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The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?From the author of prize-winning Arrival City, a controversial and long-overdue rejoinder to the excessive fears of an Islamic threat that have spread throughout America and Europe and threaten our basic values. Since September 11, 2001, a growing chorus has warned that Western society...
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Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass MurdererA New York Times Notable Book A National Jewish Book Award finalist In 1960, Adolf Eichmann took to the defendant's box in Jerusalem and insisted that he was no "manager of the Holocaust," as his accusers claimed, just a smalltime bureaucrat following orders. Like...
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Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage EstablishmentThis classic Cold War-era history looks at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed America's secret operations as general and as commander in chief and is based on privileged access to the president and his private papers--from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. During his time...
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Twilight of the Elites: America After MeritocracyA powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another - from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic...
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Socialism Is Great!: A Worker's Memoir of the New ChinaWith a great charm and spirit, "Socialism Is Great " recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she always determined to be. Her memoir is like...
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Change We Can Believe in: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's PromiseThe election of Barack Obama as President of the United States is a defining moment in American history. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a...
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Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to ObamaAmerican foreign policy since World War II has long been seen primarily as a story of strong and successful alliances, domestic consensus, and continuity from one adminstration to the next. Why then have so many presidents left office condemned for their foreign policy record?...
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La Audacia de la Esperanza: Reflexiones Sobre Como Restaurar El Sueño Americano / The Audacity of Hope = The Audacity of HopeEn La audacia de la esperanza, el senador dem crata Barack Obama reclama una pol tica diferente--una pol tica para quienes est n cansados del agrio partidismo, una pol tica que se basa en la fe, la participaci n de todos y la nobleza...
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The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret AgentsIn the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders increasingly threatened by acts of terrorism and assassination from anarchist extremists. In this riveting history of that tumultuous period, Alex Butterworth follows the...
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Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering AmericaThe demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs--it is the mob. Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard...
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Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces WarriorAn unprecedented view of Green Beret training, drawn from the year Dick Couch spent at Special Forces training facilities with the Army's most elite soldiers. In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology....
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Facets of Systems ScienceThis book has a rather strange history. It began in Spring 1989, thirteen years after our Systems Science Department at SUNY -Binghamton was established, when I was asked by a group of students in our doctoral program to have a meeting with them. The...
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Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to KleptocracyA penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future "Full of insight and informed judgment, former diplomat Anders Åslund takes aim at the 'authoritarian kleptocracy' and the inner circles of power."--John Lloyd, Financial Times This insightful...
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Free Speech on CampusCan free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment? "An urgent and indispensable roadmap to guide us through one of the most divisive periods in American history."--Stephen Rohde, Los Angeles Review of Books Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech...
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All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American PowerA groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged on a...
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The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic RegionAn urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability "A point-by-point debunking of the 'Asiaphoria' that gripped so many imaginations a decade ago . . . Auslin argues that the conditions are building for major-power conflict in...
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Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided RussiaA fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin's grip on power is more fragile than we think "Putin v. the People wrestles with perhaps the central conundrum of contemporary Russia: the endurance of support for Putin amid...
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The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World OrderAn eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out...
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Migrant Brothers: A Poet's Declaration of Human Dignity"If justice had a Jericho trumpet, Chamoiseau would be it."--Junot D az As migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the responsibility of those safely ensconced in the nations they seek to...
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The Future of Law and Economics: Essays in Reform and RecollectionIn a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite, strain, "economic analysis of law,"...
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