Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Written by Benedict Anderson
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2006
Price: $21.95
Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson’s brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised edition, Anderson updates...
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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...
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For Common Things
Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
Written by Jedediah Purdy
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $13.00
Jedediah Purdy calls
For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which have already garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media--constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value of political, social, and community reengagement. Drawing on a wide range of literary...
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Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Foreword by Richard Holbrooke
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $20.00
National Bestseller
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award
of the Council on Foreign Relations
Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book AwardFor six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end...
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Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Foreword by Richard Holbrooke
Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.99
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize
Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was...
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The Joy of Hate
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.00
From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.
Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most...
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Written by Edmund Morris
Format: eBook, 960 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
Thirty years ago,
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR’s years in the White House (1901–1909),
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins with a brilliant Prologue describing the President at the apex of his international prestige...
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Aftershock
The Next Economy and America's Future
Written by Robert B. Reich
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $14.95
Updated for paperback publication, Aftershock is a brilliant reading of the causes of our current economic crisis, with a plan for dealing with its challenging aftermath.
When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced...
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The Looming Tower
Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.95
UPDATED AND WITH A NEW AFTERWORD
National Book Award Finalist
A Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year
A 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...
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