The Next 100 Years
A Forecast for the 21st Century
Written by George Friedman
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $11.99
“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman
In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future—offering a lucid, highly...
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Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Written by Christopher Hayes
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $12.99
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball...
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China in Ten Words
Written by Yu Hua
Translated by Allan H. Barr
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades.
Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation...
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The Triple Agent
The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
Written by Joby Warrick
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $15.95
In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Afghanistan to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian who had infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised...
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The Next Decade
Empire and Republic in a Changing World
Written by George Friedman
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $15.95
The bestselling author of The Next 100 Years sharpens his focus to the next ten years, specifically the political shifts that will take place, the decisions that will be made, the consequences of those decisions, and how the American president will acknowledge and manage the fact that the United States has...
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Stalin's Curse
Battling for Communism in War and Cold War
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $15.99
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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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...
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The Oath
The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $14.99
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the...
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