De verde a Maduro
El sucesor de Hugo Chavez
Written by Roger Santodomingo
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.00
El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Chávez regresaba a Venezuela luego de más de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida política activa eran mínimas. El 8 de diciembre había nombrado a Nicolás Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente...
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De verde a Maduro
Written by Roger Santodomingo
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $9.99
El 18 de febrero de 2013, el presidente Hugo Chávez regresaba a Venezuela luego de más de dos meses de ausencia. Convaleciente y sin voz, sus posibilidades de retornar a la vida política activa eran mínimas. El 8 de diciembre había nombrado a Nicolás Maduro ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y vicepresidente...
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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...
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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...
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Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
Written by Christopher Hayes
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $16.00
Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another
—from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to Major League Baseball
—imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How...
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Written by Gene Robinson
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
From the IX Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected to the episcopate and the world’s leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage—a groundbreaking book that persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument.
Robinson...
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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...
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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...
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The Oath
The Obama White House and The Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.00
A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction
From the moment Chief Justice Roberts botched Barack Obama's oath of office, the relationship between the Court and the White House has been a fraught one. Grappling with issues as diverse as campaign finance, abortion, and the right to bear arms, the Roberts court has...
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To Move the World
JFK's Quest for Peace
Written by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $26.00
An inspiring look at the historic foreign policy triumph of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—the crusade for world peace that consumed his final year in office—by the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Civilization, Common Wealth, and The End of Poverty The last great campaign of John F. Kennedy’s...
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To Move the World
JFK's Quest for Peace
Written by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $12.99
An inspiring look at the historic foreign policy triumph of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—the crusade for world peace that consumed his final year in office—by the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Civilization, Common Wealth, and The End of Poverty The last great campaign of John F. Kennedy’s...
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Told You So
The Big Book of Weekly Columns
Written by Ralph Nader
Introduction by Jim Hightower
Format: Trade Paperback, 540 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $29.95
“What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.”
—The New York Times
The column is the most natural literary form for a citizen’s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner.
The Big Book of Ralph Nader Columns presents...
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Told You So
The Big Book of Weekly Columns
Written by Ralph Nader
Introduction by Jim Hightower
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $29.95
“What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.”
—The New York Times
The column is the most natural literary form for a citizen’s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner.
The Big Book of Ralph Nader Columns presents a...
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Cool War
The Future of Global Competition
Written by Noah Feldman
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $26.00
A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world The Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era...
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Cool War
The Future of Global Competition
Written by Noah Feldman
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.99
A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world The Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era...
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Cool War
The Future of Global Competition
Written by Noah Feldman
Read by Noah Feldman
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On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $17.50
A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world The Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era...
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The Immobile Empire
Written by Alain Peyrefitte
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $24.00
In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see...
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The Immobile Empire
Written by Alain Peyrefitte
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.99
In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see...
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Predator Nation
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Written by Charles H. Ferguson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.00
Charles Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Academy Award-winning documentary, Inside Job, now reveals how rogues with influence have taken over the country and are driving it to financial and social ruin.
In
Predator Nation, Ferguson exposes the networks of academic, government, and congressional influence--in all recent administrations, including Obama's--that prepared...
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The Party of Humanity
Written by Peter Gay
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $16.99
THE ENLIGHTENMENT has long been the victim of uninformed or hostile criticisms. Even so respected a source as the
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Enlightenment as “shallow and pretentious intellectualism, unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition,” thus collecting in one sentence most of our current prejudices. In this provocative book—at...
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