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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill  
Powells.com Staff Pick Enter the secretive world of the most powerful private army on the planet. Here Scahill exposes the disturbing story of Blackwater, a shadowy private company offering specialized military services for hire. A dark study of both the organization and the...
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan....
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War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General
by Smedley D. Butler Publisher Comments A new edition of this anti-war classic written by America's most decorated General....
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Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-wining author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" comes this story of the postwar superpower arms race, which peaked during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war....
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Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
by Alex Abella Publisher Comments The first-ever popular history of the RAND Corporation, written with full access to its archives, Soldiers of Reason is a page-turning chronicle of the rise of the secretive think tank that has been the driving force behind American government for...
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The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed: With New Sections on India and Pakistan, Terrorism, and Missile Defense
by Scott Douglas Sagan Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-206) and index....
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The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
by Robert Scheer Publisher Comments In the course of his forty-year-career as one of America's most admired journalists, Robert Scheer's work has been praised by Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, and Joan Didion, who deems him one of the best reporters of our time. Now, Scheer brings a lifetime of...
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The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
by Andrew J Bacevich Publisher Comments In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives, and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology--of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith...
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House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
by James Carroll Publisher Comments From the National Book Award-winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast -- often hidden -- impact on America. This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most...
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The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives
by Nick Turse Publisher Comments A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life—a real-world Matrix come alive Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex—an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain...
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Plague Wars the Terrifying Reality of Bi
by Tom Mangold Publisher Comments Anthrax. Plague. Smallpox. Ebola. These are the weapons of the future-- microscopic organisms produced in laboratories and unleashed on unwitting populations to reproduce, spread, and kill. They are as deadly as atomic bombs, much cheaper to create, and...
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Licensed To Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (07 Edition)
by Pelton Publisher Comments Robert Young Pelton first became aware of the phenomenon of hired guns in the War on Terror when he met a covert team of contractors on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in the fall of 2003. Pelton soon embarked on a globe-spanning odyssey to penetrate and...
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Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community
by Jon Hunner Publisher Comments A social history of New Mexico's "Atomic City"...
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Dew of Death: The Story of Lewisite, America's World War I Weapon of Mass Destruction
by Joel A Vilensky Publisher Comments A timely, riveting history of America's World War I project to develop a deadly chemical weapon....
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Imperial Overstretch
by Roger Burbach Publisher Comments A disturbing analysis of the prospects for the US presidency and its global ambitions....
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Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible
by Douglas Farah Synopsis The fast-paced true story of the man who changed the face of modern war- and the international quest to stop him In Merchant of Death, two respected journalists tell the incredible story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network...
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Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know
by Jeremy Bernstein Synopsis Bernstein, former science writer at "The New Yorker," and an observer of two nuclear tests in the Nevada desert, brings a unique first-hand knowledge to the subject of nuclear technology. Along the way, he mixes the science with descriptions of the...
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The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (Radical Imagination)
by Henry A. Giroux Publisher Comments President Eisenhower originally included academic in the draft of his landmark, oft-quoted speech on the military-industrial-complex. Giroux tells why Eisenhower saw the academy as part of the famous complex--and how his warning was vitally prescient for...
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Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond
by Michael Parenti Publisher Comments A penetrating analysis of the hidden political, economic, and religious agendas behind the September 11 attacks and the war, with an emphasis on Afghanistan's history and the U.S.-led globalization process that has impoverished and angered much of the...
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The War Complex: World War II in Our Time
by Marianna Torgovnick Publisher Comments Marianna Torgovnick here argues that we have lived, since the end of World War II, under the power of a war complex—a set of repressed ideas and impulses that stems from our unresolved attitudes toward the technological acceleration of mass death...
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