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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe

George Friedman · Doubleday
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years) , with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines "flashpoints," unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted throughout...
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Two Presidents Are Better Than One: The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch

David Orentlicher · NYU Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

“Can Orentlicher be serious in calling for a plural executive? The answer is yes, and he presents thoughtful and challenging arguments responding to likely criticisms. Any readers who are other than completely complacent about the current state of American politics will have to admire...
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Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution

Frederic C Rich · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 361
Format: Print book

"Regardless of your place on the political spectrum, there is much to admire in this book, which reminds us that the stewardship of nature is an obligation shared by all Americans." -- U.S. Senator Angus S. King Jr.The Green movement in America has lost its way. Pew polling reveals...
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If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

Eric Metaxas · Viking
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin...
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Fast Future: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World

David D. Burstein · Beacon Press; First Edition / First Printing edition
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A millennial examines how his generation is profoundly impacting politics, business, media, and activismThey’ve been called trophy kids, entitled, narcissistic, the worst employees in history, and even the dumbest generation. But, argues David Burstein, the millennial generation’s...
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After bin Laden: Al Qaeda, the Next Generation

Abdel Bari Atwan · New Press, The; Reprint edition

Osama bin Laden is dead, but Al Qaeda remains the CIA’s “number one threat.” Yet since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, the organization has evolved into a much more complex and far-flung entity, even as American military strikes have killed its most identifiable...
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The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror

Arun Kundnani · Verso
Format: Hardcover

Death came instantly to Imam Luqman, as four FBI agents fired semiautomatic rifles at him from a few feet away. Another sixty officers surrounded the building on that October morning, the culmination of a two-year undercover investigation that had infiltrated the...
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The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts

Dominic Tierney · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Why has America stopped winning wars? For nearly a century, up until the end of World War II in 1945, America enjoyed a Golden Age of decisive military triumphs. And then suddenly, we stopped winning wars. The decades since have been a Dark Age of failures and stalemates-in Korea, Vietnam,...
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The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

Bruce Katz · Brookings Institution Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won’t, or can’t, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders – mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists –...
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