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Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey by Michael Dobbs Publisher Comments Since becoming secretary of state in 1997, Madeleine Albright has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in the Clinton administration and the chief architect of American foreign policy in the Balkans. As Michael Dobbs makes clear in this timely and... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $2.48 Used - Hardcover 
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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller-an unprecedented look into the life and character of the woman who raised a president. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father but credited his mother for "what is best in me." Still, little is known... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank Publisher Comments With a New Afterword by the Author The New York Times bestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests" (Molly Ivins) Hailed as... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy by Noah Feldman Publisher Comments A brave and timely examination of America's great dilemma in the Muslim world Published just as the United States went to war in Iraq, After Jihad put Noah Feldman "into the center of an unruly brawl now raging in policy circles over what to do with the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman Publisher Comments "A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." —Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Essential Marx (06 Edition) by Leon Trotsky Publisher Comments Shortly before he was assassinated in 1940, Trotsky made this selection from Capital, to which he appended his own lengthy and insightful introduction. Compact and fascinating, this invaluable work not only presents Marx's thoughts in his own words, it... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger Publisher Comments In a brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive book, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explains the art of diplomacy and reveals why Americans have historically repudiated both the style and substance of diplomacy as it is practiced... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy Publisher Comments About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How Would a Patriot Act? by Glenn Greenwald Publisher Comments Glenn Greenwald was not a political man. Not liberal, not conservative. Politicians were all the same and it didn't matter which party was in power. Extremists on both ends canceled each other out, and the United States would essentially remain forever... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill Publisher Comments A classic study of govenrment repression against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom by Gary A Haugen Publisher Comments "Terrify No More" focuses on the dramatic rescue of dozens of young sex slaves in a small village outside of Phnom Pehn, and uses flashbacks to tell the stories of many other victims who were given a second chance at life by the International Justice... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision for Enforceable Global Law by Jerry Tetalman Publisher Comments In One World Democracy, authors Jerry Tetalman and Byron Belitsos describe the only known long-term solution to the urgent global problems that threaten the survival of humankind: democratic world government and the rule of law at the global level—a... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) by Philippa Strum Publisher Comments In the Chicago suburb of Skokie, one out of every six Jewish citizens in the late 1970s was a survivor -- or was directly related to a survivor -- of the Holocaust. These victims of terror had resettled in America expecting to lead peaceful lives free... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Living My Life, Vol. 2 by Emma Goldman Publisher Comments Volume 2 of the candid, no-holds-barred account by foremost American anarchist Goldman continues with the fascinating story of her life. Includes eye-opening information on the anarchist movement, details on the author's famous contemporaries... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Right to Be Lazy: Essays by Paul Lafargue by Paul Lafargue Publisher Comments At once a masterpiece of critical theory and rip-roaring radical humor, this is one of the most spirited attacks on the notion of the "work ethic" ever to be published. Featuring a revised edition of the original English translation by Charles Hope Kerr,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of War by John Horgan Synopsis War is a fact of human nature. As long as we exist, it exists. That's how the argument goes. But longtime Scientific American writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking,... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Death in the Haymarket : Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (06 Edition) by James Green Publisher Comments A study of America's early labor movement and the 1886 Haymarket bombing at a Chicaco labor rally that killed several police officers discusses the events of the infamous attack, its sensational aftermath, and its devastating repercussions in terms of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Staff Pick In this thought-provoking and profoundly inspiring book, Kristof and WuDunn reveal the cruel and maddening reality faced by women who experience violence and oppression. Half the Sky will stir feelings of admiration and discomfort, and hopefully sow the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Top Secret America (11 Edition) by Dana Priest Publisher Comments The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising by Starhawk Publisher Comments Writing from the front lines, Starhawk chronicles the global justice movement sparked by Seattle's 1999 anti-World Trade Organization protest. A life-long activist, Starhawk is deeply involved as a direct action participant and trainer in the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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