Joseph Anton
A Memoir
Written by Salman Rushdie
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $30.00
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPageOn February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death&rdquo...
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Profit Over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: December 8, 1998
Price: $15.95
Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a...
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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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America's Constitution
A Biography
Written by Akhil Reed Amar
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $20.00
In
America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world’s great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this “biography” of America’s framing document explains not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution...
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Why We Can't Wait
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $14.00
Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and others demonstrated to the world...
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Monsoon
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Written by Robert D. Kaplan
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $17.00
On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known...
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Embers of War
The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Written by Fredrik Logevall
Format: Hardcover, 864 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $40.00
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • A GLOBE AND MAIL “BEST READS” SELECTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades...
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Enemies
A History of the FBI
Written by Tim Weiner
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $15.99
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • New York Daily News • Slate“Fast-paced, fair-minded, and fascinating, Tim Weiner’s
Enemies turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important, as today’s headlines.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of
The Oath ...
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Theodore Rex
Written by Edmund Morris
Format: eBook, 792 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken...
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