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Truman
by David McCullough  
Publisher Comments The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this...
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Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize Winner -- and Now an Epic PBS Series The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and...
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
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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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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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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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins Publisher Comments The world of business is changing — fast. The prevailing model for creating wealth — which has its roots in the industrial revolution and which dominated the last century — no longer applies. Natural Capitalism introduces an alternative, a...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen E 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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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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America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by Jon Stewart
From Powells.com Why do we love America so much? For the much-celebrated naked pictures of Supreme Court justices? The flashbacks to those stultifyingly dull high school textbooks? Or can it be that seeing the polished irreverence of the Daily Show writers in book form...
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Mao Zedong: A Life
by Jonathan Spence Publisher Comments An intimate history of one of the most formidable and elusive rulers in modern history From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak leadership, colonialism,...
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Homo Sacer : Sovereign Power and Bare Life (98 Edition)
by Giorgio Agamben Publisher Comments “Agamben’s intuition, chronicle and meditation are fascinating.”—The Review of Politics “The story of homo sacer is certainly worth reading because of its suggestiveness and provocations.”—Modernism...
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The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller Publisher Comments An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Keller’s story has become a symbol of...
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Mein Kampf (43 Edition)
by Adolf Hitler Publisher Comments 'In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were...
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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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Robert's Rules of Order in Brief
by Henry M Robert Publisher Comments Going to a meeting? Want to know how to take part? Learn quickly and easily! This short, simple book includes: Sample dialogues to get you confidently through motions, nominations, elections, votes, debates, amendments, and more Invaluable tips for...
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Six Wives of Henry VIII (91 Edition)
by Alison Weir Publisher Comments The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on...
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Democracy's Edge : Choosing To Save Our Country By Bringing Democracy To Life (06 Edition)
by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments Three out of five Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, feel our country is headed in the wrong direction. America is at the edge, a critical place at which we can either renew and revitalize or give in and lose that most precious American ideal...
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Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Wolf Publisher Comments Since this classic work was originally published in 1984, there have been major shifts in the nonprofit world -- the growth of more profit-oriented ventures, the overhaul of accounting rules, new partnerships, and an emphasis on customer-oriented...
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God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (Plus)
by Jim Wallis Publisher Comments New York Times bestseller God's Politics struck a chord with Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk about integrating religious values into our politics, and with the Left, who were mute on the subject. Jim Wallis argues that...
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Bitter Fruit -revised and Expanded ((Rev)05 Edition)
by Stephen Schlesinger Publisher Comments Bitter Fruitis a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the...
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