Half the Sky

Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $11.99

#1 National Bestseller

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa... Read more >

In the President's Secret Service
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Written by Ronald Kessler

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $26.00

Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author... Read more >

In the President's Secret Service
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Written by Ronald Kessler

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $10.99

Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author... Read more >

Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $13.99

This provocative and unflinching analysis of Europe’s unexpected demographic revolution focuses on the increasingly assertive Muslim populations shaping the continent’s future.
 
Europe’s half century of mass immigration has failed to produce an American melting pot and is now faced with a serious problem for which there is no easy solution. Based on... Read more >

The Shadow Factory
The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
Written by James Bamford

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $17.00

James Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech ears on the American public.

The Shadow Factory reconstructs how the NSA missed... Read more >

Treachery
Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain
Written by Chapman Pincher

Format: eBook, 704 pages
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $19.99

From noted intelligence authority and author Chapman Pincher comes an utterly riveting book that reveals in startling detail sixty years of Soviet spying against Great Britain and the United States. Using a huge cache of recently released documents and exclusive interviews, Pincher makes a compelling new case that–as he has long... Read more >

Ghost
Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent
Written by Fred Burton

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $16.00

In this hard-hitting memoir, Fred Burton, a key figure in international counterterrorism and domestic spycraft, emerges from the shadows to reveal who he is, what he has accomplished, and the threats that lurk unseen except by an experienced, worldly-wise few. Plunging readers into the murky world of violent religious extremism that... Read more >

Crush the Cell
How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves
Written by Michael A. Sheehan

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $14.95

Crush the Cell demolishes, with simple logic, the edifice of
false “terror punditry” that has been laid, brick by brick,
since 9/11. A veteran of special ops, international diplomacy,
and bruising clasheswith federal lawenforcement agencies,
Michael Sheehan delivers in this book a two-part message: First,
thatwe’vewasted—and are continuing towaste—billions of dollars
on thewrong protectivemeasures, and second, that... Read more >

The Dark Side
The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2009
Price: $11.99

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National BestsellerWith a New AfterwordNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-DealerThe Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United... Read more >

Bush's Law
The Remaking of American Justice
Written by Eric Lichtblau

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $16.00

In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush declared that the struggle against terrorism would be nothing less than a war—a war that would require new tools and a new mind-set. As legal sanction was given to covert surveillance and interrogation tactics, internal struggles brewed over programs and policies that threatened to... Read more >

The Dark Side
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National BestsellerWith a New AfterwordNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-DealerThe Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United... Read more >

The Sun Climbs Slow
The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice
Written by Erna Paris

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $21.95

In this groundbreaking investigation, Erna Paris explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America's opposition to the creation of a permanent international criminal court, and the implications for the world at large.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent tribunal of its kind. The mandate of the ICC... Read more >

Putin's Labyrinth
Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Written by Steve Levine

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $16.00

In Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev and the country’s real power, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are posing a resolute challenge to the West. In a... Read more >

The Second Plane
September 11: Terror and Boredom
Written by Martin Amis

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.95

A master not only of fiction but also of fiercely controversial political engagement, Martin Amis here gathers fourteen pieces that constitute an evolving, provocative, and insightful examination of the most momentous event of our time.

At the heart of this collection is the long essay “Terror and Boredom,” an unsparing analysis of... Read more >

Saviors and Survivors
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95

From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.

In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began... Read more >

Saviors and Survivors
Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $11.99

From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.

In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began... Read more >

Ethical Realism

Written by Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $11.99

America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but our politicians have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. Ethical Realism shows how the United States can successfully combine genuine morality with tough and practical common sense. By outlining core principles and a set of... Read more >

Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism
A Call to Action
Written by George Weigel

Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $9.99

“History must be made to march in the direction of genuine human progress; world affairs have no intrinsic momentum that necessarily results in the victory of decency. Maintaining the morale necessary to achieving progress in history requires us to live our lives, today, against a moral horizon of responsibility that is... Read more >

Human Rights Watch World Report 2009

Written by Human Rights Watch

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2009
Price: $25.00

Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world’s leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere.
Written in straightforward, non-technical language, Human Rights Watch World Report prioritizes events in the most affected countries during... Read more >

After Genocide
Bringing the Devil to Justice
Written by Adam M. Smith

Format: Hardcover, 441 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $27.99

Imagine a criminal justice system that achieves fewer than five convictions per year and spends more than $20 million on each. By some measures, this would make it the least efficient prosecutorial system in recorded history, with the risk of creating rather than deterring more crimes, and one that few victims... Read more >

The Next 100 Years
A Forecast for the 21st Century
Written by George Friedman

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $27.95

“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman

In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future—offering a lucid, highly...

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The Next 100 Years
A Forecast for the 21st Century
Written by George Friedman

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $11.99

“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman

In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future—offering a lucid, highly... Read more >

Madame Prosecutor
Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity
Written by Carla Del Ponte and Chuck Sudetic

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $25.95

Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide... Read more >

The Terrorist Watch
Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Written by Ronald Kessler

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $14.95

“You make a mistake, there are dead people.”
—FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations

Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’ relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United... Read more >

The Terrorist Watch
Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack
Written by Ronald Kessler

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $11.99

“You make a mistake, there are dead people.”
—FBI Special Agent Art Cummings, head of international counterterrorism operations

Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI and CIA counterterrorism operatives, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’ relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United... Read more >