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By: Nan Mooney
Published by: Beacon Press
 Price: $16.00 |
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The first book to exclusively target the struggles of the professional middle class-educated individuals who purposely choose humanistic, intellectual, or creative pursuits-Nan Mooney's (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents is a simultaneously sobering and proactive work that captures a diversity of voi... More...
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By: Sheldon Lipshutz, MD
Published by: Silver Lake Publishing
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Price: $17.95 |
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10 Things You Need to Know Before You See the Doctor
A Physician's Advice from More than 40 Years of Practicing Medicine
Sheldon Lipshutz M.D.
ISBN: 1-56343-781-3
Trade Paperback (6"x9")
286 pages More...
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By: Simon Johnson
Published by: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Even after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America is still beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks--Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan S... More...
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By: Andrew Krepinevich
Published by: Random House Publishing Group
A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border. Major American cities are leveled by black-market nukes. China's growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown. Pakistan's collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons. What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How wi... More...
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By: Dave Oatley
Published by: Silver Lake Publishing
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Price: $14.95 |
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Is the news getting you down? Silver Lake Publishing has a cure for these blues. 88% OF AMERICANS ARE ABNORMAL: The Bentinel Takes a Skewed Look at the News puts things back in proper perspective.
The crack staff of satirists and Internet wits at TheBentinel.com has compiled a collection of their be... More...
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By: Noam Chomsky
Published by: Seven Stories Press
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Price: $11.95 |
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In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post 9-11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting through the tangle of political opportunism, expedient patriotism, and general conform... More...
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By: The Guardian, Ed Pilkington, Phil Daoust
Published by: Guardian Books
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Price: $3.87 |
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A book of insight, reaction and analysis to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11.A decade after that fateful autumn day, the extraordinary images and memories remain with us – where we were when we heard the news; how we felt at seeing the first, then the second tower collapse. 9/11: Ten Year... More...
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By: Lawrence Freedman
Published by: Public Affairs
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Price: $23.99 |
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It is in the Middle East that the U.S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. The history of the U.S. in the Middle East, then, becomes an especially revealing mirror on America's view of its role in the wider world. In this wise, obje... More...
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By: Jorge Ramos
Published by: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
For decades, fixing the United States' broken immigration system has been one of the most urgent challenges facing our country, and time and time again, politicians have passed the buck. With anti-immigrant sentiment rising around the country, as evidenced by the passage of a controversial new law i... More...
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By: Diane Austin-Broos
Published by: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
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Price: $28.28 |
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An exploration of why both the right and left of politics have so failed remote Aboriginal Australians and why until policymakers and researchers take into account both cultural difference and inequality, we will not come anywhere near closing the gap.A must read for anybody with a serious interest ... More...
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By: Krishna Chaitanya
Published by: Abhinav Publications
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Price: $16.99 |
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The present volume takes up the thread from the urals, and continue it with miniatures. It is the author's idea that the miniature was oriignally derived fromt eh mural that is reflected in this volume. More...
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By: David Horovitz
Published by: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
When David Horovitz emigrated from England to Israel in 1983, it was the fulfillment of a dream. But today, a husband and a father, he is torn between hope and despair, between the desire to make a difference and fear for his family's safety, between staying and going. In this candid and powerful bo... More...
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By: Alan Ramsey
Published by: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
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Price: $31.81 |
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A celebration of twenty-two years of writing about politics by one of Australia's most incisive and provocative political journalists.There is no one now, and no one coming along, who can write like this.' - David Marr'A lion of a journalist in every way.' - Michelle Grattan'For years his column has... More...
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By: Peter Steinfels
Published by: Simon & Schuster
In A People Adrift, a prominent Catholic thinker states bluntly that the Catholic Church in the United States must transform itself or suffer irreversible decline. Peter Steinfels shows how even before the recent revelations about sexual abuse by priests, the explosive combination of generational ch... More...
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By: Michael Waldman
Published by: Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Price: $16.95 |
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IMAGINE AN AMERICA IN WHICH a vast number of people routinely vote; where voting is easy, accessible to all, and fair; in which campaigns know they cannot win by dividing slivers of the electorate, but by energizing large numbers behind their plans and ideas. This America is Seven Steps Away. A Retu... More...
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By: Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Burry, Tatiana Tulchinsky
Published by: University of Chicago Press
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Price: $17.00 |
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Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Russian domination for centuries. The region declared its independence in 1991, leading to a brutal war, Russian withdrawal, and subsequent "governance" by bandits and warlords. A series of apartment building attacks ... More...
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By: Jon Fink
Published by: Cutting Edge Press
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Price: $3.23 |
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Published to coincide with the centenary of the Houndsditch Murders in December 2010, A Storm in the Blood tells the story of the Latvian revolutionaries who killed three officers of the Metropolitan Police. The parallel between the suicide ideologues of the time and contemporary terrorists, willing... More...
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By: Christiane Bird
Published by: Random House Publishing Group
Though the Kurds played a major military and tactical role in the United States' recent war with Iraq, most of us know little about this fiercely independent, long-marginalized people. Now acclaimed journalist Christiane Bird, who riveted readers with her tour of Islamic Iran in Neither East Nor Wes... More...
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By: Robert Moore
Published by: Crown Publishing Group
Ona quiet Saturday morning in August 2000, two explosions--one so massive it was detected by seismologists around the world--shot through the shallow Arctic waters of the Barents Sea. Russia's prized submarine, the Kursk, began her fatal plunge to the ocean floor. Award-winning journalist Robert Moo... More...
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By: Carl Bernstein
Published by: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Drawing from hundreds of interviews with colleagues, friends and with unique access to campaign records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Carl Bernstein offers a complex and nuanced portrait of one of the most controversial figures of our time: Hillary Clinton. He has given us a book th... More...
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