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The New Digital Age
Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
Written by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $26.95
Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
Written by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $26.95
In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.
Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great...
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The New Digital Age
Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
Written by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $13.99
Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
Written by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $13.99
In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.
Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great...
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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
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 Art of Controversy
Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power
Written by Victor S Navasky
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $14.99
Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power
Written by Victor S Navasky
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $14.99
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 Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.99
Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and... Read more >
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.99
Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and... Read more >
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The Essential Writings of Rousseau
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $18.00
Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and... Read more >
Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $18.00
Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and... Read more >
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New Radicalsm in America
Written by Christopher Lasch
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $11.99
Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and sexual mores. Through vivid biographies, Christopher Lasch chronicles these social reformers from Jane Addams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Lincoln Steffens to... Read more >
Written by Christopher Lasch
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 20, 2013
Price: $11.99
Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and sexual mores. Through vivid biographies, Christopher Lasch chronicles these social reformers from Jane Addams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Lincoln Steffens to... Read more >
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The World America Made
Written by Robert Kagan
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $14.95
Written by Robert Kagan
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $14.95
Robert Kagan, the New York Times bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, reaffirms the importance of United States’s global leadership in this timely and important book.
Upon its initial publication, The World America Made became one of the most talked about political...
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State vs. Defense
The Battle to Define America's Empire
Written by Stephen Glain
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
The Battle to Define America's Empire
Written by Stephen Glain
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
A masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of conflict, helped fuel Islamist terror, and now threatens to bankrupt the nation.
For most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy, and the United States...
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The World America Made
Written by Robert Kagan
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic... Read more >
Written by Robert Kagan
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic... Read more >
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The World America Made
Written by Robert Kagan
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $21.00
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic... Read more >
Written by Robert Kagan
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $21.00
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic... Read more >
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The World America Made
Written by Robert Kagan
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $9.99
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic... Read more >
Written by Robert Kagan
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $9.99
What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic... Read more >
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Decided on the Battlefield
Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864
Written by David Alan Johnson
Format: Hardcover, 319 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $27.00
This lively narrative, full of intriguing historical facts, brings to life an important series of episodes in our nation’s history. History and Civil War buffs will not want to put down this real-life page-turner.
"I’m going to be beaten . . . and unless some great change takes place, badly beaten."
President... Read more >
Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864
Written by David Alan Johnson
Format: Hardcover, 319 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $27.00
This lively narrative, full of intriguing historical facts, brings to life an important series of episodes in our nation’s history. History and Civil War buffs will not want to put down this real-life page-turner.
"I’m going to be beaten . . . and unless some great change takes place, badly beaten."
President... Read more >
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Decided on the Battlefield
Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864
Written by David Alan Johnson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $12.99
This lively narrative, full of intriguing historical facts, brings to life an important series of episodes in our nation’s history. History and Civil War buffs will not want to put down this real-life page-turner.
"I’m going to be beaten . . . and unless some great change takes place, badly beaten."
President... Read more >
Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864
Written by David Alan Johnson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $12.99
This lively narrative, full of intriguing historical facts, brings to life an important series of episodes in our nation’s history. History and Civil War buffs will not want to put down this real-life page-turner.
"I’m going to be beaten . . . and unless some great change takes place, badly beaten."
President... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Gardens of Democracy
A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
Written by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $12.95
American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society... Read more >
A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
Written by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $12.95
American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society... Read more >
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The Gardens of Democracy
A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
Written by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $12.95
American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society... Read more >
A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
Written by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $12.95
American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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State vs. Defense
The Battle to Define America's Empire
Written by Stephen Glain
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $26.00
A masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, and threatens to bankrupt the country.
For most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy. In eye-opening fashion, State... Read more >
The Battle to Define America's Empire
Written by Stephen Glain
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $26.00
A masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, and threatens to bankrupt the country.
For most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy. In eye-opening fashion, State... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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State vs. Defense
The Battle to Define America's Empire
Written by Stephen Glain
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
A masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, and threatens to bankrupt the country.
For most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy. In eye-opening fashion, State... Read more >
The Battle to Define America's Empire
Written by Stephen Glain
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
A masterful account of how sixty years of American militarism created the Cold War, fanned decades of unnecessary conflict, helped to fuel Islamist terror, and threatens to bankrupt the country.
For most of the twentieth century, the sword has led before the olive branch in American foreign policy. In eye-opening fashion, State... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Shield of Achilles
War, Peace, and the Course of History
Written by Philip Bobbitt
Format: eBook, 960 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2011
Price: $15.99
"We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state . . . This is no longer true, owing to advances in international telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons of... Read more >
War, Peace, and the Course of History
Written by Philip Bobbitt
Format: eBook, 960 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2011
Price: $15.99
"We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state . . . This is no longer true, owing to advances in international telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons of... Read more >
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The Predictioneer's Game
Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
Written by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $16.00
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer... Read more >
Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
Written by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $16.00
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer... Read more >
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Rules for Radical Conservatives
Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America
Written by David Kahane
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $14.99
Are you a frustrated conservative shocked by the bunch of far Left fanatics driving the bus—and our future—off a cliff? It’s time to fight back with the same ruthlessness that has served the radicals so well—not just now, but for the long term. And who better to reveal their strategies—and their... Read more >
Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America
Written by David Kahane
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $14.99
Are you a frustrated conservative shocked by the bunch of far Left fanatics driving the bus—and our future—off a cliff? It’s time to fight back with the same ruthlessness that has served the radicals so well—not just now, but for the long term. And who better to reveal their strategies—and their... Read more >
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Dangerous Games
The Uses and Abuses of History
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.00
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused... Read more >
The Uses and Abuses of History
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $15.00
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused... Read more >
The Political Emerson
Essential Writings on Politics and Social Reform
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by David M. Robinson
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $14.00
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) never considered himself a political thinker. And yet he rose to prominence during one of the most turbulent times in U.S. history. As a result, political questions grew in importance for him, becoming by the 1860s one of his chief concerns as a public intellectual. In The... Read more >
Essential Writings on Politics and Social Reform
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by David M. Robinson
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $14.00
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) never considered himself a political thinker. And yet he rose to prominence during one of the most turbulent times in U.S. history. As a result, political questions grew in importance for him, becoming by the 1860s one of his chief concerns as a public intellectual. In The... Read more >
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The Future of Liberalism
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $16.00
A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.
The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of... Read more >
Written by Alan Wolfe
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $16.00
A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.
The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of... Read more >
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The Predictioneer's Game
Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
Written by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $20.00
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer... Read more >
Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
Written by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $20.00
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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