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Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt Publisher Comments The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. The twentieth century comes to... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover 
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer Publisher Comments Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross-currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman Publisher Comments The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization – a ‘flattening’ of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent by Walter Laqueur Publisher Comments • In Brussels in 2004, more than 55 percent of the children born were of immigrant parents • Half of all female scientists in Germany are childless • According to a poll in 2005, more than 40 percent of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold Publisher Comments The tenth parallel, the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator, is the defining metaphor of our time. An ideological front line stretching across two continents and nineteen countries, this is where Christianity and Islam collidea... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004, what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century ( Updated and Expanded) by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments “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, reviewing The World is Flat in 2005. With his... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads by Ervin Laszlo Publisher Comments Breakdown or Breakthrough? We are at a critical juncture in history, a "decision-window" where we face the danger of global collapse--or the opportunity for global renewal. Written by Ervin Laszlo, the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover by Katrina Vanden Heuvel Publisher Comments America’s economy is in meltdown. Banks have failed, foreclosures are sweeping the housing market, and stocks have suffered their worst losses since the Great Depression. Faced with a complex and spiraling crisis, the government has poured billions... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Human Rights Watch World Report (Human Rights Watch World Report) by Human Rights Watch Publisher Comments Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the worlds leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere. Written in straightforward, non... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future by Larry Elliott Publisher Comments Over the past three decades, governments have ceded economic control to a new elite of free-market operatives and their colleagues in national and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. They promised... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) by Kwame Anthon Appiah Publisher Comments Kwame Anthony Appiah's landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of "cosmopolitanism,... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire and Ice by Michael Adams Publisher Comments Canadians have long defined themselves as "not Americans." They cherish their differences from the United States, but as their powerful neighbour grows ever more dominant on the world stage, can they hope to hold on to their national identity? In Fire... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Inventing the 21st Century by Stephen Van Dulken Publisher Comments From the iPod to the Nintendo Wii, the first decade of the twenty-first century has already brought us incredible inventions we could not have imagined before, yet that have already changed how we live our lives and spend our free time. Although the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Anthropology of the European Union by Irene Bellier Publisher Comments One of the problems facing Europe is that the building of institutional Europe and top-down efforts to get Europeans to imagine their common identity do not necessarily result in political and cultural unity. Anthropologists have been slow to consider... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent by Walter Laqueur Publisher Comments A master historian takes us deep into the heart of Europe's current political and financial crisis Walter Laqueur was one of the few experts who predicted Europe's current financial and political crisis when he wrote The Last Days of... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term disaster capitalism. Whether... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Studies in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict #6: No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Internal Wars and Crimes Against Humanity by Patricia Marchak About the Author Patricia Marchak, former dean of arts and professor emerita, University of British Columbia, is the author of several books including Logging the Globe, The Integrated Circus, God's Assassins, and Reigns of Terror.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt Publisher Comments Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares The Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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