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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
Richard Lourie · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world.For reasons that are made clear in this book, Putin's Russia will collapse just... |
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God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
Jeffrey Lee · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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"[Jeffrey Lee] brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th century Levant." -- Dan Jones, Sunday Times (UK) In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to Reynald de Chatillon, a knight who had died centuries ago in the crusades.... |
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
KATHRYN MILES · Dutton Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It's a road trip full of surprises. Earthquakes.... |
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Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
Timothy Edgar · Brookings Institution Press Pages: 166 Format: Hardcover
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Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass SurveillanceAmerica's mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored. While Edward Snowden began the process in 2013 with his leaks of top secret documents, the Obama administration's own reforms have also helped... |
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Sujatha Gidla · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 306 Format: Hardcover
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"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new writer." -- The EconomistA... |
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Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Jim Al-Khalili · Picador Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T.... |
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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary
WALTER STAHR · Simon & Schuster Pages: 720 Format: Hardcover
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Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union.Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln, Secretary... |
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