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An eye-opening look at the displacement of Sunni power and culture throughout the Middle East by an award-winning NPR reporterAuthor: Deborah AmosPublisher: PublicAffairsPublication Date: March 08,...

For thousands of years, the majestic elephant has roamed the African continent, as beloved by man as it has been preyed upon. But centuries of exploitation and ivory hunting have taken their toll:...

In one of the most significant social trends of the new century, and the biggest transformation of the American workforce since the women's movement, members of the baby boom generation are inventing...

In this "must-read" guide (Lonnie Ali), four leading doctors and advocates offer a bold action plan to prevent, care for, and treat Parkinson's disease-one of the great health challenges of our time...

For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet in Africa, more than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related...

Author: Harry LewisPublisher: PublicaffairsPublication Date: Aug 14, 2007Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1586485016ISBN-13: 9781586485016

In Exit the Colonel, Ethan Chorin, a longtime Middle East scholar and one of the first American diplomats posted to Libya after the lifting of international sanctions, goes well beyond recent...

Our food system is broken, and it's endangering what's most precious to us: our environment, our health, our soil and water, and our future. In recent years, a host of books and films have...

The two-hundred-year-long relationship between the Arab world and United States has been fraught with tension and resentment. What began in the nineteenth century as a favorable exchange of cultural...

Fal System Error: The Hunt For The New Crime Lords Whare Bringing Down The InternetAuthor: Joseph MennPublisher: PublicAffairsPublication Date: Oct 26, 2010Number of Pages: 287 pagesLanguage:...

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945, his lifelong physician swore that the president had always been in perfect health. Twenty-five years later, his cardiologist admitted that the president...

Which is smarter -- your head or your gut? It's a familiar refrain: you're getting too emotional. Try and think rationally. But is it always good advice? In this surprising book, Eyal Winter asks a...

The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world leaders. In this collection of his recent writings on...

On 9/11 the U.S. had effectively no counterterrorism doctrine. Fast forward ten years: Osama bin Laden is dead; al Qaeda is organizationally ruined and pinned in the tribal areas of Pakistan and...

In November 1963, the president of South Vietnam and his brother were brutally executed in a coup that was sanctioned and supported by the American government. President Kennedy later explained to...

Sea turtles have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. But now, suddenly, the turtles are dying, ravaged by a mysterious plague that some biologists consider the most serious epidemic now raging...

Some students of the presidency say that we can learn the most about the men who've occupied the Oval Office by studying their ideology. Others say political savvy or family background or regional...

First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's PresidentAuthor: Vladimir PutinPublisher: PublicAffairsPublication Date: May 05, 2000Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

An eye-opening guide to how America feeds itself and an essential companion book to the new documentary America's food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our...

Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "more than a...

In 2001, Captain James "Yusuf" Yee was commissioned as one of the first Muslim chaplains in the United States Army. After the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001, he became a frequent government...

The architect of some of the most famous ad campaigns of the last decade argues that culture is the most powerful vehicle for influencing behavior, and shows readers how to harness culture to inspire...

"William Greider, one of America's most respected political and economic journalists, explores how and why America has avoided coming to terms with the end of the Cold War era--and the troubling...

Four Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British informant. The search for justice for Hegarty's death--his body found in broad...

The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a...

The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes...

On October 12, 2000, eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, the USS Cole docked in the port of Aden in Yemen for a routine fueling stop. At 1118, on a hot, sunny morning, the 8,400-ton destroyer was...

Author: Tamim AnsaryPublisher: PublicaffairsPublication Date: Mar 04, 2014Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1610393198ISBN-13: 9781610393195

Never before have we stood to gain or lose as much from understanding the international economy. Scandals plague the world's largest corporations, the American trade deficit has soared to historic...

Delves into the reality of what needs to be done to improve the environment, describes the steps businesses must take to have an impact on the world, and offers an evaluation of the token gestures...