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The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West
by Edward Lucas (Author)
Release Date: February 19, 2008

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“Edward Lucas is one of the best-informed, best-connected, and most perceptive journalists writing about Putin’s Russia. The New Cold War is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what is happening in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union today.”–Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag, A History”Edward Lucas’s absorbing book shows the forces that are turning Russia against the West… ( read more )

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Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership
by Madeleine Albright (Author)
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Release Date: January 8, 2008

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Bill Clinton’s secretary of state dispenses advice both geostrategic (The first rule for intervening in a civil war is don’t) and mundane (Leave time for exercise) in this engaging foreign policy primer for the next White House occupant. Much of her wry wisdom concerns the muddled nuts-and-bolts of policy making, covering such topics as the indecipherability of satellite photos, the near-… ( read more )

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Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis
by Scott Bittle (Author), Jean Johnson (Author)
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Release Date: February 12, 2008

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From the editors of the award-winning nonpartisan Web site Public Agenda Online comes this irreverent and candid guide to the federal budget crisis that breaks down into plain English exactly what the fat cats in Washington are arguing about Federal debt will affect your savings, your retirement, your mortgage, your health care, and your children. How well do you understand the government… ( read more )

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Why Women Should Rule the World
by Dee Dee Myers (Author)
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Release Date: February 26, 2008

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What would happen if women ruled the world? Everything could change, according to former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers. Politics would be more collegial. Businesses would be more productive. And communities would be healthier. Empowering women would make the world a better place—not because women are the same as men, but precisely because they are different. Blending memoir,… ( read more )

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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by Eric Weiner (Author)
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Publication Date: January 3, 2008

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Starred Review. Fortified with Eeyoreish fatalism—I’m already unhappy. I have nothing to lose—Weiner set out on a yearlong quest to find the world’s unheralded happy places. Having worked for years as an NPR foreign correspondent, he’d gone to many obscure spots, but usually to report bad news or terrible tragedies. Now he’d travel to countries like Iceland, Bhutan, Qatar, Holland, Switzerland,… ( read more )

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A Letter to America
by David Boren (Author)
Publication Date: February 28, 2008

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A Letter to America boldly faces the question of how long the United States, with only six percent of the world’s population, can remain a global superpower. University of Oklahoma president David Boren explains with unsparing clarity why the country is at a crossroads and why decisive action is urgently needed. He draws on his experiences as the longest-serving chair of the U.S. Senate’s Select… ( read more )

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Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time
by Valerie Bertinelli (Author)
Release Date: February 25, 2008

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A Note to Amazon Readers (and a Q&A) from Valerie Bertinelli Dear Amazon Customer, Glad to see you here and hopefully purchasing my book. I’ve heard if you buy multiple copies it’s a better experience–a better one for me! But seriously, I’m usually on Amazon, too. I’ve been buying books through the site for ten years. I enjoy reading the reviews. I get a good sense of the book, and I like… ( read more )

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Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart (Author), Daniel Klein (Author)
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Publication Date: January 1, 2008

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Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of the national bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, aren’t falling for any election year claptrap—and they don’t want their readers to either! In Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington, our two favorite philosopher-comedians return just in time to save us from the double-speak, flim-flam, and alternate reality of politics in America… ( read more )

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Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq
by Michael Scheuer (Author)
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Release Date: February 12, 2008

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Scheuer, former CIA analyst and trenchant critic of U.S. terrorism policies (Imperial Hubris) develops his argument that America suffers from a collective insistence on sustaining Cold War paradigms in a fundamentally altered world. For all its culpable errors, the current administration is merely the present-day incorporation of willful historical ignorance, a paucity of common sense, and… a… ( read more )

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Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
by Benazir Bhutto (Author)
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Release Date: February 12, 2008

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“It is impossible to understand today’s world without knowing Pakistan; and impossible to understand Pakistan without reading this book. A courageous woman—tragically killed—speaks to us of reconciliation. We owe it to her—and to ourselves—to listen, comprehend, and act.”

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On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting for
by Rick Perry (Author), Ross Perot (Foreword)
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Publication Date: February 12, 2008

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Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
by Anthony Lewis (Author)
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Publication Date: January 2008

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The First Amendment’s injunction that Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press seems cut and dried, but its application has had a vexed history, according to this lucid legal history, Lewis’s first book in 15 years (after Make No Law and Gideon’s Trumpet). Some suppressions of free speech passed constitutional muster in their day: the 1798 Sedition Act… ( read more )

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The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets…And How We Could Have Stopped Him
by Douglas Frantz (Author), Catherine Collins (Author)
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Publication Date: December 3, 2007

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In tackling the story of Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, Frantz and Collins (Death on the Black Sea) are entering a crowded field. As Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark did in Deception (reviewed July 30), this husband-and-wife team divides attention between Khan’s influence over Pakistan’s nuclear program and how the American government ignored evidence of his progress because Pakistan… ( read more )

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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project)
by Chalmers Johnson (Author)
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Release Date: January 22, 2008

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Like ancient Rome, America is saddled with an empire that is fatally undermining its republican government, argues Johnson (The Sorrows of Empire), in this bleak jeremiad. He surveys the trappings of empire: the brutal war of choice in Iraq and other foreign interventions going back decades; the militarization of space; the hundreds of overseas U.S. military bases full of “swaggering soldiers… ( read more )

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Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration’s War on American Values
by Keith Olbermann (Author)
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Release Date: December 26, 2007

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In just two years, MSNBC host Olbermann (The Worst Person in the World) has become one of the most recognized critics of the George W. Bush administration. This book explains how and why Olbermann’s televised special comments began, then reprints them from September 2005 through July 2007, with postcomment explanations. Before becoming a Bush administration critic, Olbermann had achieved fame as… ( read more )

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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang (Author)
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Release Date: December 26, 2007

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Starred Review. In the 1950s, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, suffering the aftereffects of decades of brutal Japanese colonialism and war with its northern counterpart. During his childhood, Chang (Kicking Away the Ladder), a respected economist at the University of Cambridge, witnessed the beginnings of Korea’s postwar economic miracle as Gen. Park Chung-Hee’s… ( read more )

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Comrade J
by Pete Earley (Author)
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Release Date: January 24, 2008

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Reviewed by David WiseThe CIA and the FBI were hugely damaged by the supermoles Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, who ran their own private spy bazaars and peddled vast amounts of U.S. secrets to the Russians for years. No one seemed to notice when Ames drove a red Jaguar XJ6 to CIA headquarters or when the FBI’s Hanssen escorted a stripper to Hong Kong.So it is understandable that the two… ( read more )

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Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
by Fred Kaplan (Author)
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Publication Date: January 29, 2008

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America’s leaders have gone from hubris to waking fantasy, according to this caustic critique of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. Kaplan (The Wizards of Armageddon) argues that the Cold War’s end and 9/11 persuaded President Bush and his advisers to unilaterally impose America’s political will on the world, while remaining blind to the military and diplomatic fiascoes that followed… ( read more )

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Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card–and Lose
by Larry Elder (Author)
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Release Date: February 5, 2008

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Is life unfair for black Americans?Is racial equality the answer to every question of public policy?Are a huge group of citizens being kept down by “the man”?Radio host and bestselling author Larry Elder has made a career out of being a thorn-in-the-side of the conventional wisdom crowd. He deflates the pompous and points out the completely logical truths hidden behind the nutty… ( read more )

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The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation
by Philip Shenon (Author)
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Release Date: January 31, 2008

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In a work of history that will make headlines, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon investigates the investigation of 9/11 and tells the inside story of most important federal commission since the the Warren Commission. Shenon uncovers startling new information about the inner workings of the 9/11 commission and its relationship with the Bush White House. The Commission will change our… ( read more )

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