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The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf Staff Pick The End of America should be required reading for every American. Rather than giving us a partisan 600-page tome on the crimes of the Bush administration, Naomi Wolf lays out clearly and concisely how we as a people have allowed our government to move... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (City Lights Open Media) by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments "Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military's global Interventions (City Lights). Shock and awe!"—Vanity Fair Making the Future presents more than fifty concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prizeandndash;winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart Publisher Comments Israel's next great crisis may come not with the Palestinians or Iran but with young American Jews A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. In the... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear by Paul Rogat Loeb Publisher Comments In The Impossible Will Take a Little While, a phrase borrowed from Billie Holliday, the editor of Soul of a Citizen brings together fifty stories and essays that range across nations, eras, wars, and political movements. Danusha Goska, an Indiana... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years. What are the possibilities-and hazards-facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II by David Rohde Publisher Comments 'Powerful...definitive...Rohde tells the Srebrenica story with all the shades of gray the truth demanded." -The Washington Post In 1996, at the height of the Bosnian wars, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor names David Rohde... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in A G-Zero World by Ian Bremmer Publisher Comments G-Zero — \JEE-ZEER-oh\ —nA world order in which no single country or durable alliance of countries can meet the challenges of global leadership. If the worst threatened—a rogue nuclear state with a horrible surprise, a global health... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Expelled: A Journalist's Descent into the Russian Mafia State by Luke Harding Publisher Comments In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper, The Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service --the successor to the KGB--had broken into his apartment. He... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Peoples Apart: Israel, South Africa and the Apartheid Question by Ilan Pappe Publisher Comments The word "apartheid" evokes the ideology of racial segregation which dominated South Africa for so many years. Yet opinion-formers, including former US President Jimmy Carter, are increasingly using the word "apartheid" to describe the situation of Arabs... (read more) Available March 19, 2013 Your price: $23.75 New - Trade Paper 
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Expelled: A Journalist's Descent Into the Russian Mafia State by Luke Harding Publisher Comments In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper, The Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service --the successor to the KGB--had broken into his apartment. He... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Why Kosovo Still Matters by Denis Macshane Publisher Comments The people of Kosovo--both the cleansed Albanians and the demagogically exploited Serbs--now know who their political and humanitarian friends were. One of the most outstanding European and parliamentary advocates has been Dr Denis MacShane. This will... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Introduction to International & Global Studies by Shawn Smallman Publisher Comments This new introduction to international and global studies offers instructors in both the humanities and the social sciences a distinctive textbook with an up-to-date, comprehensive approach to teaching undergraduates in this rapidly growing and markedly... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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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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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami Publisher Comments From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound. In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - 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: Why do... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein Publisher Comments The Shadow World is the harrowing behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, revealing the deadly collusion that all too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military—a situation... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Crossing Zero by Elizabeth Gould Publisher Comments Fitzgerald and Gould do yeoman's labor in clearing the fog and laying bare American failures in Afghanistan.--Publishers Weekly, starred review of Invisible History The war in Afghanistan has become the most complex foreign policy problem the United... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 by Joan Didion Publisher Comments In Fixed Ideas Joan Didion describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America --a "New Unilateralism"-- and how, in many parts of America, there is now a "... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Emergency State: America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs by David C Unger Publisher Comments America is trapped in a state of war that has consumed our national life since before Pearl Harbor. Over seven decades and several bloody wars, Democratic and Republican politicians alike have assembled an increasing complicated—and increasingly... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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