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The President and the Assassin
McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Written by Scott Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.00
A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging... Read more >
McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
Written by Scott Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.00
A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging... Read more >
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The Skies Belong to Us
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $26.00
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to... Read more >
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $26.00
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to... Read more >
Also available as an
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The Skies Belong to Us
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.99
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to... Read more >
Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
Written by Brendan I. Koerner
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $12.99
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to... Read more >
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hardcover.
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The New York Review Abroad
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The New York Review Abroad
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00
For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $16.00
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $16.00
NOW AN HBO DOCUMENTARY
In Manhunt, Peter Bergen delivers a taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where American forces came startlingly close to capturing him...
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $40.00
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $40.00
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $20.00
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $20.00
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $28.95
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $28.95
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.99
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $14.99
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $15.00
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at... Read more >
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $15.00
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at... Read more >
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Lone Wolf Terrorism
Understanding the Growing Threat
Written by Jeffrey D. Simon
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $26.00
This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the potential terrorist threats from violence-prone individuals in our midst. A new era in terrorism is emerging and the lone wolf is at the forefront. From Anders Breivik in Norway, who murdered scores of young people in a bombing and mass-shooting attack... Read more >
Understanding the Growing Threat
Written by Jeffrey D. Simon
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $26.00
This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the potential terrorist threats from violence-prone individuals in our midst. A new era in terrorism is emerging and the lone wolf is at the forefront. From Anders Breivik in Norway, who murdered scores of young people in a bombing and mass-shooting attack... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Lone Wolf Terrorism
Understanding the Growing Threat
Written by Jeffrey D. Simon
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the potential terrorist threats from violence-prone individuals in our midst. A new era in terrorism is emerging and the lone wolf is at the forefront. From Anders Breivik in Norway, who murdered scores of young people in a bombing and mass-shooting attack... Read more >
Understanding the Growing Threat
Written by Jeffrey D. Simon
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $12.99
This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the potential terrorist threats from violence-prone individuals in our midst. A new era in terrorism is emerging and the lone wolf is at the forefront. From Anders Breivik in Norway, who murdered scores of young people in a bombing and mass-shooting attack... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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World Report 2013
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
World Report 2013
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Events of 2012
Written by Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kenneth Roth
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $30.00
“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed Rashid in The New York Review of Books
“An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Cuba
La lucha por la libertad
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $20.00
La isla de Cuba fue, desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, un territorio clave para el control del tráfico marítimo de las rutas hacia el Nuevo Mundo. Su privilegiada situación geográfica y la mezcla de culturas y tradiciones han hecho de esta pequeña isla un lugar esencial en el Caribe... Read more >
La lucha por la libertad
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $20.00
La isla de Cuba fue, desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, un territorio clave para el control del tráfico marítimo de las rutas hacia el Nuevo Mundo. Su privilegiada situación geográfica y la mezcla de culturas y tradiciones han hecho de esta pequeña isla un lugar esencial en el Caribe... Read more >
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In Freedom We Trust
An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty
Written by Edward M. Buckner
Format: Trade Paperback, 281 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $18.00
Opponents attack the president of the United States for not being a real Christian. Bitter arguments erupt over whether the United States is or should be a Christian nation. Sound familiar? These contentious issues are not just recent developments but were also the topics of fierce debate in the late eighteenth... Read more >
An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty
Written by Edward M. Buckner
Format: Trade Paperback, 281 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $18.00
Opponents attack the president of the United States for not being a real Christian. Bitter arguments erupt over whether the United States is or should be a Christian nation. Sound familiar? These contentious issues are not just recent developments but were also the topics of fierce debate in the late eighteenth... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
In Freedom We Trust
An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty
Written by Edward M. Buckner
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $11.99
Opponents attack the president of the United States for not being a real Christian. Bitter arguments erupt over whether the United States is or should be a Christian nation. Sound familiar? These contentious issues are not just recent developments but were also the topics of fierce debate in the late eighteenth... Read more >
An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty
Written by Edward M. Buckner
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $11.99
Opponents attack the president of the United States for not being a real Christian. Bitter arguments erupt over whether the United States is or should be a Christian nation. Sound familiar? These contentious issues are not just recent developments but were also the topics of fierce debate in the late eighteenth... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Next Wave
On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits
Written by Catherine Herridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.00
TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps.
Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door.
A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian; an... Read more >
On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits
Written by Catherine Herridge
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.00
TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps.
Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door.
A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian; an... Read more >
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The Eleventh Day
The Full Story of 9/11
Written by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $18.00
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation’s history. But what exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? And what remains unresolved? Here is the first panoramic, authoritative account of that tragic day—from the first brutal... Read more >
The Full Story of 9/11
Written by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $18.00
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
For most living Americans, September 11, 2001, is the darkest date in the nation’s history. But what exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? And what remains unresolved? Here is the first panoramic, authoritative account of that tragic day—from the first brutal... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Secrets of the FBI
Written by Ronald Kessler
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
Written by Ronald Kessler
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
The Secrets of the FBI by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler reveals the FBI’s most closely guarded secrets and the secrets of celebrities, politicians, and movie stars uncovered by agents during their investigations.
Based on inside access, the book presents revelations about the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound...
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The Open-Source Everything Manifesto
Transparency, Truth, and Trust
Written by Robert David Steele
Foreword by Howard Bloom
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $14.95
What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of decision-support: knowing what one needs to know in order to make honest decisions for the... Read more >
Transparency, Truth, and Trust
Written by Robert David Steele
Foreword by Howard Bloom
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $14.95
What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of decision-support: knowing what one needs to know in order to make honest decisions for the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Open-Source Everything Manifesto
Transparency, Truth, and Trust
Written by Robert David Steele
Foreword by Howard Bloom
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $10.95
What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of decision-support: knowing what one needs to know in order to make honest decisions for the... Read more >
Transparency, Truth, and Trust
Written by Robert David Steele
Foreword by Howard Bloom
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $10.95
What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of decision-support: knowing what one needs to know in order to make honest decisions for the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $26.00
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America... Read more >
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $26.00
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Manhunt
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America... Read more >
The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Written by Peter L. Bergen
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $11.99
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
