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Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties (Seven Stories' Open Media Book) by Nancy Chang Publisher Comments In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S. Hacker Publisher Comments A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich. We all know that the very rich... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage) by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Staff Pick In this thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book, Kristof and WuDunn reveal the cruel and maddening reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression. Half the Sky will stir feelings of admiration and discomfort, and hopefully sow the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall Publisher Comments One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years — and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments @font-face { font-family: Cambria; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting, the... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson Publisher Comments In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest o by Peter Schweizer Publisher Comments THE BOOK WASHINGTON DOES NOT WANT YOU TO READ As Ben Franklin knew, ambition and avarice, the love of power and the love of money, “when united in view of the same object . . . have in many minds the most violent effects.” In Throw Them All... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Five to Rule Them All: The UN Security Council and the Making of the Modern World by David Bosco Publisher Comments From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Report from Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center by Dennis Smith Review "The first-person narratives in this account of the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center constitute a tremendously powerful chronicle of September 11th. The language of the firefighters and police officers is blunt and vivid, the details are sharply... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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