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Books 11 - 20 of 70 next » by Bruce Jones
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The post-World War II fabric of global security simply does not meet the needs of today's world. Built for a different age, different threats, and a different balance of power, the current multilateral security system is ill-equipped to address today's... (read more) Used - Hardcover 
by Anonymous
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle),... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Sok-young Hwang
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Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation. During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day... (read more) Your Price $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
by Astra Taylor
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"Taylor — director of the 2007 documentary Zizek! — takes philosophy out of the academy and restores it to its peripatetic origins by allowing the field's brightest minds to publicly ruminate on such classic themes as truth and ethics. A... (read more) Your Price $16.82 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
by Joe Sacco
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Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism--the acclaimed author was best known for Palestine, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in 1996. Fantagraphics... (read more) Your Price $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
by Malalai Joya
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Malalai Joya has been called the bravest woman in Afghanistan. At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Susan Jacoby
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Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by M Pemberton
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If what is shaping up to be the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history has an upside, it is that the current war in Iraq should definitively, permanently settle a handful of critical questions about American conduct in the world. This book... (read more) Sale - Trade Paper
by Christopher Abani
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A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.--T. Coraghessan Boyle The sprawling, swampy... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Milan Kundera
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Whether or not Milan Kundera squealed on anyone during the communist rule of his home country of Czechoslovakia is beside the point: the man was and is a good writer. Though this tale is often overlooked when one considers Kundera's more famous work, The... (read more) Your Price $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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