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Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics Best Price: $0.01 This book excellently presents a biography of Michael Bloomberg, the wealthiest person in New...	Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East Best Price: $0.01 I read this book immediately after having read "The Foresaken". Although "The...	The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life Best Price: $0.99 Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term “ageism? and made “Alzheimer?s? a familiar word. Now he...	Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison Best Price: $0.01 It has been referred to as "The Bastille of the South". In March 1862 General John...	Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 Best Price: $0.86 8 page Introduction, 3 page Prologue, 431 pages of text, 6 pages of acknowledgments, 3 pages of...



Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit Best Price: $3.77 Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of...	Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison Best Price: $3.99 During the winter of 1863-1864, 1,200 Union officers lived in squalor and semi-starvation in...	Unconvinced: How Politics Lost the American People America has traditionally been a nation defined by optimism, faith in its future, and trust that...	Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa Best Price: $14.30 ***** "How do you cover a war that involves at least 20 different rebel groups and the...	When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany Best Price: $8.33 "When Money Died in East Germany" Dr. Ali Fant, WB5WAF I appreciate the...



What Does China Think? A renowned foreign policy expert with deep connections to China's next generation of...	Japan Rising Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and...	A Second Opinion: Rescuing Americas' Health Care: A Plan for Universal Coverage Serving Patients Over Profit [2ND OPINION] Best Price: $12.17	One Day, All Children...: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way [1 DAY ALL CHILDREN] Best Price: $16.94	The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Ci

The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance This revelatory social history resurrects a forgotten place and time in African American and...	OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion Best Price: $2.41 Blade Runner has arrived. Audiences back in 1982 were shocked at the advertisement-laden society...	Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush (Publicaffairs Reports) How did George W. Bush-a man of little political experience, little policy know-how, and no...	Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR's Breakout Season The fast-paced account of NASCAR's glorious breakthrough 2001 season--now updated through...	Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into A Tax-Raising Latte-Drinking Sushi-Eating Volvo-Driving New York Times-Reading Body-Pierc

The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Last African American Renaissance Best Price: $4.78 What a page turner! In a prose style that bops along like riffs floating out of a Central Avenue...	Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Energy, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future Best Price: $0.01 As an environmentalist, I was very interested in reading this book when I heard about it. What...	The Thorn of Lion City: A Memoir Best Price: $1.93 Lucy Lum was the third of seven children, born in Singapore in 1933 into a Chinese immigrant...	Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution Best Price: $3.98 The environmental movement is a big tent under an umbrella which sits disparate groups,...	Invisible Sisters Best Price: $2.28 Malia and Sasha Obama are ensconced in the White House, visiting dad in the Oval office and...

The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World Best Price: $11.56 Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning...	The Practical Progressive: How to Build a Twenty-first Century Political Movement Best Price: $1.63 I eagerly anticipated this book's arrival, believing from the title that it might actually...	FDR's Deadly Secret Best Price: $0.48 I'm surprised a publisher like Public Affairs would put out a book with such poor...	A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama Best Price: $0.01 Based on in-depth reporting by a special team of Newsweek reporters and written by bestselling...	The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom Best Price: $12.99 Growing up in Belarus and then living in the US, Mr Morozov has had opportunities to view the...

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate Best Price: $5.94 History must be revised when any new and accurate information appears. Neil Baldwin's book,...	The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Growing Crisis in Global Security Best Price: $0.68 INTRODUCTION The failure to complete the task of disarming Saddam and the politics on...	Orphans Of The Cold War America And The Tibetan Struggle For Survival Best Price: $10.18 As someone who knows the author and who provided some assistance for the initial phases of the...	American Greats Best Price: $68.14 In a spectacular new jacket, with a great new gift price--the beautifully illustrated,...	And The Money Kept Rolling In (And Out): Wall Street, The IMF, and The Bankrupting of Argentina Best Price: $48.56 This book examines the economic history of Argentina from the early 20th century to 2004, with...

The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, And Fate Best Price: $2.06 I used to read Marjorie Williams in the Washington Post, and was reminded of her work when her...	Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century Best Price: $2.55 Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on...	A Strange Death Best Price: $7.09 In 1917, the members of a spy ring who sought to assist the British in driving the Turks from...	The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient Best Price: $8.09 Wer kennt das Gefühl nicht: Man quält sich durch einen mehrere hundert Seiten...	The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and In

President Reagan: The Role Of A Lifetime Hailed by the New Yorker as "a superlative study of a president and his presidency,"...	K Blows Top A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Mos	Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the U.S.-China Relationship Best Price: $1.30 Over several years, some of the most distinguished Chinese and American scholars have engaged in...	Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants Best Price: $10.36 The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million...	No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos

Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit I origianlly purchased the Kindle edition to pass on to my grandmother, who is an avid '60...	What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception Best Price: $1.99 Former press secretary Scott McClellan's book is more about self-delusion than lying, and in...	Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar Best Price: $1.62 This book is boring. I enjoyed Sarah's autobiography, Going Rogue. I was hoping this book...	Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and...	The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir Best Price: $4.20 let's use some soccer (football) analogy. this book is like a football game. first 20...

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century Best Price: $0.01 The title of this book is misleading because no one believes Europe will run the 21st century,...	Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species Best Price: $12.37 I'm writing this review more as a response to the negative reviews posted here by proponents...	West Of The West Best Price: $7.49 We can talk about Mark as a wordsmith, as a master storyteller, as a truly writerly writer, as...	Is Iraq Another Vietnam? Best Price: $2.50 This is the kind of book that gets assigned in political science classes at our universities. ...	The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court Best Price: $0.97 I liked this book and thought the authors were skillful in making an otherwise dry topic...

The Opportunity Best Price: $2.70 Author Richard N. Haass uses this book to expose the pivotal moment in history in which America...	The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror Best Price: $1.98 First of all, it must be said right off that this is not a book about trading. Soros is most...	Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency Best Price: $1.16 In the dozen or so books that I have read about Bill Clinton including his autobiography Nigel...	Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation Best Price: $7.28 I recently finished reading "Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional...	On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families Best Price: $11.69 ON ROYALTY was a fun read and a pleasant surprise. Jeremy Paxman takes us on a delightful and...

A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity Best Price: $2.38 Great leaps forward in scientific understanding have, throughout history, engendered similar...	The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir In 1993, Fernando Henrique Cardoso was appointed the new Finance Minister of Brazil--a country...	The Zoo on the Road to Nablus: A Story of Survival from the West Bank I came across this book through the recommendation of a friend. I was surprised at the extremes...	War Hospital: A True Story Of Surgery And Survival In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with...	Learning Like a Girl: Educating Our Daughters in Schools of Their Own Best Price: $3.49 An inspirational educator's account of why and how she founded an innovative girls'...

The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story Best Price: $8.40 "Formidable, gripping and always informative....Laurence's eloquent, at times acerbic...	Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life Best Price: $5.46 Baby Boomers and beyond are not going away quietly. This book tells how the second half of life...	Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television Best Price: $46.89	High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It The individual who reaches age twenty-one without smoking, using illegal drugs, or abusing...	Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu...

Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank,...	Ussama Makdisi'sFaith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001 [Hardcover](2010) Best Price: $16.52	Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes Best Price: $10.78 amazing. the best, most important book to understand the muslim world. a book to be read over...	(MANDELA,MANDELA'S INSPIRING LIFE AND TIMES, PROVIDING FRESH INSIGHT INTO THE HISTORY OF THE ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT. PHOTO INSERTS.) BY MEREDITH, MARTIN[AUTHOR]Hardcover{Mandela,Mandela's inspiring life and times, providing fresh insight into the history of the anti-apartheid movement. Photo inserts.} on 2010	Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel Best Price: $2.40 The respected commentator James Fallows resolved his mid-life crisis by learning to pilot small...

Washington Best Price: $1.64 I finished reading this book right in the midst of the Trent Lott racial scandal, which resulted...	Royko: A Life in Print Best Price: $2.47 No question, Mike Royko was one of the twentieth century's great columnists. Ironically, his...	The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair Best Price: $40.00 === Summary === "This book follows the fortunes of Africa in modern times, opening in the...	The Vendetta: FBI Hero Melvin Purvis's War Against Crime, and J. Edgar Hoover's War Against Him Best Price: $0.01 I have read a few other books dealing with J. Edgar Hoover of the F.B.I. and this one by Alston...	Make It Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out Best Price: $0.01 This is an excellent addition to my collection of historical books about this period in our...

Allies: The U.S., Britain, and Europe in the Aftermath of the Iraq War (Publicaffairs Reports) Best Price: $0.01 This informative book is not a narrative of the Iraq war but a series of observations on how the...	Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos that Reshaped America Best Price: $8.49 SEVEN FIRES BY PETER CHARLES HOFFER After I had completed a book signing for my novel, SHADOW...	Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right Best Price: $0.01 My favorite camera store in Tucson, AZ had two wonderful Mexican-American women employees who...	The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate Best Price: $0.01 Rarely does a book exceed my expectations, but this one did. I hadn't heard of Marjorie...	Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir Best Price: $0.30 I was hoping for an informed history of the civil rights movement in America. Instead, I found...

The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times Best Price: $3.49 It takes a lot of fortitude for a New York Times writer to tackle this subject, one certain to...	A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being Deep Throat, and the Struggle for Honor in Washington Best Price: $1.00 In 2005 after nearly 33 years of secrecy, William Mark Felt, retired associate director of the...	The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the Best Price: $3.49 I have often found myself doubting the importance of Americas global presence. Popular media...	The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur Best Price: $1.48 After four years as a captain in the Marines, in September 2004 Brian Steidle moved to Darfur,...	Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics Best Price: $0.01 This book excellently presents a biography of Michael Bloomberg, the wealthiest person in New...

Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East Best Price: $0.01 I read this book immediately after having read "The Foresaken". Although "The...	The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life Best Price: $0.99 Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term “ageism? and made “Alzheimer?s? a familiar word. Now he...	Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison Best Price: $0.01 It has been referred to as "The Bastille of the South". In March 1862 General John...	Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 Best Price: $0.86 8 page Introduction, 3 page Prologue, 431 pages of text, 6 pages of acknowledgments, 3 pages of...	Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit Best Price: $3.77 Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of...

Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison Best Price: $3.99 During the winter of 1863-1864, 1,200 Union officers lived in squalor and semi-starvation in...	Unconvinced: How Politics Lost the American People America has traditionally been a nation defined by optimism, faith in its future, and trust that...	Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa Best Price: $14.30 ***** "How do you cover a war that involves at least 20 different rebel groups and the...	When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany Best Price: $8.33 "When Money Died in East Germany" Dr. Ali Fant, WB5WAF I appreciate the...

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