five decades,
The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the...
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The Translator
A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Written by Daoud Hari
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $23.00
I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me.The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a...
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Terror and Consent
The Wars for the Twenty-first Century
Written by Philip Bobbitt
Format: Hardcover, 688 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $35.00
An urgent reconceptualization of the Wars on Terror from the author of The Shield of Achilles (“magisterial”— The New York Times, “a classic for future generations”—The New York Review of Books). In this book Philip Bobbitt brings together historical, legal, and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a “war on...
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the...
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The Bush Tragedy
Written by Jacob Weisberg
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $26.00
This is the book that cracks the code of the Bush presidency. Unstintingly yet compassionately, and with no political ax to grind, Slate editor in chief Jacob Weisberg methodically and objectively examines the family and circle of advisers who played crucial parts in George W. Bush’s historic downfall.
In this revealing and...
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Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?
Written by Morgan Spurlock
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $25.00
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even higher in
Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?Spurlock is a jittery father-to-be with a simple question: If...
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