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Inside Congress: The Shocking Scandals Corruption and Abuse of Power Behind the Scenes on Capit
by Ronald Kessler  Publisher Comments MONEY, SEX, AND SELF-INTEREST TAKEN CONTROL OF CAPITOL HILL Now more than ever, Congress runs the country. But who is running Congress? New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Ronald Kessler takes you behind the scenes, conducting...
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Narrating Political Reconciliation: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
by Claire Moon Book News Annotation Incorporating the work of Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser on truth, power, the state, and subjectivity and Hayden White and Frank Kermode on narrative performance, Moon (sociology of human rights, London School of Economics and Political Science...
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War Talk
by Arundhati Roy 
Publisher Comments As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays. The...
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American Dream, Global Nightmare
by Ziauddin Sardar Publisher Comments There is something deeply wrong with America. The American dream has become a global nightmare from which we all need to awake as quickly as possible. The American Empire is now an unavoidable fact of life for the whole planet. In their previous...
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The World Trade Organisation: A Guide to New Frameworks for International Trade
by Bhagirath Lal Das Publisher Comments The WTO Agreements are rewriting wholesale the rules of economic intercourse between countries. This detailed and intelligible guide is for those negotiators, trade policy officials, executives in industry and students of international economic relations...
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Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy
by Bates Gill Publisher Comments Chinas diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid- 1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for the United States. U.S. policymakers have only just begun to comprehend these critical changes, however, and all too often their...
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Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Re-Shaping the World
by Benjamin R Barber Publisher Comments Barber offers a bold lens through which to understand the chaotic events of the post-Cold War world and, in the tradition of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, explains the forces at work, why democracy...
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments Gore Vidal's commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 was deemed not publishable in the United States. His Italian publisher issued this book a few months ago, which became an instant #1 best seller there. German, French, Spanish, Portugese, and...
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The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Crisis of Weapons of Mass Destruction
by Jonathan Schell Publisher Comments Pointing to the dangers presented by the 30,000 nuclear weapons still in existence, the unravelling of the ABM treaty, and the arrival of nuclear weapons in South Asia, amongst other disastrous developments, Schell suggests that the world now faces an...
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The Bottomless Well: The Twilgiht of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
by Peter W Huber Publisher Comments Subtitled, "The Twilight Of Fuel, The Virtue Of Waste & Why We Will Never Run Out Of Energy"....
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House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
by Craig Unger Publisher Comments Newsbreaking and controversial -- an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud and explains its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national security. House of...
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Allies: The U.S. and Europe After Iraq
by William Shawcross Publisher Comments The Cold War certainties that had seemed so fixed in the 20th Century were overturned by the war in Iraq. Saddam Hussein's Republican Guards were the battlefield victims of a brutally quick war of shock and awe. No less shocked and awed were some of...
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
by Walter Russell Mead Publisher Comments An illuminating account of the birth and rise of the global political and economic system that, sustained first by Britain and now by America, created the modern world. Walter Russell Mead, one of our most distinguished foreign policy experts, makes...
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Politics of Latin America: The Power Game
by Harry E Vanden Publisher Comments Politics of Latin America explores both the evolution and the current state of the political scene in Latin America. Distinguishing itself from more traditional works on Latin American politics, this text demonstrates a nuanced sensitivity to the use and...
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Loeb Classical Library #463: Declamations: Volume I. Controversiae, Books 1-6
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher Comments Roman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece: declamation, the making of practice speeches on imaginary subjects. There were...
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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Economic and Political Origins
by Daron Acemoglu Publisher Comments What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authorities on this subject in the world, this volume develops a framework for analyzing the creation and...
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Flashpoint: How the U.S., India, and Pakistan Brought Us to the Brink of Nuclear War
by J Sri Raman Publisher Comments How did we reach the edge of the nuclear abyss in 2002? In a stunning portrait of a complex region, J. Sri Raman demonstrates that by becoming "allies" in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, India and Pakistan have actually become more implacable adversaries...
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Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia
by Alexander Cockburn Publisher Comments A decade of war reports from the pages of the award-winning newsletter CounterPunch, predict with chilling accuracy how the invasions would unfold and their blood soaked aftermath....
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State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
by Bob Woodward Publisher Comments "Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year." This was the secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006. The forecast of a more violent...
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Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
by Michael Scheuer Publisher Comments When Imperial Hubris first came out in 2004, the greatest danger for Americans confronting the Islamist threat was to believe-at the urging of U.S. leaders-that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do. The now...
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