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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
by Joseph E. Stiglitz  Publisher Comments The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House. Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel...
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The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria Publisher Comments One of our most distinguished thinkers argues that the "rise of the rest" is the great story of our time. "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on...
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Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (A Progressive Guide to Action)
by George Lakoff 
Powells.com Staff Pick Now more than ever, Don't Think of an Elephant is an important resource for progressives in this country. George Lakoff submits that for progressive values to reclaim mainstream America we must transform the language of American politics. "Frames are...
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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny Publisher Comments With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No...
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Paradise & Power
by Robert Kagan Synopsis This title argues that the interests of America and its European allies are diverging sharply. It makes clear how Europe's need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of beliefs about conflict while at the same time the US has become the guarantor...
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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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Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Publisher Comments The author of The Caged Virgin recounts the story of her life, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia and escape from a forced marriage to her efforts to promote women's rights while surviving numerous threats to her safety. 75,000 first...
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
Powells.com Staff Pick "War is seductive," Hedges tells readers in this powerful and intelligent book. Throughout our history, it has appealed to the human mind by providing a false sense of purpose and the opportunity to rise above everyday life. Using examples from his...
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project)
by Chalmers Johnson Publisher Comments The long-awaited final volume of Chalmers Johnson's bestselling Blowback trilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic. In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine...
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt Publisher Comments The Israel Lobby by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London Review of Books in...
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Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq
by Michael Scheuer Publisher Comments When Michael Scheuer first questioned the goals of the Iraq War in his 2004 bestseller Imperial Hubris, policymakers and ordinary citizens alike stood up and took notice. Now, Scheuer offers a scathing and frightening look at how the Iraq War has...
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
Publisher Comments From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposA(c) of international corruptiona and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner...
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Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
by Fred Kaplan Publisher Comments America's power is in decline, its foreign policy adrift, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past eight years is well-known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. In...
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The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna
Powells.com Staff Pick "The Second World will be the definitive guide to world politics for years to come," says the flap copy. Clearly Random House is very high on this book. Could it be publishing's next The World Is Flat? You'd have to read more geopolitical economic theory...
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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
by Michael T Klare Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-274) and index....
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The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal
by J Patrick Oconnor Publisher Comments Sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing a police officer named Daniel Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most famous death row inmate in the United States, if not the world. This book is the first to convincingly show how the Philadelphia Police...
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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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How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy
by Mark Engler Publisher Comments A debate is taking place over what values should define the international order. For global elites, it is a debate about how to rule the world: a conflict between one vision of global order based on U.S. empire and another based on an expanding...
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The Portable Machiavelli
by Niccolo Machiavelli Synopsis This volume of Machiavelli's writings includes seven private letters, "The Prince", "Belfagor", "The Mandrake Root" and "Castruccio Castracani", as well as "The Discourses" (abridged) and substantial parts of "The Art of War" and "The History of Florence"...
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Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American 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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