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The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn't
by Cliff Schecter  Synopsis Thinking about voting for McCain? Read this book. Cliff Schecter's hard-hitting profile explores the gap between the public record of Senator John McCain and his media image. Drawing on a range of sources and adding his unique perspective and humor...
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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...
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill
Publisher Comments Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen Ambrose
Powells.com Staff Pick At the heart of the immense and growing interest in Lewis and Clark in recent years stands this book. WWII historian Stephen Ambrose had long harbored a private obsession for the Expedition of the Corps of Discovery, and in Undaunted Courage he...
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
by William Easterly Publisher Comments A professor of economics pens an informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, and provides constructive suggestions on how to move forward....
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The Essential Chomsky
by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his eightieth birthday. For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a...
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Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
by Philip Bobbitt Publisher Comments The author of "The Shield of Achilles" brings together historical, legal, and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a "war on terror." Challenging, provocative, and insightful, this work addresses the deepest themes of governance, liberty, and...
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The End of Food
by Paul Roberts Publisher Comments Paul Roberts, best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic needs is failing dramatically. In this carefully researched, vividly recounted narrative...
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Long Walk To Freedom (94 Edition)
by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his...
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Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire
by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments Just in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration reallymeans when it talks about "compassionate conservativism"and "the war on terror."Roy has characteristic fun in these essays, skewering the...
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Freakonomics (Rev 06 Edition)
by Steven D. Levitt
Powells.com Staff Pick "What makes this book fascinating is the way that Levitt uses advanced economic techniques — the kind that would knock me unconscious quicker than chloroform if I had to read them in a textbook — and applies them to seemingly unexplainable...
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright Publisher Comments A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on...
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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
by Thomas Frank Publisher Comments With a new afterword by the author The New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny...the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests" (Molly Ivins) Hailed as...
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Lincoln : Photobiography (87 Edition)
by Russell Freedman
Publisher Comments This 1988 Newbery Medal Book tells the story of Abraham Lincoln with photographs and prints, providing a vivid look at the life and times of one of the nation's great leaders....
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Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing
by Tim Shorrock Publisher Comments In Spies for Hire, investigative reporter Tim Shorrock lifts the veil off a major story the government doesn't want us to know about -- the massive outsourcing of top secret intelligence activities to private-sector contractors. Running spy networks...
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher Comments No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking...
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Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf Publisher Comments Each of them is one in a million. They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most...
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Roots for Radicals (03 Edition)
by Edward T. Chambers Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-148) and index....
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The Prince (Bantam Classics)
by Machiavelli And Donno Publisher Comments Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. ...
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The Principles of Uncertainty
by Maira Kalman
Publisher Comments Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, and part travelogue. Her whimsical paintings, ideas, and images address the larger...
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