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Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring

Bassem Youssef

“Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn’t take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem.” — Jon...

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

Robert B. Reich

From Publishers Weekly Reich (Supercapitalism), secretary of labor under Bill Clinton and former economic adviser to...

Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers

Roberto Saviano

From Publishers Weekly First published in Mexico as Los señores del narco in 2010, this dry translation brings Mexican...

Un pueblo traicionado / A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain (Spanish Edition)

Paul Preston

About the Author Paul Preston (Liverpool, 1946) es catedrático emérito de historia internacional en la London School...

In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat

Rick Atkinson

The advent of embedded reporters in the opening days of the 2003 US war on Iraq meant a more direct and personal point...

Making the Corps: 10th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by the Author

Thomas E. Ricks

Unknown "A thousand years from now, a historian looking at the U.S. military will do well to cite Ricks's book." -- USA...

A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service

Robert Michael Gates

Selection, Huffington Post 5 Political Books for Insight This Election Season (2016)Selection, Publishers Weekly...

Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

Jisheng Yang

From Bookforum Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 is methodical and factual, and it amounts to a...

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Rebecca Goldstein

From Booklist *Starred Review* Plato lives! Brilliantly re-creating Plato’s philosophic dialogues, Goldstein...

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

Rosa Brooks

“A dynamic work of reportage, punctuated by savory details… It delights. The author is a chipper field guild and...

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

Robert D. Putnam

Ambitious. . . .xa0Putnam and Garrett are rewriting the political history of the twentieth century here.xa0. . .xa0[A]...

It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower

Michela Wrong

“Wrong’s book is packed with detail and solid sourcing and tells its story clearly.” --Jeffrey Gettleman — New...

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

William Russell Easterly

From Publishers Weekly No one who attacks the humanitarian aid establishment is going to win any popularity contests,...

Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

James Suzman

“Magisterial.” — The Nation “His book meticulously charts the evolution of labour over 300,000 years, a...

Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man

Walter Stahr

“[A] masterly new biography . . . [of] one of the most influential and polarizing American politicians of the...

Witsec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program

Pete Earley

From the Inside Flap For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked in controversy and mystery as the...

The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

Nina Munk

Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie AwardBloomberg "Best Books of 2013"Forbes "Best Books of 2013"The Spectator...

Human Game: The True Story of the 'Great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen

Simon Read

“In the summer of 1945, British investigator Francis McKenna and his team began a trek across post-war Europe to...

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated

Gore Vidal

From Publishers Weekly In this collection of essays, noted novelist and critic Vidal turns his acerbic wit on the...

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

Adrian Wooldridge

Erudite, thoughtful and magnificently entertaining book." --James Marriott, The Times (London) "Unfailingly...

Supervision of Police Personnel

Marvin D. Iannone

About the Author About our authors Dr. Jeff Bernstein is President of Bernstein & Associates, Inc. He is a consulting...

The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest

Aminatta Forna

From Publishers Weekly Forna saw her father for the last time on July 30, 1974; she was 10 years old. In this harrowing...

The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory

Jesse Walker

From Booklist This is a remarkably comprehensive, wide-ranging look at the way American culture, politics, religion,...

A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution: Revised Edition

Peter H. Irons

Silver Gavel Award Honorary Mention (American Bar Association) "...xa0a history of the Supreme Court that breathes life...