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The 15 Biggest Lies in Politicsby Major Garrett, Tim J. PennyISBN 0312254598 (0-312-25459-8)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Abandoned Prayers: An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, and Amish Secretsby Gregg OlsenISBN 0312982011 (0-312-98201-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Abortion: Questions and Answersby J. C. WillkeISBN 031835165X (0-318-35165-X)
Hardcover, Hayes Pub Co
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Africa in Chaosby George B.N. AyitteyISBN 0312217870 (0-312-21787-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politicsby Kevin PhillipsISBN 0316706027 (0-316-70602-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo Warby Stacy SullivanISBN 0312285582 (0-312-28558-2)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns Americaby Brigitte GabrielISBN 0312358377 (0-312-35837-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truthby Joe ConasonISBN 0312315619 (0-312-31561-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenniumby Carl SaganISBN 0345379187 (0-345-37918-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinkingby Malcolm GladwellISBN 0316010669 (0-316-01066-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking'Book summary:Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like. --Barbara Mackoff [via]
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The Clinton Warsby Sidney BlumenthalISBN 0374125023 (0-374-12502-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Crisis: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah-1979 and the Coming of Militant Islamby David HarrisISBN 0316323942 (0-316-32394-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crisis: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah-1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam'Book summary:A thrilling, page-turning account, drawing on new never-before-reported information, of one of the most dramatic and important episodes in recent history: the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis. On November 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the American embassy in Tehran and took hostage some five dozen Americans. Those Americans would remain hostage for over one year. This is the story of how, in a heretofore unimaginable sequence of events, a seemingly ragtag mob of students inspired by a barely known Muslim cleric named Khomeini eventually undid an American president. It is a story that spans a century, full of famous characters--like Carter, Khomeini, and the Shah--and those who worked in the shadows. Cross-cutting between Washington, Tehran, Paris, and training centers for the doomed Desert One rescue mission, THE CRISIS is a work of history that reads like a thriller. Full of never-before-reported details, and drawing for the first time on comprehensive interviews with the Iranians involved, as well as fresh discussions with the central American players, this book is David Harriss masterpiece--what hes been building up to for decades. [via]
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Current Issues and End Questionsby BarnetISBN 0312197195 (0-312-19719-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, With Readingsby Sylvan Barnet, Hugo Adam BedauISBN 0312115059 (0-312-11505-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilizationby Patrick J. BuchananISBN 0312302592 (0-312-30259-2)
Softcover, Thomas Dunne Books
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Divided by God: America's Church-state Problem--and What We Should Do About Itby Noah FeldmanISBN 0374281319 (0-374-28131-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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El Laberinto De La Soledadby O. PazISBN 0320066665 (0-320-06666-5)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinionby David BrinkleyISBN 0345409523 (0-345-40952-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Faces of Ground Zero: Portraits of the Heroes of September 11, 2001by Joe McNallyISBN 0316523704 (0-316-52370-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 0345342968 (0-345-34296-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Yearsby James BovardISBN 031224052X (0-312-24052-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debateby Naomi Klein, Debra Ann LevyISBN 0312307993 (0-312-30799-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Named one of Ms Magazines Women of Year in 2001, and declared by the Times (London) to be probably the most influential person under the age of 35 in the world, in Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein offers a birds-eye view of the life of an activist and the development of the anti-globalization movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September 11, 2001. Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, Klein once again provides provocative arguments on a broad range of issues. Whether she is discussing the privatization of water; genetically modified food; free trade; or the development of the movement itself and its future post 9/11, Naomi Klein is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant activists and thinkers for a new generation.More editions of Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate:
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The Great Shark Hunt : Strange Tales from a Strange Timeby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0345374827 (0-345-37482-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Shark Hunt : Strange Tales from a Strange Time'Book summary:In addition to being a testament to the undeniably beatifying properties of American excess--literary, political, chemical, you name it--Hunter Thompson is the high priest of the ad hominem attack. Anyone unlucky enough to get in the way of his satirical sledgehammer will end up with soup for brains. Still, even Thompson needs a good villain to get properly lathered up; that's why he peaked simultaneously with America's 37th president, Richard Milhous Nixon. Tricky Dick was Thompson's dark-jowled, pale-calved Muse, and with his departure Thompson seemed to lose his place a bit. Swatting flies with a baseball bat.
You need look no further for this writer's best: this collection of pieces, first published in 1979, spans all of Thompson's primo era, including short pieces and selections from longer works. The Great Shark Hunt sports a few articles filed by a pre-Gonzo Hunter S. Thompson, which show flickers of passion but no real fire; the first experiments with the author's drug-fueled brand of journalism at the Kentucky Derby; and finally the gigs that made him an American institution, in Las Vegas and on the 1972 campaign trail.
Thompson's style is so unique that a reader is tempted to think that he leapt, fully formed, into Gonzohood. However, along with the crazy, careening prose itself, one of the auxiliary pleasures of The Great Shark Hunt is the map that it gives of Thompson's ascent (or descent, if you prefer) from the workaday hyperbole of sports writing to the hell-blast vigor of his later work. The drugs are, by and large, a distraction--lifestyle points that get in the way of the genuinely perceptive journalism that Thompson created. (But they are there, always, and in quantity.) If you're looking for insight into the underbelly of America, Hunter S. Thompson is your best and only guide, and The Great Shark Hunt is an excellent place to begin the grim safari. --Michael Gerber [via]
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The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracyby Daniel PipesISBN 0312176880 (0-312-17688-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Hillary's Choiceby Gail SheehyISBN 0345436563 (0-345-43656-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Holy Warby Karen ArmstrongISBN 0333445449 (0-333-44544-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clintonby Gene Lyons, Joe ConasonISBN 0312273193 (0-312-27319-3)
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The Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clintonby Joe Conason, Gene LyonsISBN 0312245475 (0-312-24547-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunting of the President : The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton'Book summary:Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually leading to his impeachment trial. Award-winning journalists Joe Conason and Gene Lyons have crafted a tale as compulsively readable as a political thriller--paced, and at times worded, like a summer bestseller. Although they provide ample evidence of backstabbing, revenge, deceit, conniving, and "dirty tricks" in the struggle to oust Clinton, arguing that "the better the president and the country did, the more his adversaries appeared willing to endorse almost anything short of assassination to do him in," they also acknowledge that Clinton's reckless behavior, along with the "panicky, defensive, and occasionally less-than-perfectly-honest" responses of the White House press office, didn't hurt his opponents. Investigative journalism at its juiciest, The Hunting of the President is a surprising valediction to a far-from-angelic public leader who often outmaneuvered his enemies with otherworldly skill. --Regina Marler [via]
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Inside 9-11: What Really Happenedby Der Spiegel MagazineISBN 031298748X (0-312-98748-X)
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It Happened in Our Lifetime: A Memoir in Words and Picturesby John PhillipsISBN 0316706094 (0-316-70609-4)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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It's the Stupidity, Stupid : Why (Some) People Hate Clinton and Why the Rest of Us Have to Watchby Harry ShearerISBN 0345434013 (0-345-43401-3)
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Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistanby Ann JonesISBN 0312426593 (0-312-42659-3)
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Last Chance to Seeby Douglas Adams, Mark CarwardineISBN 0345371984 (0-345-37198-4)
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Join bestselling author Douglas Adams and zooligist Mark Carwardine as they take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures. Hilarious and poignant--as only Douglas Adams can be--LAST CHANCE TO SEE is an entertaining and arresting odyssey through the Earth's magnificent wildlife galaxy. [via]More editions of Last Chance to See:
Letters from London: 1990-1995by Julian BarnesISBN 0330341162 (0-330-34116-2)
Hardcover, Picador
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Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Libertyby James BovardISBN 0312123337 (0-312-12333-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty'Book summary:From Justice Department officials seizing people's homes based on mere rumors to the IRS and its master plan to prohibit the nation's self-employed from working for themselves to the perpetrators of the Waco siege, government officials are tearing the Bill of Rights to pieces. Today's citizen is now more likely than ever to violate some unknown law or regulation and be placed at the mercy of an administrator or politician hungering for publicity. Unfortunately, the only way many government agencies can measure their "public service" is by the number of citizens they harass, hinder, restrain, or jail. Already a major issue in the deliberations of the Congress that took office in January of 1995, the power and size of government is certain to be a prominent factor in the 1996 presidential elections. Lost Rights provides a highly entertaining analysis of the bloated excess of government and the plight of contemporary Americans beaten into submission by a horrible parody of the Founding Fathers' dream.[via]More editions of Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty:
Man Bites Townby Harry ShearerISBN 0312088426 (0-312-08842-6)
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Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Futureby Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy RichardsISBN 0374526222 (0-374-52622-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future'Book summary:A powerful indictment from within of the current state of feminism, and a passionate call to armsFrom Lilith Fair to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the WNBA--everywhere you look, girl culture is clearly ascendant. Young women live by feminism's goals, yet feminism itself is undeniably at a crossroads; "girl power" feminists appear to be obsessed with personal empowerment at the expense of politics while political institutions such as Ms. and NOW are so battle weary they've lost their ability to speak to a new generation. In Manifesta, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards show the snags in each feminist hub--from the dissolution of riot grrrls into the likes of the Spice Girls, to older women's hawking of young girls' imperiled self-esteem, to the hyped hatred of feminist thorns like Katie Roiphe and Naomi Wolf--and prove that these snags have not, in fact, torn feminism asunder. In an intelligent and incendiary argument, Baumgardner and Richards address issues instead of feelings and the political as well as the personal. They describe the seven deadly sins the media commits against feminism, provide keys to accessible and urgent activism, discuss why the ERA is still a relevant and crucial political goal, and spell out what a world with equality would look like. They apply Third Wave confidence to Second Wave consciousness, all the while maintaining that the answer to feminism's problems is still feminism. [via]
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Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vineby Tom WolfeISBN 0374204241 (0-374-20424-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peaceby Dennis RossISBN 0374199736 (0-374-19973-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love and Terror in Algeriaby John W. KiserISBN 0312302940 (0-312-30294-0)
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The Monks of Tibhirine : Faith, Love and Terror in Algeriaby Kiser, John W., IIIISBN 0312253176 (0-312-25317-6)
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Naked In Baghdadby Vint Lawrence, Anne GarrelsISBN 0312424191 (0-312-42419-1)
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Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War As Seen by National Public Radio's Correspondentby Vint Lawrence, Anne GarrelsISBN 0374529035 (0-374-52903-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War As Seen by National Public Radio's Correspondent'Book summary:As National Public Radio's senior foreign correspondent, Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth, insightful reportage, and for her independent take on what she sees. One of only sixteen un-embedded American journalists who stayed in Baghdad's now-legendary Palestine Hotel throughout the American invasion of Iraq, she was at the very center of the storm. Naked in Baghdad gives us the sights, sounds, and smells of our latest war with unparalleled vividness and immediacy. Garrels's narrative starts with several trips she made to Baghdad before the war, beginning in October 2002. At its heart is her evolving relationship with her Iraqi driver/minder, Amer, who becomes her friend and confidant, often serving as her eyes and ears among the populace and taking her where no other reporter was able to penetrate. Amer's own strong reactions and personal dilemma provide a trenchant counterpoint to daily events. The story is also punctuated by e-mail bulletins sent by Garrels's husband, Vint Lawrence, to their friends around the world, giving a private view of the rough-and-tumble, often dangerous life of a foreign correspondent, along with some much-needed comic relief. The result is enthralling, deeply personal, utterly authentic--an on-the-ground picture of the war in Iraq that no one else could have written. As Chicago Sun-Times critic Lloyd Sachs wrote about Garrels's work in Baghdad, "a few choice words, honestly delivered, are worth more than a thousand pictures . . . In your mind's eye, they carry lasting truth." [via]
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolutionby Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter LovinsISBN 0316353000 (0-316-35300-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution'Book summary:In Natural Capitalism, three top strategists show how leading-edge companies are practicing "a new type of industrialism" that is more efficient and profitable while saving the environment and creating jobs. Paul Hawken and Amory and Hunter Lovins write that in the next century, cars will get 200 miles per gallon without compromising safety and power, manufacturers will relentlessly recycle their products, and the world's standard of living will jump without further damaging natural resources. "Is this the vision of a utopia? In fact, the changes described here could come about in the decades to come as the result of economic and technological trends already in place," the authors write.
They call their approach natural capitalism because it's based on the principle that business can be good for the environment. For instance, Interface of Atlanta doubled revenues and employment and tripled profits by creating an environmentally friendly system of recycling floor coverings for businesses. The authors also describe how the next generation of cars is closer than we might think. Manufacturers are already perfecting vehicles that are ultralight, aerodynamic, and fueled by hybrid gas-electric systems. If natural capitalism continues to blossom, so much money and resources will be saved that societies will be able to focus on issues such as housing, contend Hawken, author of a book and PBS series called Growing a Business, and the Lovinses, who cofounded and directed the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental think tank. The book is a fascinating and provocative read for public-policy makers, as well as environmentalists and capitalists alike. --Dan Ring [via]
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News from No Man's Land: Reporting the Worldby John SimpsonISBN 0333905741 (0-333-90574-1)
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's Warby Anthony ShadidISBN 0312426038 (0-312-42603-8)
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On the Rezby Ian FrazierISBN 0312278594 (0-312-27859-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Rez'Book summary:Given that the Great Plains long functioned as a stomping ground for the Oglala Sioux, it was inevitable that Ian Frazier would cross paths with them when he wrote his 1989 chronicle of that sublime flatland. But the encounter between the self-confessed "chintzy middle-class white guy" and his Native American counterparts went so swimmingly that Crazy Horse assumed a starring role in the book. Now Frazier continues his cross-cultural romance in On the Rez. This account of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is as touching, funny, and maniacally digressive as anything he's written. What's more, he manages to avoid most of the politically correct potholes along the way, producing a vivid, ambivalent (i.e., honest) portrait of a community where the very "landscape is dense with stories."
Much of On the Rez revolves around Le War Lance, whom Frazier first met in Great Plains. This yarn-spinning, beer-swilling figure serves the author as a kind of Native American Virgil, introducing him to the hard facts of reservation life. In fact, their friendship, with its accents of deep affection and dependency, anchors the entire narrative and elicits some typically top-drawer prose:
Le's eyes can be merry and flat as a smile button, or deep and glittering with malice or slyness or something he knows and I never will. He is fifty-seven years old. I have seen his hair, which is black streaked with gray, when it was over two feet long and held with beaded ponytail holders a foot or so apart, and I have seen it much shorter, after he had shaved his head in mourning for a friend who had died.
On the Rez delivers a history of the Oglala nation that spotlights our paleface population in some of its most shameful, backstabbing moments, as well as a quick tour through Indian America. The latter, to be honest, seems a little too conscientiously cooked up from primary sources and news clippings. But elsewhere Frazier is in superb form, reporting everything he sees and hears with enviable clarity and promptly pulling the rug out from under himself whenever he seems too omniscient. Few accounts of reservation life have been this comical; even fewer have moved beyond the poverty and pandemic drunk driving to discern actual, theological wickedness on the premises: "At such moments a sense of compound evil--the evil of the human heart, in league with the original darkness of this wild continent--curls around me like shoots of a fast-growing vine." In the hands of many a writer, the previous sentence might resemble a rhetorical firecracker. In Frazier's, it comes off as a statement of fact--which is only one of the reasons why every American, Native or not, should take a look at this sad, splendid, and surprisingly hopeful book. --James Marcus [via] -
One Nation : America Remembers September 11, 2001by Life Magazine EditorsISBN 0316525405 (0-316-52540-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Nation : America Remembers September 11, 2001'Book summary:During our nation's most trying times, it has been LIFE that has provided the images that help us understand, remember, and in the process, renew. Now the editors of LIFE have assembled a moving, brilliantly illustrated account of tragedy and triumph. This is about firemen going in amidst the rubble, but it is also about a Frenchman in Paris holding up a sign that says, "We are all Americans." This is about our leaders taking charge, but it is also about schoolchildren in Iowa hanging an American flag on a tree in their backyard. Beginning with the history of lower Manhattan, the book explains what happened on September 11, profiles many of the heroes, victims and rescuers (fireman, police, doctors, and rescue dogs among them), and paints an inspiring portrait if a nation and world coming together in sadness, pride and resolve.The book is more than photographs. Explanatory text runs throughout, and the book also includes a selection of original essays about America and September 11, written by such notables as Maya Angelou, Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List), Stephen Ambrose, Melissa Fay Greene (The Temple Bombing), AndreiCodrescu, Gordon Parks, Doug Stanton (In Harm's Way), Bob Greene (Duty), James Bradley (Flags of Our Fathers), and others. All profits from the sales of this book will be donated to American Red Cross, September 11th Fund, International Association of Fire Fighters, New York Fraternal Order of Police WTC Fund, The National Organization for Victim Assistance, and The Twin Towers Fund. When Americans think of photographic journalism at its finest, they think of LIFE magazine. This book will draw upon the best photographers employed by TIME, LIFE, PEOPLE and other magazines. Many of the photographers have had their own collections published in book form. [via]
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One Palestine Completeby Tom SegevISBN 0316648590 (0-316-64859-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Palestine Complete'Book summary:Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1918 to 1948, replacing 500 years of Turkish control and leading to the State of Israel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the 20th century. When they arrived the country lay in a Levantine nirvana; by the time they left it had become the arena for one of the century's major international conflicts. Among the personalities who shape this narrative are Winston Churchill, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie, King Feisal, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion. One momentous consequence of these 30 years was that at the end of World War I there were 10 Arabs for every Jew. Based on diaries, letters and first-hand accounts, this is a narrative history of Palestine under Crown rule. [via]
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Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistanby Mary Anne WeaverISBN 0374528861 (0-374-52886-1)
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Mary Anne Weaver presents her personal journey through a country in turmoil, reconstructing, largely in the voices of the key participants themselves--Generals Musharraf and Zia, and Benazir Bhutto--the legacies now haunting Pakistan in the aftermath of the U.S.-sponsored jihad of the 1980s in Afghanistan. Fusing geopolitical choices with a vivid portrait of a land--of its people, its mystery, and its clans--Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan provides an essential background for those seeking to understand the problems the international community now faces, and poses some deeply disturbing questions about the future of conflict in South Asia.More editions of Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan:
Plague Wars: The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfareby Tom Mangold, Jeff GoldbergISBN 0312263791 (0-312-26379-1)
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The Pump House Gangby Tom WolfeISBN 0374238642 (0-374-23864-2)
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Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Countryby Joe QueenanISBN 031242521X (0-312-42521-X)
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchersby Tom WolfeISBN 0374246009 (0-374-24600-9)
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A Reporter's Lifeby Walter CronkiteISBN 034541103X (0-345-41103-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Reporter's Life'Book summary:If you're looking for something in between Charles Dickens and James Thurber, try Walter Cronkite's A Reporter's Life. This humble but very exciting autobiography is full of interesting characters and lightly told anecdotes. (Early on in the narrative, young Cronkite recalls running from a cigar store, where he has surreptitiously memorized box scores, down the street to the radio station where he can report them over his daily news broadcast.) The full, even tones of Cronkite's voice rise to describe the best fight he'd ever seen on a movie screen and fall to recall the day John Kennedy died. A hundred years of American history are offered with refreshing color and candor, a tale many may only know as a semester-long drone in high school. The audio version of A Reporter's Life has the advantage of Cronkite's famously unassuming voice, perfectly suited to the weight and manner of prose that delights with understatement. Cronkite's affections, both for his wife and for his own success, are tempered with charming modesty. He delivers keen and respectful observations of U.S. presidents and other heads of state that he has worked with, as though they were simply colleagues he has known through the years. For example, when Walter Cronkite returned from Vietnam after the Tet Offensive, he announced on national television that he deemed the war to be a stalemate, after which President Johnson is said to have turned off the set and said, "Well, we've lost middle America." [via]
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The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Lawby Walter K. OlsonISBN 0312331193 (0-312-33119-3)
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Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About Itby Peter PetersonISBN 0312424620 (0-312-42462-0)
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Acclaimed by all sides of the political spectrum, Peter Peterson's Running on Empty not only traces the deterioration of Americas finances but offers solutions. This national bestseller is required reading for everyone concerned with Americas long-term economic survival. In clear and concise prose, Peterson offers America not only a vision but the practical steps by which to ensure our childrens economic future. Running on Empty is not only a warning, it is also a manifesto calling for the next administration to finally confront a deep and disturbing problem that politicians of all parties have insisted on ignoring for too long.More editions of Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It:
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War IIby Robert KursonISBN 0345482476 (0-345-48247-6)
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Sidewalkby Mitchell Duneier, Ovie CarterISBN 0374527253 (0-374-52725-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sidewalk'Book summary:"I've had the luxury--if you can call it the luxury," says Hakim Hasan, "of working in the formal economy, and of working at certain companies that required a certain level of training, however rudimentary, and a certain level of education." Instead, he chooses to sell books from a table on the sidewalk in New York's Greenwich Village. Soon after he met sociologist Mitchell Duneier, Hakim described himself as a "public character," and sent Duneier scurrying to reread Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities to find out what he meant.
That moment was one of Duneier's inspirations to spend years studying--getting to know, really--Hakim and other book and magazine vendors on his patch of Sixth Avenue. Sidewalk explains much about the street vendors: How did this become legal? Where do vendors obtain their merchandise? How do they interact with potential customers? When do they find time to go to the bathroom (and, for that matter, where do they go)? But it's ultimately about the people themselves--quoted at length from Duneier's tape-recorded interviews and photographed by Ovie Carter--as they do their best to live successfully on their own terms, with all the good and bad consequences that entail. Some of these people (almost all men) are drug addicts, yes, and some of them choose to live as "unhoused" individuals. But many of them find a strong sense of purpose and identity in their work and choose to live in ways that best facilitate that work; they are as motivated--more, perhaps--as workers holding "respectable" office jobs. Nonacademic readers may glaze over at some of Duneier's longer explanations of his methodology, and he seems occasionally overapologetic when quoting the uncensored language of his subjects, but few books succeed at plunging the reader into a community and delineating the character of its members as Sidewalk does. [via]
The Smoking Gun: A Dossier of Secret, Surprising, and Salacious Documentsby Daniel Green, Barbara Glauber, William BastoneISBN 0316611107 (0-316-61110-7)
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State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of Americaby Patrick J. BuchananISBN 0312360037 (0-312-36003-7)
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Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the Worldby Carl HiaasenISBN 0345422805 (0-345-42280-5)
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Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women And Rivalryby Susan Shapiro BarashISBN 031233432X (0-312-33432-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women And Rivalry'Book summary:[via]Tripping the Prom Queen is a groundbreaking investigation into the dark secret of female friendship: rivalry.Susan Shapiro Barash has exploded the myth that women help one another, are supportive of one another, and want each other to succeed. Based on interviews with women across a broad social spectrum, she has discovered that the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it is covert. She tells us:
* Why women can't and won't admit to rivalry.* How women are trained from an early age to compete with one another.* In which areas women most heatedly compete.* How rivalry is different among women than among men.* The differences between competition, envy, and jealousy.* When competition is healthy and when it isn't.
* Why women find it irresistible to "trip the prom queen."* Useful strategies to stop the competition and forge a new kind of relationship with other women.Whether you've tripped the prom queen or been tripped yourself, you will discover an engrossing exploration of this female phenomenon, as well as a beacon of hope for better, more fulfilling relationships.More editions of Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women And Rivalry:
Tune in Tomorrowby Tom TomorrowISBN 0312113447 (0-312-11344-7)
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Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea And the Kim Dynastyby Bradley K. MartinISBN 0312323220 (0-312-32322-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea And the Kim Dynasty'Book summary:Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society, that to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet short on food grains and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from birth to follow unquestioningly a father-son team of megalomaniacs.[via]
To North Koreans, the Kims are more than just leaders. Kim Il-Sung is the country's leading novelist, philosopher, historian, educator, designer, literary critic, architect, general, farmer, and ping-pong trainer. Radios are made so they can only be tuned to the official state frequency. "Newspapers" are filled with endless columns of Kim speeches and propaganda. And instead of Christmas, North Koreans celebrate Kim's birthday--and he presents each child a present, just like Santa.
The regime that the Kim Dynasty has built remains technically at war with the United States nearly a half century after the armistice that halted actual fighting in the Korean War. This fascinating and complete history takes full advantage of a great deal of source material that has only recently become available (some from archives in Moscow and Beijing), and brings the reader up to the tensions of the current day. For as this book will explain, North Korea appears more and more to be the greatest threat among the Axis of Evil countries--with some defector testimony warning that Kim Jong-Il has enough chemical weapons to wipe out the entire population of South Korea.More editions of Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea And the Kim Dynasty:
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The Undercover Economistby Tim HarfordISBN 0345494016 (0-345-49401-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Undercover Economist'Book summary:The economy [isnt] a bunch of rather dull statistics with names like GDP (gross domestic product), notes Tim Harford, columnist and regular guest on NPRs Marketplace, economics is about who gets what and why. In this acclaimed and riveting bookpart exposé, part users manualthe astute and entertaining columnist from the Financial Times demystifies the ways in which money works in the world. From why the coffee in your cup costs so much to why efficiency is not necessarily the answer to ensuring a fair society, from improving health care to curing crosstown trafficall the dirty little secrets of dollars and cents are delightfully revealed by The Undercover Economist.
A rare specimen: a book on economics that will enthrall its readers . . . It brings the power of economics to life.
Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics
A playful guide to the economics of everyday life, and as such is something of an elder sibling to Steven Levitts wild child, the hugely successful Freakonomics.
The Economist
A tour de force . . . If you need to be convinced of the everrelevant and fascinating nature of economics, read this insightful and witty book.
Jagdish Bhagwati, author of In Defense of Globalization
This is a book to savor.
The New York Times
Harford writes like a dream. From his book I found out why theres a Starbucks on every corner [and] how not to get duped in an auction. Reading The Undercover Economist is like spending an ordinary day wearing X-ray goggles.
David Bodanis, author of Electric Universe
Much wit and wisdom.
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Nattily packaged-the cover sports a Roy Lichtensteinesque image of an economist in Dick Tracy garb-and cleverly written, this book applies basic economic theory to such modern phenomena as Starbucks' pricing system and Microsoft's stock values. While the concepts explored are those encountered in Microeconomics 101, Harford gracefully explains abstruse ideas like pricing along the demand curve and game theory using real world examples without relying on graphs or jargon. The book addresses free market economic theory, but Harford is not a complete apologist for capitalism; he shows how companies from Amazon.com to Whole Foods to Starbucks have gouged consumers through guerrilla pricing techniques and explains the high rents in London (it has more to do with agriculture than one might think). Harford comes down soft on Chinese sweatshops, acknowledging "conditions in factories are terrible," but "sweatshops are better than the horrors that came before them, and a step on the road to something better." Perhaps, but Harford doesn't question whether communism or a capitalist-style industrial revolution are the only two choices available in modern economies. That aside, the book is unequaled in its accessibility and ability to show how free market economic forces affect readers' day-to-day.
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Harford exposes the dark underbelly of capitalism in Undercover Economist. Compared with Steven Levitts and Stephen J. Dubners popular Freakonomics (*** July/Aug 2005), the book uses simple, playful examples (written in plain English) to elucidate complex economic theories. Critics agree that the book will grip readers interested in understanding free-market forces but disagree about Harfords approach. Some thought the author mastered the small ideas while keeping in sight the larger context of globalization; others faulted Harford for failing to criticize certain economic theories and to ground his arguments in political, organizational structures. Either way, his case studiessome entertaining, others indicative of times to comewill make you think twice about that cup of coffee.
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Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Realityby Steven PooleISBN 0316731005 (0-316-73100-5)
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Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyondby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0312278357 (0-312-27835-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond'Book summary:On March 24, 1999, after talks at the French chateau of Rambouillet and further negotiations in Paris failed to produce an agreement between Kosovar and Serbian leaders, NATO commenced air strikes against Serbia. The Kosovo war would last 78 days. According to Michael Ignatieff, the war in Kosovo broke new ground. For those killed in the air strikes and the Kosovar Albanians murdered by Serbian police and paramilitaries, the war was real; yet it was "virtual" for the citizens of the NATO nations, who became spectators to events as "remote from their essential concerns as a football game." NATO combatants (who suffered no casualties) experienced the war as "split-second decisions made through the lens of a gun camera or over a video conferencing system." They rarely saw those they killed. Kosovo was a virtual war also in the political and legal sense, and in Virtual War Ignatieff explores the political and moral implications of what happens when war ceases to be fully real--when technological mastery removes death from the equation on one side.
Five characters figure prominently in Ignatieff's narrative of the war in Kosovo and its aftermath: Richard Holbrooke, the Clinton administration's special envoy for the Balkans; Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Louise Arbour, prosecutor of the War Crimes Tribunal; Robert Skidelsky, independent member of the British House of Lords and critic of the war; and Aleksa Djilas, Yugoslav opponent of the bombing campaign. Though Ignatieff supports the military intervention, his encounters with these figures, particularly the opponents of the war, put his convictions to the test. The differing viewponts lend a sense of balance and evenhandedness in what is ultimately a deeply moral work. "Virtual reality is seductive," Ignatieff writes. "We see ourselves as noble warriors and our enemies as despicable tyrants. We see a war as a surgical scalpel and not a bloodstained sword. In so doing we mis-describe ourselves as we mis-describe the instruments of death. We need to stay away from such fables of self-righteous invulnerability. Only then can we get our hands dirty. Only then can we do what is right." --Svenja Soldovieri [via]
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What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought Itby Bobby MullerISBN 0316016705 (0-316-01670-5)
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While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peaceby Donald Kagan, Frederick W. KaganISBN 0312283741 (0-312-28374-1)
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White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whitenessby Maurice BergerISBN 0374527156 (0-374-52715-6)
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Maurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York in the sixties. His father was a prototypical Jewish liberal, his mother a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew who hated black people. Berger himself was one of the few white kids in his Lower East Side housing project.
Berger's unusual experience--and his determination to search the subject of race for all its meanings--makes White Lies a fresh and often startling book. In it, Berger juxtaposes a series of brilliant short takes about race with a memoir about his boyhood. He recalls his teenage "cultural" crushes on Aretha Franklin and Angela Davis. He listens to blacks telling of awkward racial incidents--being tailed by security guards in department stores, for instance. He acerbically reviews a Polo ad campaign that makes a black model seem to be, literally, a clotheshorse. He revealingly pairs comments on race from the works of Roland Barthes and Toni Morrison, Studs Terkel and James Baldwin. To all of this Berger responds with his own wry, energetic, penetrating sensibility.
White Lies is a powerful and deeply affecting look at race in America today--free of cant, surprisingly entertaining, unsettled and unsettling. [via]
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Window of Opportunity: A Blueprint for the Futureby Newt GingrichISBN 0312939221 (0-312-93922-1)
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