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The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
Luke Harding · Vintage Books
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback |
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IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: "I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National... |
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Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World
Peter Navarro · Prometheus Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover |
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Will there be war with China? This book provides the most complete and accurate assessment of the probability of conflict between the United States and the rising Asian superpower. Equally important, it lays out an in-depth analysis of the possible pathways to peace. Written like a geopolitical... |
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Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto
Matt Kibbe · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover |
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In this essential manifesto of the new libertarian movement, New York Times bestselling author and president of FreedomWorks Matt Kibbe makes a stand for individual liberty and shows us what we must do to preserve our freedom.Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff is a rational... |
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Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America
Richard B Cheney · Threshold Editions, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 324
Format: Print book |
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In this New York Times bestseller, with a new afterword by authors former vice president Dick Cheney, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and his daughter Liz Cheney, former deputy assistant secretary of state, they explain the unique and indispensable nature of American power, reveal... |
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Why Bernie Sanders Matters
Harry Jaffe · Regan Arts, 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Missionary. Radical. Hippy. Revolutionary. Red Mayor. Pragmatist. Socialist. Hot from the campaign trail, a vivid new biography that goes inside Bernie Sanders's contradictions, his unusual life, and his electrifying quest to make the American dream a reality for all.Vermont Senator Bernie... |
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House of Debt: How They
Atif Mian · The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Pages: 219
Format: Print book |
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The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession - that the total... |
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Customer-Based Collection Development: An Overview
Karl Bridges · Amer Library Association
Pages: 205
Format: Print book |
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This traditional "tod down" approach to collection development definitely has its drawbacks; even after spending a good deal of time, energy, and resources, librarians are sometimes frustrated to find that their library's collection is not being used as they anticipated. Bur there'a... |
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Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World
Ian Bremmer · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover |
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America will remain the worlds only superpower for the foreseeable future. But what sort of superpower? What role should America play in the world? What role do you want America to play? Ian Bremmer argues that Washingtons directionless foreign policy has become prohibitively expensive... |
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Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper, and More Connected Life
Dr. Dr. Bill Thomas · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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From one of the most original and innovative thinkers in medicine, this "stirring and splendid book" (Wall Street Journal) offers groundbreaking insight to the postwar generation on facing their second coming of age, a developmental opportunity to reshape their lives and our society.Dr.... |
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Letters to Santa Claus
The Elves · Indiana University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover |
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For years, children and adults have stuffed their candid dreams, wishes, and promises into envelopes addressed to Santa Claus. Whether the envelopes come with stamps or without, are addressed to "The Big Red Guy at Jingle Bells Lane" or simply "To Santa," for over 100 years,... |
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Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting
John Shiffman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 267
Format: Hardcover |
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On today's high-tech battlefields, the most lethal weapons are not the big ones, but rather the ones that are small enough to be smuggled inside a pack of chewing gum. Microchips. Gyroscopes. Radar-cloaking and night-vision technology. Developed and manufactured in the United States... |
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A Country Called Childhood: Children and the Exuberant World
Jay Griffiths · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover |
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While traveling the world in order to write her award winning book Wild, Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in particular captured her imagination why are so many children in Euro-American... |
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