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Thinking in an Emergency (Amnesty International Global Ethics) by Elaine Scarry Publisher Comments In Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry lays bare the realities of “emergency” politics and emphasizes what she sees as the ultimate ethical concern: “equality of survival.” She reveals how regular citizens can reclaim the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year. In this gripping account of the quest for the energy that our world needs, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize. A master... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland Publisher Comments A groundbreaking examination of wealth disparity, income inequality, and the new global elite There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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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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Crossing the Rubicon: 9/11 and the Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael Ruppert Publisher Comments The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects—finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government&mdash... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.98 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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After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World by Dilip Hiro Publisher Comments The United States victory in the Cold War in 1991 led to triumphalist claims that humanity had reached the end of history,” and that Washington would enjoy everlasting supremacy. Some years later, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide by Joshua S Goldstein Publisher Comments Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong. Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and... (read more) List Price $17.00 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 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 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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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.60 Sale - Hardcover
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Freefall by Joseph E Stiglitz Publisher Comments The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy by Dean Karlan Publisher Comments A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really work. American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-wimming author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets -... (read more) List Price $17.00 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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Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: How Microlending Lost Its Way and Betrayed the Poor by Hugh Sinclair Publisher Comments Part memoir, part financial detective story, and part exposé, this is the account of a microfinance insider who joined the industry in the early 2000s with a newly minted MBA and the intention to do good in the world. But over the course of eight... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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 $19.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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