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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.) by Samantha Power Publisher Comments In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power—a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—asks the haunting question... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power Publisher Comments At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradoxunwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, Well Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein 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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria Publisher Comments differently."Washington Post A modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, The Future of Freedom is, as the Chicago Tribune put it, "essential reading for anyone worried about the promotion and preservation of liberty.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan Publisher Comments In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs Publisher Comments Jeffrey D. Sachs has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as andldquo;probably the most important economist in the worldandrdquo; and by Time as andldquo;the worldandrsquo;s best-known economist.andrdquo; He has advised an extraordinary range of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Public Planet Books) by Arjun Appadurai Publisher Comments A leading theorist of globalization provides a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power by Joseph Margulies Publisher Comments The detention system established by the Bush Administration at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba is like no other in our nation's history. Joseph Margulies traces the development of this detention policy from its ill-conceived creation in 2002 as... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and 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... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption by Steven Hiatt Publisher Comments John Perkins's sensational New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (more than 300,000 sold) revealed just the tip of the iceberg of the secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption. Now more economic hit men and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Living Beyond War: A Citizen's Guide by Winslow Myers Synopsis After thousands of years, the dream of a world without war may seem hopelessly unrealistic. But, as Winslow Myers shows in this concise, eloquent primer, what is truly unrealistic is the notion that war remains a reasonable solution to the conflicts on... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by andlt;iandgt;Business Week andlt;/iandgt;and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled to the four corners of the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life Brazilian peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new entrepreneurs in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health by Meredith Fort Publisher Comments In this powerful and accessible collection of new essays, international scholars and activists examine how official and corporate actors of globalization-including multinationals, the IMF and World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and "first world... (read more) List Price $22.75 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth about North Korea, Iran, and Syria by Bruce Cumings Publisher Comments Three renowned experts set the record straight on North Korea, Iran, and Syria--the countries caught in the crosshairs of the Bush Administration.... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz Publisher Comments The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency was an underground hit, going into nine printings of the hardcover edition. His shocking vision for our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders and was the subject of much... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sergio (10 Edition) by Samantha Power Publisher Comments The inspiring profile of one man's courage and compassion-now a feature documentary from HBO(tm) films In this perfect match of author and subject, Pulitzer Prize-winner Samantha Power tackles the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose work for the U.N... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Constitution for the European Union (Cesifo Seminar Series) by Charles Be Blankart Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;The leaders of European Union member states have declared that a European constitution should take "a clear, open, effective, democratically controlled Community approach." Their goal -- that within the Union, "European institutions should... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 really means when it talks about “compassionate conservativism” and “the war on terror.” Roy has characteristic fun in... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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