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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Publisher Comments In his controversial book, John Perkins tells the gripping tale of the years he spent working for an international consulting firm where his job was to convince underdeveloped countries to accept enormous loans, much bigger than they really needed, for... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 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 $28.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment? by Fawaz Gerges Publisher Comments A hard-hitting assessment of Obama's current foreign policy and a sweeping look at the future of the Middle East The 2011 Arab Spring upended the status quo in the Middle East and poses new challenges for the United States. Here, Fawaz Gerges... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Days of Defeat and Victory by Egor Timurovich Gaĭdar Publisher Comments Gaidar was one of Russia's first post-Soviet prime ministers and a principal architect of its transformation to capitalism. He offers his account of governing in the early 1990s, up to Yeltsin's cliffhanger re-election in 1996.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The World America Made by Robert Kagan Publisher Comments What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Trickle Down Tyranny: Crushing Obama's Dream of the Socialist States of America by Michael Savage Publisher Comments This One Book Can Stop Obama's Tyranny The USA or the USSA? The United States of America or the Union of Socialist States of America? That is the question. Will President Obama transform the greatest engine of freedom the world has ever known into a... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein Staff Pick To be honest, I could not finish this book. It made me too angry. These are the stories about our country you don't want to know. Naomi Klein has cast a spotlight on the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the American dream. The Shock Doctrine... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Future of Power by Joseph S Jr Nye Publisher Comments In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power was expressed in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, numbers of men under arms, and tanks lined up ready to cross the plains of Eastern Europe. By 2010, none of these factors confer power in the... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Screwed!: How Foreign Countries Are Ripping America Off and Plundering Our Economy-And How Our Leaders Help Them Do It by Dick Morris Publisher Comments The bestselling authors return with a blistering exposÉ of how America is being ripped off by friends and enemies alike—with the help of our own ruling elites. Our jobs go to China. Foreign aid goes to our enemies. Pakistan uses our money to... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government--And the Reckoning That Lies Ahead by David Rothkopf Publisher Comments The worlds largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the GDP of all but twenty-five of the worlds countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost a hundred nations. The worlds largest asset manager, a secretive New York... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land by Mark Braverman Publisher Comments Mark Braverman shows how the Jewish quest for safety and empowerment and the Christian endeavor to atone for centuries of anti-Semitism have combined to suppress the conversations needed to bring about a just and lasting peace in the Holy Land. Fatal... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Screwed!: How Foreign Countries Are Ripping America off and Plundering Our economy-and How Our Leaders Help Them Do It by Dick Morris Publisher Comments The bestselling authors return with a blistering exposE of how America is being ripped off by friends and enemies alike--with the help of our own ruling elites. Our jobs go to China. Foreign aid goes to our enemies. Pakistan uses our money to fund... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World by Robin Wright Publisher Comments A decade after the 9/11 attacks, this groundbreaking book by a preeminent reporter takes readers deep into the struggle within the Muslim world where a growing movement defies and challenges extremism and repudiates Osama bin Laden, his deviant doctrine,... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices by Mosab Hassan Yousef Synopsis The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas, reveals new information about the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, unveils the truth about his own role in the organization, and explains his dangerous decision to make his... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dead Aid (09 Edition) by Dambisa Moyo Publisher Comments A national bestseller, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade (No-Nonsense Guides) by David Ransom Publisher Comments Meeting the people who grow our bananas and cocoa and make our clothes, this No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Tradetells the human story behind what we consume. Examin-ing the global contest between "free"and "fair"trade, David Ransom argues that the key... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama Publisher Comments Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Anxieties of Democracy Tocquevillean Reflections on India and the United States by Partha (edt) Chatterjee Publisher Comments This volume is a comparative study of democracy in India and the United States, using as its basis Alexis de Tocqueville's landmark study Democracy in America. It frames the comparison in terms of the distinct trajectories of the United States and India... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Steyn Synopsis Optimistic About Americas Future? Dont Be. In his giant New York Times bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has caught up with Europe on the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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