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The World According to Tomdispatch: America and the Age of Empire
by Tom Engelhardt  Publisher Comments From America's most influential political blog, a grand survey of the world since 9/11. Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored web platform for radical commentators from Noam Chomsky to...
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The No-Nonsense Guide to the United Nations (No-Nonsense Guides)
by Maggie Black Publisher Comments In the first book to distill the entire history of the United Nations into one accessible volume, Maggie Black explains how this complex organization works and explores its successes, failings, and current limitations. The book includes the creation of...
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges 
Publisher Comments General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many...
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Why Nations Go to War
by John G Stoessinger Publisher Comments Transmitting an understanding of warfare from World War I to the present, WHY NATIONS GO TO WAR, a unique book and a product of reflection by author, John G. Stoessinger, is built around ten case studies, culminating in the new wars that ushered in the...
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Using Terri: The Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights
by Jon B. Eisenberg Publisher Comments The Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over abortion, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, gay rights, and the appointment of federal judges. The religious Right chose to make it a national spectacle because...
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The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
by Mark Hertsgaard
Publisher Comments What America looks like to the rest of the worldAmericans rarely used to think about the outside world. As the mightiest nation in history, the United States could do as it pleased. Now Americans have learned the hard way that what outsiders think...
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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
by John Ghazvinian Publisher Comments Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the...
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Cases in Comparative Politics 2ND Edition
by Patrick H Oneil Publisher Comments The Essentials of Comparative Politics family— including a core textbook, reader, and casebook of country studies—is the most comprehensive, flexible, and affordable package for introductory courses. For this Second Edition, each book has been...
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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 30-year relationship between the Bush family and the house of Saud and explains its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national security....
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Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century
by Julia Sweig Publisher Comments In 1945 the U.S. was the founding impulse behind the cornerstones of the International Community: the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and most of all the United Nations. Untainted by colonialism or fascism, heroic in warfare and idealistic at...
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The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. The inviolability of the American mainland, breached for the first time since 1812, led to...
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Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia
by Rachel Bronson Publisher Comments For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson reveals why the partnership became so intimate and how the countries...
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Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating
by Thomas P M Barnett Publisher Comments Military analyst Barnett provides a fundamental reexamination of war and peace in the post 9/11 world and a compelling vision of the future. Paying particular attention to the Middle and Far East, Africa, and Latin America, he outlines strategies to...
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International Relations : Path Not Taken (06 Edition)
by Thomas J. Schoenbaum Publisher Comments This book addresses the main aspects of International Relations....
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Colossus: The Price of America's Empire
by Niall Ferguson
Publisher Comments Is America an empire? Certainly not, according to our government. Despite the conquest of two sovereign states in as many years, despite the presence of more than 750 military installations in two thirds of the world's countries and despite his stated...
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The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World
by Ann Florini Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-241) and index....
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The Rise and Fall of Development Theory
by Colin Leys Publisher Comments This book is a 'stock-taking' of development theory at the end of the twentieth century. It argues that the assumptions on which development theory has rested since the 1950s no longer hold. The ex-colonial 'third world' for which development theory was...
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Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--And Why They Fall
by Amy Chua Publisher Comments Bestselling author Amy Chua examines historys hyperpowers--Persia, Rome, China, the Mongols, the Dutch, the British, and the United States--and reveals the reasons behind their success and the roots of their ultimate demise....
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Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
by Michael Moore Publisher Comments In the winter of 2002, Stupid White Men took America -- and the world -- by storm. Tired and skeptical of George W. Bush's high approval ating, frightened by the implications of the Enron scandal -- and generally just looking for a voice of honest...
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Empire
by Michael Hardt Publisher Comments Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and...
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