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  Common Wealth:

  Economics for a Crowded Planet

  by Jeffrey Sachs

  From one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty , a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don't follow it The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, one that will overturn many of our basic... (more)
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  Overthrow

  America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

  by Stephen Kinzer

  “Detailed, passionate and convincing . . . <with> the pace and grip of a good thriller.”—Anatol Lieven, The New York Times Book Review "Regime change” did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with the toppling of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893, the United States has not hesitated to overthrow... (more)
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  Dispatches from the Edge

  A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

  by Anderson Cooper

  Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life. After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East... (more)
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  The Translator

  A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

  by Daoud Hari

  I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me. The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living witness to the brutal genocide under way in Darfur. The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of... (more)
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  The Post-American World

  by Fareed Zakaria

  “Zakaria . . . may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West.” — Boston Sunday Globe “This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbusting bestseller on the United States in the twenty-first century. How can Americans understand this rapidly changing international climate, and how ... (more)
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  Slave

  by Damien Lewis, Mende Nazer

  Mende Nazer's "beautiful and at times heart-wrenching "account of her struggle to survive modern-day slavery ( The Washington Post ) At age twelve, Mende Nazer lost her childhood. It began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, setting fire to the village huts and murdering the adults. They rounded up thirty-one young children, including Mende, who was eventually sold to a... (more)
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  The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America

  by Daniel Benjamin

  Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this book shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched the rise of al-Qaeda and helped coordinate America’s fight against Usama bin Laden and his organization. They warned in articles and interviews about the appearance of a new breed of terrorists who were determined to kill on the... (more)
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  The West's Last Chance

  Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?

  by Tony Blankley

  Blankley paints the picture of a Europe in which radical Islam is triumphant--a threat that is not only very real, but that would be more threatening to the United States than a Europe under Nazi domination. But there is hope--and a strategy--for Western survival; and Blankley illustrates what must happen to save the West.
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  What is the What

  The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

  by Dave Eggers

  In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety — for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government... (more)
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  The J Curve

  A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall

  by Ian Bremmer

  Locate nations on the J Curve - left for authoritarian, right for democratic. Then figure out how to force those on the left to open their societies, rather than encouraging them to shut them tighter by further isolating them. The West's isolation of Kim Jong-il's North Korea gives him the cover he needs to extend his brutal regime (the mistake the U.S. made for a long time with Saddam Hussein and Castro); in... (more)
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  The One Percent Doctrine

  by Ron Suskind

  Relying on unique access to former and current government officials, this book will reveal for the first time how the U.S. government - from President Bush on down - is frantically improvising to fight a new kind of war. Where is the enemy? What have been the real victories and defeats since September 11? How are we actually fighting this war and how can it possibly be won? Little, in fact, has been revealed... (more)
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  Banker to the Poor

  Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

  by Muhammad Yunus

  In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. Based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a few, Grameen Bank now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are nearly 100... (more)
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  Charlie Wilson's War

  The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times

  by George Crile

  Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan "freedom fighters" who continued, despite overwhelming odds, to fight the Soviet invaders. Wilson, who sat on the all-powerful House Appropriations Committee,... (more)
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  The 9/11 Commission Report

  Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

  by Thomas H. Kean, Lee Hamilton

  Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomac, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil. In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the... (more)
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  China, Inc.

  How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World

  by Ted C. Fishman

  China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering america, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of china's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred -- and why it already affects us all. How has an... (more)
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  The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation

  by Stephen E. Flynn

  Why do we remain unprepared for the next terrorist attack or natural disaster? Where are we most vulnerable? How have we allowed our government to be so negligent? Who will keep you and your family safe? Is America living on borrowed time? How can we become a more resilient nation? Americans are in denial when it comes to facing up to how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack or act of God.... (more)
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  Planet India

  How the Fastest Growing Democracy Is Transforming America and the World

  by Mira Kamdar

  India is everywhere: on magazine covers and cinema marquees, at the gym and in the kitchen, in corporate boardrooms and on Capitol Hill. Through incisive reportage and illuminating analysis, Mira Kamdar explores India's astonishing transformation from a developing country into a global powerhouse. She takes us inside India, reporting on the people, companies, and policies defining the new India and revealing how... (more)
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  The Devil Came on Horseback

  Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur

  by Brian Steidle

  This intense, vivid report and call to action from the heart of violent Darfur, by a former Marine working as an unarmed military observer for the African Union, is a powerful memoir of a young man's awakening to conscience and the first extensive on-theground account of the genocide in Sudan. Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for... (more)
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  China Road

  A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

  by Rob Gifford

  Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book, acclaimed... (more)
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  The Story of India

  by Michael Wood

  This sumptuously illustrated book with its magical mix of history and travelogue will provide an unforgettable portrait of India. In this lavishly illustrated companion to his BBC TV series, Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of India. Home today to more than a fifth of the world’s population, the subcontinent gave birth to the oldest and most influential civilization on... (more)