 | 20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century
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by Bill Emmott
Hardcover
(07 February, 2003)
(49 reviews) 
Customer Review: Wrong Data: I agree completely with the other two reviewers who wrote that the statistics quoted in this book are mostly if not entirely unreliable (or at least out of date). |
 | A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya
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by Anna Politkovskaia, John Crowfoot, Anna Politovskaya, Anna Politkovskaya
Paperback
(October, 2001)
(5 reviews) 
Customer Review: Excellent reporting, Strong translation: Politkovskaya has provided us an incredible insight into both sides of the ugliest conflict, |
 | A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny
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by Patrick J. Buchanan
Paperback
(April, 2002)
(169 reviews)
Editorial Review: Anyone who has caught Pat Buchanan's television appearances, or heard his campaign rhetoric, will be surprised at his relatively evenhanded and thoughtful tone as he writes--often quite persuasively--in favor of the restoration of the political, |
 | Afghanistan The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower
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by Mark Adkin, Mohammed Yousaf, MohammadBear Trap Yousaf
Hardcover
(06 November, 2001)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Interesting and flawed: The most interesting aspect of this work is the real nuts and bolts of the war in Afghanistan, and the Pakistani contribution to the war effort. |
 | Africa in Chaos
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by George B.N. Ayittey
Paperback
(February, 1999)
(16 reviews)
Editorial Review: Ghanaian-born economics professor George B.N. Ayittey takes a hard, unsentimental look at the continuing economic, cultural, and political downfall of African countries. While Africa is the world's second-largest continent, |
 | Africa Works: Disorder As Political Instrument (African Issues)
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by Patrick Chabal, Jean-Pascal Daloz
Paperback
(April, 1999)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: An Illogical Chain of reasoning: When I read this book, I was amused by it. To say that the disorder in Africa benefits someone--e.g |
 | After the Last Sky
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by Edward W. Said, Jean Mohr
Paperback
(15 September, 1998)
(6 reviews) 
Customer Review: Visual Poetry: Initially, I did not think that a book written in the mid-1980s would be a useful in the fast-changing topic of the Middle East. |
 | Albania: From Anarchy to Balkan Identity
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by Miranda Vickers, James Pettifer
Paperback
(March, 2000)
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 | American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
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by William Langewiesche
Hardcover
(24 October, 2002)
(38 reviews)
Customer Review: Delivers on many levels: I would agree with most of the reviews and say this is a very informative little book that hooks you after the first few pages. |
 | An Irish Voice : The Quest for Peace (Reprint ed)
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by Gerry Adams, Niall O'Dowd
Paperback
(October, 1997)
(1 reviews) 
Customer Review: Sinn Fein's part in creating Peace: I have read several of Gerry Adam's books. This one is particularly good for someone who wishes to really understand the politics between Ireland and Britain. |
 | Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
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by Stephen Kotkin
Hardcover
(October, 2001)
(7 reviews) 
Customer Review: Provocative analysis....: In Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, historian Stephen Kotkin demonstrates a profound knowledge of the political and economic structures and institutions that have shaped Soviet and post-Soviet history over the past several decades. |
 | Barbarians Inside the Gates: And Other Controversial Essays
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by Thomas Sowell
Paperback
(February, 1999)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: I am in agreement with the other reviewers: Thomas Sowell is more than just a critical thinker: he has a penchant for expressing his ideas with a clarity with which it is difficult to argue. |
 | Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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by Laurie Garrett
Paperback
(August, 2001)
(39 reviews)
Editorial Review: What do Russia, Zaire, Los Angeles, and--most likely--your community have in common? Each is woefully unprepared to deal with a major epidemic, whether it's caused by bioterrorism or by new or reemerging diseases resistant to antibiotics. |
 | Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World
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by Ralph Peters
Hardcover
(May, 2002)
(18 reviews)
Customer Review: Startling, convincing insights: This is the most original work on strategy and international relations I have ever read. Peters clearly enjoys taking on sacred cows, |
 | Blood Brothers
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by Elias Chacour, David Hazard, James A. Baker III
Paperback
(February, 2003)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: darling: This is a must-read for anyone who is looking for a human perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Chacour brings the story of personal pain, |
 | Bordering On Chaos
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by Andres Oppenheimer
Paperback
(October, 1998)
(11 reviews)
Editorial Review: This is an attempt to understand Mexico's steep descent into turmoil, which happened rapidly after the uprising in Chiapas on New Year's Day 1994.Following the assassinations of a presidential candidate and then the congressional leader, |
 | Bush at War : Inside the Bush White House
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by Bob Woodward
Audio CD
(19 November, 2002)
(165 reviews)
Editorial Review: Bush at War focuses on the three months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during which the U.S. prepared for war in Afghanistan, took steps toward a preemptive strike against Iraq, intensified homeland defense, and began a well-funded CIA covert war against terrorism around the world. |
 | China's Unfinished Economic Revolution
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by Nicholas R. Lardy
Paperback
(September, 1998)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: A well researched publication, athough biased in argument.: Firstly, let me say the research Nicholas Lardy has conducted is commendable and a welcome addition to the existing literature. |
 | Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
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by Stephen Kinzer
Paperback
(04 September, 2002)
(50 reviews)
Customer Review: Devlet & Raki: Having traveled to Turkey numerous times for both business and vacation (I generally spend two weeks each summer in Istanbul and Bodrum), |
 | Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
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by Ann Louise Bardach
Hardcover
(01 October, 2002)
(32 reviews) 
Customer Review: Honesty May Not be Popular: Bardach's honesty about American foreign policy regarding Cuba and the power that the corrupt Miami Mafia have on Florida, |
 | Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
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by Amira Hass, Elana Wesley, Maxine Kaufman Lacusta, Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta
Paperback
(June, 2000)
(8 reviews)
Editorial Review: In what is sure to be a controversial book, Israeli reporter Amira Hass offers a rare portrait of the Palestinians in Gaza. Very few journalists have lived in that troubled region; Jewish ones are rarer still. |
 | Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
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by Jim Yong Kim, Alec Irwin, Joyce Millen, John Gershman, Jim Young
Paperback
(July, 2000)
(7 reviews)
Customer Review: Neoliberal polices and the poor - ugly human nature at work.: If the poor were to benefit from neoliberal policies, Dying for Growth argues, |
 | Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism
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by Adam Parfrey
Paperback
(January, 2002)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: Extreme subject, extreme editor: This is a valuable source work. One caveat: To avoid the reading becoming an adventure in hate literature, |
 | Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children
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by Craig Kielburger, Kevin Major
Paperback
(December, 1999)
(25 reviews)
Editorial Review: Twelve-year-old Craig Kielburger, upset by a newspaper article about the forced slavery and subsequent murder of a child in Pakistan, began in 1995 to research worldwide injustice against children. Armed with the disturbing facts, |
 | Hardball : How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game
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by Chris Matthews
Paperback
(02 November, 1999)
(55 reviews)
Editorial Review: Hardball, first published in 1988, is like a modern version of Machiavelli's The Prince, only much more richly illustrated, with anecdotes drawn from talk-show host Chris Matthews's stint as a congressional staffer (where he worked for, |
 | Hope of the Wicked
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by Ted Flynn
Paperback
(24 May, 2000)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: The best book on the Real History and Conspiracy Plans: I just finished reading this treatise on the coming New World Order. When I ordered this book, |
 | How to Overthrow the Government
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by Arianna Huffington
Paperback
(03 April, 2001)
(28 reviews)
Editorial Review: "Our government is no longer serving us," declares Arianna Huffington in How to Overthrow the Government. "[It] is slow, unfair, corrupt, and peopled by politicians living on graft and sinecure." While the political class gloats about unprecedented prosperity, |
 | Inside Al Qaeda
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by Rohan Gunaratna
Hardcover
(15 May, 2002)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: A Necessary Supplement to the Evening News: (By Edward Trimnell, author of "Why You Need a Foreign Language & How to Learn One," |
 | Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton
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by William Doyle
Paperback
(April, 2002)
(6 reviews)
Editorial Review: Richard Nixon was not the first president to tape-record conversations inside the Oval Office--that was Franklin Roosevelt. Nor was he the last, although one would think after Nixon's disastrous experience with taping that the succeeding occupants of the White House would have learned better. |
 | Is Our Children Learning? : The Case Against George W. Bush
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by Paul Begala
Paperback
(20 September, 2000)
(74 reviews)
Customer Review: Entertaining: I found this book very entertaining and slightly eye opening. After reading this book, nothing about Bush shocks me, |
 | Locked in the Cabinet
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by Robert B. Reich
Paperback
(03 February, 1998)
(38 reviews)
Editorial Review: On the face of it, here's an improbable book: a memoir of four years as Secretary of ... Labor. Well, in this case it works because the author is Robert B. Reich, a warm and lively writer who because of his 'Friend Of Bill' status and his strong positions on economic issues was inside virtually every political and ideological tussle of the Clinton administration's first term. |
 | Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization
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by Amory Starr
Paperback
(January, 2001)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: A primer on the the WORLD WIDE anti-corporate movement: Amory Starr's highly readable "Naming the Enemy" explains the global movement against corporations. |
 | No Place for Amateurs: How Political Consultants Are Reshaping American Democrac
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by Dennis W. Johnson
Paperback
(February, 2001)
(2 reviews)
Editorial Review: For anybody considering a career in politics, No Place for Amateurs is a thorough description of what goes on behind the scenes. "While candidates are ultimately responsible for their campaigns, there is no way they can compete, |
 | Official Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAP
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by Lou Cannon
Paperback
(01 October, 1999)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: Should be required reading for Politicians&Police Managers: Lou Cannon has put together an account of the culture and climate within the city of Los Angeles preceding the Rodney King incident and the ensuing riots that really hits the mark. |
 | Political Fictions
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by Joan Didion
Paperback
(27 August, 2002)
(20 reviews)
Editorial Review: This collection of eight essays covering U.S. politics between 1988 and 2000 is a critical look at what author Joan Didion calls "the ways in which the political process did not reflect but increasingly proceeded from a series of fables about American experience." |
 | Power Plays: Win or Lose--How History's Great Political Leaders Play the Game
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by Dick Morris
Hardcover
(16 April, 2002)
(28 reviews)
Editorial Review: Dick Morris is one of America's sharpest political minds. As a professional consultant, he has helped candidates from both parties understand public opinion and win elections--most notably President Clinton in 1996 (an experience Morris described in the bestselling book Behind the Oval Office). |
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