Cracking the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam, 2013 Edition
Written by Princeton Review
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $18.99
If you need to know it, it’s in this book! Cracking the AP U.S. Government and Politics Exam, 2013 Edition, includes:
• 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations for each multiple-choice question, plus full breakdowns of how to tackle the free-response questions
• In-depth reviews of all AP U.S. Government & Politics topics, including the institutions of government, elections...
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The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the former vice president and #1
New York Times bestselling author comes
An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history...
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Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Written by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $15.99
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply...
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The Next 100 Years
A Forecast for the 21st Century
Written by George Friedman
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Price: $15.95
A fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists.
In his thought-provoking new book, George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR—the preeminent private intelligence and forecasting firm—focuses on what he knows best, the future. Positing that civilization is at...
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The Art of Controversy
Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power
Written by Victor S Navasky
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $27.95
A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse.
As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformative—and incendiary—cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the...
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.99
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world. Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking
The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan...
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The Democracy Project
A History, a Crisis, a Movement
Written by David Graeber
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $26.00
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system...
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Stalin's Curse
Battling for Communism in War and Cold War
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $32.50
A chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin’s true motives—and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire—during the years in which he seemingly collaborated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the capitalist West.
At the Big Three conferences of World...
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