Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Written by Orville Schell and John Delury
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $14.99
Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic...
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Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
Written by Tim Weiner
Format: eBook, 848 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $13.99
With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
From the...
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Profit Over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 6, 2011
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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Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Written by Anthony Everitt
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2003
Price: $17.00
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”
—John Adams
He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark Antony and was master of the smear campaign...
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Hubris
The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Written by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $14.95
THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE INVASION OF IRAQ
Now an MSNBC Documentary, hosted by Rachel Maddow
Filled with news-making revelations that made it a
New York Times bestseller,
Hubris takes us behind the scenes at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department, and Congress to show how George W. Bush came to invade...
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The Great Transformation
The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Written by Karl Polanyi
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2001
Price: $25.00
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory...
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