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    50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know
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    by The Disinformation Company
    Paperback (01 November, 2003)
    (7 reviews) 4.29 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: This List is a Hit: Russ is kicking some serious butt these days, opening a veritable flag draped coffin full of worms for all the world to see,
    9-11
    list: $8.95 - our price: $8.06
    by Seven Stories Press
    Paperback (October, 2001)
    (144 reviews) 3.88 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Excellent, and inappropriately reviewed: I really wonder if the Library Journal reviewer bothered to read the whole book, or just stopped when he found that Chomsky was departing from the post-9/11 unquestioning acceptance of the 'US vs.

    9/11: The Big Lie
    list: $15.95 - our price: $13.56
    by Continental Sales
    Paperback (01 August, 2002)
    (6 reviews) 3.67 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: This book IS "The Big Lie": A littany of distortions and fabrications, on par with Holocaust-denial. Think the USA provoked WW-II?
    A Call to Conscience : The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
    list: $42.98 - our price: $27.08
    by Time Warner Audiobooks
    Audio CD (01 January, 2001)
    (9 reviews) 4.22 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A Prophetic Voice of the 21st Century: An outstanding history of the Civil Rights movement through the most famous speeches of MLK.

    A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
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    by Plume Books
    Paperback (03 June, 2003)
    (28 reviews) 3.43 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: 3 Reasons: Christopher Hitchens is generally regarded as one of the finest essayist of our time, a conclusion not hindered by this neat collection of lush essays laying out both the recent history of the Middle East and the reasons for our attack on Iraq.
    A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath
    list: $34.95
    by The New York Times/Callaway
    Hardcover (August, 2002)
    (3 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Provocative and honest: This collection of photos and essays was one of the few to come out in 2002 that did not smack of "we're in it for the money" opportunism.

    A Pretext for War : 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
    list: $26.95 - our price: $16.98
    by Doubleday
    Hardcover (08 June, 2004)
    (27 reviews) 3.37 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: James Bamford builds his case against America's intelligence agencies from the ground up, which makes for devastating reading not only for his subjects, but for anyone concerned with the nation's security or simply smart use of taxpayer dollars.
    A Treasury of Great American Scandals: Tantalizing True Tales of Historic Misbehavior
    list: $14.00 - our price: $10.50
    by Penguin Books
    Paperback (01 July, 2003)
    (16 reviews) 4.44 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: EXCELLENT READING: I read this author's first book on Royal Scandals and found it both informative and, at times, very funny. This new book on American Scandals is even better.

    Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
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    by Berrett-Koehler Publishers
    Paperback (01 August, 2002)
    (55 reviews) 4.22 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Mr. President, Have you Read This Book?: Sure, I've heard about the disappearing rainforests and the many species of animals and plants becoming endangered or extinct,
    Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
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    by Free Press
    Hardcover (22 March, 2004)
    (457 reviews) 3.81 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: Few political memoirs have made such a dramatic entrance as that by Richard A. Clarke. During the week of the initial publication of Against All Enemies, Clarke was featured on 60 Minutes, testified before the 9/11 commission,

    AIDS in the Twenty-First Century : Disease and Globalization
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    by Palgrave Macmillan
    Paperback (16 August, 2003)
    (2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A rare focus on the social and economic context: This is the only book-length exploration of the social and economic context of the the HIV/AIDS epidemics.
    All the President's Men
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    by Simon & Schuster
    Paperback (16 June, 1994)
    (59 reviews) 4.19 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Important book for young Americans: Reading this book made me realize just how little most American people my age really know about such an important and devastating event in our history as Nixon's Watergate.

    America Right Or Wrong: An Anatomy Of American Nationalism
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    by Oxford University Press
    Hardcover (30 September, 2004)
    America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terroris
    list: $25.95 - our price: $16.35
    by HarperCollins
    Hardcover (20 July, 2004)
    Editorial Review: The most gripping portion of Stephen Flynn's examination of America's defense shortcomings in the war on terror arrives early. The entire second chapter imagines an elaborate but feasible dirty-bomb attack that brings the nation's transportation system to a halt and presents the President with two dreadful options: reopen borders closed by the emergency and risk further attack,

    America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy
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    by Brookings Institution Press
    Hardcover (October, 2003)
    (16 reviews) 4.06 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Surprisingly Thin Arguments: Daalder and Lindsay argue that George W. Bush has revolutionized U.S. foreign policy and that his revolution rests on two premises: the world is a dangerous place in which alliances and treaties hold back U.S
    America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bone
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    by Trine Day
    Hardcover (01 April, 2003)
    (13 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Very detailed history of the Elite: Skull And Bones:The secret society imported from Germany. People like George Bush and his son George W.

    America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its
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    by Doubleday
    Hardcover (05 October, 2004)
    American Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
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    by Random House
    Hardcover (02 November, 2004)

    American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
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    by Viking Books
    Hardcover (09 September, 2004)
    Editorial Review: More than a decade after presidential candidate Bill Clinton floated the idea of ending "welfare as we know it," the changes to the system have become so accepted and entrenched that it is difficult to remember the heated controversy surrounding the issue of reform.
    American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us
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    by Free Press
    Paperback (04 February, 2003)
    (30 reviews) 4.2 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: This is real, this is now, this is happening in America: Disturbing - nothing else can describe the sensation of a situation in which Muslim terrorist agitators scream for American blood and carnage,

    American Soldier
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    by ReganBooks
    Hardcover (03 August, 2004)
    Editorial Review: As Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, Tommy Franks led the American and Coalition forces to victory in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Unsurprisingly, the portions of American Soldier covering these wars are the most interesting because they combine military maneuvers,
    An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
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    by Random House
    Hardcover (30 December, 2003)
    (146 reviews) 2.66 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: Some observers see the global political landscape as a complex amalgam of divergent worldviews, shades of gray that usually move in harmony but sometimes collide with violent results. David Frum and Richard Perle,

    An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
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    by South End Press
    Paperback (15 September, 2004)
    Anti-Americanism
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    by Encounter Books
    Hardcover (01 September, 2003)
    (30 reviews) 4.27 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A fascinating and eye-opening book: In this fascinating book, French author and Journalist Jean-Francois Revel looks at worldwide anti-Americanism in general,

    Armageddon : The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
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    by Knopf
    Hardcover (16 November, 2004)
    Autobiography of Malcolm X
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    by Ballantine Books
    Mass Market Paperback (12 October, 1987)
    (214 reviews) 4.71 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist,

    Behold a Pale Horse
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    by Light Technology Publishing
    Paperback (01 December, 1991)
    (147 reviews) 4.29 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: It's a toss up, which theory is worse?: I am a liberal Christian who believes in bible prophesy. I read Behold a Pale Horse at the urging of someone I met at a recent peace rally.
    Between War and Peace : Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq
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    by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Paperback (10 February, 2004)
    (5 reviews) 3.4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Wisdom and Foresight: Go back and read both of Hanson's books that sprung from 9/11. You will see how deeply this man understands historical trends.

    Beyond Fear
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    by Copernicus Books
    Hardcover (28 July, 2003)
    (32 reviews) 4.47 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Informative, Important, Entertaining, Indispensible: The central message of _Beyond Fear_ is that we need to change the way we, the average reader, think about security.
    Beyond Iraq: The Next Move--Ancient Prophecy and Modern Day Conspiracy Collide
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    by Whitestone
    Paperback (01 May, 2003)
    (62 reviews) 3.76 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Someone Is Finally Telling The Truth: Mike Evans is one of only a handfull of authors telling us the complete truth about the war on terrorism and "The Road Map to Peace."

    Beyond Tuesday Morning: Sequel to the Bestselling One Tuesday Morning
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    by Zondervan Publishing Company
    Paperback (01 January, 2005)
    Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
    list: $27.95 - our price: $27.95
    by Regnery Publishing
    Hardcover (01 November, 2001)
    (783 reviews) 3.68 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: An Eloquent and Thought-Provoking Indictment: In his published memoir, Don Hewitt suggests that one of the primary reasons for the enduring success of CBS's "60 Minutes" is that everyone involved helps to tell a great "story."

    Blinded by the Right : The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
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    by Three Rivers Press
    Paperback (25 February, 2003)
    (340 reviews) 3.81 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A thought provoking Must Read!!: If you ever wondered how someone like Hitler was elected in a democracy and went on to lead his country to the brink of ruin--this book provides some frightening insights into the process.
    Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported
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    by Metropolitan Books
    Hardcover (10 September, 2004)

    Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
    list: $27.95 - our price: $27.95
    by Regnery Publishing
    Hardcover (25 August, 2002)
    (30 reviews) 3.47 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Failure is not an option: Allow me to repeat that: failure is not an option - unless, presumably, you work in the CIA and your name is George Tenet.
    Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk
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    by Putnam Publishing Group
    Hardcover (03 August, 2004)
    Editorial Review: If metaphors were cigarettes, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd would be a chain smoker. Through many years and countless columns spent chronicling the fall of George H.W. Bush and the ascension of George W.

    Can God & Caesar Coexist: Balancing Religious Freedom and International Law
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    by Yale University Press
    Hardcover (01 September, 2004)
    Catastrophe: Risk And Response
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    by Oxford University Press
    Hardcover (01 October, 2004)

    Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
    list: $25.95 - our price: $15.57
    by HarperCollins
    Hardcover (13 September, 2004)
    Editorial Review: Seymour Hersh has been a legendary investigative reporter since 1969 when he broke the My Lai story in Vietnam. His considerable skill and well-placed sources inside the government, intelligence community,
    Civil Rights Chronicle (The African-American Struggle for Freedom)
    list: $29.98 - our price: $29.98
    by Publications International
    Hardcover (01 November, 2003)
    (2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Great Book!!: I highly recommend this book to teenagers because it tells you about a lot of things that you don't learn in the classroom.

    CLASS : A GUIDE THROUGH THE AMERICAN STATUS SYSTEM
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    by Touchstone
    Paperback (01 October, 1992)
    (89 reviews) 4.24 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Good, though limited in some ways: I read the first edition of "Class" and it seems to be a good guide to American class signals,
    Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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    by Berrett-Koehler Publishers
    Hardcover (09 November, 2004)
    Editorial Review: John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life.

    Conspirator's Hierarchy : The Committee of 300
    list: $16.95 - our price: $14.41
    by Amer West Pub & Dist
    Paperback (01 January, 1992)
    (23 reviews) 4.04 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: This book is a call to action - before it's too late!: This book I found difficult to read and accept the first time which was 3 years ago.
    Crimes Against Nature : How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering
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    by HarperCollins
    Hardcover (03 August, 2004)

    Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Surviva
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    by Cross-Current Publishing
    Paperback (April, 2002)
    (6 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Wonderful Resource Book: Touches on every aspect of preparedness including basic checklist of things you might want to consider having on hand such as spare car parts,
    Cry from the Deep : The Submarine Disaster That Riveted the World and Put the New
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    by HarperCollins
    Hardcover (23 November, 2004)

    Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress
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    by HarperCollins
    Paperback (03 April, 2001)
    (39 reviews) 3.59 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Culture Matters in every way and every form: Culture Matters is a book which has many, many different essays from varying authors and scholars who discuss the value systems of countries around the world.
    Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism
    list: $26.95 - our price: $16.98
    by Regan Books
    Hardcover (17 February, 2004)
    (1590 reviews) 3.77 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Proof that Liberals are on the Wrong Side of History: I actually read the book, unlike the Liberals rating this book 1 star without reading even the inside dust jacket,

    Developing & Administering an Early Childhood Center
    list: $78.95 - our price: $67.11
    by Thomson Delmar Learning
    Paperback (11 July, 2002)
    (1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Excellent for Anyone Starting a Day Care Center: I'm in the middle of opening a day care center and this book was great. It contained alot of useful information and I constantly referenced the manual throughout the process.
    Dick: The Man Who is President (Dick Cheney)
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    by New Press
    Hardcover (30 September, 2004)
    Editorial Review: A Vice President, by definition, will always receive less scrutiny than the fellow at the top of the ticket. Fortunately for Dick Cheney, that lower profile works out quite nicely since, according to author John Nichols,

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