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By Thomas L. Friedman, 2006
ISBN 0312425074
Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim in The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you...
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
By Barack Obama., 2006
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In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we...
- True Compass
By Edward M. Kennedy, 2009
ISBN 0446539252
Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented candor about his extraordinary life.
- Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
By John Heilemann, 2010
ISBN 0061733636
In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country's leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns. How did Obama convince himself that, despite the thinness of his résumé, he could somehow...
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, 2009
ISBN 0670021253
A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a...
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
By Thomas L. Friedman, 2008
ISBN 0374166854
Book Description Thomas L. Friedman s phenomenal number-one bestseller has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America s surprising loss of focus...
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
By Steve Coll, 2004
ISBN 9780143034667
From the managing editor of the Washington Post, a news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been...
- The Post-American World
By Fareed Zakaria, 2009
ISBN 0393334805
“Zakaria . . . may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West.” —Boston Sunday Globe “This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbusting bestseller on the...
- The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
By Jeffrey Sachs, 2006
ISBN 0143036580
A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world’s poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Time calls one of the world’s 100 most influential...
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
By William Kamkwamba, 2009
ISBN 0061730327
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book called Using Energy, and he dreamed of...
- Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
By Greg Mortenson, 2009
ISBN 0670021156
From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through educationIn this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing...
- Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
By Mark R. Levin, 2009
ISBN 1416562850
Conservative talk radio's fastest-growing superstar is also a New York Times bestselling phenomenon: the author of the groundbreaking critique of the Supreme Court, Men in Black, and the deeply personal dog lover's memoir Rescuing Sprite, Mark R. Levin now delivers the book that characterizes both...
- Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
By Al Gore, 2009
ISBN 1594867348
It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is collective will. Properly understood, the climate crisis is an unparalleled opportunity to finally and effectively address many persistent causes of...
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
By Nicholas D. Kristof, 2009
ISBN 0307267148
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through...
- The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
By T. R. Reid, 2009
ISBN 1594202346
Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform. In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the...
- The Forever War
By Dexter Filkins, 2009
ISBN 0307279448
An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever War is the definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism and a searing exploration of its human costs. Through the eyes of Filkins, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, we witness the rise of the Taliban in the...
- We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work
By Jimmy Carter, 2009
ISBN 1439140634
In this urgent, balanced, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East -- and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do just that.
- The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
By William Easterly, 2007
ISBN 0143038826
From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of...
- End the Fed
By Ron Paul, 2009
ISBN 0446549193
In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve. Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which the country's economy could not...
- No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
By Colin Beavan, 2009
ISBN 0374222886
A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing...
- The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
By Robyn Meredith, 2008
ISBN 0393331938
"A comprehensive primer on the development of these Asian tigers."—Noam Lupu, San Francisco Chronicle The Elephant and the Dragon is the essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping our world. With labor now unbound from geographic borders, we're seeing startling...
- Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
By Tom Zoellner, 2009
ISBN 0670020648
The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yieldUranium is a common element in the earth’s crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order—whoever could master uranium...
- Catastrophe
By Dick Morris, 2009
ISBN 006177104X
It's time to take back our country. Now. It's that simple. It's that urgent. So begins Dick Morris and Eileen McGann's latest and most important book. They say that we must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda.
- The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
By Ron Suskind, 2008
ISBN 0061430625
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line...
- The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
By Andrew Bacevich, 2009
ISBN 0805090169
An immediate New York Times bestseller, The Limits of Power offers an unparalleled examination of the profound triple crisis facing America: an economy in disarray that can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; a government transformed by an imperial presidency into a democracy in name...
- Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
By Bill McKibben, 2008
ISBN 0805087222
In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond "growth" as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with...
- The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
By Edward Lucas, 2009
ISBN 0230614345
The first edition of The New Cold War was published to great critical acclaim and Edward Lucas has established himself as a top expert in the field, appearing on numerous programs, including Lou Dobbs, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and NPR. In this new revised and updated edition...
- In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India
By Edward Luce, 2008
ISBN 1400079772
As the world's largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues.
- The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
By Gwen Ifill, 2009
ISBN 038552501X
In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.
- China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
By Rob Gifford, 2008
ISBN 0812975243
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and...
- Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
By Paul Hawken, 2008
ISBN 0143113658
The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person...
- Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
By Glenn Beck, 2009
ISBN 1439168571
"If you believe it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all -- then I ask you to read this book...."In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves.
- Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
By Glenn Beck, 2009
ISBN 1416595015
FUNNY. FRIGHTENING. TRUE. It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes.Just go away! you think to yourself -- but they only become more...
- Going Rogue: An American Life
By Sarah Palin, 2009
ISBN 0061939897
One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that...
