Issues & Politics

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After 9/11: America's War on Terror (2001- ) - trade paperback
By Sid Jacobson - $18.95 - add to cart

Having made The 9/11 Commission Report understandable for everyone, the award-winning, bestselling graphic novel team of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón use all their considerable talents to explain t...

 

The Age of Turbulence - trade paperback
By Alan Greenspan - $18.50 - add to cart

With the distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, this book will stand as Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy.

 

Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide - trade paperback
By Jonathan Garfinkel - $20.00 - add to cart

As he starts to question the assumptions of his faith and the Zionist teachings of his youth, Jonathan Garfinkel hears a curious, touching story about a house in Jerusalem that is shared between a ...

 

An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama - trade paperback
By David Olive - $14.95 - add to cart

Barack Obama’s superb and captivating oratory style has earned him comparisons to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and this collection of his complete speeches—presented for the first time i...

 

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency - hardcover
By Barton Gellman - $31.00 - add to cart

Dick Cheney changed history, defining his times and shaping a White House as no vice president has before— yet concealing most of his work from public view. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post r...

 

The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? - trade paperback
By Francisco Goldman - $16.50 - add to cart

Three-time novelist Francisco Goldman’s commitment to telling this true-crime tale shines on every page of The Art of Political Murder. Goldman spent years researching the case, often braving dan...

 

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran - hardcover
By Hooman Majd - $27.95 - add to cart

The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, now an American citizen, Hooman Majd is, in a way, both 100 percent Iranian and 100 percent American, combining an insider’s...

 

Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority - hardcover
By Bob Moser - $28.00 - add to cart

A powerful case for a new Southern strategy for the Democrats, from an award-winning reporter and native SouthernerIn 2000 and 2004, the Democratic Party decided not to challenge George W. Bush in ...

 

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It - trade paperback
By Paul Collier - $16.95 - add to cart

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the ...

 

Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb - trade paperback
By Mike Davis - $21.00 - add to cart

In this brilliant and disturbing history, Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development, in the process exposing the role of state intelligence agencies—particularly those of the U...

 

Canada In 2020: Twenty Leading Voices Imagine Canada's Future - hardcover
By Rudyard Griffiths - $29.95 - add to cart

Twelve years from now, Canada could be a vastly different place from what it is today. Will the country still play a role in the United Nations? Will its citizens face tough environmental restricti...

 

Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise - trade paperback
By Barack Obama - $15.95 - add to cart

At this defining moment in our history, Americans are hungry for change. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack...

 

The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up - hardcover
By Liao Yiwu - $28.00 - add to cart

The Corpse Walker is a compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (o...

 

Dark Days - hardcover
By Kerry Pither - $35.00 - add to cart

On August 26, 2008 Penguin Group (Canada) will release Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror by Kerry Pither. Dark Days is an exposé of Canadian national se...

 

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals - hardcover
By Jane Mayer - $32.00 - add to cart

In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security ...

 

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