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Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World by Dambisa Moyo Publisher Comments Hardly a day passes when newspaper headlines or media commentators dont scream warnings of impending doomshortages of arable land, clashes over water, and political Armageddon as global demand for fossil fuels far outstrips supplybut only one... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Powerdown Options & Actions for a Post Carbon World by Richard Heinberg Publisher Comments If the US continues with its current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared. The political... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Carne Ross Publisher Comments “It’s been a long time since I’ve read a more interesting, informing, and inspiring book than The Leaderless Revolution.” —Bill Moyers What can we do beyond Occupy Wall Street? Political and economic systems are failing us... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Long out of print, this collection of seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. With a new Foreword by the author of "A People's History of the United States, " this book is a renewed call for... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov Publisher Comments Updated with a new Afterword “The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran. But as journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov argues in The Net Delusion, the Internet is a tool... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Post-American World: Release 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria Publisher Comments This is not a book about thedecline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else. So beginsFareed Zakaria s blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends he identifies have proceeded faster than anyone anticipated.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power by Zbigniew Brzezinski Publisher Comments By 1991, following the disintegration first of the Soviet bloc and then of the Soviet Union itself, the United States was left standing tall as the only global super-power. Not only the 20th but even the 21st century seemed destined to be the American... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III by Ron Rosenbaum Publisher Comments In this startling book, now in paperback, the bestselling author of Explaining Hitler warns that a nuclear World War III is not only the most massive and imminent threat to existence as we know it, but also one of the most ignored. While Russian... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.) by Samantha Power Publisher Comments In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power—a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—asks the haunting question... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria Publisher Comments “This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbusting bestseller on the United States in the twenty-first century. How can Americans understand this... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen Publisher Comments By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Iraq Uncensored: Perspectives (Speaker's Corner) by James M Ludes Publisher Comments The war in Iraq is a divisive issue in the United States, and historians and pundits will spend decades examining the conflict’s causes, conduct, and consequences. Iraq Uncensored, an initiative of the bipartisan American Security Project (ASP... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Hardcover
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9-11: Was There an Alternative? by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post 9-11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting through the tangle of political... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments Gore Vidal has been described as the last noble defender" of the American republic. In Imperial America, Vidal steals the thunder of a right wing Americathose who have camouflaged their extremist rhetoric in the Old Glory and the Red, White... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto Publisher Comments "The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Great Powers: America and the World After Bush by Thomas P M Barnett Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author of The Pentagon's New Map, a bold, trenchant analysis of the post-Bush world In Great Powers, New York Times bestselling author and prominent political consultant Thomas Barnett provides a tour-de-force... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Crime So Monstrous: Face-To-Face with Modern-Day Slavery by E Benjamin Skinner Publisher Comments To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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