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Shock Doctrine : the Rise of Disaster Capitalism (07 Edition)
by Naomi Klein  
Powells.com Staff Pick To be honest, I could not finish this book. It made me too angry. These are the stories about our country you don't want to know. Naomi Klein has cast a spotlight on the dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of the American dream. The Shock Doctrine...
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
by Paul Collier Publisher Comments Global poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating...
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The World is Flat
by Thomas Friedman Publisher Comments The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization – a ‘flattening’ of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means...
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher Comments When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence...
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century ( Updated and Expanded)
by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman’s account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before—creating an explosion of...
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
by Franklin Foer Publisher Comments Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross-currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a...
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments A new edition of the phenomenal #1 bestseller. "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The...
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The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
by Jeremy Rifkin Publisher Comments New in paperback comes the national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe....
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Planet of Slums (06 Edition)
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and...
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The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent
by Walter Laqueur Publisher Comments • In Brussels in 2004, more than 55 percent of the children born were of immigrant parents • Half of all female scientists in Germany are childless • According to a poll in 2005, more than 40 percent...
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Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
by Ian Buruma Publisher Comments Ian Buruma returns to his native land to explore the great dilemma of our time through the story of the brutal murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of an Islamic extremist. It was the emblematic crime of our moment: On a...
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Murder in Amsterdam : Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence (07 Edition)
by Ian Buruma Publisher Comments In 2004, the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist for making a movie that insulted the prophet Mohammed. Buruma returned to his native land to investigate the shocking event and its larger...
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Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu
by Yaroslav Trofimov Publisher Comments An eye-opening political travelogue that reveals the Muslim world as never before Drawing on reporting from more than a dozen Islamic countries, Faith at War offers an unforgettable portrait of the Muslim world after September 11. Choosing to invert the...
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Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka
by Sumantra Bose Publisher Comments The search for durable peace in lands torn by ethno-national conflict is among the most urgent issues of international politics. Looking closely at five flashpoints of regional crisis, Sumantra Bose asks the question upon which our global future may...
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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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Chaos Point (06 Edition)
by Lazlo Synopsis Previously published in hardcover as Macroshift (Berrett-Koehler, 2001), The Chaos Point tells us that we are at a critical point in history, one in which resources are fast being depleted, hundreds of millions live in crushing poverty, and local choices...
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The European Dream
by Jeremy Rifkin
Powells.com Staff Pick "[Rikfin's] major achievement in The European Dream is to draw together and cohere the complex historical, philosophical, and theological forces that have created such very different worldviews for shaping the future for us and our neighbors across the...
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My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing
by Christoph Reuter Publisher Comments What kind of people are suicide bombers? How do they justify their actions? In this meticulously researched and sensitively written book, journalist Christoph Reuter argues that popular views of these young men and women--as crazed fanatics or...
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Gruesome Acts of Capitalism: Second Edition
by David Lester Publisher Comments 'A beautiful book full of hard numbers. Located at the intersection of the statistical and the artistic, this catalog of corporate horrors—poverty, exploitation, and injustice—is a damning indictment of capitalism created with both love and...
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The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future
by James Martin Publisher Comments According to James Martin-known as "the guru of the Information Age"-humanity is at a crucial turning point. If we succeed in finding ways to support massive gains in population combined with dizzying technological progress, we have a magnificent future...
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