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Being Berlusconi: The Rise and Fall from Cosa Nostra to Bunga Bunga
Michael Day · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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People from all walks of life are appalled and fascinated in equal measure by the stratospheric political career of the tycoon and three-time Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.Michael Day provides an in depth look at the life and crimes of the shameless media mogul until his nine... |
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The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East
Juan Cole · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole takes us inside the youth movements in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, showing us how activists used technology and social media to amplify their message and connect with like-minded citizens The New York Times in this rousing study of the Arab... |
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy Hansen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Suzy Hansen left her country and moved to Istanbul and discovered AmericaIn the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York... |
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One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
ANDREA PITZER · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration campsFor over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope... |
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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
George Friedman · Doubleday
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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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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KING OF SPIES
BLAINE HARDEN · Center Point
Pages: 500
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In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was repairing Jeeps on the sleepy island of Guam when he caught the eye of recruiters from the army's Counter Intelligence Corps. After just three months' training, he was sent to Korea. Though he lacked the pedigree of most U. S. spies -- Nichols... |
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The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea
Bill Emmott · The Economist
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The West has long been a font of stability, prosperity, and security. Yet when faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth, and solidifying power. We have seen it in Japan, France, and Italy in the past,... |
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Bill Clinton: The American Presidents Series: The 42nd President, 1993-2001
Michael Tomasky · Times Books
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
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The president of larger-than-life ambitions and appetites whose term defined America at the close of the twentieth centuryBill Clinton: a president of contradictions. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Yale Law School graduate, but he was also a fatherless child from rural Arkansas. He was one of the most... |
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
Sybrina Fulton · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 331
Format: Print book
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Trayvon Martin's parents take readers beyond the news cycle with an account only they could give: the intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement. On a February evening in 2012, in a small town in central Florida, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking... |
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Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government and Politics, 2E
Franco Scardino · Alpha Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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Do you really know how the U.S. government operates? Most Americans have simply forgotten what they learned in their high school government class. Providing an updated history and comprehensive overview, Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government & Politics, Second Edition, is written to help... |
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Kurt Andersen · Random House
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest... |
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Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
Reinier de Graaf · Harvard University Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof challenges this notion, presenting a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect.Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, Reinier de Graaf... |
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Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right
KENNETH STERN · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Widening the dialogue begun with Strangers in Their Own Land and Hillbilly Elegy, a former NPR CEO and lifelong Democrat's chronicle of his immersion in Republicanism to understand his fellow Americans across the political divide.Ken Stern doesn't believe that our political world... |
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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power
ALFRED MCCOY · Haymarket Books
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
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In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power - from the 1890s through the Cold War - and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military... |
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